Education Sectors in India

• Scorecard will be sent only to the qualified candidates. No information will be sent to candidates who are not qualified.  
  
• The GATE scorecard is a valuable document. Care should be taken to preserve it. Additional scorecards (upto a maximum of two) will be issued on payment basis only once.  
  
• The scorecard cannot be treated as a proof of date of birth, category and disability status.  
  
• The scorecard will indicate GATE score and rank of the qualified candidates.
  

• The GATE score of a candidate is in the range 0 to 1000. It reflects the performance of a candidate, irrespective of the GATE paper or year in which he/she has qualified. Candidates with same GATE score from different GATE papers and/or years can be considered to have the same performance level. 
  
• The marks obtained by the candidate is normalized on the basis of the average and standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on the scorecard in GATE 2010. Subsequently, this is scaled with respect to the global average and global standard deviation so as to facilitate performance comparison across GATE papers and over a block of years since GATE 2005.
  
  

Question/Time Ratio : The CBT allows more time per question as compared to PBT, having a fewer number of questions than the PBT.

Scores : In CBT, you get to know your score immediately on completion of the test. Official score reports, however, are sent to you later by post, just as in case of PBT.

Skipping questions : Unlike PBT, the CBT does not allow you to leave a question unanswered. You must attempt a question in order to get to the next one. And once you have answered a question, you cannot go back to it.

Adaptive Testing : This is probably the most important difference between the two kinds of tests. The CBT software is such that the level of difficulty of your next question depends on the correctness of your previous response. In other words, no two tests are alike - each examinee will get a different set of questions to attempt based on his or her ability level. (More on adaptive testing in the next question).

• Data Sufficiency and
  
• Problem Solving.
  

• Reading Comprehension
  
• Critical Reasoning and
  
• Sentence Correction.
  

• Verbal (Scores range from 0 to 60)
  
• Quantitative (Scores range from 0 to 60)
  
• Total (Scores range from 200 to 800) and
  
• Analytical Writing Assessment (Scores range from 0 to 6 in half-point intervals).
  

• IIM Ahmedabad
  
  PGP (Agri-Business Management) (PGP-ABM)
  Candidates should have, from an institution recognized by the Association of Indian Universities/ AICTE:
  
   1.    Bachelor's or Master's degree in Agriculture Sciences OR
   2.    a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Agriculture related disciplines OR
   3.    at least a three-year Bachelor's degree in any discipline, and a strong interest in Agriculture, Agro/Food Processing, Rural and Allied Sectors. Such candidates, with a strong interest in these sectors, must submit a special form available with the PGP-ABM Office during October 2004.
  
  
  
• IIM Calcutta:
  
  Candidates can apply to more than one of the Post Graduate Programmes viz, PGDM, PGDCM and PGDBM. For Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Aided Management (PGDCM), a candidate is required to send a crossed demand draft payable in Kolkata for Rs.600/- in favour of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta along with a self-addressed envelope of size 10" x 5" between August 2 and November 1, 2004. PGDCM Application Forms and a sample paper of Aptitude Test in Mathematics (ATM) will be sent to the applicant on receipt of the demand draft. Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) is a three-year evening programme. For this programme an applicant must have (i) a minimum of two years work experience (by May 31, 2005) at an Executive /Supervisory level after graduation and (ii) must be employed in a full time job at the time of admission (Details in CAT Bulletin).