New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will conduct the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2022. IIT Bombay has handed over the responsibility of organising GATE 2022 to IIT Kharagpur after successful completion of GATE 2021 on schedule in spite of the pandemic. The examination dates of the GATE 2022 have not been announced yet and are expected to be released soon, India Today reported.
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Wednesday announced that two new papers have been added to GATE 2022.
The GATE 22 will include the following two new engineering papers:
1. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
2. Geomatics Engineering
Examination pattern
GATE is a fully Computer Based Test (CBT).
All test papers are entirely objective type. The pattern of questions will include some Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ), while the remaining questions may include Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) and/or Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions.
Eligibility criteria
A candidate who is currently studying in the third or higher years of any undergraduate degree program OR has already completed any Government approved degree program in Engineering / Technology / Architecture / Science / Commerce / Arts is eligible to appear GATE. For more details, all the candidates need to wait for IIT Kharagpur to release the official notification of GATE 2022, the report added.
Age limit criteria
There is no age limit to appear for the GATE examination.
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