The GATE 2008 examination consists of a single paper of 3 hours duration and carries a maximum of 150 marks.

The question paper of GATE 2009 will be fully objective type.

Candidates have to mark the correct choice by darkening the appropriate bubble against each question on an Objective Response Sheet (ORS).


GATE Results

The GATE result will be announced on March 15, 2009 at 10000 hrs. at GATE offices of IITs/ IISc.

GATE scorecard

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Scorecard will be sent only to the qualified candidates. No information will be sent to candidates who are not qualified.
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The GATE scorecard is a valuable document. Care should be taken to preserve it. Additional scorecards (upto a maximum of two) will be issued on payment basis only once.
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The scorecard cannot be treated as a proof of date of birth, category and disability status.
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The scorecard will indicate GATE score and rank of the qualified candidates.

GATE score

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The GATE score of a candidate is in the range 0 to 1000. It reflects the performance of a candidate, irrespective of the GATE paper or year in which he/she has qualified. Candidates with same GATE score from different GATE papers and/or years can be considered to have the same performance level.
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The marks obtained by the candidate is normalized on the basis of the average and standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on the scorecard in GATE 2009. Subsequently, this is scaled with respect to the global average and global standard deviation so as to facilitate performance comparison across GATE papers and over a block of years since GATE 2005.