GATE 2022 application process will be started from August 30 to September 24. Students who are interested can check GATE 2022 eligibility criteria, dates and fees here.
NEW DELHI: Registration for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, or GATE 2022, will commence on August 30. GATE 2022 will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. On the official website – gate.iitkgp.ac.in – interested applicants can fill out the GATE 2022 application form.
Only one application form should be filled out by a candidate who is competing in one or two papers. If there are several applications, only one will be approved, and the others will be rejected with no return of the amount paid. The deadline for GATE 2022 registration is September 24, 2021.
GATE 2022: Important dates
The table below contains all of the relevant dates for the GATE entrance examination. GATE exams will be held on February 5, 6, 12, and 13, 2022.
| GATE 2022 events | Important dates |
| Opening date of online application portal | August 30, 2021 (Monday) |
| Closing date of online application portal (regular period) | September 24, 2021 (Friday) |
| Closing date of online application portal (with a late fee) | October 1, 2021 (Friday) |
| Display of defective application for rectification (correction window) | October 26, 2021 (Tuesday) |
| Last date for correcting application | November 1, 2021 (Monday) |
| Last date for change of paper, category and exam city (with addition fee) | November 12, 2021 (Friday) |
| GATE 2022 exam dates | February 5, 6, 12, and 13, 2022 |
GATE 2022: Eligibility criteria
Before applying for the test, candidates should review the GATE 2022 eligibility requirements published by IIT Kharagpur.
- A candidate who is currently enrolled in the third or higher year of a bachelor’s degree programme.
- The GATE 2022 test is open to candidates who have finished any government-approved degree programme in Engineering, Technology, Architecture, Science, Commerce, or the Arts.
- Candidates who have certification from one or more professional organisations must guarantee that the societies’ tests are authorised by the Ministry of Education/ AICTE/ UGC/ UPSC as equal to BE/ BTech/ BArch/ BPlanning, and so on.
- Candidates who earned/are pursuing their qualifying degree in a country other than India include: Must be in their third or higher year of study or have earned a bachelor’s degree (at least three years in length) in Engineering, Technology, Science, Arts, or Commerce.
GATE 2022: Application fee
| For Examination Centres in India | Regular Period(August 30 to September 24, 2021) | During the Extended Period(September 25 to October 1, 2021) |
| Female candidates (per paper) | Rs 750 | Rs 1,250 |
| SC / ST / PwD category candidates (per paper) | Rs 750 | Rs 1,250 |
| All other candidates (per paper) | Rs 1,500 | Rs 2,000 |
This year, two new topics were added to the programme: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and Geomatics Engineering. The overall number of topics for GATE 2022 has been increased from 27 to 29.