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
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.
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.
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.