The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur is the organising institute for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2022. GATE 2021 was organised by IIT Bombay and the institute transferred the accountability to IIT-KGP this yr.
Subhasis Chaudhri, director of IIT Bombay, handed over the chairmanship of NCB-GATE 2022 to Virendra Singh Tewari, director of IIT KGP.
IIT Bombay handed over the accountability of organizing GATE 2022 to IIT Kharagpur after profitable completion of GATE 2021 on schedule regardless of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/RpI0nwTrhz
— IIT Bombay (@iitbombay) May 23, 2021
In GATE 2021, a complete of 8,82,684 candidates had utilized which is a slight improve from 8.59 lakh purposes final yr. A complete of 14,196 college students had utilized for newly launched humanities topics. This is greater than the variety of purposes in 9 present topics out of 27 papers. The least opted for paper in 2021 was statistics whereas probably the most opted paper stays mechanical engineering.
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Among humanities, most candidates — 8,634 — had been females. Overall, the variety of feminine candidates examination additionally noticed an increase. A complete of two,88,379 feminine college students had utilized for GATE 2021. This was a rise of about 10,000 from final yr.
Last yr, IIT-Bombay had relaxed the eligibility standards to permit third-year college students to take the examination as effectively. Earlier, the eligibility was restricted to graduates or fourth-year college students solely.
Deepankar Choudhury, organising chairman of GATE 2021 had advised indianexpress.com: “Due to the pandemic, several university exams could not take place and in the others, results were delayed. This led to a lot of confusion among the batch of 2020 who were not sure if they are now in the fourth year or in the third year as final exam results are not out yet. By relaxing the eligibility criteria, we have tried to lessen their worries.”