Bengaluru, 5th April 2016: The results of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE’16) have been announced. Mohit Goel, CEO GATEFORUM, said that the students of GATEFORUM have performed exceedingly well in the test. From the results obtained so far, GATEFORUM students Ronika Goswami secured the coveted All India Rank 1 in Chemical Engineering while Debangshu Chatterjee secured All India Rank 2 & Pooja Kulkarni secured All India Rank 3 in the Computer Science Engineering stream. In all, 11 students of GATEFORUM secured ranks in the TOP 10 and more than 70 students secured ranks in the TOP 100 this year. Also, 5 of these toppers from GATEFORUM have scored a perfect 1000 / 1000 in GATE 2016.
From Bengaluru, Sachin Kumar secured All India Rank 32 in Aerospace Engineering stream and Prashanth Manjunath secured All India Rank 78 in Computer Science Engineering stream.
GATEFORUM has announced financial scholarships for its toppers in which it will reimburse first year fees for its students who secured a rank in TOP 100 and joining IISc or any IIT for their M.Tech.
Apart from admission to postgraduate programs in IISC, IITs, NITs and other engineering colleges in India, GATE score is used by many Public Sector Undertakings for recruitment of graduate engineers. GATE 2016 exam was conducted from 30th January 2016 to 7th February 2016. A total of 9,71,831 candidates have registered for GATE 2016 while 8,18,850 students have appeared for the test, of whom 6,81,441 are male and 2,90,347 are female candidates. In all, about 15% to 16% of the candidates who appeared have qualified in the exam. The stream-wise cut-off scores for GATE 2016 are as follows:
GATE 2016 Cutoff scores (out of 100) | |||
Stream | GEN | OBC | SC/ST/PWD |
EC | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
CS | 25 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
ME | 26.6 | 29.6 | 19.7 |
EE | 25.1 | 22.5 | 16.7 |
IN | 31.6 | 28.4 | 21 |
CE | 22.5 | 22.5 | 16.6 |
CH | 29.7 | 33.1 | 22 |
BT | 27 | 24.3 | 18 |
All qualified students will need to apply to their chosen institute and department. Mr Mohit Goel informed that GATEFORUM will be conducting free live sessions on the Post GATE Admission process on 26th&27th March for the benefit of all the qualified students. Students can register for free and access the live session on the internet. More details are available at www.gateforum.com.
GATEFORUM (a division of Thinkcell Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd), promoted by alumni of the IIMs and IITs, is the largest organization in India in the field of GATE training with presence in 65+ cities and has trained more than 1,80,000 students since its inception. The team at GATEFORUM comprises of Post Graduates of IITs, IISc and eminent professors teaching for GATE for a number of years. Currently GATEFORUM offers various preparatory tools for GATE aspirants like Intensive Classroom Coaching (ICP+), LIVE Internet based classes (eGATE) Correspondence/Self study Course (DLP), and Online Test Series (TarGATE).