GATE-2013 New Changes and Procedure

The application fee is
•  1200 for General/OBC male applicants and
•  600 for SC/ST/PD male applicants.
• Validity of GATE 2013 score will be for a period of TWO YEARS from the date of announcement of results.

Date Of Exam
• Commencement of online application: 1st September 2012 (Saturday)
• last date for submission of online application: 30th September 2012 (Sunday)
• Structure of the Test Paper remains the same - 65 Questions, 3 hours, 100 marks
• Date of online exam: 20 Jan 2013
  

What's New in GATE 2013?
• 15 subject papers will be conducted by an ONLINE computer based test: AE, AG, AR, BT,CE, CH, CY, GG, MA, MN, MT, PH, TF, XE, and XL. Like the previous year the online examination will also contain a few questions where a numerical answer must be provided (instead of a choice from A,B,C,D).
• Female candidates are exempted from paying the application fee.
• All candidate related information and grievance redressal will be available in a single GATE Online Applicant Interface. (What is it?)
• Applicant photograph and signature must be uploaded during online application.
• A new formula will be used for calculating the GATE score.
• Biometric information (Photograph and fingerprint) maybe captured before the examination for randomly selected candidates.

IMP  Note:

• Numerical answer type questions in ONLINE papers: In the ONLINE papers, the question paper will consist of questions of multiple choice type and questions of numerical answer type. For multiple choice type questions, each question will have four choices for the answer. For numerical answer type questions, each question will have a number as the answer. Each online paper will have 15 or more marks worth of questions requiring numerical answers where possible.

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