This is a discussion on AfterGraduation's new article "GATE 2020 Exam: Dates, Registration, Eligibility, Pattern".
GATE 2020 exam will be conducted by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi tentatively in the first and second week of February 2020. The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is a national level examination for engineering graduates administered and conducted jointly by the IISc Bangalore and other seven IITs. GATE will be organized for 24 papers including a new paper of Statistics which was added in the last year. This is a computer-based (Online mode) entrance exam conducting two sessions per day.
The GATE rank/score is used for admissions to Postgraduate Programmes (ME, M.Tech, MS, Direct PhD) in institutes like IITs, IISc, NITs and other with financial assistance offered by MHRD. The Public Sector Units (PSUs) also use GATE scores for recruiting individuals for junior engineer and other various prestigious government posts with attractive remuneration.

