GATE Normalization Process: It is a process used for converting raw marks into scores. After the evaluation of answers, the raw marks (actual marks obtained in GATE) will be considered for calculating GATE Score based on qualifying marks. Read the following article to know more about GATE Normalization Process, Calculation of Scores and Qualifying Marks.  

  • GATE Result 2020 will be announced in the month of March at GOAPS website for all the 24 papers. 
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  • All the participating Institutes will release their separate GATE Cutoff. Students have to secure equal or more than cut off marks to get admission in their desired Institute. 

What is GATE Normalization Process? 

As GATE being a major exam, lacs of candidates appear for it and it is not possible to conduct the exam in one go. So, GATE exam is held in multiple sessions. Therefore, it is quite natural that there will be variations in the level of difficulty of the exam. To arbitrate the difference in the level of difficulty, the normalization process is applied. 

The following papers in GATE 2020 will be conducted in multiple sessions- 

  • Computer Science (CS) 
  • Civil Engineering (CE)
  • Electrical Engineering (EE)
  • Electronic Engineering (EC)
  • Mechanical Engineering (ME)

The basic presumption behind the concept of normalization is that "in all multi-session GATE papers, the distribution of abilities of candidates is the same across all the sessions". Now, based on the following parameters, and taking into account various normalization methods, the committee has arrived at the following formula for calculating the normalized marks for the multi-session papers.

Normalization mark of Jth candidate in the ith session M̂ij

Here,

Mij :   is the actual marks secured by the jth candidate in the ith sessions

M̅gt :  is the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates considering all sessions

Mgq : is the sum of mean and standard deviation marks of the candidates in the paper considering all sessions

M̅ti :  is the average marks of the top 0.1% of the candidates in the ith sessions

Miq :  is the sum of the mean marks and standard deviation of the ith session

Further, the graph can help understand the relationship between the two scores better.

GATE Score Calculation, GATE Normalization, Normalization of GATE Scores

Graph showing the linear relationship between "actual marks" and "normalized marks" of a candidate, in a multiple-session subject (CE, EE, ME, EE or CE) of GATE.

Once the answers are checked and assessed, the normalized marks of a candidate will be calculated corresponding to the actual marks secured by the candidate in the examination and the GATE 2020 Scorecard will be devised based on the normalized marks. The papers which are actually conducted in a single session only, the actual marks secured by the candidate will be used for calculating the GATE 2020 score.