Kolkata,22nd March : Kolkata students from Gateforum have done the city proud, by being among the top five national rank holders, according to just published results of GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) 2010.The examination is a fiercely competitive one and the students impressive ranking, throws light on the high standard of students competing from Kolkata. The results are great because we do get some really good students from Kolkata. The city has taken to GATE in a big way, with the cream of the engineering grads opting for it these days, and we are happy that we have played our role in bringing about this change, states Mr. Abhijit Chaudhuri, Head-Gateforum Educational Services Pvt. Ltd.
As has been the trend in the past few years, Kolkata students have garnered most of the top ranks - 4 in the top 5, 3- in the top 20 and more than 30 in the top 100. The highest rank holder from Kolkata has secured AIR 1 (EE). The other top rankers from Kolkata, doing the city proud are: Abhishek Sinha (AIR 2, ECE), Shubhankar Roy Chowdhury (AIR 2, Civil Engg) and Sayan Ghosh (AIR 5, ECE), Shubhadip Mukherjee (AIR 13, EE), Santanu Talukdar (AIR 17, IN) and Subhadeep Gupta (AIR 18, CS). The rankings also mean that students will be able to select institutes of their choice from across India and have great job prospects as well!
Gateforum has helped these students take on a systematic and planned approach and provided them with correct guidance and advice, to crack the tough GATE exams. The GATE 2010 exams have been even more competitive, owing to the fact that it has seen a drastic increase in the number of test takers this year, being more than 4 lakh students, with those opting for ECE and CS each, accounting for over a lakh. Gateforums national results this year have been equally encouraging. Ten of their students from across India are among the top 10, 95 students are among the top 100 and more than 350 students have secured a place in the top 500.
Mr. Chaudhuri informs that there have been a few significant changes in the results process this year. He explains them as follows: There is no not qualified category this year, instead there is a cutoff marks for AICTE stipend eligibility. For e.g. in CS, those with more than 25 marks (general category), 22.5 marks (OBC category) and 16.67 marks (SC/ST category) would be eligible for the AICTE stipend. Also, more than 20 people have got a score of 1000 in ECE and CS, which may not cause a problem this year, as last years GATE score was valid only for one year, but may lead to confusion next year.
Gateforum founded by alumni of IIT Kharagpur, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow and XLRI Jamshedpur, provides classroom coaching to aspirants of GATE across numerous cities in India. It has launched another innovative service this year - the post GATE admission evaluator. This evaluator is software which optimizes the options for a student in various institutes, and lessens the complexity in the process.