GATE 2025: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee—the nodal institute to organise the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)-2025—will conclude the registration process for admission to postgraduate engineering programmes on Thursday, October 3, 2024 at gate2025.iitr.ac.in. Aspiring candidates who have still not been able to register for the exam, can go to the official website of GATE 2025 and apply for the exam at gate2025.iitr.ac.in by tomorrow.
According to the notification, the GATE 2025 application can filled out online only, and one candidate can fill out only one application form. If a candidate wants to appear in the second paper (from the two-paper combination), he can add the respective paper to their original application. IIT- Roorkee warned that in case of multiple applications, only one will be accepted, and the remaining applications will be rejected without any refund for the paid fee.
The exams will be conducted on February 1st, 2nd, 15th, and 16th of 2025 in two shifts—forenoon and afternoon—on each of these days. The first shift (forenoon shift) will start at 9:30 am and end at 12:30 pm, while the second shift (afternoon shift) will begin at 2:30 pm and conclude at 5:30 pm.
Candidates must note that the GATE 2025 scorecard will remain valid for three years from the date of announcement of the results.
According to the notification, candidates currently studying in the 3rd or higher years of any undergraduate degree programor who have completed any government-approved degree program in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture/ Science/ Commerce/ Arts/ Humanities are eligible to appear for GATE 2025.
Female/SC/ST/PwD candidates (per test paper): ₹900 between (August 24 to September 26) and ₹1400 (with late fee: September 27 to October 7, 2024).
All other candidates, including foreign nationals (per test paper): ₹1800 (August 24 to September 26) and ₹2,300 (with late fee: September 27 to October 7, 2024 to 7thOct 2024)
Candidates will be required to submit the following documents to complete the registration process:
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As per the IIT-Roorkee notification, GATE 2025 will consist of 30 exam papers. The mode of exam papers will be in English and entirely of objective type. Candidates will be allowed to choose one or two test papers from permissible combinations. The exam duration will be 3 hours and GATE scores will be valid for three years from the result's announcement date.
The types of questions include Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), Multiple Select Questions (MSQ). and Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions. In MCQs, only one out of four options is correct. In MSQs, one or more than one out of four options is/are correct; and for NAT questions, the answer must be keyed in using a virtual keypad. The candidates must use only the on-screen virtual calculator provided for their calculations.
