GATE Exam is highly competitive exam where, around 9 lakhs engineer aspirants appear each year to get an admission in top universities like IITs/IISc and to get job in PSU (Public Sector Undertakings).

GATE 2022 Examination will be organised by IIT, Bombay and all official notification will be released by it along with detailed brochures with Gate Syllabus, Gate Exam Pattern etc.

The GATE Exam will be conducted on February 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 12^th, 13^th and 14^th February, 2022 & there will be two sessions (forenoon and afternoon) each day.

As an Engineering Stream involves 10-14 subjects in it, it will be necessary to understand GATE syllabus thoroughly. Proper understanding of this, will help in preparation for gate exam. Hence, it is advisable to have a deep understanding of Gate Syllabus and Exam pattern before appearing for GATE Exam 2022.

There are few changes have been made in term of Eligibility Criteria, Question Types, Subjects and Marks Distribution by IIT Bombay for GATE Exam 2022. These changes are as follow:

• Eligibility criteria to appear for GATE-2022 is relaxed from the minimum 10+2+4 (ongoing) to minimum 10+2+3 (ongoing), enabling the third year students of their undergraduate studies to appear for gate 2022 examination.
• All Test Papers of GATE 2022 will be entirely objective type. Pattern of questions may include:
  • Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
  • Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) and/or
  • Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions.
• Two new subjects – Environmental Science and Engineering (ES) and Humanities and Social Science (XH) are added. The total number of subjects in GATE 2022 has increased to 27.
• Marks Distribution:
  • General Aptitude: 15 Marks
  • Engineering Mathematics: 13 Marks
  • Subject Questions: 72 Marks

Detailed Marks Distribution

 

Paper Code	General Aptitude Marks	Subject Marks	Total Marks	Total Time (Minutes)
AE, AR, AG, BT, CE, CH, CS, CY, EC, EE, ES, EY, IN, MA, ME, MN, MT, PE, PH, PI, TF, ST and BM	15	85	100	180
GG [Part A + Part B (Section 1 Geology OR Section 2 Geophysics)]	15	25 + 60	100	180
XE (Section A + Any TWO Sections)	15	15 + (2 x 35)	100	180
XH (Section B1 + Any ONE Section)	15	25 + (1 x 60)	100	180

• Two Paper combinations have to be chosen from the given list of combinations of papers. Final allotment of TWO papers will still be subject to availability of infrastructure and dates.

List of GATE 2022 Papers and Corresponding Codes :

 

Code of The First (Primary) Paper	Codes of Papers Allowed as The Second Paper	Code of The First (Primary) Paper	Codes of Papers Allowed as The Second Paper
AE	XE	AG	ES
AR	CE	BM	BT / XL
BT	BM / XL	CE	AR / ES
CH	CY / PE / XE	CS	MA
CY	CH / XL	EC	IN / PH
EE	IN	ES	AG / CE
EY	XL	GG	MN / PE / PH
IN	EC / EE/PH	MA	CS / PH / ST
ME	XE	MN	GG / XE
MT	PH / XE	PE	CH / GG / XE
PH	EC / GG / IN / MA / MT / ST	PI	XE
ST	MA / PH	TF	XE
XE	AE / CH / ME / MN / MT / PE / PI / TF	XH	—-
XL	BM / BT / CY

Subjects name and their code :

 

GATE Paper	Code	GATE Paper	Code
Aerospace Engineering	AE	Instrumentation Engineering	IN
Agricultural Engineering	AG	Mathematics	MA
Architecture and Planning	AR	Mechanical Engineering	ME
Bio-medical Engineering	BM	Mining Engineering	MN
Biotechnology	BT	Metallurgical Engineering	MT
Civil Engineering	CE	Petroleum Engineering	PE
Chemical Engineering	CH	Physics	PH
Computer Science and Information Technology	CS	Production and Industrial Engineering	PI
Chemistry	CY	Statistics	ST
Electronics and Communication Engineering	EC	Textile Engineering and Fibre Science	TF
Electrical Engineering	EE	Engineering Sciences	XE*
Environmental Science & Engineering	ES	Humanities & Social Sciences	XH**
Ecology and Evolution	EY	Life Sciences	XL***
Geology and Geophysics	GG