IIT-Mumbai announces GATE results 2013

Updated on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the organising institute for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2013, announced the results on March 15. The three-hour test was conducted on two days over four sessions in total. The computer based online exam for 2,02,223 candidates in fifteen papers was conducted in 572 centers spread over 123 cities and towns across the country on January 20. The offline exam for 9,98,505 candidates in the remaining six papers was conducted in 992 centers spread over 183 cities and towns across the country on February 10.

A total of 12,00,728 candidates registered for GATE 2013 and 9,84,855 candidates (82.02%) appeared for the exam of which 1,36,699 (13.88%) have qualified the exam. Women candidates comprised 39.75% of the total registrants. A larger fraction of the registered men appeared (88%) for the exam than women candidates (72%).
The top five States that had qualified candidates as their permanent residence are Andra Pradesh (22,476), Uttar Pradesh (22,400), Maharashtra (9,951), Bihar (9,820), and Kerala (8,992).

Nearly 81% of the total number of candidates who appeared for GATE 2013 were from four papers: electronics and communication engineering (2,56,135), computer science and information technology (2,24,160), mechanical engineering (1,65,814) and electrical engineering (1,52,381).

GATE, administered jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and seven Indian Institutes of Technology, is a nationally conducted examination. Admission to postgraduate programmes with Government scholarships or assistantships in Engineering Colleges, Institutes and Universities is open to those who qualify through this test. Fifteen Public Sector Units (PSUs) have signed an MoU with IIT Bombay to receive the official GATE 2013 results across various papers for employment screening purposes. Qualified candidates need to apply separately to each of the IITs and IISc to seek admission to post graduate programmes.

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