Afraz Siddiqui is not new to GATE. An AIR 833 in GATE 2017 (EE) made him determined to better himself and became the reason for attempting GATE 2018. With the announcement of GATE 2018 result on March 16 by IIT Guwahati, Siddiqui had reason to celebrate as he did better himself. The Kanpur lad scored an AIR 36 in Electrical Engineering branch.