GATE 2025 Live: February 1 exam today; timings, admit card, dress code, paper pattern

The following credentials will be required for GATE 2025 login:

• Enrollment ID or email ID
• Password

The following type of questions will be asked in GATE 2025:

Candidate’s selected subjects

(a) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

(b) Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) and/or

(c) Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions

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While talking to Careers360, a GATE 2025 aspirant shared that she's studying in third year and this is her attempt. About her strategy for exam, she said that she will attempt only those questions she knows the answers to and would leave the rest. Another candidate, who's working, said she will attempt easy questions first and then move on to the difficult questions. 

GATE 2025 exam strategy by candidates. (Image: Careers360)

GATE 2025 is being held for 30 test papers. The paper and their codes are given below. 

Candidates are not allowed to carry the following items to the exam centre: 

• Personal calculators
• Watches
• Wallets
• Mobile phones
• Bluetooth devices
• Electronic or communication devices
• Books
• Charts
• Tables
• Papers
• Data
• Handbooks
• Pouches

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Candidates have started reporting at the GATE 2025 exam centre. GATE 2025 February 1 exam will commence at 9:30 am.

GATE 2025 February 1 session 1 reporting. (Image: Careers360)

According to GATE 2025 marking scheme, candidates will be awarded one or two marks for each question. For a wrong answer chosen in an MCQ, there will be negative marking as follows:

• For a 1-mark MCQ, 1/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer.
• For a 2-mark MCQ, 2/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer.

There is no negative marking for wrong answer(s) to MSQ or NAT questions. There is no partial marking in MSQ.

The GATE 2025 exam will comprise of two sections. One section will be on General Aptitude (GA) and other on the subject selected by the candidate. 

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering will be conducted for a duration of three hours. 

GATE 2025 February 1 exam will be conducted for the following papers: 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee will commence the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2025 exam today, February 1, 2025. The GATE exam 2025 will be held on February 1, 2, 15, and 16. 

The GATE exam 2025 will be conducted in two sessions as follows: 

• Forenoon session (FN) -- 9:30 am to 12:30 pm 
• Afternoon session (AN) -- 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm