GATE 2013 Syllabus, Papers, Exam Patterns, Previous Year Question Papers

GATE 2013 Syllabus, Papers, Exam Patterns, Previous Year Question Papers :

Recently GATE 2013 Exam Notification has been published by IITs for admission into various courses offered for engineering under their hood. Today here we gonna show you GATE 2013 Syllabus, GATE 2013 Exam Patterns and GATE previous year question papers as well.

GATE 2013 Syllabus :

A candidate can apply for only ONE of the 21 papers listed in notification below. The syllabus for each of the papers is given separately. Making a choice of the appropriate paper during GATE application is the responsibility of the candidate.

The candidate is expected to appear in a paper appropriate to the discipline of his/her qualifying degree. The candidate is, however, free to choose any paper according to his/her admission plan, keeping in mind the eligibility criteria of the institutions in which he/she wishes to seek admission.

No.            Paper            Code

1. Aerospace Engineering -AE
2. Agricultural Engineering-AG
3. Architecture and Planning-AR
4. Biotechnology -BT
5. Civil Engineering-CE
6. Chemical Engineering-CH
7. Computer Science and Information Technology-CS
8. Chemistry -CY
9. Electronics and Communication Enggineering-EC
10. Electrical Engineering -EE
11. Geology and Geophysics -GG
12. Instrumentation Engineering-IN 
13. Mathematics -MA
14. Mechanical Engineering-ME
15. Mining Engineering -MN
16. Metallurgical Engineering-MT 
17. Physics -PH
18. Production and Industrial Engineering-PI
19. Textile Engineering and Fibre Science-TF
20. Engineering Sciences -XE
21. Life Sciences-XL

GATE 2013 Exam Patterns :

The examination for the papers with codes AE, AG, AR, BT, CE, CH, CY, GG, MA, MN, MT, PH, TF, XE and XL will be conducted ONLINE using computers where the candidates will be required to select the answer for each question using a mouse. For all other papers (CS, EC, EE, IN, ME & PI), the candidates will have to mark the correct choice on an Optical Response Sheet (ORS) by darkening the appropriate bubble against each question.

In all the papers, there will be a total of 65 questions carrying 100 marks, out of which 10 questions carrying total of 15 marks are in General Aptitude (GA). The remaining 85 % of the total marks is devoted to the syllabus of the paper (as indicated in the syllabus section).
GATE 2013 would contain questions of four different types in various papers:

(i) Multiple choice questions carrying 1 or 2 marks each; Each of the multiple choice objective questions in all papers and sections will contain four answers, of which one correct answer is to be marked.

(ii) Common data questions (which are also multiple choice questions), where two successive questions use the same set of input data;

(iii) Linked answer questions (which are also multiple choice questions), where the answer to the first question in the pair is required to answer its successor.

(iv) Numerical answer questions, where the answer is a number, to be entered by the candidate.Design of Questions
The questions in a paper may be designed to test the following abilities:
(i) Recall: These are based on facts, principles, formulae or laws of the discipline of the paper. The candidate is expected to be able to obtain the answer either from his/her memory of the subject or at most from a one-line computation.
(ii) Comprehension: These questions will test the candidate’s understanding of the basics of his/her field, by requiring him/her to draw simple conclusions from fundamental ideas.
(iii) Application: In these questions, the candidate is expected to apply his/her knowledge either through computation or by logical reasoning.

(iv) Analysis and Synthesis: These can be linked answer questions, where the answer to the first question of the pair is required in order to answer its successor. Or these can be common data questions, in which two questions share the same data but can be solved independently of each other.

Common data based questions: Two questions are linked to a common data problem, passage and the like. Each question is independent and its solution is obtainable from the above problem data or passage directly. (Answer of the previous question is not required to solve the next question).

Each question under this group will carry two marks.Linked answer questions: These questions are of problem solving type. A problem statement is followed by two questions based on the problem statement. The two questions are designed such that the solution to the second question depends upon the answer to the first one. In other words, the first answer is an intermediate step in working out the second answer. Each question in such ‘linked answer questions’ will carry two marks.

GATE previous year question papers

You can download solved previous year gate question papers from link given above which is referral link so just click on the link above and you will be redirect to main source from where you can obtain previous papers.