Tracking Changes in GATE

GATE 2014

• GATE Online Application Processing System: You have to enroll (register) anf fill application through online mode only.
• You have to download admit cards from zonal GATE websites. Admit cards will not be sent by email or post.
• New paper, Ecology and Evolution (EY) is added. 

GATE 2013

• More subject papers added as computer based test: AE, AG, AR, BT, CE, CH, CY, GG, MA, MN, MT, PH, TF, XE, and XL.
• No application fee for female candidates
• Applicant photograph and signature to be uploaded during online application.
• New formula for calculating GATE Score.

GATE 2012

• Only passout students and final year students were eligible. 

GATE 2011

• Based on a trouble-free pilot project in 2010, four of the GATE papers (AE, GG, MN, TF) in 2011 were in computer based online mode.

GATE 2010

• Pharmacy was no longer on the GATE subject papers list, with GPAT as the replacement.
• Biotechnology section of the XL GATE paper was removed and replaced by a separate Biotechnology paper (paper code BT).
• GATE committee made score valid for 2 years.
• Additional section of General Aptitude was introduced in GATE. A total of 10 questions carrying 15 marks makes up this last section of GATE.

GATE 2009

• IT and CS papers have been merged and there was be no separate IT paper. 
• GATE score was valid only for one year.