The GATE Guide
How the exam works, in the order you need it: what GATE is, how it is marked, how the score is worked out and how to read the answer key. Each chapter names the official page it comes from.
8 chapters · 20 articles · 7 free guides
CHAPTER 01
What GATE is
The exam, its thirty papers, and what changed for the cycle now open.
CHAPTER 02
The paper and how it is marked
Sixty-five questions, three question types, negative marking on one of them, and how a numerical answer is judged.
CHAPTER 03
From marks to a score
How raw marks become a GATE score, when normalisation applies, and how long the score lasts.
CHAPTER 04
What a score does and does not get you
The brochure's own disclaimers, the four uses it describes for a score, and how to check a recruiter's current practice for yourself.
CHAPTER 05
Which year, which paper
The cycle you can sit, the second paper you may add, and what each paper's official syllabus lists.
- Which GATE you can sit, by the year you are studying in now7 min read · 4 sources · 1 table
- GATE 2027: which second paper you can take6 min read · 6 sources · 2 tables
- GATE CS or GATE DA: the syllabi compared8 min read · 4 sources · 2 tables
- What the GATE EC, EE and IN syllabi share8 min read · 2 sources · 2 tables
- Engineering Mathematics differs by GATE paper7 min read · 7 sources · 2 tables
- GATE 2027 Syllabus Changes, Paper by PaperFree guide · GATE 2027
CHAPTER 06
Applying
Who may apply, the form itself, the examination city, the photograph and signature, the correction window, and a scribe.
- GATE 2027 Eligibility: Who Can Apply, Degree by DegreeFree guide · GATE 2027
- GATE 2027: The Application Season ChecklistFree guide · GATE 2027
- How the GATE 2027 exam city choice worksThe GATE 2027 cycle · 5 min read · 11 sources · 1 table
- GATE 2027 Exam Cities: West Bengal Sits in Two ZonesFree guide · GATE 2027
- GATE 2027 photo and signature rulesThe GATE 2027 cycle · 6 min read · 3 sources · 1 table
- GATE 2027 correction window: what you can changeThe GATE 2027 cycle · 6 min read · 8 sources · 2 tables
- Scribe and compensatory time in GATE 2027The GATE 2027 cycle · 7 min read · 10 sources · 2 tables
CHAPTER 07
In the exam hall
What the brochure requires you to carry, what it provides, and what it prohibits.
CHAPTER 08
After the paper: the answer key and past papers
How to read the organising institute's answer key, and what the previous-year papers on this site do and do not contain.
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