GATE Paper Analysis 2020

IIT Delhi is conducting GATE examination 2020 on February 1, 2, 8 and 9. GATE is being conducted as a computer based test. Varios experts of GATEFLIX team will be releasing the paper analysis of GATE 2020 after the conclusion of the examination. The details regarding the subjects for each core branches including difficulty level, syllabus weightage, types of questions and more will be available through GATE 2020 paper analysis. After referring the analysis of GATE paper 2020, the candidates who interested to write GATE examination will be able to know weightage of each subject of GATE examination conducted by IIT/IISC and accordingly they can prepare for their exam. The paper analysis of GATE 2020 will be updated here after the conducting of the examination.

ME- forenoon

Question paper is one of Hardest paper as compared to last 3-4 years
All questions are memory-based reviewed by students GATE Mechanical engineering question paper 2020 was one of the toughest paper of the last 3-4 years. Few questions r direct formula based questions. The weightage of thermodynamics, Manufacturing, and strength of materials was quite high. In Thermodynamics, more questions were asked from power plant engineering, Internal combustion engine. The level of questions in manufacturing was quite good. The questions of industrial engineering were very lengthy.

GATE 2020 ME Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	Marks	Difficulty level
1	Engineering Mathematics	15	Easy
2	Aptitude and English	15	Easy
3	Engineering Mechanics	5	Moderate to difficult
4	Strength of materials	9-10	Moderate
5	Machine design	2	Hard
6	Thermodynamics	11-12	Moderate to Difficult, more questions are from Applications of Thermodynamics
7	Fluid mechanics	7-8	Moderate
8	Heat and mass transfer	2-3	Easy
9	Theory of machines	8-9	Moderate
10	Production	18	Hard
11	Industrial Engineering	5-6	Hard any Length

* Subjected to the information received from students

ME- afternoon

Question paper is one of Hardest paper as compared to last 3-4 years
All questions are memory-based reviewed by students
GATE Mechanical engineering question paper 2020 was one of the toughest paper of the last 3-4 years. Few questions r direct formula based questions. The weightage of thermodynamics, Manufacturing, and strength of materials was quite high. In Thermodynamics, more questions were asked from power plant engineering, Internal combustion engine. The level of questions in manufacturing was quite good. The questions of industrial engineering were very lengthy.

GATE 2020 ME Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	1 Mark	2 Mark
1	Aptitude	1	2
2	Numerical Ability	1	4
3	Verbal Ability	4	1
4	Engineering Mathematics	5	4
5	Engineering mechanics	3	1
6	Strength of materials	0	3
7	Theory of machines	2	2
8	Machine design	2	2
9	Thermodynamics	4	5
10	Fluid mechanics	2	3
11	Heat transfer	1	2
12	Manufacturing	4	6
13	Industrial Engineering	2	2

* Subjected to the information received from students

IN

All questions are memory based questions(based on students feedback)

GATE IN Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	Marks	Difficulty level
1	Aptitude	15	Low
2	Engineering Mathematics	15	Low to Moderate
3	Digital Circuit	7-8	Low
4	Analog Circuit	10-11	Moderate to High
5	Network Theory	9-10	Low to Moderate
6	Signal & Systems	6-8	Low to Moderate
7	Communication System	1	Low
8	Control System	10-12	Low
9	Transducers	5-7	Moderate to High
10	Aobi & Process Control	4	Low
11	Measurement	8-9	Moderate to High

* Subjected to the information received from students

EC

GATE 2020 EC Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	No of questions	Difficulty level
1	Engineering Mathematics	6-7	Easy
2	General Aptitude	10-11	Easy
3	Network	4-5	Easy
4	Analog Circuit	6-7	Difficulty and lengthy
5	Control System	7	Moderate and lengthy
6	Electromagnetic Theory	5	Moderate
7	Signals & Systems	3-4	Easy
8	Electronic Devices	4	Difficulty
9	Digital Circuit	4-5	Moderate
10	Communication System	7	Moderate
11	Microprocessor	1-2	Moderate

Overall Analysis

Paper was Easy to Moderate.
Expected Cut off will be 28 to 32.
If Scoring 80+, will be in top 100.

* Subjected to the information received from students

CH

GATE CH Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	No. of Questions	Difficulty level
1	Engineering Mathematics	12	Easy
2	General Aptitude	15	Moderate
3	Plant Design and Economics	4	Easy
4	Mechanical Operations	3	Easy
5	Chemical Technology	6	Moderate
6	Process Calculation	4	Moderate
7	Fluid Mechanics	9	Moderate
8	Thermodynamics	9	Moderate
9	Heat Transfer	7	Moderate
10	Instrumentation & Process Control	8	Moderate
11	Mass transfer	12	Moderate

* Subjected to the information received from students

EE

GATE 2020 EE Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	Difficulty level	Remarks
1	General Aptitude	Easy	Verbal Section was title bit difficult.
2	Engineering Mathematics	Easy	This time, there were less Questions from Engineering Mathematics.
3	Electrical Circuit (Network)	Moderate to difficult	Questions were slightly above to the moderate Level, who prepared well can score.
4	Electrical Machines	Moderate	As this is the core subject of electrical Engineering, students are expected to score.
5	Power System	Difficult	Questions form this was really though, this will be Rank deciding.
6	Power Electronics	Easy	Questions were very much easy.
7	Electromagnetic Theory	Tough	As Questions were from Spherical co-ordinate system, It will be difficult to score in this section.
8	Analog Circuit	Moderate	Questions were not Tough.
9	Signal & Systems	Moderate	Questions were as per level of GATE.
10	Control System	Easy	Questions were Easy.
11	Measurement	Easy	2-3 Marks
12	Digital	Easy	2 Marks

Overall Analysis

Paper was Moderate to tough.
Expected Cut off will be 26.5 to 28.0.
If Scoring 70+, will be in top 100.

* Subjected to the information received from students

CS

GATE 2020 CS Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	Remarks
1	Data Base Management System	Some Questions were easy and overall moderate level.
2	Data structure & Algorithm	C programming questions were tricky and very lengthy. Rest questions are moderate level. Level of complexity Questions were high. Time consuming questions from graph.
3	Discrete Mathematics & Graph Theory	Questions were easy to high level.
4	Computer Organization & Architecture	Questions were very lengthy but tricky and logic based Questions
5	Operating System	Easy Question on CPU scheduling and moderate level question on TLB.
6	Digital Logic	Easy Questions.
7	Theory Of Computation	Logic based interesting questions. Overall easy except 1 or 2 Question.
8	Compiler Design	Easy level Questions.
9	Engineering Mathematics	Overall Questions were moderate except 1 or 2 easy questions.
10	Computer Networks	Questions on TCP congestion control, HTTP Protocol, IPV4. Moderate level.
11	General Aptitude	Verbel and logical questions were very easy but quant section was moderate except 1 or 2 easy questions.

Overall Analysis

Very tough compare to last 10 years.
Lengthy paper
More theory Questions as compare to previous examinations.
75% paper level were high and 25% were low level.
Maximum Questions were time consuming.
Questions were logical based rather than formula based
Level of GA was high and English portion was easy.

* Subjected to the information received from students

CE-forenoon

GATE CE Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	No. of Questions	Difficulty level
1	Engineering Mathematics	7-8	Easy
2	General Aptitude	11	Easy
3	Structure Analysis	2-3	Moderate
4	Fluid Mechanics	6	Moderate
5	RCC & Steel Structure	6	Easy to Moderate
6	Surveying	4-5	Very Easy
7	Irrigation and Hydrology	5	Moderate
8	Strength of Materials	2-3	Difficult
9	Soil Mechanics	12	Moderate
10	Environmental Engineering	6-7	Moderate
11	Transportation Engineering	4	Highway problems were difficult
12	CPM	1	Moderate

* Subjected to the information received from students

CE-afternoon

The level of GATE 2020 Civil Eng. shift 2 was easy to Moderate. most of the Questions were based on formulas. The weightage of Environment, surveying and transportation was higher.

GATE CE Paper Analysis
SR. No.	SUBJECT	No. of Questions	Difficulty level
1	Engineering Mathematics	15	Easy
2	General Aptitude	13-14	Easy
3	Strength of Materials	3-4	Moderate
4	Structural Analysis	7-8	Easy to Moderate
5	Steel Structures	2-3	Moderate
6	Reinforced Cement Concrete	4	Easy
7	Geotechnical Engineering	13-14	Moderate
8	Surveying	4-5	Easy
9	Hydrology & Irrigation	7-8	Moderate
10	Environmental Engineering	11-12	Moderate
11	Fluid Mechanics	5-6	Easy
12	Transportation	11-12	Moderate
13	Building Material	2	Easy

* Subjected to the information received from students

	Stage – I	Stage – II	Stage – III	Stage – IV	Stage – V
Notes + Gate Ques + Topic Test + Subject Test	GA = 27 hrs Maths = 44 hrs EM = 46 hrs FM = 69 hrs SOM = 68 hrs	Thermo = 79 hrs Manufacturing = 77 hrs TOM = 64 hrs	MD = 40 hrs HT = 52 hrs IE = 59 hrs	3 FLT	3 FLT
Extra Workout		One Mock with Analysis = 7 hrs	2 Mocks with Analysis = 15 hrs	3 Mocks	3 Mocks
Extra Workout		Revise all 8 Subjects = 130 hrs	Revise all Subjects = 120 hrs	Revision 2	Revision 3
Total Hours	254	357	286	125	140

Chapter 1	Numerical Ability	Numerical computation, numerical estimation, numerical reasoning, data interpretation	4 days
Chapter 2	Verbal Ability	English grammar, sentence completion, verbal analogies, word groups, instructions, critical reasoning and verbal deductions	2 days

GA Master Plan		Hours	Remarks
	Notes + Gate Questions	22
	Topic test from Aspiration.ai	3	with Analysis
	Subject test from aspiration.ai	2	with Analysis
	revision overall	2
	Total	29hrs

Chapter 1	Linear Algebra	Matrix Algebra, Type of matrices, Determinant, Cramer’s rule, Systems of linear equations, Rank of the equation, consistency of the equation, Eigen values and Eigen vectors.	2 day
Chapter 2	Probability & distribution	Sampling theorems, Conditional probability, Baye’s theorem, Random variables, Expectation & Variance, Discrete and continuous distributions, uniform, normal, exponential, Poisson, Binomial. Correlation and regression analysis, covariance, correlation coefficient, Mean, median, mode and standard deviation,	1 day
Chapter 3	Numerical methods	Solutions of non-linear algebraic equations, Newton Raphson method, Regulafalsi method or (method of false position), secant method, Gauss Elimination Method, Gauss Jordon method, Jacobi iteration method , Gauss Siedel iteration method, Numerical Integration: Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s 1/3 & 3/8 rule, single and multi-step methods for differential equations, Euler’s method, RungeKutta Method	1 day
Chapter 4	Calculus	Limits & continuity, Basic differentiation & integration, Mean value theorems, Theorems of integral calculus, Evaluation of definite and improper integrals, Partial Derivatives, Maxima and minima, Multiple integrals, Vector identities, Directional derivatives, Line, Surface and Volume integrals, Stokes, Gauss and Green’s theorems.	3 days
Chapter 5	Differential Equations	First order equation (linear and nonlinear), Higher order linear differential equations with constant coefficients, Method of variation of parameters, Cauchy’s and Euler’s equations, Initial and boundary value problems, Partial Differential Equations and variable separable method.	2 days
Chapter 6	Complex Variables	Analytic functions, Cauchy’s integral theorem and integral formula, Taylor’s and Laurent series, Residue theorem	1 day
Chapter 7	Laplace Transforms+ Fourier series	Definition & property of Laplace transform + Fourier Series	0.5 day

Maths Master Plan		Hours	Remarks
	Notes + Gate Questions	35
	Topic test from Aspiration.ai	5	with Analysis
	Subject test from aspiration.ai	4	with Analysis
	revision overall	6
	Total	50 hrs

GATE Paper Analysis 2020

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GATE Study Planner Mechanical Engineering(ME)

Introduction

1.Master Plan

2. Flow of Studies for Any subject:

3.How to Make Notes:

4.How to do a Test Analysis:

5. How To do Revision:

6.SUBJECT WISE PLAN:

Chapter 1	Force and moment systems	Force and moment systems	1 day
Chapter 2	Equilibrium of force systems	Equilibrium of force systems	2 days
Chapter 3	Structural analysis	Structural analysis	2 days
Chapter 4	Kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies in plane motion	Kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies in plane motion	2 days
Chapter 5	Friction	Friction	1 day
Chapter 6	Work and energy principle	Work and energy principle	1 day
Chapter 7	Impulse and momentum	Impulse and momentum	1 day

Chapter 1	Basics of fluid mechanics	Definition of fluids, basic equations	2 days
Chapter 2	Properties of fluids	Density, specific gravity, viscosity, surface tension, capillarity, bulk modulus, vapour pressure	1 day
Chapter 3	Pressure and fluid statics	Pressure, barometer, atmospheric pressure, principle, pressure measurement, buoyancy and floatation	2 days
Chapter 4	Kinematics	Introduction, description, types of fluid flow, continuity equation, motion of fluid element, flow patterns, stream function	3 days
Chapter 5	Bernoulli’s equations and its applications	Euler’s equation, bernoulli’s equation and its applications	2 days
Chapter 6	Dynamics of fluid flow	Introduction, impulse momentum principle, forces exerted by fluids	2 days
Chapter 7	Flow through conduits/pipes	Internal, laminar, turbulent flow, loss of energy, flow through pipes and nozzles	2 days
Chapter 8	External flow	Boundary layers, drag force, boundary conditions	2 days
Chapter 9	Hydraulic turbines	Classification, various types of turbines, model testing	2 days

Chapter 1	Simple stress and strain	Types of stresses and strains, types of materials, thermal stress	2 days
Chapter 2	Strain energy and impact load	Strain energy	2 days
Chapter 3	Shear force and bending moment diagram	Shear force, beam, FBD, method of analysis, equation of equilibrium	2 days
Chapter 4	Bending stress and shear stress	Pure bending moment, direct shear stress	2 days
Chapter 5	Pure torsion	Pure torsion, composite shafts, springs	2 days
Chapter 6	Combined stress and strain	Different stress and strains, combined stress and strain	3 days
Chapter 7	Column and pressure level	Types of column, slenderness ratio, pressure level	2 days
Chapter 8	Slope and deflection	General expressions, methods	2 days

Chapter 1	Basic concepts of thermodynamics	Basic concepts of thermodynamics, thermodynamic system and processes; Zeroth law of thermodynamics, basic terminologies of thermodynamics	2 days
Chapter 2	First law of thermodynamics	First law of thermodynamics for a cycle and process, application of first law of thermodynamics, study flow energy equation	2 days
Chapter 3	Second law of thermodynamics	Second law of thermodynamics statement, heat engine, refrigerator and heat pump, Clausius inequality law, entropy	3 days
Chapter 4	Available energy and thermodynamic relations	Available and unavailable energy, energy, enthalpy and maxwell’s equations	2 days
Chapter 5	Properties of pure substance and gas mixture	Properties of pure substances, dryness, fraction of steam, triple point water	2 days
Chapter 6	Refrigeration	Vapour refrigeration cycle, heat pumps, gas refrigeration, Reverse Carnot & Reverse Brayton cycle	2 days
Chapter 7	Psychrometry	Psychrometric terms, psychrometric properties relations, psychrometric chart, different processes on psychrometric chart.	2 days
Chapter 8	Power plant engineering	Sterling and Ericson cycle, gas and steam power plant, compressor, steam turbine	3 days
Chapter 9	Internal combustion engine	Classification, applications, basic components, terms used	2 days