Statistics Related to GATE Exam you should know

While preparing any exam a perfect plan is needed and for preparing that perfect plan some previous statistics about that exam such as How many numbers of students appear every year? What is the cutoff for qualifying that exam? What is the minimum number to be scored for PSU or M.tech admission in premium institutes? should be known.

So today we are going to discuss such Statistic related to Gate Exam which will help you to realize how much hard work you have to go through in coming month for achieving your goal.

So first fact one should know is that to how many candidates one has to compete…

The number of candidates appeared in the largest papers in last five year are:

Year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
EC	104291	137853	176944	256135	216367	172714
CS	107086	136027	156780	224160	155190	115425
ME	59338	81175	112320	165814	185578	185758
EE	52246	72680	110125	152381	141799	125851
CE	19406	29347	36156	67472	90872	101429

Second Fact one should know is that what is the percentage of qualifying candidates in GATE

Statistic related to the number of candidates registering, appearing and qualifying in past year:

S.no.	Statistics	2012	2013	2014	2015
1.	Total number of registered candidates	7,77,134	12,00,728	10,33,625	9,27,580
2.	Candidates appeared for the examination	6,86,614	9,84,855	8,89,156	8,04,463
3.	Total number of qualified candidates based on qualification criteria	1,08,526	1,36,699	1,49,694	1,21,060
4.	Total number of qualified candidates based on qualification criteria (in percentage)	13.96%	13.88%	16.84%	15.05%