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GATE has definitely spearheaded as one of India's biggest exams with over 10 lakh candidates taking it in 2013. The results were out recently and we decided to talk to some of the toppers. One of them is simple, coy but extremely brilliant. Surya Ragunaathan talks to Shivam Dubey, All India Rank VII. He is a mechanical engineer from Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Ambala.

GATE 2013 which is single largest entrance exam whose score is used to take admissions to PG and doctoral courses in engineering, technology, architecture and science, saw over 10 lakh candidates taking the test this year. So there has been a drastic increase in competition over the previous year (30 percent) and that makes it commendable that one should make it among the top ten All Indian Ranks. Surya Ragunaathan speaks to one such topper – All India Rank IV, Poonam Kumar, a mechanical engineer from NIEC, Delhi (2012).

29,530 applications were received for (UG) CLAT-2013 at the CLAT Office (HNLU, Raipur) by the scheduled last date, i.e. March 30, 2013. 11,137 candidates applied offline and 18,393 applied online for the under graduate law entrance examination. 

Remember, this is the last week and you have only one examination for all the Engineering Colleges. Put everything you have got into this week. You will get admission somewhere no matter what your rank is but you will feel better about yourself throughout your life if you get through to any of the IITs, reputed NITs or BIT Mesra, etc. Our JEE expert Abhishek Chandra takes you through day two of this week's schedule.

It's Monday again! Time to take a look at GyanCentral's weekly law update, where we discuss about the various happenings across law schools and the field of law in general. GyanCentral's Ushnota Paul brings you all the spice! Read on.

JEE Main is just a week away and this must be making you nervous, anxious, absent-minded with numerous questions hovering in your mind about how to spend the last week. It is that crucial week when you need to use your time optimally and must know what to do each day. Gyancentral's JEE expert Abhishek Chandra brings you one article every day this week – countdown to JEE main. Sit up and listen.

Last week I started writing about biggest mooting mistakes over here. That contained some of the basic mistakes – now it is time to cover some more advanced material about mooting mistakes.

IIT Indore added a feather to its cap by being associated with the world's largest and most prestigious physics research laboratory in the world - CERN. A team from IIT-I is slated to leave for CERN in May to contribute to the continuing research work on the Big Bang Theory. Anuraag Khandelwal reports in this Gyancentral exclusive.