GATE Scoring System

GATE Scoring System

GATE Scoring System

1. Every GATE aspirants comes across this doubt as GATE is conducted for 23 papers and there is talk of marks as well as scores.
2. So why and how exactly the scores are calculated; what is the GATE Scoring System? GATE Scoring System (Normalization Process) is the methodology used to convert the raw marks of the candidates into scores after computing according to the specifications prescribed by the GATE authorities.
3. GATE is conducted in 23 papers out of which 5 papers namely ME, CE, CS, EC and EE are held in multiple sessions (two or three) as the number of applicants for these papers are very high and the exam cannot be held for these in a single session. The rest of the GATE papers have relative lesser number of candidates and therefore don’t require to be held in multiple sessions.
4. GATE Scoring System (Normalization) will be different for the single session and multiple session GATE papers. While the raw marks of the single session GATE papers will be used for computing the GATE scores, the actual marks for multiple sessions will be normalized and these normalized marks will be used to compute the GATE scores.
   For all those papers conducted in single session, only actual GATE marks will be considered to calculate the GATE Score.

So let’s dig-in a bit more and try to de-mystify the GATE Scoring System to understand how the GATE scores are calculated.

For all multi-session papers, the following three parameters calculated to obtain the result of each candidate:

• Actual GATE Marks
• Normalized GATE Marks
• GATE Score

For all single session papers, the following two parameters defined in the result of each candidate:

• Actual GATE Marks
• GATE Score