Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur is the organizing institute for the Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE) 2022 in Engineering. GATE 2021 was organized by IIT Bombay and the institute transferred the duty to IIT-KGP this yr.
Subhasis Chaudhary, Director, IIT Bombay, handed over the chairmanship of NCB-GATE 2022 to Virendra Singh Tiwari, Director, IIT KGP.
IIT Bombay entrusted IIT Kharagpur with the duty of organizing GATE 2022 after the profitable completion of GATE 2021 on the scheduled time regardless of the epidemic. pic.twitter.com/RpI0nwTrhz
– IIT Bombay (@iitbombay) May 23, 2021
A complete of 8,82,684 candidates utilized in GATE 2021 which is a slight improve from final yr’s 8.59 lakh purposes. A complete of 14,196 college students utilized for the newly launched humanities topics. This is greater than the variety of purposes in 9 present topics out of 27 papers. The lowest chosen paper in 2021 was Statistics whereas probably the most chosen paper remained Mechanical Engineering.
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In the humanities, the vast majority of candidates – 8,634 – have been ladies. Overall, the variety of feminine candidates for examination was additionally elevated. A complete of two,88,379 lady college students utilized for GATE 2021. This was a rise of about 10,000 from the earlier yr.
Last yr, IIT-Bombay relaxed the eligibility standards to permit third yr college students to take the examination as effectively. Previously, eligibility was restricted to undergraduate or fourth yr college students solely.
Dipankar Chaudhary, the organizing president of GATE 2021, advised indianexpress.com: “Due to the epidemic, many university exams could not take place and in others, the results were delayed. This caused a lot of confusion in the 2020 batch, who were not sure whether they are now in the fourth year or in the third year as the final exam result is yet to come. We have tried to ease their concerns by relaxing the eligibility criteria. ”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
