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This is really a complicated question, because both GATE score as well as percentile are relative terms. These are measures of performance of a candidate in GATE based on the performance of other candidates appeared in the GATE exam. Before starting the details I recommend you to have a look at How to get into IITs for M.Tech, which will give you an idea of basic requirements for M.Tech in IITs. I already wrote about how GATE percentile is calculated and also gave the details about it. GATE percentile represents a candidate’s performance compared to all the candidates appeared in that same paper in same year. Whereas, GATE score represents a candidate’s performance in comparison to all the candidates appeared in GATE exam since 2007. GATE score and percentile change with the standard of GATE paper. If GATE paper is easy then most of the students get good Scores but the all India rank will be high too. If paper is tough then with less score one can get a very good all India rank. Please refer to a post based on one my readers comment about GATE score in 2009 and 2010 and its analysis. Now comes the real question. How much GATE percentile or GATE Score is needed for M.Tech admission to IITs? The answer is simple. We need to find an absolute attribute to fix it and rephrase the question. A better question can beWhat should be the AIR (All India Rank) in GATE to get into IITs? To answer this, let’s calculate the number of seats in IITs. According to my analysis, there are almost 50~60 seats in each department on average in IITs. And considering only old IITs take admissions for M.Tech, there will be 7X50 (350) seats for M.Tech in IITs for almost every department. Now lets assume, few people go to jobs, study abroad and Govt. sector job we can increase it up to 500 AIR. Apart from this, few departments in IITs conduct their own test and interview for M.Tech admissions may allow students till 700 AIR to be a part of race to join IITs, but this too risky side and depends on chance. Now we have an idea of how much rank we need get into IITs. As we are preparing for GATE we need to know how much marks we should manage to get into IITs. I already posted top marks in GATE 2010. Our average marks in test should be almost close to top marks and we can keep the buffer of 5 to 7 marks. It means we need to score something around but not less than (top marks – 7) marks. Let’s summarize it, Institute AIR Marks IITs 700 Top marks- 7 This will help you set your targets and get ready for the big day. Take practice tests and solve previous year questions to get an idea where do you stand. If you are getting less scores put a little more extra effort. Just don’t give it. Believe me IITs are worth giving a hard try you will enjoy you success later. This is a part of GATE preparation guide, please refer to many other posts related to GATE preparation there. Do not for forget to subscribe by email for updates and also if you have a face book account you can get feed in facebook too, just click the like page in side bar. If you have a question never hesitate to drop a comment, either me or someone else would reply you and help you around.

Once you are decided to take up GATE exam and read important information related to it, you are ready to go ahead with preparation. I have few suggestions for students who are serious about cracking GATE exam. I divided the whole process of preparation in few steps and every individual student who aced the GATE will follow these in one or the other way. These are just simple guidelines but the most important thing is your dedication and determination. If you read these steps and appreciate them but don’t follow them then these are of no use. Therefore, I recommend every student to be very sincere and give a good try. The steps are as follows. * Buy or get a copy of previous year question papers if possible with solutions. Having a hard copy is very important and we are going to refer it again and again during whole preparation. * Refer to syllabus and analyze the number of questions asked in each subject. As all subjects don’t have equal marks, few subjects are preferred over others. I mean few subject may have more questions asked in exam than others. I don’t have this subject break up for GATE. If you have done this exercise, please share with us to share with many other students and also we can have a discussion over its validity. * Make a priority list of subjects based on marks or preference given it in previous exams. Marks distribution of subject will help you prioritize and allocate preparation time to different subjects. If distribution is not prepared we usually end up in a random preparation and finally will have tough time dealing with important subjects. Just for example, in GATE CS and IT paper, around 15~20% is from Mathematics, and then Programming and Data Structures, Theory of computation, OS and digital logic. * Allocate realistic time for each subject. And read it all, as there is huge to cover and it’s easy to ask few marks question from anywhere in a subject. * Finish through reading of a chapter of subject, make short notes of important points, this will help you at last moment to revise what you have read. * Once finish a chapter, go back to GATE Question papers and solve the problems from that chapter. These days there lots of question banks available in market for GATE do buy one and practice. Also to try to get Test Series from other friends. Solve all of them. This will help you to assess yourself for level of understanding of the chapter you read. Use a single note book for question answer solution because you may refer it while revising. * Finish detailed reading at least one and half month before. Keep one month for revisions and clearing leftover doubts. Have a look of question you solved during preparation for GATE and remember how you solved them. * Keep last 15 days for fast practice and revision. Solve as many papers and question banks as you can get from any source. * Keep documents related to GATE like, acknowledgment of application, like hall tickets, application number and other details, in a safe place. Give it to mom or someone responsible, who can give that back to you when you need them. This is to avoid last minute tension for obvious things. I hope these points will help many of to take a start off. Please don’t waste time and take a start. The one who start early and work consistently reach early and hope see IITs for M.Tech. GATE is a simple exam just needs constant effort to crack it. Don’t worry about competition by number of candidates appearing for GATE, make highest marks as your competition. This post is a part of a series of posts called GATE Preparation: A complete Guide. You may find many useful articles related to GATE there. This series is made to help students appearing for GATE exam and want to score really high to join IITs and NITs. Don’t forget to subscribe by email to get updates in email and also do not hesitate to become a fan on facebook or drop a comment. Wish you all a wonderful luck…

# Eligible to appear in GATE 2009 Examination: Bachelor's degree holders Engineering/ Technology/Architecture/Pharmacy (4 years after 10+2) and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes. # Master degree holders in any branch of Science/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Computer Applications or equivalent and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes. Candidates in the second or higher year of the Four-year Integrated Master's degree programme (Post-B.Sc.) in Engineering/Technology or in the third or higher year of Five-year Integrated Master's degree programme and Dual Degree programme in Engineering/Technology. # Candidates with qualifications obtained through examinations conducted by professional societies recognised by UPSC/AICTE (e.g. AMIE) as equivalent to B.E./B.Tech. Those who have completed Section A or equivalent of such professional courses are also eligible status.

GATE scorecard will consist of actual marks obtained by the candidate, the GATE Score, Percentile Score and All India Rank (AIR). Scorecard will be sent only to the qualified candidates. No information will be sent to candidates who are not qualified.GATE scorecard is valid for TWO YEAR ONLY. Additional scorecards (up to a maximum of two) will be issued only once on request and on payment of Rs 300 per scorecard.

Yes, you can appear in any discipline recognize by GATE.

In order to pursue M.Tech program in a leading institute of the country we must opt for GATE. The benefits of M.Tech are as listed below: 1. Companies coming for Campus Placement in leading Institutes are better as well as large in number. 2. Salaries offered for M.Tech are higher as compared to B.E. 3. M.Tech degree leads to specialization and furthering of interest in a certain area which may lead to Ph.D 4. M.Tech degree is a must for those wishing to apply for Faculty/Research positions in educational Institutes/R&D centers. 5. Scholarship of Rs. 5000.0 per month by the Government of India is paid during the entire period of 18 months of M.Tech. 6. The M.Tech program is a 3 semester (18 months) program.

Go to the link "How to apply?" and then choose "online application process". Register yourself by entering your name, date of birth, password and email id. You can then fill in your ONLINE application form, proceed to make the payment of application fee using Payment Gateway or Challan Payment options.

Do not attest the photograph for the ONLINE application form.

Generally, you will be allotted a centre in the examination city of your first choice. Only in cases where it becomes difficult to accommodate you in the examination city of your first choice, your second choice will be considered.

OBC (non-creamy layer) candidates do not have to enclose the category certificate since their application fee is same as that of the general category candidates. However, in the ONLINE application, you can indicate the category to which you belong to. You need to produce the category certificate only to the admitting institute at the time of admission.

You can make the payment during the ONLINE application process by choosing one of the following options: Payment Gateway: By using Credit or Debit cards or Netbanking through the payment Gateway of Bill Desk / HDFC / ICICI Bank. Challan Payment: Payment by cash at any branch of State Bank of India or Indian Bank.

After completing the ONLINE application, choose Payment Gateway option and proceed. At the end of this process, a pdf file will be generated with the following pages: Page-1: Instructions for the candidate Page-2: GATE 2011 Application Form - GATE Copy Page-3: GATE 2011 Application Form - Candidate Copy Page-4: Address Slip Take a print out of the entire file. Paste your recent photograph (3 cm x 4 cm) in the designated place of Page-2. Sign at the designated places of Page-2. Paste Page-4 on top of a A4-size envelope Duly filled-in Application Form (GATE Copy) with appropriate enclosures must be sent by Speed Post (preferably) or by Registered Post to The Chairman, GATE of the Zone, where the candidate prefers (corresponding to the 1st Choice of Examination City) to appear for the examination, so as to reach on or before Tuesday, November 02, 2010 or it can be handed over personally to respective Zonal GATE Office.

Yes.

The status of your application will be put up on the GATE website. Click on the link "Application Status" and follow the instructions. Generally, the status of your application will be put up within two days after the receipt of the application form in the GATE Zonal offices.

No. After completing all the steps upto pdf application form generation in ONLINE application process, you can only download the application form and cannot modify the data. However, you can create a new application by registering once again.

You can login with the same Login id and password and take a printout.

Your Admit card shall be sent to you by the zonal GATE office (the GATE office corresponding to your first choice of examination city) in January 2011 by regular postal mail. Candidates should contact the GATE Chairman of the zone concerned if they do not receive the admit card by January 20, 2011 for ONLINE examination papers (AE, GG, MN and TF), and by January 31, 2011 for OFFLINE examination papers (All papers other than AE, GG, MN and TF).

In case you do not have a valid Admit Card for reasons beyond your control (e.g. delay in receipt, loss during transit by post, change of address etc.), take a print out of your registration number and centre details from GATE 2011 website and show it at the test center along with atleast one original (not photocopied / scanned copy) and valid (not expired) photo identification. Any of the following photo identification ONLY is permitted: Driver's license, Passport, PAN Card, Voter ID, College ID, Employee identification card, or a notarized Affidavit, with Photo, Signature, Date of Birth and Residential Address. Photocopies of the original identification document are not acceptable. Candidates will not be permitted to take the test if original and valid photo identification is not presented.

A candidate can apply for only ONE of the 21 papers listed in the GATE INFORMATION BROCHURE or GATE website. The choice of the appropriate paper is the responsibility of the candidate. Some guidelines in this respect are suggested below. The candidate is expected to appear in a paper appropriate to the discipline of his/her qualifying degree. The candidate is, however, free to choose any paper according to his/her admission plan, keeping in mind the eligibility criteria of the institutions in which he/she wishes to seek admission

Requests for change of Test paper after the submission of Application Form will not be considered. Requests for change of examination city will be accepted till December 31, 2010 with a fee of Rs.400/- to be paid in the form of demand draft (payment details) to the respective zonal GATE office.

The choice of the Test paper and first choice of examination city of each candidate as per GATE records will be made available on the websites of GATE 2011 by December 10, 2010. The candidate should verify the same and if there is any discrepancy he/she should inform the corresponding zonal GATE Chairman by sending a signed letter or FAX so as to reach the zonal GATE office on or before December 31, 2010 so that it may be corrected. There is no need to pay any additional fee for correction of discrepancy.

The question paper itself contains some blank sheets on which you can do the rough work. Rough work cannot be done on any other paper/sheet as no additional paper will be provided during the test.

No candidate will be allowed to leave the examination hall for any reason during the test. Candidates are allowed to leave the hall only after the Answer Sheets from all the candidates in the examination hall have been collected and accounted for.

Electronic diary, mobile phone, and any such electronic gadgets, blank papers, clip boards and log-tables will not be allowed in the examination venue. You should, however, bring HB black pencils (to darken the bubbles in the answer sheet), a soft eraser (in case you wish to change an answer) and a black point pen for filling up the candidate's data in the designated boxes. Also, you can bring a scientific calculator without data connectivity.

No such arrangements will be possible at the test center. If you bring any item that is not permissible inside the examination venue, you will have to keep it at the test centre at your own risk.

No it is not. But joining a test series from any good coaching institute is what I recommend. Every test exposes some part of the syllabus you aren't proficient with. So you can work and repair yourself with that part.

You don't need any third party study material if you seriously want to crack GATE. You just need the standard course books and previous year GATE papers. I'll suggest the best course books for the subjects later in the article, but only for CS&IT because I'm a CS student.

Well, if you have studied properly during your B.Tech/B.E. then you don't need to prepare!!! Hehehe! But noone actually studies seriously during B.Tech/B.E.! Engineering is fun time! Passing exams during B.Tech/B.E involves mugging up the important stuff the night before paper and vomiting everything in the answer book! Back to our topic now, well if you have slight ideas of every subject, at least the overview i.e. what the subject is all about and some other basic fundas then you can prepare easily. Just collect all the standard books and previous year papers. Identify the topics which are source to questions in the previous papers and study the topics seriously and thoroughly, followed by practicing questions asked in papers from previous years. That was the way I prepared. As an added advantage, join a test series. To further add up, try to collect test series papers from other institutes from your friends if you can. The crux is that, study the topics and practice more and more and more ..... and more and even more and yet even more questions.

Just collect all the standard books and previous year papers.

Collect standard books. If you have sold them then collect anyhow, from your friends or from the seconds sale books market or anywhere you can. Then identify the topics from previous year papers and make a list for each subject. The list should be sorted in descending order of the frequency of topic in GATE papers. For example: for TOC I had identified the most frequent topic as "Identifying the grammar or language". For Computer Architecture, "Pipelining" and "Cache memory" were hot topics. in Data Structures and Algorithms "Trees" were hot. I've misplaced my list, otherwise I would have posted it for the students.

If your CS concepts are clear, you don't need to dream, because you can do it! You just need 2 hours every day for 3 months. Thats enough to crack GATE.

1. Operating Systems: 1. Galvin, Gagne & Siberschatz or 2. William Stallings 2. Computer Architecure: M. Morris Mano 3. TOC: Ullman, Hopcroft and Rajeev Motwani(He is no more in this world! :-( He was the guide for Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, you can check Brin's blog about Late Rajeev Motwani http://too.blogspot.com/2009/06/remembering-rajeev.html) 4. Digital Logic and Circuits: M. Morris Mano 5. C Programming: C - The complete reference by Herbert Schildt. Study pointers especially in this book. 6. Data Structures: 1. Schaum series from TMH. Writer is Seymour Lipschutz or 2. A V Aho, Ullman and Hopcroft 7. Compiler Design: A.V.Aho and Ullman 8. DBMS: 1. Elmasri and Navathe or 2. Raghu Rama Krishnan 9. Algorithms: 1. Introduction to algorithms by Cormen and 2. Sartaz Sahni and Ellis Horowitz 10. Networking: 1. Andrew S. Tanebaum AND 2. Forouzan 11. Software Engineering: Pressman 12. Discrete Mathematics: Seymour Lipschutz

Yeah you can, if you have a mind that loves to learn instead of mug. Go for it!