INTRODUCTION OF GATE EXAMINATION
Introduction Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all India examination that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of the candidates in various undergraduate subjects in Engineering/Technology/Architecture and post-graduate level subjects in Science. The GATE score of a candidate reflects a relative performance level in a particular subject in the examination across several years. The score is used for admissions to post-graduate programs (e.g., M. E., M. Tech, direct Ph.D.) in centrally funded Indian institutes of higher education (i.e., institutes which are provided with financial assistance by MHRD and other Government agencies). The score is also used by some Public and Private Sector Undertakings for employment processes. Direct recruitment to Group A level posts i.e., Senior Field Office (SFO Tele), Senior Research Officer (SRO) (Crypto) and SRO(S&T) in Cabinet Secretariat is now being done on the basis of GATE scores. The information in this brochure is mainly categorized into Pre-Examination (Eligibility, Application submission, Examination Centers etc.), Examination (Syllabus, Pattern, Marks/Score, Model Question Papers etc.) & Post-Examination (Answers, Results, Scorecard etc.) sections.
About GATE
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) jointly administer the conduct of GATE. The operations related to GATE in each of the 8 zones are managed by a zonal GATE Office at the IITs or IISc. The Organizing Institute (OI) is responsible for the end-to-end process and coordination amongst the administering Institutes. The Organizing Institute for GATE 2016 is Indian Institute of Science.Calculation of Normalized Marks for CE, CS, EC, EE and ME papers (multi-session papers)
In GATE 2016, examination for some papers may be conducted in multi-sessions. Hence, for these papers, a suitable normalization is applied to take into account any variation in the difficulty levels of the question papers across different sessions. The normalization is done based on the fundamental assumption that "in all multi-session GATE papers, the distribution of abilities of candidates is the same across all the sessions". This assumption is justified since the number of candidates appearing in multi-session papers in GATE 2016 is large and the procedure of allocation of session to candidates is random. Further it is also ensured that for the same multi-session paper, the number of candidates allotted in each session is of the same order of magnitude.
Based on the above, and considering various normalization methods, the committee arrived at the following formula for calculating the normalized marks for the multi-session papers.
Normalization mark of ππ‘β candidate in the ππ‘β session π ̂ππ is given by
π ̂ππ =
π ̅π‘π −ππ π π ̅π‘π −πππ (πππ −πππ)+ππ π
where
πππ: is the actual marks obtained by the ππ‘β candidate in ππ‘β session
π ̅π‘π: is the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates considering all sessions
ππ π: is the sum of mean and standard deviation marks of the candidates in the paper considering all sessions
π ̅π‘π: is the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates in the ππ‘β session πππ: is the sum of the mean marks and standard deviation of the ππ‘β session
After evaluation of the answers, normalized marks based on the above formula will be calculated corresponding to the raw marks obtained by a candidate and the GATE 2016 Score will be calculated based on the normalized marks.
For all papers for which there is only one session, actual marks obtained will be used for calculating the GATE 2016 Score.
Calculation of GATE Score for all papers
GATE 2016 score will be calculated using the formula
πΊπ΄ππΈ πππππ = ππ +(ππ‘ −ππ)
(π −ππ) (π ̅π‘ −ππ)
In the above formulae
π: marks obtained by the candidate (actual marks for single session papers and normalized marks for multi-session papers)
ππ: is the qualifying marks for general category candidate in the paper
π ̅π‘: is the mean of marks of top 0.1% or top 10 (whichever is larger) of the candidates who appeared in the paper (in case of multi-session papers including all sessions)
ππ: 350, is the score assigned to ππ
ππ‘: 900, is the score assigned to π ̅π‘
In the GATE 2016 score formula, ππ is usually 25 marks (out of 100) or +π , whichever is larger. Here π is the mean and π is the standard deviation of marks of all the candidates who appeared in the paper.
After the declaration of results, GATE Scorecards can be downloaded by
(a) All SC/ST/PwD candidates whose marks are greater than or equal to the qualifying mark of SC/ST/PwD candidates in their respective papers, and
(b) All other candidates whose marks are greater than or equal to the qualifying mark of OBC (NCL) candidates in their respective papers.
There is no provision for the issue of hard copies of the GATE Scorecards
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