IIT M.TECH Admission Exam Details

Will you please provide the detailed information about the GATE Exam required to take admission in IIT ?

[Arun Vats]

GATE is the abbreviated form of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering is conducted on all India basis jointly by:

Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT’s) and
Indian Institute of Science (IIS)

Eligibility Criteria
Aspirants in the second or higher year of the Four-year Integrated Master degree programme (Post-B.Sc.) in Engineering/ Technology or in the third or higher year of Five-year Integrated Master degree programme and Dual Degree programme in Engineering/ Technology.
Aspirants must hold Bachelor degreein Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture (4 years after 10+2) and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes.
Aspirants holding Master degree in any branch of Science/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Computer Applications or equivalent and those who are in the final or pre-final year of such programmes.

Here are the disciplines that the applicants will qualify for if they crack the GATE 2015:
Aeronautical Engineering
Petroleum/Petro-Chemical Engineering/Technology
Aerospace Engineering
Planning
Agricultural Engineering
Plastic Technology
Applied Mechanics
Materials Science
Information Science /Information Technology/Information and Communication Technology Mathematics/Applied Mathematics
Life Sciences (Zoology)
Industrial Management Mechanical Engineering
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mechatronics
Physics
Medical Instrumentation
Radio Physics
Metallurgical Engineering Instrumentation/Electronics/Control
Microbiology
Instrumentation & Process Control
Nano Science & Technology
Manufacturing Engineering
Nuclear Physics
Material Science and Engineering
Operations Research
Polymer Technology/Science
Architecture
Production/Industrial Engineering
Automobile Engineering
Renewable Energy
Biochemical Engineering
Rubber Technology
Biomedical Engineering
Textile Engineering & Fibre Science
Biotechnology
Agricultural Science
Ceramic & Glass Technology
Applied Electronics
Chemical Engineering
Applied Physics
Chemical Technology
Biochemistry
Civil/Environmental/Structural/Construction Engineering
Bio-Sciences
Computer Science Engineering/Technology
Chemistry
Control and Instrumentation
Computer Applications
Electrical Engineering /Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Power Engineering
Earth Sciences
Electro-Chemical Engineering
Engineering Physics
Electronics/Comm./Telecomm Engineering
Geology/ Geophysics
Energy Engineering
Industrial Chemistry
Environmental Engineering
Veterinary/Animal Science
Food Technology/Processing Engineering
Life Sciences (Botany)
Industrial Engineering
/Industrial Metallurgy
Radio Physics & Electronics
Mineral Engineering/Mineral Dressing
Statistics
Mining Engineering/Technology;Machinery
Textile ChemistryNaval Architecture/Marine Engineering
All other disciplines in Engineering/Technology/Sciences
Oil Technology
Paint Technology

Exam Pattern
GATE 2015 question papers will have two types of questions:
These questions are objective in nature, will have a choice of four answers each, out of which the aspirant has to mark the correct answer(s).
MCQs carrying 1 or 2 mark each in all papers and sections.
Numerical answer questions which will carry 1 or 2 marks each in all papers and sections.
Negative marking for each wrong answer.

GATE 2015 Important Dates
Start of application process: September 1, 2014
Last date for submission of online application: October 1, 2014
Last date for request for change in the choice of examination city: November 21, 2014
Availability of admit card: December 17, 2014
GATE 2015 online examination: January 31, 2015 to February 14, 2015
Announcement of results: March 12, 2015
Date of Notificaiton and Start of application process:
1st Sep, 2014
Last Date for submission of online application:
1st Oct, 2014
Last Date for request for change in the Choice of Exam city:
21st Nov, 2014
Availability of Admit card:
17th Dec, 2014
Date of Exam
31st Jan, 2015 to 14th Feb, 2015
Date of Result
12th Mar, 2015
GATE 2014 was held on
Between 1st Feb, 2014 to 2nd Mar, 2014

[Arun Vats]

As you want to get admission in M.TECH Computer science in IIT so for that you want to get information about entrance exam so here I am giving you same:

IITs give admission in M. Tech course on the basis of GATE score.

Eligibility:

Candidate must have B. Tech passed degree from a recognized University.

Tentative GATE CSE Exam Dates:
1st week of February, 2016

Syllabus:
Engineering Mathematics

Mathematical Logic: Propositional Logic; First Order Logic.

Probability: Conditional Probability; Mean, Median, Mode and Standard Deviation; Random Variables; Distributions; uniform, normal, exponential, Poisson, Binomial.

Set Theory & Algebra: Sets; Relations; Functions; Groups; Partial Orders; Lattice; Boolean Algebra.

Combinatorics: Permutations; Combinations; Counting; Summation; generating functions; recurrence relations; asymptotics.

Graph Theory: Connectivity; spanning trees; Cut vertices & edges; covering; matching; independent sets; Colouring; Planarity; Isomorphism.

Linear Algebra: Algebra of matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations, Eigen values and Eigen vectors.

Numerical Methods: LU decomposition for systems of linear equations; numerical solutions of non-linear algebraic equations by Secant, Bisection and Newton-Raphson Methods; Numerical integration by trapezoidal and Simpson's rules.

Calculus: Limit, Continuity & differentiability, Mean value Theorems, Theorems of integral calculus, evaluation of definite & improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivatives, maxima & minima.

GENERAL APTITUDE(GA):
Verbal Ability: English grammar, sentence completion, verbal analogies, word groups, instructions, critical reasoning and verbal deduction.

Computer Science and Information Technology

Digital Logic: Logic functions, Minimization, Design and synthesis of combinational and sequential circuits; Number representation and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).

Computer Organization and Architecture: Machine instructions and addressing modes, ALU and data-path, CPU control design, Memory interface, I/O interface (Interrupt and DMA mode), Instruction pipelining, Cache and main memory, Secondary storage.

Programming and Data Structures: Programming in C; Functions, Recursion, Parameter passing, Scope, Binding; Abstract data types, Arrays, Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Trees, Binary search trees, Binary heaps.

Algorithms: Analysis, Asymptotic notation, Notions of space and time complexity, Worst and average case analysis; Design: Greedy approach, Dynamic programming, Divide-and-conquer; Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, Spanning trees, Shortest paths; Hashing, Sorting, Searching. Asymptotic analysis (best, worst, average cases) of time and space, upper and lower bounds, Basic concepts of complexity classes P, NP, NP-hard, NP-complete.

Theory of Computation: Regular languages and finite automata, Context free languages and Push-down automata, Recursively enumerable sets and Turing machines, Undecidability.

Compiler Design: Lexical analysis, Parsing, Syntax directed translation, Runtime environments, Intermediate and target code generation, Basics of code optimization.

Operating System: Processes, Threads, Inter-process communication, Concurrency, Synchronization, Deadlock, CPU scheduling, Memory management and virtual memory, File systems, I/O systems, Protection and security.

Databases: ER-model, Relational model (relational algebra, tuple calculus), Database design (integrity constraints, normal forms), Query languages (SQL), File structures (sequential files, indexing, B and B+ trees), Transactions and concurrency control.

Information Systems and Software Engineering: information gathering, requirement and feasibility analysis, data flow diagrams, process specifications, input/output design, process life cycle, planning and managing the project, design, coding, testing, implementation, maintenance.

Computer Networks: ISO/OSI stack, LAN technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), Flow and error control techniques, Routing algorithms, Congestion control, TCP/UDP and sockets, IP(v4), Application layer protocols (icmp, dns, smtp, pop, ftp, http); Basic concepts of hubs, switches, gateways, and routers. Network security basic concepts of public key and private key cryptography, digital signature, firewalls.

Web technologies: HTML, XML, basic concepts of client-server computing.

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