GATE Exam Pattern 2025

GATE Entrance Exam Pattern 2025

With the release of the official notification, the conducting authorities will also release the GATE Exam Pattern 2025. The question paper will consist of two types of questions; MCQs and NAT.

GATE Entrance Exam Pattern

As already discussed, GATE Exam 2025 will be held in online mode for 24 disciplines with 3 sections namely, General Aptitude, Engineering Mathematics, and the specific subject of the paper. The following are the specifications of the MCQs and NAT types of questions.

(i) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ): This type of question carry 1 or 2 marks for each in all papers and sections. These are objective in nature, and each will have a choice of four answers, out of which the aspirants have to mark the correct answer(s).

(ii) Numerical Answer Type (NAT): This type of question will also carry 1 or 2 marks for each in all papers and sections. For NAT, an answer is a real number that must be entered by the aspirants using the virtual keypad. No choices will be given for this type of question.

Section	Total No. of Questions	No. of Questions	Marks Per Question	Total Marks
General Aptitude	1 to 5	5	1	5
Technical + Engineering Mathematics	1 to 25	25	1	25
Technical + Engineering Mathematics	26 to 55	30	2	60

GATE Entrance Exam Pattern 2025
Total Duration		3 Hours
Total Questions		65
Technical Section	Engineering Mathematics	General Aptitude
70	15	15
Total Marks		100

Note: Numericals will carry 25 to 40 marks in GATE 2025.

Paper Code	Exam Pattern
CE, CS, EC, EE, IN, ME, AE, AG, BT, CH, MN, MT, TF, XE, PE, ST, and PI	General Aptitude (GA) – 15%
	Engineering Mathematics – 15%
	The subject of the Paper – 70%
AR, CY, EY, XL, GG, MA, and PH	General Aptitude (GA) – 15%
AR, CY, EY, XL, GG, MA, and PH	The subject of the Paper – 85%