GATE 2025: Types of Questions

The candidates who will appear in the upcoming GATE 2025 examination will get the following types of questions:

• Candidate’s Selected Subject(s)
• Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
• Multiple Select Questions (MSQ)
• Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions

GATE 2025: Abilities Tested

The Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) Examination tests its candidate’s Recall, Comprehension, Application and Analysis & Synthesis abilities.

GATE 2025: Marks Allotment

Candidates who will appear in the GATE exam in 2025, will be awarded marks based on the below marking scheme except the Architecture (AR), Statistics (ST), Humanities and Social Sciences (XH), and Life Sciences (XL), Chemistry (CY), Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA), Ecology and Evolution (EY), Geology and Geophysics (GG), Mathematics (MA), Physics (PH) papers:

• General Aptitude (GA): 15 marks
• Engineering Mathematics: 13 marks
• Subject Questions: 72 marks
• Total: 100 marks
• Total Time: 180 minutes

Architecture (AR), Statistics (ST), Humanities and Social Sciences (XH), Life Sciences (XL), Chemistry (CY), Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA), Ecology and Evolution (EY), Geology and Geophysics (GG), Mathematics (MA), Physics (PH) papers, marks distribution:

• General Aptitude (GA): 15 marks
• Subject Questions: 85 marks
• Total: 100 marks
• Total Time: 180 minutes

Architecture (AR)-

• General Aptitude (GA) Marks: 15
• Compulsory Section: Part A (60 marks, common for all)
• Subject Marks: 25 (Part B1: Architecture or Part B2: Planning, selectable during the exam)
• Total Marks: 100
• Total Time: 180 minutes

Geomatics Engineering (GE)-

• General Aptitude (GA) Marks: 15
• Compulsory Section: Part A (55 marks, common for all)
• Subject Marks: 30 (Part B1: Surveying and Mapping or Part B2: Image Processing and Analysis, selectable during the exam)
• Total Marks: 100
• Total Time: 180 minutes

Geology and Geophysics (GG)-

• General Aptitude (GA) Marks: 15
• Compulsory Section: Part A (25 marks, common for all)
• Subject Marks: 60 (Part B1: Geology or Part B2: Geophysics, chosen at the time of application)
• Total Marks: 100
• Total Time: 180 minutes

Engineering Sciences (XE)-

• General Aptitude (GA) Marks: 15
• Compulsory Section: Section A (15 marks, Engineering Mathematics, common for all)
• Subject Marks: 70 (TWO additional sections of 35 marks each, selectable during the exam)
• Total Marks: 100
• Total Time: 180 minutes

Humanities and Social Sciences (XH)-

• General Aptitude (GA) Marks: 15
• Compulsory Section: Section B1 (25 marks, Reasoning and Comprehension, common for all)
• Subject Marks: 60 (ONE additional section, chosen at the time of application)
• Total Marks: 100
• Total Time: 180 minutes

Life Sciences (XL)-

• General Aptitude (GA) Marks: 15
• Compulsory Section: Section P (25 marks, Chemistry, common for all)
• Subject Marks: 60 (TWO additional sections of 30 marks each, selectable during the exam)
• Total Marks: 100
• Total Time: 180 minutes

GATE 2025: Sections

There will be two sections in the Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) 2025 exam:

• General Aptitude (GA)
• Candidate’s Selected Subjects

GATE 2025: Marking Scheme

The Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) 2025 examination will be checked using the following marking scheme:

• There is a negative marking in the GATE 2025 exam MCQ-type questions.
• If a 1-mark MCQ is answered incorrectly, then the candidate’s 1/3 mark will be deducted.
• If a 2-mark MCQ, is answered incorrectly, then the candidate’s 2/3 mark will be deducted.
• There is no negative marking in the MSQ or NAT-type questions.
• There is no partial marking being decided by the authority side for the MSQ-type questions.