GATE 2023 Answer Key: All those candidates who have taken the GATE 2023 exam were waiting for the release of the GATE 2023 answer sheet. The Kharagpur IIT will release the GATE 2023 answer key on 21st Feb 2023. The GATE Answer key will be released online in pdf format. GATE 2023 exam was scheduled on the 4th, 5th, 12th and 12th of February 2023. With the release of the answer key the candidates who will take this exam will get an idea about their estimated marks.
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GATE 2023 Answer Key
Candidates can use this officially released answer key to predict their scores in the exam. To get to know about the expected marks you will have to follow the marking scheme of GATE. According to the marking scheme the candidate can add 1 or 2 marks for a correct answer and deduct 1/3 or 2/3 marks for every incorrect answer. For incorrect NATs, no marks need to be deducted. Read on to know about how to download GATE 2023 answer key and how to get the expected score in GATE 2023.
The authorities have already shared the date on which the provisional answer key of GATE 2023. With the release of the answer key, the candidates will get the right to challenge the answer key. Before the release of the provisional answer key for the GATE exam, the authorities will release the response sheet of GATE 2023 on the official website.
GATE Answer Key 2023: Important Dates
Here have a look at the important dates associated with the release of the GATE 2023 answer key;
| Important Events | Tentative Dates |
| Examination date | 04th, 05th, 11th & 12th Feb 2023 |
| Release of GATE 2023 answer key | 21st Feb 2023 |
| Challenging of answer key | 22nd to 25 February 2023 |
| Declaration of the result | 16th March 2023 |
| Releasing date of the scorecard | 21st March 2023 |
GATE Answer Key 2023 Objections
The authorities will also release the question papers along with the answer key of GATE 2023. If in case any candidates will have any objections to the answers then he/she can submit the objections between 22nd Feb 2023-25th Feb 2023.
Applicants will have to make a payment of Rs. 500 per challenge. Candidates will have to produce the documents to support their challenge. If in case any challenge is found right then the officials will revise the answer key of GATE 2023 and then they will again release it after revision.
GATE 2023 Response Sheet
The authorities will release the GATE response sheet 2023 on 15th Feb 2023 via online method. This sheet will be released for every candidate and it has all the answers marked by candidates in the exam. To access this response sheet you will have to follow the below-given instruction;
- Go to gate.iitk.ac.in and enter your enrollment id/e-mail id and password.
- The dashboard will appear on the screen, click on the “view responses” button given on the dashboard.
- And your response sheet will appear on the screen.
Steps to Download the GATE Official Answer Key
As we mentioned above that the answer key of the GATE exam will be released online so the candidates must know how they can download it to match it with the answers they have given in the exam. Here we have compiled the steps that a candidate will have to take to check the answer key released by Kharagpur IIT
- First of all, you will have to visit the official website of GATE i.e. gate.iitk.ac.in.
- Here click on the link of ‘GATE Answer Key 2023 given on the home page of the website.
- Now the question papers and answer keys will be displayed on the screen.
- Download the answer key and corresponding question paper from the website. Both the question paper and answer key will be available as PDF files.
- You can tally the answers with the official answer key either on the computer or you can also take the printout of the answer key.
How to calculate the expected score with the help of GATE answer key 2023?
After downloading the GATE Answer Key 2023 from the official website another task is to calculate the probable score in the GATE exam. Well, it’s easy to calculate the expected marks in the GATE Result 2023. To know about your expected marks in this exam you will have to follow the below-given instruction so read them carefully. First, have a look at the marking scheme of GATE 2023
GATE 2023 Marking Scheme
| Question Type | Marks for the correct answer | Marks for an incorrect answer |
| Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) | +1 or +2 marks |
-1/3 for -1
mark question -2/3 for -2 mark question |
| Numerical Answer Type (NAT) | +1 or +2 marks | No Negative marking |
Steps to Calculate Probable Marks In GATE 2023
- Firstly you will have to calculate the total number of correct answers.
- Now allocate marks according to the right answers and then calculate the overall marks.
- To calculate the negative marks in the exam first calculate all the wrong attempts. You can skip the NAT questions with wrong answers as there is no negative marking for NAT questions. The Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) only have the procedure of negative marking.
- Now to get the expected score follow this formula; The total marks = Total marks secured for a correct response – Negative marks for a wrong response
Marks Calculation For MCQ questions is as follows;
- For correct 2 marks question – add 2 marks
- For incorrect 2 marks questions – deduct 2/3 marks
- For the correct 1-mark question – add 1 mark
- For incorrect 1-mark questions – deduct 1/3 mark.
Marks Calculation For NAT questions is as follows;
- For correct 2 marks question – add 2 marks
- For incorrect 2 marks questions – deduct 0 marks
- For the correct 1-mark question – add 1 mark
- For incorrect 1-mark questions – deduct 0 marks.
Process to challenge GATE 2023 Answer Key
To raise an objection on any answer given in the provisional answer key of the GATE exam 2023 the candidates will have to follow the below-given steps;
- First of all, you will have to visit the official GOAPS website and press the “Contest against Answer Keys” button given on the page.
- Now you will be redirected to the login page where you will have to enter your username and password to log in.
- As the next step, you will have to select the question against which you have an objection. It is also a must to upload a document file proving your claim against the answer.
- Now, the web page will be redirected to the payment gateway. As per the process, you will have to make the payment of Rs. 500 online modes (per challenge). For NRI candidates, the fee is US $10. The fee will not be returnable.
- It is a must to upload all the necessary supporting documents in the prescribed format before submitting the objection.
