GATE 2015 Result Analysis

GATE 2015 exam was held on Jan 31, Feb 1, 7 and 8, 2015 in multiple sessions in more than 190 cities and states across India. GATE exam results were declared recently on March 11, 2015. The exam results were expected to be out on March 12,  2015, however, GATE results were announced a day in advance.

According to reports, around 9,28,553 aspirants took the exam this year as compared to the 10,33,625 aspirants in 2014.  The number of male candidates who registered for the exam was 6,52,704 and out of these 5,67,123 appeared for the exam.

The number of female candidates who registered for GATE 2015 exam were 2,75,699 and out of these, 2,37,236 actually took the exam. Around 140 GATE 2015 aspirants were from other categories.

However, in the year 2014, around 7,21,780 aspirants who took the exam were male candidates, while, 3,11,845 were recorded to be female aspirants.

Now coming to the number of registered candidates in various disciplines. In mechanical engineering, the number registered candidates were 2,12,943, while 1,85,762 appeared for GATE 2015. According to reports, over 1,40,000 students had registered for electrical engineering, while around 1,25,853 appeared for the same.

As many as 2,00,443 has registered for Electronics and Communication Engineering, while around  1,36,269 and 1,12,631 registered for Computer Science and Information Technology and Civil Engineering respectively.

Given below is a table with the number of candidates who registered for some of the major disciplines of GATE 2015 in 2015 and 2014.

Discipline	GATE 2015	GATE 2014
Civil Engineering	1,12,631	90,872
Computer Science and Information Technology	1,36,269	1,55,190
Electrical engineering	1,43,588	1,41,799
Electronics and Communication Engineering	2,00,443	2,16,367
Mechanical engineering	2,12,943	1,85,578

The All India Rank(AIR) 1 in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science, Instrumentation Engineering and Production and Industrial Engineering has been acquired by Ashok Bansal, Pradeep Seervi, Jaya Jha, Ravi Shankar Mishra, Swapnil Pandey and Amit Dixit respectively. Take a look at GATE 2015 topper profiles here!

And if you have any confusion regarding how GATE exam scores have been calculated, take a look here!