FAQs

GATE APPLICATION

Answer: Go to the link How to apply? read the instructions, and apply using the link provided in the main

Answer: NO, one e-mail address can be used to submit only one application form.

Answer: Generally, you will be allotted a centre in the examination city of your first choice. Only in cases where it becomes difficult to accommodate you in the examination city of your first choice, your other two choices will be considered. A candidate is required to fill his/her primary as well as secondary choices but should remember that because of operational constraints, the GATE committee reserves the right to add a new city or remove an existing one and allot a city that may not be any of the choices of a candidate.

Answer: If you have clicked on the Save button during the application process, the data you entered up to that point in time has been stored online. Simply login back into the GATE 2015 application website and continue the application process. Otherwise, you have to start the process afresh.

Question 05: You are asking only the SC/ST/PwD candidates to upload the category certificate. What about the OBC (non-creamy layer) candidates? Do they have to upload the category certificate too? 

Answer: No. A category certificate is required at this stage only to claim the concessional rate for the application fee. The category of the candidate has been captured for general information purpose only. The GATE scorecard displays the marks/score obtained by the candidate and the category-wise cut-off. However, you have to produce the category certificate to the admitting institute at the time of admission to justify your claim of belonging to the respective category.

Answer: You can make the payment during the ONLINE application process by choosing the following option:

a). Online Payment: Net Banking through the payment gateway.

b). e-challan: e-challan of both State Bank of India/Axis Bank.

Answer: No. A category certificate is required at this stage only to claim the concessional rate for the application fee. The category of the candidate has been captured for general information purpose only. The GATE scorecard displays the marks/score obtained by the candidate and the category-wise cut-off. However, you have to produce the category certificate to the admitting institute at the time of admission to justify your claim of belonging to the respective category.

Answer: After filling all the fields in the ONLINE application form, choose the Online Payment option and proceed for payment by following the instructions.

Your browser screen will re-direct you to the bank you choose. Login with your Internet Banking credentials and confirm the payment. After confirming the payment, you will be re-directed back to the GATE  application website. At the end of this process, you can download a PDF file that will be generated with the necessary details of the candidates, like full name, date of birth (DoB), scanned photograph, sex, category (GE/OBC/SC/ST), PwD (Y/N). full contact address, mobile number, email id, etc. Take a printout of the entire PDF file for your future reference/use.

Question 09: My net banking account has been debited (money taken out) more than once. How do I get the money back? 

Answer: This can happen if your bank account was used more than once or you pressed the refresh or back/forward button of your internet browser. Any unaccounted or excess money that was received on behalf of GATE  from this account will automatically be returned (credited) to the same bank account.

Answer: This happens because of some failure in internet transactions (including failure of internet connection at your end). Within 72 Hr. GATE Application website shows that the payment is a success, You will be charged only once. Any excess/unaccounted debits will be returned to you.

Question 11: If I want the Bank challan option, how should I complete the application process? 

Answer: There is NO option of payment through a bank challan.

Answer: NO

Answer: You can check the status of your application by logging onto the GOAPS website.

Answer: NO. After completing all the steps upto PDF application form generation in the ONLINE application process, you can only download the application form and CANNOT modify the data. Hence you need to be very careful while entering the data. You may also save a partially filled application and login in again at a later point in time to complete and submit the application, however, it must be within the specified deadline

Answer: You can log in using GOAPS Enrolment ID and password and take a printout.

Answer: A candidate can apply for only ONE of the 22 papers listed in the GATE INFORMATION BROCHURE or GATE website. The choice of the appropriate paper is the responsibility of the candidate. Some guidelines in this respect are suggested below.

The candidate is expected to appear in a paper appropriate to the discipline of his/her qualifying degree.

The candidate is, however, free to choose any paper according to his/her admission plan, keeping in mind the eligibility criteria of the institutions in which he/she wishes to seek admission

Answer: Requests for change of GATE Examination paper after the submission of the Application Form will not be considered.

Answer: A scribble pad will be provided to the candidate that can be used to do the rough work. The candidate has to return the scribble pad after the examination.

Question 19: Am I allowed to leave the examination hall during the test? 

Answer: NO. Candidates will NOT be allowed to leave the examination hall for any reason during the test. Candidates are allowed to leave the computer laboratory where the exam will be conducted only after the closure of the test at the scheduled end of examination in a session.

Answer: Electronic diary, mobile phone, and any such electronic gadgets, blank papers, clipboards, and log-tables will not be allowed in the examination venue.

Answer: You can use your own non-programmable calculator.

Question 22: Will there be any arrangement at the test center for the safekeeping of my personal items such as my mobile phone? 

Answer: NO. Such arrangements will not be possible at the test center.

Answer: Admit card can only be downloaded from the GOAPS website

Answer: No. Bring the Admit Card at the test center along with at least one original (not photocopied/scanned copy) and valid (not expired) photo identification, whose details have been entered while filling the application. ONLY one of the following photo identifications is permitted: Driving license, Passport, PAN Card, Voter ID, Aadhaar UID, College ID, Employee Identification Card, or a Notarized Affidavit with Photo, Signature, Date of Birth, and Residential Address. Photocopies of the identification document are not acceptable. Candidates will not be permitted to take the exam if the original and valid photo identification is not presented.

Answer: Number of attempts:-

Civil Service Examination - General-4, OBC-7, SC/ST- No restriction

IFS Examination- General-4, OBC-7, SC/ST-No restriction

There is no restriction on the number of attempts in any other Examination conducted by the Commission.

Answer: No. However physically handicapped candidates belonging to SC, ST, and OBC categories will be eligible for relaxation in a number of attempts provided to such categories.

Answer: Yes, provided it is a recognized University and he possesses the educational qualifications prescribed for the exam and is otherwise eligible

Answer: No. Only candidates belonging to communities that are included in the Central list of OBCs are eligible for such concessions.

Answer: Yes.

Answer: No.

Answer: No. An attempt is counted only if a candidate has appeared in at least one paper in CS (P) Examination.

Answer: Yes.

Answer: No, Candidates have the option to write their answers either in English or in any one of the Eighth schedule languages.

Answer: The candidates, opting for the Indian Language medium for the written part of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, may choose either the same Indian Language or English or Hindi as the medium for the interview.

The candidates, opting to write the Civil Services (Main) Examination in English, may choose as the medium for interview either English or Hindi or any other Indian Language opted by them for the compulsory Indian Language Paper in the written part of the Civil Services (Main) Examination. However, the candidates, who are exempted from the compulsory Indian Language Paper, will have to choose either English or Hindi as a medium of the Interview of Personality Test.

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Answer: Mixing of the answer books received from different venues is done before sending them for evaluation. Computer-based randomized fictitious code no. is given to each answer-book before evaluation.

Answer: This is not done at any stage of the evaluation process.

Question 14: Is it likely that my evaluated performance suffers because my answer books were evaluated by a strict examiner, while another candidate benefits as his answer books were evaluated by a liberal examiner? 

Answer: The Paper Setter, who is an eminent person in his field, normally acts as the Head Examiner, and wherever the number of candidates in a particular subject is very large, the Commission appoints Additional Examiners for valuation of answer books. To achieve uniformity in valuation, where more than one Examiner is involved, the Commission arranges a meeting of the Head Examiner with the Additional Examiner after the Examination is over. At this stage, they discuss thoroughly the question paper, the appropriate answers, and decide the standard of evaluation. To further bring about uniformity of assessment inter se the Examiners, the following procedure is undertaken:

The Head Examiner conducts a sample survey of answer books of each Additional Examiner to verify whether the uniform standards of evaluation evolved in the meeting of Examiners have actually been followed. Depending on the standard adopted by the Additional Examiner, the Head Examiner may confirm the awards without any change if the Examiner has correctly followed the standard decided upon, or may carry out upward / downward moderation as considered necessary to ensure a maximum possible degree of uniformity in the evaluation process. Therefore, the aspect of inter-examiner variation in standards of evaluation in a Paper affecting candidates performance is taken care of adequately.

Answer: In a competitive examination, what is relevant is not the absolute performance of a candidate, but his/her relative performance that in fact determines whether the candidate qualifies and, if so, his/her position in the merit list. Accordingly, as already explained above, the evaluation process does not end after an initial evaluation by an Examiner. Moderation, wherever applied, is on the total award initially given (the so-called raw marks) and not on a question-wise basis. Therefore, once the evaluation process is complete, neither raw marks nor question-wise marks subsist. What subsists is the candidates total score in a paper awarded at the end of the evaluation process and this award is normally made available to the candidate in due course on the Commissions website through query-based application software.

Question 16: Are there any open Examinations where subject-wise/paper-wise marks of each candidate are not made accessible/available to him/her? 

Answer: Yes; in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 

This is because the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination is simply and purely a shortlisting/elimination exercise to select candidates for the Main Examination and as such the scores obtained in this Examination are not communicated to candidates.

Answer: It is important to remember though a Constitutional Body, the Commissions role is advisory. The Examinations it conducts are for recommending candidates to the Government based on clear requisitions received from Government. Therefore, as regards those who have finally qualified in an Examination, the detailed results, application/biodata forms of all such are sent to the concerned Ministry/Department for all further processing. Therefore, once these results are sent to the concerned Ministry/Department, the concerned Ministry/Department becomes the natural and proper custodian of these results and it would only perhaps be proper for queries pertaining to the results of qualified candidates to be addressed to the concerned Ministry/Department.

As regards candidates who do not qualify finally, the right of information of a citizen has to be balanced against the right of privacy of an unsuccessful candidate who has not qualified for an appointment to public service. The feedback received by the Commission shows that there are candidates who do not want their marks to be in the public domain. While a case can be made out for having the marks of those who qualified finally for public appointment in the public domain, no such public interest argument can be invoked for candidates who have not qualified and there is no reason why such candidates scores should willy-nilly be forced into the public domain.

Question 18: If the overall marks of two or more candidates are equal, how is relative merit between such candidates decided? 

Answer: Tie-breaking principles are applied to decide inter se merit among candidates having the same overall marks. The principles adopted for each Examination are given in the attached Annexure.

Answer: No. The evaluation standards/moderation for a Paper are not medium-specific. In other words, if the Rules of the Exam provide that a Paper can be written in any of, say, English/Hindi/a recognized Indian language; then the medium in which a candidate writes the Paper will not be a factor in determining evaluation standards or the moderation to be applied.

Answer: No. Before evaluation, the Roll no. written on every answer book is detached and computer-based randomized fictitious code no. is given. At no stage of the evaluation process 

( including the moderation stage) is the actual Roll no./identity of the candidate known to any of the Examiners/officials associated in the process.

One should proud of being a Chemical Engineer.

Chemical engineering is a very much profitable sector and its scope in India is very vital. Chemical Engineers are the top paid as compared to other branches pass-outs. There has been a boom in this field and 100% of placements are sure. 

Thus, firstly we should know what is chemical engineering? A common misconception is that the work conditions of chemical engineers are hazardous is fake. In the modern era, every chemical engineer works in a safe environment and has minimum contact with the direct use of chemicals. In India, chemical engineers have recruitment opportunities in many sectors. Likewise: petroleum and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber, paper, fertilizers, organic and inorganic industries, etc.

Some of the major companies are listed below: In petroleum and gases

Answer: Chemical engineers can do their job in manufacturing industries as process engineers or production engineers. The working hours can vary from industry to industry. The most manufacturing industries in India are in Gujarat, Maharashtra, India. These jobs are easy to obtain and pursue. 

The chemical engineering institute in India is less than that of other engineering streams, thus chemical engineers are very demanding in India. 

To fulfill the requirements of industries you can pursue post-graduation programs in chemical engineering or in some of their specialization fields. After M.Tech chemical engineers can move in a wide variety of fields; likewise: Research and Development, Teaching, Ph.D. and also can set up your own chemical industry.

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What are the Major Private Sectors companies for Freshers B.E. / B.Tech Chemical Engineers? 

Keeping in mind the paper of GATE, the expected cut-off for PSUs Call is 

General Category: 60+

Reserved Category (SC/ST/ OBC): 50+