GATE 2025 to be conducted by IIT-Roorkee

IIT Roorkee today launched the new GATE 2025 website -- gate2025.iitr.ac.in.

GATE 2025 will be a computer-based test (CBT). (Representative image/ file)

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee is the organising institute for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2025. IIT Roorkee on July 1 launched the new GATE 2025 website — gate2025.iitr.ac.in.

GATE 2025 will be a computer-based test (CBT), and will be conducted by IISc Bengaluru and seven IITs (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee), on behalf of the National Coordination Board – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India (GoI).

The exam will be for a duration of three hours and will have a total of 30 test papers comprising full papers and sectional papers. The sections will be General Aptitude (GA) and candidate’s selected subjects. In the candidate’s selected subjects, there will be MCQs, Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) and/or Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions.

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Distribution of marks in all papers except papers AR, CY, DA, EY, GG, MA, PH, ST, XH and XL will be:

General Aptitude: 15 marks
Engineering Mathematics**: 13 marks
Subject Questions: 72 marks
Total: 100 marks
(**XE includes Engineering Mathematics section XE-A of 15 marks)

Distribution of Marks in papers AR, CY, DA, EY, GG, MA, PH, ST, XH and XL will be:

General Aptitude: 15 marks
Subject Questions: 85 marks
Total: 100 marks

For a wrong answer chosen in an MCQ, there will be negative marking. For a 1-mark MCQ, 1/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer. For a 2-mark MCQ, 2/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer. There is no negative marking for wrong answer(s) to MSQ or NAT questions. There is no partial marking in MSQ.

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In 2024, GATE 2024 was conducted on February 3, 4, 10, and 11. The response sheets were released on February 15, and answer keys, question papers were released on February 19, and the result was released on March 16.

GATE is a national-level examination that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture/ Science/ Commerce/ Arts/ Humanities.