Sunday, September 13, 2009

GATE SCORE

GATE Score
The GATE score, awarded in the range of 0 to 1000 reflects the candidate�s academic ability and will be based on his/her performance in GATE 2009 and the performances of all candidates who appeared in GATE in the last four years 2006-2009. Candidates with the same GATE score from different GATE papers and/or years can be considered to have the same performance level.

GATE Score

where, 

 m : marks obtained by the candidate.
 a:  average of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE 2009
 s:  standard deviation of marks of all candidates who appeared in the paper mentioned on this scorecard in GATE 2009
 ag: average (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years 2006-2009
 sg: standard deviation (global) of marks of all candidates who appeared across all papers and years 2006- 2009
The maximum score can be 1000.

The percentile score of a candidate indicates the percentage of candidates who appeared in the same paper and scored less marks than him/her. It is calculated as follows: If N is the total number of candidates appearing in a paper, then the percentile score P is given as,
P = (number of candidates who have scored less marks than the candidate / N) x 100

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