RESULTS

GATE results

• GATE 2008 results will be announced on March 15, 2008 at 1000 hours at GATE offices of IISc/IITs. It will also be available on the websites of IISc/IITs. With effect from GATE 2008, the GATE website will provide the GATE scores to both qualified and non-qualified candidates.

• GATE 2008 score is valid for two years from the date of announcement of the GATE 2008 results.

GATE scorecard 

• Scorecard will be sent only to the qualified candidates. No information will be sent to candidates who are not qualified.  

• The GATE scorecard is a valuable document. Care should be taken to preserve it. Additional scorecards (upto a maximum of two) will be issued on payment basis only once.  

• The scorecard cannot be treated as a proof of date of birth, category and disability status.  

• The scorecard will indicate GATE score and rank of the qualified candidates.

GATE score 

• The GATE score of a candidate is in the range 0 to 1000. It reflects the performance of a candidate, irrespective of the GATE paper or year in which he/she has qualified. Candidates with same GATE score from different GATE papers and/or years can be considered to have the same performance level. 

• The marks obtained by the candidate is normalized on the basis of the average and standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on the scorecard in GATE 2008. Subsequently, this is scaled with respect to the global average and global standard deviation so as to facilitate performance comparison across GATE papers and over a block of years since GATE 2005. 
  
  GATE SCORE = , 
  where 
  = marks obtained by the candidate. 
  = average of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE 2008 
  = standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE 2008 
  = average (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all paper and years (2005-2008) 
  = standard deviation (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years (2005-2008) 
  The maximum score can be 1000.

• The evaluation of the ORS is carried out by a computerized process using scanning machines, with utmost care. Requests for revaluation of the answer script and re-totaling of marks will not be entertained.

• The GATE results of the qualified candidates will be made available to interested organizations (educational institutions, R & D laboratories, industries, etc.) in India and abroad based on written request by the organization and on payment. Details can be obtained from GATE Chairmen of IITs/IISc.