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GAT-B Exam 2024: Result (Declared), Answer Key, Counselling, Admission, Latest Updates

Updated on 23rd September, 2024 by Team Careers360

About GAT-B 2024

GAT-B 2024 - The National Testing Agency has declared the GAT-B result 2024 on May 24, on the official portal. Candidates can download the GAT-B scorecard 2024 by using their application number and date of birth. The GAT-B final answer key 2024 will be released soon. Students must be aware that no changes can be made to the GAT B 2024 final answer key. NTA has closed the GAT B answer key challenge window on April 28 in online mode.

The agency will release the GAT-B scorecard 2024 in online mode. The authority has released the GAT-B 2024 provisional answer key on its official website on April 26 in online mode. The GAT-B entrance exam 2024 was held on April 20. NTA released the GAT-B 2024 city intimation slip on April 13, in online mode. Candidates can download the GAT-B city intimation slip 2024 by visiting the official website. The NTA conducts the Graduate Aptitude Test - Biotechnology 2024 exam to offer admissions in various biotechnology and allied science programmes. 

Graduate Aptitude Test - Biotechnology is an all-India entrance test that grants admission to DBT-supported postgraduate programmes in biotechnology and allied programmes. There are 34 participating universities, including Jawaharlal Nehru University and SPPU in GAT B 2024. Candidates will be admitted in the participating universities based on the GAT-B scores. Aspirants have to go through the GAT B syllabus to ace the exam. The GAT-B entrance exam is conducted for a duration of three hours. Candidates who registered are eligible for the GAT-B 2024 exam. The admission process is done in the participating universities based on the GAT-B scores.


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GAT-B Admission Stats (2023)

CategoryMale FemaleTotal 

RegistrationAppearedRegistrationAppearedRegistration Appeared 
Gen-EWS339312521475860787
General1473
12763484301349574289
OBC-NCL113910011932170230712703
SC47739874462412211022
ST148124236191384315
PwD252313113834
Total3576311169176005105319150

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GAT-B 2024 Highlights

Full Exam Name
Graduate Aptitude Test-Biotechnology
Short Exam Name
GAT-B
Conducting Body
Regional Centre for Biotechnology
Frequency Of Conduct
Once a year
Exam Level
National Level Exam
Languages
English
Mode Of Application
online
Application Fee
Online : 1200
Mode Of Exam
online
Mode Of Counselling
online +1 more
Exam Duration
3 Hours
No Of Seats
1221

GAT-B Important Dates

GAT-B Graduate Aptitude Test-Biotechnology (session 2024)

08 Feb' 2024 - 10 Mar' 2024 . Online
Application Date
10 Mar' 2024 - 10 Mar' 2024 . Online
Application Date
Last date for fee payment
12 Mar' 2024 - 13 Mar' 2024 . Online
Application Correction Date

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Candidates who registered for the GAT-B 2024 exam are required to go through the eligibility criteria before filling up the online application form. Candidates who do not meet the GAT-B eligibility criteria are not eligible for the GAT-B entrance test. GAT-B eligibility criteria is about the minimum age and academic qualification that a candidate must fulfill to be eligible to apply for the admission in various DBT supported programmes offered by the university.

GAT-B Eligibility Criteria 2024 - M.Tech

Based on the GAT-B 2024 eligibility criteria for M.Tech programmes, candidates are required to have a B.Tech/BE degree in the respective stream with a minimum of 60% (General, EWS & OBC category) or 55% (SC,ST & PwD) aggregate by the participating university.

GAT-B Eligibility Criteria 2024 - M.Sc

Only those candidates are eligible for admission to M.Sc programmes, who have completed their graduation in 10+2+3 pattern in the respective field with a minimum of 60% (General, EWS & OBC category) or 55% (SC,ST & PwD) aggregate from a recognized university.

GAT-B Eligibility Criteria 2024 - M.VSc Animal Biotechnology

According to the GAT-B 2024 eligibility criteria of M.VSc Animal Biotechnology programme, candidates must have a B.V.Sc. & A.H. degree or an equivalent degree from a recognized university with a minimum CGPA of 6.60 in 10.00 scale or 2.60 on a 4.00 scale or 60% marks in the traditional system. Candidates belonging to reserved categories (SC/ST) are required to have a 5.60 on 10.00 scale, 2.20 on 4.00 scale, and 50% marks.

Candidates who want to get admitted in M.Sc. Biotechnology and allied programmes in the participating universities. Candidates are required to fill and submit the NTA GAT-B 2024 application form for the participating universities. Applicants should submit the application form before the last date of submission, with late fee. Candidates are required to check the GAT B eligibility criteria before submitting the application form. The application fee for general category is Rs/- 1200 and Rs/- 600 for SC, ST, EWS and PwD categories. Candidates can know more about the GAT-B application form and steps to fill the application form below.

Documents to keep ready before filling the NTA GAT-B Application Form 2024:

  • Email ID.

  • Phone number.

  • Personal details.

  • Qualifying exam mark sheets.

  • Applicable certificates to upload.

  • Scanned images of your recent passport photo and signature (as per guidelines).

Steps to fill GAT-B 2024 Application Form

Step 1 - Students have to register themselves by visiting the official website - dbt.nta.ac.in.

Step 2 - After registration, candidates can start filling in the required details in the GAT-B application form.

Step 3 – Upload all the required documents which include educational certificates, scanned signature, and recent passport size photograph.

Step 4 – Preview the GAT-B application form 2024 carefully to make sure all the details are correct.

Step 5 – Click on payment mode - Credit Card/Debit Card/Net Banking and pay the application fee for GAT-B 2024. 

Documents Required at Exam GAT-B 2024

Graduate Aptitude Test-Biotechnology 2024

  • Admit card
  • A valid photo ID
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The GAT-B exam pattern 2024 can help students to understand the concept of the GAT-B  exam. The exam pattern consists of details regarding exam mode, marking scheme, types of questions asked, marking scheme and the medium of the NTA GAT B exam. According to the GAT-B 2024 exam pattern, every correct response carries three marks and every incorrect response gets deducted by one mark. The total number of question papers in GAT-B consists of 100 mCQs and the candidates are required to attempt atleast 60 questions. Candidates are required to go through the exam pattern before appearing for the GAT-B exam.

GAT-B Exam Pattern 2024

Particulars

Details


Mode of exam

Online (CBT)


Time duration

3 hours (180 minutes)

Total Sections

2 (A and B)

Type of questions

Multiple choice (MCQs)

Part A

60 compulsory questions

1 marks for each correct answer

Negative marking of ½ marks for each incorrect answer

Part B

60 questions to be attempted out of 100

3 marks for each correct answer

Negative marking of -1 marks for each incorrect answer

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GAT-B 2024 Syllabus

GAT-B Graduate Aptitude Test-Biotechnology Syllabus

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 01


Biomolecules
  • Structure and functions; biological membranes, structure, action potential and transport processes; enzymes-classification, kinetics, and mechanism of action; basic concepts and designs of metabolism (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and nucleic acids)
  • Photosynthesis, respiration, and electron transport chain; bioenergetics

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 02


Viruses
  • Structure and classification; microbial classification and diversity (bacterial, algal, and fungal); methods in microbiology; microbial growth and nutrition; aerobic and anaerobic respiration; nitrogen fixation
  • Microbial diseases and host-pathogen interaction

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 03


Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure
  • Cell cycle and cell growth control; cell-cell communication, cell signaling and signal transduction

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 04


Molecular structure of genes and chromosomes
  • Mutations and mutagenesis; nucleic acid replication, transcription, translation, and their regulatory mechanisms in prokaryotes and eukaryotes; Mendelian inheritance; gene interaction; complementation; linkage, recombination and chromosome mapping
  • Extra chromosomal inheritance; microbial genetics (plasmids, transformation, transduction, conjugation); horizontal gene transfer and transposable elements; RNA interference; DNA damage and repair; chromosomal variation
  • Molecular basis of genetic diseases

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 05


Principles of microscopy
  • Light, electron, fluorescent and confocal; centrifugation-high speed and ultra; principles of spectroscopy-UV, visible, CD, IR, FTIR, Raman, MS, NMR; principles of chromatography-ion exchange, gel filtration, hydrophobic interaction, affinity
  • Principles of chromatography-GC,HPLC, FPLC; electrophoresis; microarray

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 06


History of immunology
  • Innate, humoral and cell mediated immunity; antigen; antibody structure and function; molecular basis of antibody diversity; synthesis of antibody and secretion; antigen-antibody reaction; complement; primary and secondary lymphoid organ
  • B and T cells and macrophages; major histocompatibility complex (MHC); antigen processing and presentation; polyclonal and monoclonal antibody; regulation of immune response; immune tolerance; hypersensitivity; autoimmunity; graft versus host reaction

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 07


Major bioinformatics resources and search tools
  • Sequence and structure databases; sequence analysis (biomolecular sequence file formats, scoring matrices, sequence alignment, phylogeny); data mining and analytical tools for genomic and proteomic studies
  • Molecular dynamics and simulations (basic concepts including force fields, protein-protein, protein-nucleic acid, protein-ligand interaction)

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 08


Restriction and modification enzymes
  • Vectors; plasmid, bacteriophage and other viral vectors, cosmids, Ti plasmid, yeast artificial chromosome; mammalian and plant expression vectors; cDNA and genomic DNA library; gene isolation, cloning and expression; transposons and gene targeting
  • DNA labeling; DNA sequencing; polymerase chain reactions; DNA fingerprinting; southern and northern blotting; in-situ hybridization; RAPD, RFLP; site-directed mutagenesis; gene transfer technologies; gene therapy

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 09


Totipotency
  • Regeneration of plants; plant growth regulators and elicitors; tissue culture and cell suspension culture system: Methodology, kinetics of growth and, nutrient optimization; production of secondary metabolites by plant suspension cultures
  • Hairy root culture; transgenic plants; plant products of industrial importance

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 10


Animal cell culture
  • Media composition and growth conditions; animal cell and tissue preservation; anchorage and non-anchorage dependent cell culture; kinetics of cell growth; micro and macrocarrier culture; hybridoma technology; stem cell technology; animal cloning
  • Transgenic animals

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 11


Chemical engineering principles applied to biological system
  • Principle of reactor design, ideal and non-ideal multiphase bioreactors, mass and heat transfer; Rheology of fermentation fluids, aeration and agitation; media formulation and optimization; kinetics of microbial growth
  • Substrate utilization and product formation; sterilization of air and media; batch, fed-batch and continuous processes; various types of microbial and enzyme reactors; instrumentation control and optimization
  • Unit operations in solid-liquid separation and liquid-liquid extraction; process scale-up, economics and feasibility analysis

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 12


Engineering principle of bioprocessing
  • Upstream production and downstream; bioprocess design and development from lab to industrial scale; microbial, animal and plant cell culture platforms; production of biomass and primary/ secondary metabolites; biofuels, bioplastics, industrial enzymes
  • Antibiotics; large scale production and purification of recombinant proteins; industrial application of chromatographic and membrane based bioseparation methods; immobilization of biocatalysts (enzymes and cells) for bioconversion processes
  • Bioremediation-aerobic and anaerobic processes for stabilization of solid/ liquid wastes

Basic biology, life sciences, biotechnology and allied area: Unit 13


Tissue culture and its application, micropropagation
  • Meristem culture and production of virus-free plants
  • Anther and microspore culture
  • Embryo and ovary culture
  • Protoplast isolation
  • Protoplast fusion-somatic hybrids, cybrids
  • Somaclones
  • Synthetic seeds
  • In vitro germplasm conservation
  • Cryopreservation
  • Organelle DNA, satellite-and repetitive DNAs
  • DNA repair
  • Regulation of gene expression
  • Recombinant DNA technology-cloning vectors, restriction enzymes, gene cloning
  • Methods of gene transfer in plants
  • Achievements and recent developments of genetic engineering in agriculture
  • Development of transgenics for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, bioethics, terminator technology, nanotechnology, DNA fingerprinting, gene silencing

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the GAT-B 2024 admit card on the official website - dbt.nta.ac.in. Candidates can download the admit card from the official website by using their login credentials. The GAT-B admit card 2024 contains information about the name of the candidate, exam centre, name of the exam, photograph of the candidate, reporting time and signature of the candidate. If the candidates have any false information or any other issue regarding the admit card, then they should contact the officials as early as possible to make the correction before the exam. Candidates are required to carry a valid ID proof such as Aadhar card/PAN card/Driving licence/Voter ID/Passport along with the admit card to the examination centre.

Steps to download GAT-B admit card 2024

  1. Visit the official website at exams.nta.ac.in/dbt
  2. Click on the "Click here to download Admit Card" option.
  3. You will be directed to a login page.Enter your login details such as application number, date of birth and security PIN.
  4. Then, click on "Submit" option.
  5. Your GAT-B 2024 admit card will be displayed on screen.
  6. Check for the details.
  7. Lastly, download and take printed copies for future use.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced the GAT-B result 2024 on May 24, on the official website - dbt.nta.ac.in. Candidates can check their result by logging in with the application number and password or date of birth. The participating universities will release the waiting list based on the GAT- B 2024 scores. The waiting list is prepared based on the rank secured by the candidates in the GAT-B 2024 exam. 

GAT-B Scorecard 2024

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will release the GAT-B scorecards along with the rank cards. Candidates who appeared for the exam can download the GAT-B scorecard by using their login credentials on the official website - dbt.nta.ac.in.

 How to Download GAT-B 2024 Scorecard?

  1. Visit the official website — dbt.nta.ac.in.

  2. Click on the “GAT-B Score Card & Rank Card” tab. 

  3. Click on “Login with application number and password” and enter the application number, password and security code to login.

  4. Click on “Login with application number and date of birth” and enter the application number, date of birth and security pin to login.

  5. Your GAT-B 2024 scorecard will be displayed on the screen.

  6. Download GAT B scorecard 2024 and take a print of it for future reference.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. When will GAT-B 2024 final answer key be out?

The National Testing Agency will release the GAT B final answer key 2024 soon at exams.nta.ac.in/DBT/.

2. How can I raise objections against GAT-B final answer key?

Students are allowed to challenge the GAT-B answer key, during the correction window, However, NTA does not entertain any request for corrections against the GAT B final answer key.

3. What details do I need to download GAT-B admit card 2024?

Students are required to enter their application number, date of birth and security PIN, to download GAT B 2024 admit card.

4. When will GAT-B application correction window open?

The National Testing Agency opened the GAT-B 2024 application correction window on March 12.

5. When will the GAT-B 2024 exam be held?

The GAT-B exam 2024 was held on April 20, 2024.

6. When will the GAT-B admit card 2024 be issued?

The NTA has released the GAT-B 2024 admit card on April 17, in online mode at dbt.nta.ac.in.

7. When will the GAT-B 2024 registration start?

The National Testing Agency (NTA) started the GAT-B registration 2024 on February 8. Candidates could apply for GAT-B 2024 till March 10, 2024.

8. Where can I find the allotted GAT-B exam centre 2024?

Candidates can find their allotted GAT-B 2024 exam centre on the admit card.

9. Where can I download the GAT-B admit card 2024?

Candidates can download the GAT-B 2024 admit card from the official website by using their login credentials.

10. What will be the medium of GAT-B 2024?

GAT-B 2024 was conducted in the English language.

11. What is the age limit for the GAT-B 2024?

There is no age limit to apply for the GAT-B exam 2024.

12. How to make the GAT-B application fee payment?

Candidates can make the GAT-B 2024 application fee payment online by using credit card / debit card/ net banking / UPI.

13. What is GAT-B?

GAT-B stands for Graduate Aptitude Test for Biotechnology and other allied programmes. GAT-B is a national level entrance examination conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA).

Questions related to GAT-B

Have a question related to GAT-B ?

Hello,

As per the information available in GAT-B 2022 Information Brochure the schedule official date for the Display of Recorded Responses and Provisional Answer Keys on the Website is yet to be announced. The official date will be announced shortly so please wait until then. Please keep an eye on updates from time to time. All the updates, announcements, notices will be available on the official website: https://dbt.nta.ac.in/


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Hope you are doing well.

Really sorry, but your question is not quite clear as you have not mentioned the name of the exam for which you have asked the query so please kindly mention the name of the exam for which you are asking the question so that further i'll be able to answer your query and try my level best to solve your query. Because each and every exam have different set of rules and regulations.

GOOD LUCK AND STAY MOTIVATED.

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Dear Student,

You can start your preparation whenever you want to. Just remember one thing, revision is a must. You must do revise the topic once in a week, once in two weeks and once in a month. This will help to remember the topic more.

Tips you can follow :-

  • Keep syllabus and previous year papers by your side.
  • Refer to good and effective notes and books
  • Solve mock tests
  • Follow the exam pattern and time in your last days of preparation.

IIT JAM is a common entrance test if you want to get admission for master’s courses such as MSc, Integrated Ph.D., Joint MSc-PhD, MSc-PhD Dual Degree. While GATE examination is a national level exam which aims at providing admissions in the master of technology such as ME, MTech, Ph.D. courses.

JAM Score Card is valid for 1 year while the GATE Exam scores are valid upto 3 years starting from the date of announcement of the result.

GATE scores are only valid for postgraduate admissions and not for PSU recruitment.

Happy Learning!

Hello,

On August 8, the National Testing Agency (NTA) published the GAT B 2021 admission card at dbt.nta.ac.in. On August 3, the NTA ended the GAT-B 2021 application correction window .

The GAT-B 2021 exam pattern is mandatory watching for applicants preparing for the entrance exam. The GAT-B exam pattern 2021 contains important information about the test, such as the question paper section, the kind and quantity of questions, and so on. The GAT-B 2021 question paper is broken into two parts: Part A and Part B.

Part A comprises 60 required multiple-choice questions from Physics, Chem, Maths, and Bio at the Class 12 level. Part B consists of 100 Bachelor's level multiple choice problems that demand critical thinking and analysis.

The duration of the test is 3hrs

Go through the link for further info

https://university.careers360.com/articles/graduate-aptitude-test-biotechnology

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Hello,

GAT-B 2021 is scheduled on August 14, 2021. There isn't any official announcement regarding the admit card. Since exam is after 9 days from today the admit card will be released anytime soon. So please keep an eye on updates regularly and check your registered E-mail ID and phone number for updates regarding admit card. Once the admit cards are released you can download. Click on the link below to check the important dates

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