Ten Facts to Know About Gate Exam 2012
Gate Exam Important Dates and Facts
- Pre final year students are not eligible to apply for the Gate exam 2012.
- Online application submission was started on 12 September 2011.
- The last date for the submission of online application was 17 October 2011.But the dates have been extended due to the repeated complaints regarding the bandwidth of the gate application submission website. Hence the new date is 21 October 2011
- The printed copy of the online application form should reach the respective gate offices with respect to the various zones before 28 October 2011
- On 9 December 2011, the Gate website will publish the list of registered candidates eligible to write the gate exam 2012. Along with that, the city of writing the exam and their choice of test papers will be published on the website.
- The admit cards for the Gate exam can be downloaded from the respective zonal websites on 2 January 2012
- Gate 2012 exam will held on 29 January 2012 and12 February 2012
- The results of the Gate 2012 exam will be published on 15 march 2012
- The Gate exam will be a 3 hour objective type exam .There will be 65 questions in the exam.This 65 questions will carry a total weight-age of 100 marks. The answers are to be marked in the optical response answer sheets by marking against the correct bubble. There will be negative marking.
- The codes for the exam papers will be:
AG- AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING’
AR- ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
BT- BIOTECHNOLOGY
CE-CIVIL ENGINEERING
CH- CHEMICAL ENGINEERING’
CS-COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CV-CHEMSTRY
EC-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING’
EE-ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING’
GG-GEOLOGY AMD GEOPHYSICS
IN-INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING’
MA-MATHEMATICS
ME-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING’
MN-MINING ENGINEERING’
MT-METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING’
PH-PHYSICS
PI-PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING’
TF-TEXTILE AND FIBRE SCIENCE ENGINEERING’
XE-ENGINEERING SCIENCES
XL-LIFE SCIENCES
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