Bhubaneswar: Bringing the curtains down on the most important engineering post graduate entrance exam in the country, IIT Guwahati has declared the results of GATE 2018 on March 16.
Odisha’s Jyotiranjan Barik has made the state proud by topping the all India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2018, in “Agricultural Engineering”.
The men of the moment obviously are the GATE 2018 toppers in their respective disciplines, who are being chased for interviews by reporters for a bite; and it is refreshing, as on the shoulders of these young guns ride the future of India. Another cause of celebration is the GATE toppers come from different parts of the country, demonstrating the cosmopolitan nature of distribution of young talent. Others who topped are:
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Name |
GATE Paper |
All India Rank |
City/State |
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Amit Kumar |
Mechanical Engineering |
1 |
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Jyotiranjan Barik |
Agricultural Engineering |
1 |
Odisha |
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Namita Kalra |
Computer Science Engineering |
1 |
Uttarakhand |
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Ocima Kamboj |
Production & Industrial Engineering |
1 |
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Naman Jaswani |
Instrumentation Engineering |
1 |
Jalandhar |
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Prashant Varshney |
Chemical Engineering |
1 |
Chandausi |
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Prashant Gupta |
Chemistry |
1 |
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an examination conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) on behalf of the National Coordination Board (NCB)-GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.
Qualifying in GATE is a mandatory requirement for seeking admission and/or financial assistance to: (i) Master’s programs and direct Doctoral programs in Engineering/Technology/Architecture and (ii) Doctoral programs in relevant branches of Science, in the institutions supported by the MHRD and other Government agencies. Even in some colleges and institutions, which admit students without MHRD scholarship/assistantship, the GATE qualification is mandatory. Further, many Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) have been using the GATE score in their recruitment process.
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is basically an examination on the comprehensive understanding of the candidates in various undergraduate subjects in Engineering/Technology/Architecture and post-graduate level subjects in Science
