Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering - Changes in Recent Years

Changes in Recent Years

2009

• The IT and CS papers had been merged and there was no separate IT paper.
• The GATE score was valid only for one year but later the GATE committee made it valid for 2 years in 2010.

2010

• Pharmacy was no longer on the GATE subject papers list, with GPAT as the replacement. Also, the Biotechnology section of the XL GATE paper had been removed and replaced by a separate Biotechnology paper (paper code BT).
• An additional section of General Aptitude was introduced in GATE. A total of 10 questions carrying 15 marks makes up this last section of GATE.

2011

• Based on a trouble-free pilot project in 2010, four of the GATE papers in GATE 2011 were run using computer based online mode. The four online papers for 2011 are Aerospace Engineering(paper code AE),Geology and Geophysics(paper code GG),Mining Engineering(paper code MN) and Textile Engineering(paper code TF)and Fiber Science.
• GATE was held in morning (9-12) session for some papers and afternoon (2-5) session for others. Also, the computer based tests was held on a different date.

2012

• Only final year students and passout students were eligible to write GATE exam.
• The application process was made completely online, candidates could view their responses of the ORS and also GATE Office released official solutions for GATE papers.

2013

• Female candidates are exempted from paying the application fee.
• Candidates are required to upload scanned copy of Photograph and Signature.
• The Application fee was increased from ₨1000 to ₨1200.