All candidates have to apply for GATE exam
via Online only. Here we are providing the complete online application process
for GATE.
GATE
Online Application Processing System (GOAPS):
·
Do Enrolment using “New User
Register here”
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Fill the online application
form
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Upload photograph and signature.
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Pay the application fee through
net-banking or indicate your option for payment through bank challan (State
Bank of India or Syndicate Bank).
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Check the Status of your
application form: Received, Under Scrutiny, Accepted, Defect Status, Status
after Rectification, Rejected with Valid Reasons, Admit Card Ready for
Download, etc.
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Contact the Zonal GATE office
in case of any queries/problems.
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Download Admit Card.
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View your responses, marks and
GATE score.
The login to
this interface is through your GOAPS Enrolment ID and a GOAPS password. Length
of the password should be 8 -15 characters. Please note that \a, \b, \n, \r,
\t, \\ are not permitted in the password. Keep this information safe and do not
disclose it to anyone.
2. Filling
in Application Online:
GOAPS: GATE Online Application
Processing System (GOAPS website) can be accessed from the website of the
respective Zonal GATE Offices or from the website of the GATE 2014 Organizing
Institute.
Enrolment: You must first enroll yourself, by providing
a valid email address, mobile number and a GOAPS password. Choose the email id
that you check frequently, as all communications to you from the GATE Offices
will be sent to this address (DO NOT USE ANYBODY ELSE’S e-mail ADDRESS. ONLY
ONE PERSON CAN REGISTER WITH ONE e-mail ADDRESS). Give your personal mobile
number because most of the communications may also be sent via SMS.
GOAPS
Password: This will be the password that you will be providing to the GOAPS
during the Enrolment. You must remember this along with the GOAPS Enrolment ID
to login to GOAPS. Choose a password that cannot be guessed easily (it should
NOT be your name, date of birth, or some string of numbers or letters like
12345, abcd, etc.), so as to ensure that the data you provide is not accessible
to any person other than yourself. Length of the password should be 8 -15
characters. The following are not permitted:
\a, \b, \n, \r, \t, \\
GOAPS
Enrolment ID: Upon registration, an email and SMS containing your GOAPS
Enrolment ID will be sent to you. You need to remember this along with the
GOAPS password for all GATE 2014 related communications/website operations.
Data Requirement for Application Filling: Before
you login to GOAPS using Enrolment ID and Password, keep the following
information ready:
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Personal information (name,
date of birth, your personal mobile number, parent’s name, parent’s mobile
number etc.)
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Address for Communication
(including PIN code)
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Eligibility degree details
(College address, PIN code of college)
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GATE paper, choice of GATE
Examination Cities
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Good quality image of your
photograph conforming to the requirements specified in Photograph Requirements
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Good quality image of your
signature conforming to the requirements specified in Signature Specifications.
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Details of a valid ID Proof
that you will carry to the examination hall.
Optional:
Your Netbanking login and password to make the application fee payment via
online net banking mode. Alternately, you may wish to pay via the challan mode.
Application
Filling: Fill in the necessary data in the online application form by
carefully following instructions given there. You may edit the data at this
stage if you require. Upload the required soft copy of photo and signature.
Check the correctness of the photo and signature that are uploaded. If you are
not satisfied, you may upload them again.
You will have to select one of the two payment options (details given
below) while filling the online form.
The GOAPS allows you to enter data, “Save”
partially filled form, “Logout”, and resume filling in by logging in again. You
may address the error messages that may appear on saving the filled in data.
Before you make the payment, you have to carefully check for any errors
or missing data.
Once you press “Submit & Proceed to Payment” button, no further
changes to the application can be made.
After processing “Submit & Proceed to
Payment” you will be taken to payment option where you may choose offline or
via Netbanking option. Candidates who have selected via Netbanking option will
follow the instructions given below for online net-banking, in the payment
section and complete the payment process. Those who have selected the challan
payment option will directly proceed to the next step “Proceed Next for PDF
Download”.
You will then see two links namely
“Download Challan for Payment” and “Download Filled Application”. You have to
download the PDF files from these links and print the files. In case if you
have opted payment via Netbanking, you will have to download only filled in
application form from “Download Filled Application”. The download application
form will contain two pages as mentioned below
Page 1: Instructions to the
candidate and address slip where you need to send the hard copy
Page
2:The application form. Note that the bottom part may contain the
certificate to be signed by the college Principal/HOD or may be left blank
(depending on your eligibility status).
Those who opted offline payment:
Optional page for candidates who select “bank challan” mode of payment (as
against the net-banking). This page will contain 3 copies of the challan to be
processed with the respective banks (SBI or Syndicate Bank).
Problems in Login into GOAPS –This step may
be used, if the candidate forgets the password or the Enrolment ID or did not
receive the Enrolment ID. Visit the “Problems in Login into GOAPS” link on the
GOAPS website.
In case of forgotten Enrolment ID or
non-receipt of Enrolment ID via email, candidate must provide Mobile Number and
email address. The Enrolment ID will be sent to the candidate via SMS/email.
In case of forgotten password,
candidate must provide Mobile Number, Email and Enrolment ID, which will be
verified and a “one time password” (OTP) will be sent via Email and SMS using
which candidate can reset new GOAPS password.
In case of forgotten both Enrolment ID
and password, candidate must provide Mobile Number and email address. The
Enrolment ID will be sent to the candidate via SMS/email.
Please pay
attention to upload good quality photograph. Poor quality of photographs
submitted will lead to rejection of your GATE application, without any refund
of the application fees. The GATE Score card will be printed with the
photograph you submit.
The photograph must be in colour and must
be taken in a professional studio. Photograph taken using a Mobile phone and
other self-composed portraits are NOT acceptable.
Photograph must be taken in a White or a
very light background.
In the photograph, the height of the face
(between chin and the top of the forehead) should occupy about 50% of the
height of the photograph.
The main features of the face must not be
covered by hair of the head, any cloth or any shadow. The photograph must show
full frontal view with both ears being visible and eyes open.
If you normally wear spectacles, glare on
glasses is not acceptable in your photo. Glare can be avoided with a slight
downward tilt of the glasses or by removing the glasses for the photo shoot.
You must not wear spectacles with dark or tinted glasses, only clear
glasses are permitted.
Ask your photo studio to provide the image
in a JPEG format and also on a standard 3.5 cm × 4.5 cm print (350 x 450
pixels).
Have pixel width in the range 250 to 500
and ensure that the width to height aspect ratio is in the range 0.66 to 0.86.
File size should be between 5KB and 100KB.
For your own benefit it may be prudent not
to intentionally change your facial features or hair style as in the photograph
until the day of the exam.
Signature
Specifications:
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Please draw a rectangular box
of size 7 × 2 cm on an A4 white paper. Put your signature with black or dark
blue ink pen within this box.
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Scan the signature using
scanner at 200 pixels per inch (dpi), and crop the image to the box.
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Maintain 420 pixels in width
and 120 pixels in height.
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Have pixel width in the range
300 to 550 and ensure that the width to height aspect ratio is in the range
3.15 to 4.
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Save the image in JPEG format.
Only JPEG image formats will be accepted.
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Ensure that the file size is
between 5KB and 100KB.
Photographs of the signatures taken using
mobile phone or digital cameras are not acceptable, and can result in disqualification
of the application.
All candidates have to apply only ONLINE.
Details of the application fee are shown below. The application fee is
non-refundable.
Male Candidates (General/OBC) Rs 1500
Women Candidates of any category Rs 750
Other Candidates (General/OBC) Rs 1500
SC / ST / PwD* Category Candidates Rs 750
*
PwD: Person with Disability:
Online
Netbanking Payment Details:
From the GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS), you will be
redirected to the website of the bank of your choice.
You will have to login with your bank’s Netbanking (or Internet Banking)
user ID and password.
The fee amount and bank charges will be
shown to you, and you have to confirm that the payment is for GATE 2014.
Once you confirm and the payment is
successful, you will be redirected back to the GATE Online Application Website.
If you have some difficulty (due to
internet connection or power failure), and you are not sure whether your
payment has been processed or not, then please login back to GOAPS and check
the status of the payment. You can also check the status from your bank.
In case the fee amount has been debited
from your bank account, however, GOAPS does not acknowledge any fee payment,
then the money will be credited back to your account within three working days.
In such a case, you may initiate a fresh
payment using GOAPS, even without waiting for the money to be credited back to
your account, so that your application is on time. You may wish to switch to
the offline challan payment.
Offline
Challan Payment Details:
If you had chosen offline payment option
while filling in the form, you will be provided with a copy of the challan in
triplicate (PDF file) with your details already filled in. You have to print
this file on an A4 size paper, and have to fill in a few more details such as
date and signature.
Once the PDF of the online application form
is generated, you have to wait for at least 48 hours to visit the bank with the
filled challan and make the fee payment.
You may take the challan to any of the
nearest branches of State Bank of India (SBI) or Syndicate Bank and make the
application fees payment. Note that for this, you do not need to have an
account in that branch.
The bank teller will verify the details
printed on the challan with the data available on their Management Information
System (MIS) and then accept the payment. Note that your payment will NOT be
accepted if you go to the bank earlier than 48 hrs as mentioned in Point no. 2
above. This is because it will take some time after generation of PDF online
application to reflect the data in the respective bank MIS.
The bank will retain one copy of the
challan and give you back the remaining two copies: one of which you are
required to send along with the printed application form, while the other is
for your record
Eligibility criteria and necessary
supporting documents can be found from the Eligibility table for GATE.
SC/ST/PwD
Certificate:
Applicants who claim to be in any of the
category SC/ST/PwD have to submit valid document issued by competent authority,
to qualify for the reduced fee.
Applicants who require a scribe to assist writing the exam, also need to
provide a valid PwD certificate.
Authorities Empowered to Issue Certificates
(SC/ST)
District Magistrate/ Additional District
Magistrate/ Collector/ Deputy Collector/ Deputy Commissioner/ Additional Deputy
Commissioner/ 1st Class Stipendiary Magistrate/ City Magistrate/ Sub-Divisional
Magistrate/ Taluk Magistrate/ Executive Magistrate/ Extra Assistant Commissioner.
Chief Presidency Magistrate/ Additional Chief Presidency Magistrate/
Presidency Magistrate
Revenue Officer not below the rank of Tahsildar
Sub-Divisional Officer of the area where the Candidate and/or her/his
family normally resides
Administrator/ Secretary to Administrator/ Development Officer
(Lakshadweep Islands)
Certificate issued by any other official
will not be accepted.
PwD
Category:
In order to
avail concession under the PwD category, the candidates should attach a
recently obtained proper PwD certificate, which is to be submitted to the
admitting institution at the time of admission. The onus of verifying PwD
certificate lies with the admitting institute. The GATE committee will not be
responsible for any incorrect declaration of the PwD status of candidates.
Certificate
from Principal:
Candidates who
mention that they are yet to complete their course, will receive a “Certificate
from Principal” section printed on the bottom part of the PDF file. Before you
submit the application to the zonal GATE Office, it is MANDATORY to obtain the
signature and seal of the college Principal/HOD on this.
The printed
application form along with the supporting documents must be mailed by Speed
Post or Registered Post to the Zonal Office, as mentioned in the printed
address slip that comes along with the PDF file of the application form. Before
mailing, the following procedures need to be completed.
Before
Mailing:
Out of the printed pages, keep one copy of the application form (page 2)
for your record and process the other copy (page 3) as follows
Paste a standard passport size colour
photograph of yourself in the space provided, and sign the application in the
box provided. This photograph that you paste and signature should EXACTLY match
with the photograph and signature that you uploaded electronically on GOAPS.
Your application is liable to be rejected if there is any mismatch between the
two!
In case the certificate from
Principal/HOD happens to be the proof of your eligibility, submit the whole
page (without tearing it off) in your college Principal/HOD’s office. The
bottom portion of the printed form contains the part that your college
Principal/HOD has to certify. Once you obtain the Principal/HOD’s signature and
seal, this page is ready for mailing to GATE Office.
In case you had paid the application fee by
the challan mode, then the bank would have returned the stamped copy of the
challan to you. This stamped copy of the challan has to be sent to GATE Office
along with the other documents.
You will also find half a page of the
instructions to the candidate and half a page of the address slip. Cut this
address slip, which contains the address of the Zonal Office (along with the
application bar code), where the application form needs to be sent.
Make sure that you are ready with the
following CHECK LIST:
The signed application form (with
photograph affixed) with Principal/HOD’s certificate, if that is proof of your
eligibility to appear in GATE 2014.
Other eligibility documents
required to appear for GATE 2014 (e.g. degree certificate).
Category certificate for claiming discounted application fee.
GATE copy of challan duly stamped by
the bank after payment of fees (you need not submit challan in case of payment
by net banking).
Note: Ensure
that the certificates/documents that are enclosed in your envelope belong to
you. Sometimes, certificates/documents of one candidate may get mixed up with
other candidate’s certificates/documents leading to difficulties for both the
candidates. Hence, double-check before necessary documents are placed inside
the envelope
Mailing:
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Use A4 size envelope and put
application form along with other documents mentioned in the CHECK LIST above.
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Do not fold the application
form.
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Do not fill address by hand, as
the address slip provided to you contains a barcode necessary for processing
your application. Note that barcodes on these address slips are different for
each candidate. DO NOT use someone else’s address slip for your application.
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Secure the address slip firmly
to the envelope using good glue or with additional transparent sticky tape
(cello-tape)
Send the packet by Speed Post (preferably)
or by Registered Post to the address mentioned. The application packet should
reach the respective GATE offices on or before 10th October 2013 17th October
2013 (Thursday). Alternatively it can also be handed over personally to the
respective Zonal GATE Office on or before 10th October 2013 17th October 2013
(Thursday). (Note: Applications reaching respective GATE offices later than
10th October 2013 17th October 2013 may not be considered even if they are post
marked 10th October 2013 17th October 2013 or earlier). Do not use any other
means of sending the application form (e.g. by courier) other than those
mentioned above.
Do not forget to attach necessary documents.
The current status of your application will
be updated after the receipt and scrutiny of your application by the respective
zonal GATE Office. This status can be checked anytime by logging into GOAPS.