GATE Exam 2022 : Important dates, Exam Pattern, Registration Fee, Documents Required For Gate Application

This article features things every aspirant should know before preparing for GATE Exams. Let's have a general look into GATE Exam 2022 things you should know.

Why do you decide to appear for GATE?

The majority of the students might not be that confident in answering this question, maybe they are not aware, it has become quite systematic to do a post-graduation immediately after your under-graduation. Nowadays plenty has a Bachelor of Technology degree, so some might think of taking the next step to be distinct. Just for the sake of doing masters, you do masters, then that’s where the problem lies.

GATE is an exam of quality, so to do well in that, the decision has to be a quality solid one as well. Let's say in Civil Engineering, some of you want to pursue a career as structural engineering or designer, to do that, post-graduation is mandatory, thus you need a GATE. Some people might want to become a professor, then doing a post-graduation is the penultimate step in that career path. Some even target Public Sector Undertaking jobs where recruitment is through GATE. Only if you have these three notions, your decision to appear in GATE will be justified. Do keeping aside the fact that certain jobs demand a GATE qualified Candidate.

Once you finalize your requirement and decide to appear for GATE, there should not be a turning back. A solid decision is a backbone of cracking any competitive exams with flying colors.

What are the things to look out for?

The first and the foremost thing to look for is among the 7 IIT’s and IISC Bangalore, which institute host GATE in the year you appear.

So, this time, in 2022 IIT Kharagpur is the one to conduct GATE. The application form for the exam will be available from September 2021 and that will be notified to the candidate by July 2022 which talks about the exam date, registration fee, exam pattern, syllabus, and eligibility criteria.

GATE 2022 IMPORTANT DATES

So now let’s talk in detail about each nuke and corners of these things.

EXAM DATES

For civil Engineering, the GATE exam comes mostly in the first week of February. Rarely it goes to the second week or sometimes the last week of January. The exam happens in two-time schedules. The certain candidate will have their exam on one day and the next group will have it on the next day. Or sometimes it will be like, one in the forenoon session and the other in the afternoon session on the same day. But no worries, questions will be totally distinct for both schedules and will be having the same difficulty level.

REGISTRATION FEE:

The Registration fee has been static for quite some time and will be like this for the coming exam as well.

EXAM PATTERN

Time Duration: 3 hours

There will be both 2-mark questions as well as 1 mark questions.

GATE initially had only a Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) with four options and one among the four will be correct. The wrong answer will end up losing 1/3^rd of the total mark available for the question. Later NAT (Numerical Answer Type) questions and recently MSQ (Multiple Select Question) have been added. It's difficult to predict exactly the weightage of these questions. However, the highest percentage of questions will be MCQ followed by NAT and MSQ.  Note the fact that MCQ will contribute at least 50% of the Questions.

Good Luck! Stay Safe!