How to calculate GATE percentile

2010 March 27

As everyone knows GATE scores are used for M.Tech (other master degrees in Engineering) and percentiles tells you where you stand. Please don’t confuse yourself with percentage.

Percentile is a relative term and tells where you stand in a set of people. For example, if you have 99.95 percentile in GATE means that your score or marks are above 99.95% student who took GATE exam.

Whereas, percent is a relative and measured on the scale of 100, it means that how many marks you got out of 100. This is not a measure of GATE performance. Therefore, don’t worry if someone says you that they go 99.9X score and think that it is beyond your capacity. To answer how to find GATE percentile please read the below formula and example carefully.

The GATE percentile is calculated as follows:

P = ( (N- your rank)/ N) x 100

Where P is percentile and N is total number of candidates appeared for exam.
(N- Your rank) indicates the number of candidates who have scored less marks than you.

For example, if total number of candidates are 100 and 90 of them have less marks than you P = (09/100)X100 = 0.9×100 = 90 percentile.

For another example: A guy form Mechanical Engineering have All India Rank (AIR) 99 and total number of student of students appeared for GATE in Mechanical Engineering are 59338 in 2010. Then his percentile would be calculated as

P = ((59338-99)/ 59338) X 100
= (59239/59338) X 100
= (0.9983) X 100
= 99.83
The candidate has 99.83 percentile.

As the competition grown too high, refer to GATE 2010 analysis, percentile not used for admissions anymore. As score is calculated on 1000 scale it gives a bit clear understanding and make admission process easy. Therefore Score is taken into consideration these days. Please refer to what is valid GATE Score to know more about GATE Scores. Do check for more information of GATE and M.Tech Admissions.

I m planing to write an automated online program to calculate GATE 2011 percentile. If you still have any questions please feel free to drop a comment.

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  1. vipul Permalink

    Marks Obtained: 44.33 Out of 100
    GATE Score: 562
    All India Rank: 2949
    No of Candidates Appeared in CE: 136027
    please tell me best college that i can apply for and also tell my percentile????

  2. vikas kumar gupta Permalink

    Good Morning sir,
    i have got

    Marks Obtained: 35 Out of 100
    GATE Score: 421
    All India Rank: 9261
    No of Candidates Appeared in EC: 137853

    and i belongs from OBC so can i take admission in any NIT.
    if it is not possible then please suggest me good college according to my rank.
    please reply me……….

  3. arihant Permalink

    i ve ec air 6914.gen category.can i gt nit..??o ne der gud colleges

  4. ashutosh Permalink

    gate score-419
    AIR-4358
    branch-electrical

    catagory-obc
    suggest, any iit,or nit

  5. Rishi Permalink

    I would like to now about M.Tech Biotech or Life sciences colleges. With good GATE score, what is cut off for this streme.

    kindly suggest colleges, NITs and IITs for this stream.

  6. ankit kumar Permalink

    hi,
    i am from general category
    in gate-2011 in E.C. i got 881 rank & 683 gate score.
    please suggest me how to get into a iit.
    which iit can iget & which subject
    please help me.

  7. ajay Permalink

    Sir,I have got 38 marks in gate exam and my gate score is 475.sir,which of the colleges are best suitable for me?

  8. hello good morning sir
    i m student of information technology
    i m sc category
    in 2011 gate not qualified
    my gate percentage is 14.3%.how will calculate my score.my rank is 65000 lumsum.please solve with example i m first appeared..
    thank you sir i hope my solution is quickly given by u..

  9. prabha samudre Permalink

    sir i m form reseve category (sc) & my gate score 504 marks 32 and AIR 96 i was in disipline of PI HOW can i calculate my percentile plz tell me my percentile

  10. Sujay Permalink

    Hello sir,
    I have a gate score of 424 (33.33/100) in electrical engineering, ma gate percentile is 94.25… what are my chances of getting into IITs or NITs. Please let me know by the earliest.

  11. Sujay Permalink

    Hello sir,
    I have a gate score of 424 (33.33/100) with a rank of 4174 in 72680 students appeared in electrical engineering, my gate percentile is 94.25 and i belong to GEN category… what are my chances of getting into IITs or NITs. Please let me know by the earliest.

  12. thank u 4 dis site .it help me a lot to find gate percentile

  13. Sakshi Permalink

    Sir,
    i have cs branch n i ve got

    Marks Obtained: 30.33 Out of 100
    GATE Score: 392
    All India Rank: 11385
    No of Candidates Appeared in CS: 136027

    can you tell me sum gud colleges to apply for?

  14. Veeru Permalink

    Hi,i got 3521 rank in gate(EEE) 2011.My b.tech percentage is 65.gate score is 444.please suggest me. Can i get admission in any nit.kindly please reply. me.my mobile number is 9866287305

  15. Swati Permalink

    I got 213 gate score & NOT QUALIFIED in gate 2011. i belong to ST category can i got NIT ?
    plzzzzzzzzz rplllllyyyyyy
    ;(

  16. sumit Permalink

    Hello sir,
    I have a gate score of 408 (31.67/100) in computer science engineering, ma gate percentile is 92.61… what are my chances of getting into IITs or NITs. Please let me know by the earliest.

  17. Ramesh Permalink

    Dear sir,

    I got 36 marks and 1119 rank in GATE2010 in mechanical, i am OBC candidate, can i get a seat inthermal engineering NIT-warangal or NIT – Trichy

  18. pranAB Permalink

    i am currently studying in nit rourkela,electrical engineering 5th sem…my cg is nw 6.95..i hav messd up all my semesters up till now…
    i want to do mtech in an iit.so want to prepare for gate exam from now only…plssss help me out in planning for it…dat is what i should start and which books to follow…pls do reply…m under lot of stress as juz my sem result got out….

  19. krishna kant soni Permalink

    my 25/100 marks gate score is 327.branch CS .air 18524.can i get nit.

  20. naveen kumar m Permalink

    sir my gate 345 in elecrical with 0BC reservation will i get seat nit

  21. satyamahesh Permalink

    hi sir,
    i am from general category
    in gate-2011 in m.e. i got 4629 rank & 447 gate score.
    what are my chances of getting into IITs or NITs.

  22. Dear Sir,
    I got 18 marks of CS branch in 2011 gate exam.Total no. of candidates 136025 and my rank is 116080. Sir plzz tell hw to calculate my gate 2011 percentile.and also tell me in which college i will get my M.Tech seat.plzz send me the information to my Email id.

  23. I got 18 marks of CS branch in 2011 gate exam.Total no. of candidates 136025 and my rank is 116080. Sir plzz tell me hw to calculate my gate 2011 percentile.and also tell me in which college i will get my M.Tech seat,I’m a SC candidate,vizag,AP.plzz send me the information to my Email id.

  24. atheeq Permalink

    dear lakshmi

    (136025-116080)=19945

    (19945/136025)=14.66
    (14.66*100)=14.66

    your pecentile=14.66
    if any hiatheeq@gmail.com

  25. Shipra garg Permalink

    Hi

    I got 24 marks in gate 2010(CS).
    My B.Tech aggregate was 78%
    Please suggest where can I get admission in m.Tech?

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