GATE Exam Recent Years Changes

From 2009 onwards, the IT and CS papers have been merged and there will be no separate IT paper.

From 2010, Pharmacy is no longer on the GATE subject papers list, with GPAT as the replacement. Also, the Biotechnology section of the XL GATE paper has been removed and replaced by a separate Biotechnology paper (paper code BT).

In 2009 the GATE score was valid only for one year but later the GATE committee made it valid for 2 years in 2010.

From GATE 2010 onwards, an additional section of General Aptitude has been introduced in GATE. A total of 10 questions carrying 15 marks makes up this last section of GATE.

Based on a trouble-free pilot project in 2010, four of the GATE papers in GATE 2011 will be 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.

For 2011, GATE will be held in morning (9-12) session for some papers and afternoon (2-5) session for others. Also, the computer based tests will be held on a different date.

From 2012, only final year students and passout students are eligible to write GATE exam.

For GATE 2012, candidates could view their responses on the ORS. Also,GATE Office released official solutions for GATE papers.