GATE Exam Pattern 2025 (Released): Check Paper/ Subjects Here

GATE 2025 Exam Pattern has been released. It must be checked by the candidates to make themselves aware about the exam mode, marking & other details.

Are you aware that the updated official GATE 2025 Exam Pattern is uploaded now.

The exam pattern of GATE 2025 also discusses about the number of questions, its type, number of sections, papers, time duration, etc. Exam is scheduled on 1st, 2nd, 15th & 16th February 2025.

GATE 2025 Exam Pattern – Released

GATE 2025 Exam Pattern has been released by IIT, Roorkee. Check complete pattern below.

GATE 2025 exam is going to be organised by IISc, Roorkee. The exam will be conducted for 30 papers/ subjects.

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Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is conducted for admission to M.E./ M.Tech/ Direct Ph.D programmes in IITs, NITs, CFTI and various private institutions. Students can check below complete & updated GATE Exam Pattern 2025 details.

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Also, we have discussed various changes which have been introduced in GATE exam in the past years:

• The examination of GATE 2025 will be be conducted for 30 papers (1 new subject added). It will be conducted via online mode only (Computer Based Test).
• The exam tests candidates various abilities – Recall, Application, Comprehension, Analysis & Synthesis.
• GATE 2025 will be organised in February 2025.
• For creating an opportunity in the inter- disciplinary areas, candidates will be provided with the option of appearing for more than one subject. Students must appear for ONE or TWO subjects in the GATE exam. However, the option of two subjects will be applicable only for a prescribed set of combinations.
• Previous year in 2024, authority has added one more paper – Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DA).
• In the year 2022, two new subjects – Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering (NM), and Geomatics Engineering (GE) were added.
• In GATE 2021, Environmental Science & Engineering (ES) and Humanities & Social Sciences (XH) subjects were added.
• In GATE 2020, Bio-medical Engineering (BM) subject was added in the syllabus of GATE.

GATE will be also conducted in International centres and the session timings at as per their local time.

• Question Type: The question paper of GATE 2025 will consist of both Multiple- Choice Questions (MCQs), Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) and Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions.
  • For multiple choice questions, there will be multiple options available out of which students have to choose only the right answer.
  • For multiple select questions, one or more than one options out of four will be correct.
  • For numerical answer type questions, candidates will have to enter a number using the virtual keyword available on the computer screen during the examination.
• Number of Questions: The question paper of GATE will contain 65 questions [10 (GA)+ 55 (Subjects)] of maximum 100 marks.
• No of Sections: The questions will be divided in two sections – Common General Aptitude – GA (for all subjects/ papers) & Core subjects. The core subjects will have two types of questions – Compulsory & Optional.
• Exam Duration: Paper will be of 3 hours.

Check the GATE paper and paper codes for GATE 2025 from the below table. Know about the newly added papers & their paper codes:

Exam Pattern for Various Papers

• In all the papers except CY, DA, EY, GG, MA, PH, AR, ST, XH and XL, Engineering Mathematics will carry 13 marks, General Aptitude section will contain 15 marks, subject questions will contain 72 marks, making it total 100 marks (XE includes Engineering mathematics section XE-A of 15 marks).
• In the papers CY, DA, EY, GG, MA, PH, AR, ST, XH and XL, General Aptitude section will carry 15 marks and subject questions will carry 85 marks, making it total 100 marks.
• In the paper of AR, General Aptitude section will carry 15 marks. Paper will consist of two parts – Part A (60) & Part B (25) marks. Part A is compulsory for all candidates & Part B contains optional section. Part B1 (Architecture) & Part B2 (Planning).
• The General Aptitude section 5 questions of 1 Mark and 5 questions of 2 marks.
• Question paper other than GG, XE and XL will contain 25 questions of 1 mark and 30 questions of 2 marks.

Paper Wise Marks Distribution:

Check below table for paper wise marks distribution for various sections, total marks & timing:

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For XH Paper:

Candidate appearing for XH (Humanities & Social Sciences) paper, will have to attempt the following sections:

• General Aptitude – Common General Aptitude will carry of total 15 marks.
• Paper B1 (Compulsory) – Reasoning & Comprehension (compulsory section) – This compulsory section will be of 25 marks.
• Any one optional papers of XH (C1 to C6) – There are 6 sections (C1 to C6), candidates can opt for any one optional section. The optional section will of 60 marks.
• XH= General Aptitude (15 marks) + Subject questions (85 marks) = 100 marks

XH paper contains the following sections:

For XE Paper:

Candidate appearing for XE paper have to attempt the following sections:

• General Aptitude – Common General Aptitude will carry of total 15 marks.
• Paper A (Compulsory) – Engineering Mathematics (compulsory section) – contains 11 questions (7 questions of 1 mark and 4 questions of 2 marks).
• Any two optional papers of XE (B to H) – There are 7 sections (B to H), candidates can opt for two optional sections. Each section will be of 35 marks (2 section X 35 marks = 75 marks). There will be total 22 questions (9 questions carrying 1 mark and 13 questions carrying 2 marks).
• XE = 15 + [15+(2*35)] = 100 marks

XE paper contains the following sections:

For XL Paper:

Candidate appearing for XL paper have to attempt the following sections:

• General Aptitude – Common General Aptitude carrying of total 15 marks.
• Paper P (Compulsory) – Chemistry (compulsory section) – It contains total 15 questions (5 questions of 1 marks and 10 questions of 2 marks).
• Any two optional papers of XL (Q to U) – There are 5 sections (Q to U), candidates can opt for two optional sections. Each section will be of 35 marks (2 section X 30 marks = 60 marks). There will be 20 questions (10 questions of 1 mark and 10 questions of 2 marks).
• XL = 15 + [25+(2*30)] = 100 marks

XL Paper of GATE has the following sections:

Note: Students can choose the sections during examination after viewing the questions.

For GG Paper:

The question paper will consist of two parts: Part A and Part B. Part A is common for all candidates. Part B has 2 sections; Section-1 is of Geology and Section-2 is of Geophysics. In Part A, there is total 25 of 1 mark each. In Part B, each section contain 30 questions of 2 marks.

GG= 15+25+60 = 100 marks

Note: Apart from core subject of the paper, General Aptitude (GA) is the common section in each paper of GATE.

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Marking Scheme

There will be a negative marking in GATE for multiple choice questions. For Numerical answer type questions, no negative marking will be there. Questions will carry 1 or 2 mark. For 1 mark question, 1/3 mark will be deducted for wrong answers and for 2 marks question, 2/3 marks will be deducted. Also, there is no partial marking in MSQ.

Complete details about the GATE 2025 Exam Pattern is mentioned in the article as per the details furnished by authority. The details about the number of papers/ subjects, their paper codes, number of sections & their types, time duration, marking scheme, etc. is also updated in our article.

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