IIT Roorkee to conduct GATE 2025, check full details here

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2025 will be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. The exam syllabus, paper pattern, and marking scheme have been released by the IIT. Interested candidates can check the syllabus on the official website at gate2025.iitr.ac.in.

IIT Roorkee mentioned that GATE 2025 will be conducted for 30 test papers. Individual candidates will be allowed to appear on either one or up to two test papers. The mode of the test papers will be English.

GATE 2025 will be conducted for a total of 100 marks. The General Aptitude (GA) is common for all papers, and it will include 15 marks. The rest of the paper covers the respective test paper syllabus for 85 marks.

Candidates who seek to appear in two test papers must have a primary choice of test paper. The second test paper must be chosen from the allowed combinations.

Combinations other than those listed by IIT Roorkee are now allowed in the initial (regular and extended) windows of registration.

IIT Roorkee announced that additional two-paper combinations may be opened at a later date, which will be announced on the GATE 2025 website. It will be subject to the availability of infrastructure and scheduling feasibility.

The examination center for the second test paper may be different from that for the first

paper, but it is will be in the same city. The exam will be held for 3 hours.

The questions will be the candidate’s selected subject(s), multiple-choice questions (MCQ),

multiple-select questions (MSQ), and answer type (NAT) questions.

The examination will test abilities like recall, comprehension, application, and analysis and synthesis.

Out of a total of 100 marks, General Aptitude will consist of 15 marks, Engineering

Mathematics will consist of 13 marks, and Subject Questions will carry 72 marks.

The distribution of marks in Architecture (AR), Chemistry (CY), Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DA), Ecology and Evolution (EY), Geology and Geophysics (GG), Mathematics (MA), Physics (PH), Statistics (ST), Humanities and Social Sciences (XH), and Life Sciences (XL) will be different from the general courses.

For these courses, out of 100 marks, the General Aptitude will consist of 15 marks, and the Subject Questions will be 85 marks.

For a wrong answer chosen in an MCQ, there will be negative marking. For a 1-mark MCQ, 1/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer, and for a 2-mark MCQ, 2/3 mark will be deducted for a wrong answer.