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Do Previous Questions Repeat in GATE? Also Get GATE Previous Years Question Papers
By BYJU'S Exam Prep
Updated on: September 25th, 2023
Do Previous Questions Repeat in GATE? For getting admission to NITs, IIITs, and CFTIs for tech or Ph.D. courses every year 8.5 lakh candidates appear for the GATE exam. Candidates appear for the GATE examination because it is also the reason for PSU recruitment. Practicing GATE previous year’s question papers also assist in increasing the confidence of candidates. Therefore, most candidates have the query – Do previous questions repeat in GATE?
Candidates are worried about their examination and keep searching for a preparation strategy to crack GATE 2023 since the exam’s competition level is very high. We have various queries about Do Previous Questions Repeat in GATE? The solution to all these queries is GATE’s previous year’s papers are repeated. Yes, these questions repeat in the GATE examination. Therefore, candidates must practice more and more on GATE previous year’s question papers to know about the difficulty level of the exam and be prepared for it.
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Benefits of Practicing GATE Previous Year’s Question Papers
After answering the query – Do previous questions repeat in GATE? Let us discuss the benefits of solving the GATE previous year’s question papers. Practicing GATE previous year’s question papers will help the candidates to understand the type and level of questions asked in the exam. As a result, candidates will completely understand the exam pattern. In addition, these previous year’s GATE papers also help understand the previous year’s exam trends, like the weightage of chapters in the exam. So let us discuss some more benefits of solving previous year’s papers.
- Increases Speed and Time management – Candidates should practice these previous year’s GATE papers by setting a timer of 3 hours to have the real feel of the examination. Practicing more previous year papers like this will help the candidates increase their speed and time management skills.
- Helps in Performance Analysis – Practicing the previous year’s GATE exam papers helps the candidates to analyze their performances. After attempting the paper, candidates can check their mistakes and work on them. In this way, candidates understand their weaker and stronger areas. Analyzing the performance day by day will also help them understand how good their preparations are.
- Boosts Confidence – As candidates can analyze their performance and learn about their weaker and stronger areas by practicing the previous year, it boosts their confidence. As a result, candidates become more confident about their performance in the exam. It also eliminates any exam fear among the candidates.
- What do GATE Toppers Say?
This article has selected some important tips given by GATE 2022 toppers in various subjects. These tips will be really helpful to the students to improve their GATE 2023 scores.
Here are some important tips from last year’s toppers:
- Precisely understand the GATE exam syllabus and pattern to excel in the GATE exam. It is important to precisely understand the syllabus of your respective subjects and the pattern of the exam that you will be preparing for.
- Start Early- This is one of the very common tips given by the toppers in different streams. According to them, starting your GATE preparation shall be done in the pre-final year of graduation. Therefore, giving due time to the GATE exam preparation is important.
- Clear your concepts- Focus on clearing concepts. GATE exam is different from normal graduation exams, and normal preparation won’t be fruitful as it is in graduation exams. So instead, concept clarification will be the only working strategy for the exam.
- Practice numerical- Emphasise practicing numerical. Numerical is an important factor in gaining conceptual clarity. Therefore, in this last week, focus on numerical problems as much as possible.
- Increase the number of hours of preparation- From the talks of almost every toper, it is evident that they have significantly increased their preparation time. They prepared for almost 15-16 hours in the last two weeks. So plan your time accordingly with enough rest time needed for your body.
- Utilize the time and resources.
GATE 2022 Question Papers PDF
Check here the list of GATE 2022 question papers and the solutions for various branches- Civil, Electronics and Communication, Electrical, and Computer Science Engineering. Candidates can download the PDF given in the table below.
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GATE Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) |
GATE 2021 Question Papers PDF
The GATE 2021 question paper PDF and the answer key for all the subjects such as Mechanical, Electrical, and Computer Science Engineering were released by IIT Bombay. Let us now check branch-wise GATE 2021 question papers and the solutions given below.
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GATE 2020 Question Papers PDF
The GATE 2020 question paper PDF along with the answer key, is available for Mechanical, Electronics & Communication, Electrical, Civil, and Computer Science Engineering and was released by IIT Delhi. Further, you can download the GATE 2020 question papers and the solutions mentioned below.
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GATE 2020 Question Paper |
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GATE Electrical Engineering (EE) |
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GATE Civil Engineering (CE) |
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GATE 2019 Question Papers PDF
The GATE 2019 Question Paper PDF along with the official answer keys for various subjects, was released by IIT Madras. You can download the GATE 2019 question papers subject-wise and the solutions from the table below.
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GATE 2019 Question Paper |
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GATE Civil Engineering (CE) |
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GATE 2018 Question Papers PDF
The GATE 2018 Question Paper PDF for multiple Engineering branches and the official answer keys were released by IIT Guwahati. Further, you can download the subject-wise question papers and answer keys for your reference.
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GATE 2018 Question Paper |
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GATE Civil Engineering (CE) |
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GATE Architecture and Planning (AR) |
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GATE Chemistry (CY) |
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GATE Agricultural Engineering (AG) |
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GATE Physics (PH) |
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GATE Mathematics (MA) |
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GATE Mining Engineering (MN) |
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GATE Biotechnology (BT) |
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GATE Ecology and Evolution (EY) |
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GATE Petroleum Engineering (PE) |
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GATE Textile Engineering and Fiber Science (TF) |
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GATE Geology and Geophysics (GG) |
GATE 2017 Question Papers PDF
GATE 2017 question paper PDF is given below for all the subjects released by IIT Roorkee. Let us now check the GATE 2017 question papers branch-wise mentioned in the table below.
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GATE 2017 Question Paper |
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GATE Aerospace Engineering |
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GATE Agricultural Engineering |
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GATE Architecture and Planning Engineering |
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GATE Biotechnology |
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GATE Civil Engineering (CE01) |
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GATE Civil Engineering (CE02) |
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GATE Chemical Engineering |
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GATE Computer Science (CS01) |
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GATE Computer Science (CS02) |
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GATE Chemistry |
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GATE EC (EC01) |
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GATE EC (EC02) |
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GATE Electrical Engineering (EE01) |
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GATE Electrical Engineering (EE02) |
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GATE Ecology and Evolution |
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GATE Geology and Geophysics |
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GATE Instrumentation Engineering |
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GATE Mathematics |
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GATE Mechanical Engineering (ME01) |
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GATE Mechanical Engineering (ME02) |
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GATE Mining Engineering |
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GATE Metallurgical Engineering |
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GATE Petroleum Engineering |
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GATE Physics |
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GATE Production and Industrial Engineering |
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GATE Textile Engineering and Fiber Science |
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GATE Engineering Sciences |
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