In GATE 2012 entrance exam more than 12 lakh students participated on Sunday. The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all-India examination conducted by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) for enrolling students to various post graduate programmes in engineering, technology, architecture and pharmacy at national level.
There were no major changes in the paper pattern, it followed the last year’s pattern. There were 65 questions asked in the paper with maximum 100 marks. The questions were MCQ type with four options to choose from. There were negative marking in the paper, for each wrong answer 1/3 mark will be deducted.
Experts are expecting that this year cut-offs are likely to little higher as compared to last year. If we look at it with overall view it was a scoring paper for student with strong fundamentals.
Some sections of the paper were easy and some were tougher to make the perfect balance. GATE 2012 saw an increase in the weightage allotment to computer networks from 6% to 13% where as computer organisation saw a decrease from 16% to 3% as compared to last year. There was some change in weightage of subjects like maths, compiler design and digital.
Mechanical Engineering Analysis: the difficulty level of this paper was more or less similar to the last year paper. This year manufacturing and production engineering got more weightage from 12% to 16%, however the weightage allotment to thermodynamics decrease from 19% to 13%. There were some small changes in the weightage of subjects like maths, general aptitude and applied mechanics and design. The questions from mechanics and design were the most difficult in the bunch.
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