Postpone GATE Exam 2022: Demand for the Postgraduate Engineering Aptitude Test (GATE) to be postponed has grown stronger as candidates, who will be running for GATE 2022, have taken to Twitter to lobby for their demands.
Candidates have called for GATE 2022 to be postponed given the recent increase in Covid-19 cases across the country. They also urged IIT Kharagpur to consider their claims.
GATE is scheduled to start on February 5 and run through February 13. The examination admission card, which is expected to be submitted by more than 8 lakh candidates, has already been released.
According to reports, more than 45,000 applicants have joined an online petition calling for the engineering graduate aptitude test to be postponed until February.
A Twitter handle wrote: “Why are you playing with our career. Maybe this is just a preview for you, but for us it is the question of our whole career. Please look at this question from the point of view of health and career of the student.”
“Whole India is witnessing over 2.5 lakh cases daily and @IITKgp has announced the dates for the GATE review amidst this horrible situation. So I urge the government to take action and postpone the exam to save students’ lives,” one Twitter wrote. user.
Some also threatened IIT Kharagpur with a massive protest. “@IITKgp, what do you want from GATE wannabes?, do you want them to hold a physical protest like RRB NTPC wannabes? because your neglect of digital protest indicates the same,” wrote another Twitterati.
Aspirants and students are really very worried about their future. The government doesn’t seem so concerned about jobs, which makes them so precarious, another user said.
Applicants should note that the GATE 2022 document will be an objective type comprising of three question models – Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), Multiple Selection Questions (MCQs), and Numerical Response Questions (NATs). They should also know that for every wrong answer scored in an MCQ, the negative marks will be removed, while for MCQs and NATs there will be no negative marking for a wrong answer.
By the previous schedule, GATE 2022 will be held in two shifts on exam days. The first slot is from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and the next between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
On the other hand, India on Sunday reported 2,34,281 new COVID-19 positive cases and 893 deaths. With that, the total number of active cases in the country rose to 18,84,937.
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