Prabhu, GATE is an entrance examination for Post Graduate Courses in Technology which tests your primary knowledge and understanding of various subjects of your B.Tech. This is an online examination conducted on rotational basis by the IITs. This year it is being conducted by IIT Delhi. If you want to study Masters in Engineering, Technology or Architecture, qualifying in GATE is mandatory. If you want Financial assistance for admission to any of these programmes, even then GATE is mandatory. If you want to study Doctoral programmes of certain braiches of Science or want to secure jobs in PSUs GATE score is mandatory. For more information, please visit their official website at: http://gate.iitd.ac.in/

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Information about GATE examination is provided below :-

• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering i.e.GATE is an entrance exam which is conducted with an aim to examine the understanding of various engineering and science undergraduate subjects.
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• It is a national-level post-graduate entrance exam which is jointly conducted by the seven IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
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• GATE exam is conducted to provide admission in M.Tech programmes offered by government( like iit , nit etc) as well as many private institutes. You can use your GATE scores for admission purposes in the IITs through the Common Online Admission Portal (COAP) for IITs and CCMT for NITs or  you even apply to leading PSUs which recruit through gate examination.
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• To be eligible for GATE , you must have passed graduation in engineering/technology or Masters degree in any relevant science subject. There is no upper age limit for GATE exam.

For more and detailed information go through our page for which link is provided below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-eligibility-criteria

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