Which Exam Is Better Suited For You GATE or ESE?

There are many factors that make the GATE exam and ESE exam different from each other. Today in this blog we will discuss in detail all those points which make both the exams different from each other.

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The Objective/ Purpose of the exam:

GATE: GATE is basically an entrance examination for admission into the M.Tech course in IlTs/NITs/IISC and many more engineering colleges. Candidates can also apply to PSUs using their GATE score. Many Public Sector Undertakings like BHEL, ICC, NTPC, BPCL, BARC, HPCL, etc., have started selecting candidates for their organizations through GATE score.

Engineering Services Examination: ESE is a government job recruitment exam conducted to select candidates for various central government departments of engineering. The recruited candidate in government departments is posted in the Indian Railway Service of Engineers, Indian Railway Stores Service, Indian Ordnance Factory Services, Indian Defense Service of Engineers and Central Water Engineering, and Central Power      Engineering Service, etc.

The Pattern of the exam :

GATE: The GATE exam is conducted through an online paper with 65 questions to be attempted in 180  minutes. The questions are of both multiple-choice and numerical answer types (where you have  to feed the answers yourself) which require critical thinking, systematic thought process, and a  deep understanding of the concepts.

ESE: This is an offline examination that is divided into 3 stages:  ESE Prelims,ESE Mains & ESE Interview

Branches:

GATE: This examination gives a wider range of students the chance to appear for the  examination. The candidate of 24 branches can appear for the GATE examination.

ESE: This examination is conducted for students of only 4 branches: Civil Engineering,  Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Electronics and Telecommunication. Students of other branches can also appear for the examination by choosing any of the   following subjects.

Competition Ratio:

GATE: As this examination has a low cutoff, the ratio of the candidates qualified to the  number of candidates who appeared is around 1:7.

ESE: Due to a limited number of seats available in the central government departments  the ratio of the number of candidates qualified to the number of candidates who appeared is around 1200.

Level of difficulty:

GATE: This exam requires the students to be very crisp with their concepts and be able to  apply them in new and varying ways. The questions asked in the examination test the analytical ability of the candidate.

ESE: For the preliminary examination, the paper requires the candidate to be quick and know his subjects well. While for the mains examination which is a conventional type exam, it is necessary that the candidate has good presentation skills as well as has practiced previous year papers well.

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