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The last date for submission of application form of online registration of the GATE Exam 2021 has been extended till October 7. To this regard, IIT Bombay has released the application form for GATE exam on their official website -- gate.iitb.ac.in.
Updated : Sep 29, 2020, 03:00 PM IST
The last date for submission of application form of online registration of the GATE Exam 2021 has been extended till October 7. To this regard, IIT Bombay has released the application form for GATE exam on their official website -- gate.iitb.ac.in.
Organising Institute for GATE 2021 is Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.
Earlier, the last date for the online registration of the GATE 2021 exam had been September 30. Candidates who have not yet applied for the GATE exam had time to apply until tomorrow. However, according to an official notice on https://gate.iitb.ac.in, the last date for the online registration has now been extended to October 7.
About GATE exam:
According to the official website, the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an examination conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) on behalf of the National Coordination Board (NCB)-GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.
Qualifying in GATE is a mandatory requirement for seeking admission and/or financial assistance to (i) Master’s programs and direct Doctoral programs in Engineering/Technology/Architecture and (ii) Doctoral programs in relevant branches of Science, in the institutions supported by the MHRD and other Government agencies. Even in some colleges and institutions, which admit students without MHRD scholarship/assistantship, the GATE qualification is mandatory. Further, many Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) have been using the GATE score in their recruitment process.