GATE 2025: Registration Starts Tomorrow, Exam Dates, Eligibility, and Exam Pattern

Registration Details:

• The registration for GATE 2025 will start on August 24, 2024. IIT Roorkee will manage the registration process.
• Students can apply through the official website: gate2025.iitr.ac.in.

Important Dates:

• Online application starts: August 24, 2024
• Last date for online application: September 26, 2024
• Last date for online application with late fee: October 7, 2024

Exam Dates:

• GATE 2025 exams will be held on February 1, 2, 15, and 16, 2025.
• The exam will be conducted in two shifts:
• Morning shift: 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
• Afternoon shift: 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Eligibility Criteria:

• There is no age limit for GATE 2025.
• Candidates must be in their third or final year of graduation, or have completed a degree in Engineering, Technology, Architecture, Science, Commerce, Arts, or Humanities from a recognized institution.

Application Fees:

• General category (including foreign candidates): ₹1800 per test paper
• Women, SC, ST, and PWD category candidates: ₹900 per test paper
• Fees must be paid online.

Exam Pattern:

• The GATE 2025 exam will have 30 papers, all in English.
• The exam will be 3 hours long and consist of three types of questions: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), Multiple Select Questions (MSQ), and Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions.
• Each question will have four options, with only one correct answer.
• The exam will be out of 100 marks:
• General Aptitude: 15 marks
• Engineering Mathematics: 13 marks
• Subject-specific questions: 72 marks
• MCQs will have negative marking: 1/3 marks for a wrong answer in 1-mark questions and 2/3 marks for 2-mark questions. There is no negative marking for MSQ and NAT questions.

GATE 2025 scores will be valid for three years from the date of announcement.