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What is the exam date of GATE 2012? When is the GATE 2012 Exam notification coming out? From which date GATE 2012 application form would be issued?These are the most common questions many reader of this blog are asking me since from the date GATE 2011 was over on 13th Feb, 2011.
Some of these readers had appeared in GATE 2011 but may not have done well and therefore wants to appear in GATE 2012 again. The remaining readers are those who would appear for the first time in GATE 2012.
It is for this targeted audience that this blog post is being made – to let them know about the likely exam dates of GATE 2012, based on exam-date trend analysis of last four GATE exams – GATE 2008 to GATE 2011. Let me tell you at the outset that these are only projected dates (to help you make a study plan) and hence you have to check in the GATE site nearer notification time.
At first let me tell you that GATE exam notification always comes out on the 3rd Saturday of September month, nearing 20th September. So on the basis of this, GATE 2012 exam notification should come out on 17th September, 2011 – again a Saturday. Why does it come out in Saturdays? Well, it is because GATE notification is published among others, in “Employment News” – which is a weekly, coming out in every Saturdays.
The Offline forms are issued and online form submission starts about 2/3 days from the date of notification. So accordingly GATE 2012 application form should be issued somewhere around 20th September, 2011. Last date of form submission is approximately 1 month from the date of issue of forms.
GATE exam is always held on the 2nd Sunday of February. So GATE 2012 exam should be held on 12th February, 2012. Similarly, GATE exam result is always announced on 15th March of that year – so GATE 2012 exam result should be announced on 15th March, 2012.
How I arrived at those GATE 2012 dates? You can find from exam date trend analysis of last four GATE exam dates as below: (click to enlarge) You can similarly find the GATE 2013 exam dates as below: Date of GATE 2013 exam notification: 15th September, 2012. Date of GATE 2013 exam: 10th February, 2013. Date of GATE 2013 result: 15th March, 2013.
Nearer the exam notification date, check on following GATE websites for exact dates:
Why to check IIT websites for GATE exam dates? Because the seven IITs & the IISC Bangalore constitutes the National Coordination Board, GATE and one of them conducts the GATE exam on behalf of NCB, GATE, like IIT Chennai was the organizing institute for GATE 2011.
How to prepare for GATE 2012 – the study materials: If you are a GATE-2012 aspirant, you may want to know what is the syllabus of GATE 2012as well as GATE 2012 structure (the exam pattern). Also you would naturally want somesample papers for GATE 2012 preparation.
Best wishes!
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