IIT Bombay -Revised Syllabus GATE 2021 Exam – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay New Syllabus Download PDF
IIT Bombay- Revised Syllabus -GATE 2021- IITB GATE 2021 Syllabus for each of the papers has been revised for GATE-2021. The syllabus for each of the papers can be found by clicking on the papers (subject) below. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an All-India examination administered and conducted in eight zones across the country by the GATE Committee comprising of Faculty members from IIT Bombay and other seven IIT’s on behalf of the National Coordinating Board, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development. The GATE score/rank is used for admissions to Post Graduate Programmes (ME, M.Tech, MS, direct PhD) in institutes like IITB and IIScetc with financial assistance offered by MHRD. PSUs too use the GATE scores for recruiting candidates for various prestigious jobs with attractive remuneration.
GATE 2021 – Examination Schedule
GATE 2021 – Revised Syllabi 
Syllabus for each of the papers has been revised for GATE-2021.
The syllabus for each of the papers can be found by clicking on the papers (subject) below.
General Aptitude (GA) : Common in all papers
GATE 2021 – Tentative List of Examination Cities
| Zone No. | Zonal GATE Office | Tentative List of Examination Cities/Towns |
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| Zone-1 | Chairperson, GATE, IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru – 560 012 http://gate.iisc.ac.in |
Ananthapuramu (AP), Angamaly (KL), Bagalkot (KA), Belagavi (Belgaum) (KA), Ballari (Bellary) (KA), Bengaluru South (KA), Bengaluru North (KA), Bidar (KA), Chikkamagaluru (KA), Davanagere (KA), Hasaan (KA), Hubballi (Hubli) (KA), Hyderabad (TS), Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) (KA), Kannur (KL), Kasaragod (KL), Kolar (KA), Kozhikode (KL), Kurnool (AP), Malappuram (KL), Mangaluru (KA), Manipal (KA), Mysuru (Mysore) (KA), Palakkad (KL), Payyanur (KL), Port Blair (AN), Shivamogga (Shimoga)(KA), Thrissur (KL), Tumakuru (KA), Vatakara (KL) – (30 Cities). |
| Zone-2 | Chairperson, GATE, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400 076 https://gate.iitb.ac.in |
Ahmedabad (GJ), Ahmednagar (MH), Akola (MH), Amravati (MH), Anand (GJ), Aurangabad (MH), Baramati (MH), Bhavnagar (GJ), Bhuj (GJ), Chandrapur (MH), Dhule (MH), Gandhinagar (GJ), Goa (GA), Himatnagar (GJ), Ichalkaranji (MH), Jalgaon (MH), Kolhapur (MH), Latur (MH), Mehsana (GJ), Mumbai-Navi Mumbai-Thane (MH), Nagpur (MH), Nanded (MH), Nashik (MH), Palghar (MH), Pune (MH), Raigad (MH), Rajkot (GJ), Ratnagiri (MH), Sangamner-Loni-Shirdi (MH), Sangli (MH), Satara (MH), Solapur (MH), Surat (GJ), Vadodara (GJ) – (34 Cities) . |
| Zone-3 | Chairperson, GATE, IIT Delhi, HauzKhas, New Delhi – 110 016 http://gate.iitd.ac.in |
Ajmer (RJ), Alwar (RJ), Bikaner (RJ), Faridabad (HR), Greater NOIDA (UP), Gurugram (HR), Hisar (HR), Indore (MP), Jaipur (RJ), Jammu-Samba (JK), Jodhpur (RJ), Kota (RJ), Mathura (UP), New Delhi (DL), Rohtak (HR), Sikar (RJ), Sonepat (HR), Srinagar (JK), Udaipur (RJ), Ujjain (MP) – (20 Cities). |
| Zone-4 | Chairperson, GATE, IIT Guwahati Guwahati – 781 039 http://iitg.ac.in/gate-jam |
Agartala (TR), Aizawl (MZ), Asansol-Durgapur (WB), Bokaro Steel City (JH), Burdwan (WB), Dhanbad (JH), Dibrugarh (AS), Dimapur-Kohima (NL), Gangtok (SK), Guwahati (AS), Imphal (MN), Itanagar (AR), Jorhat (AS), Kalyani (WB), Muzaffarpur (BR), Patna (BR), Purnea (BR), Shillong (ML), Silchar (AS), Siliguri (WB), Tezpur (AS) – (21 Cities). |
| Zone-5 | Chairperson, GATE, IIT Kanpur Kanpur – 208 016 http://gate.iitk.ac.in |
Agra (UP), Aligarh (UP), Allahabad (UP), Bareilly (UP), Bhopal (MP), Gorakhpur (UP), Gwalior (MP), Jabalpur (MP), Jhansi (UP), Kanpur (UP), Lucknow (UP), Varanasi (UP) – (12 Cities). |
| Zone-6 | Chairperson, GATE, IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur – 721 302 http://gate.iitkgp.ac.in |
Baharampur-Murshidabad (WB), Balasore (OR), Berhampur (Odisha) (OR), Bhilai (CH), Bhubaneswar (OR), Bilaspur (CG) (CH), Cuttack (OR), Dhenkanal (OR), Eluru (AP), Hazaribag (JH), Hooghly (WB), Jamshedpur (JH), Kakinada (AP), Kharagpur (WB), Kolkata (WB), Machilipatnam (AP), Raipur (CH), Rajamahendravaram (Rajahmundry) (AP), Ranchi (JH), Rourkela (OR), Sambalpur (OR), Srikakulam (AP), Tadepalligudem (AP), Vijayawada (AP), Visakhapatnam (AP), Vizianagaram (AP) – (26 Cities). |
| Zone-7 | Chairperson, GATE, IIT Madras Chennai – 600 036 http://gate.iitm.ac.in |
Alappuzha (KL), Aluva-Ernakulam (KL), Attingal (KL), Chengannur (KL), Chennai South (TN), Chennai West (TN), Chirala (AP), Chittoor (AP), Coimbatore (TN), Cuddalore (TN), Dindigul (TN), Gudur (AP), Guntur (AP), Idukki (KL), Kadapa (AP), Kanjirapally (KL), Kanyakumari-Nagercoil (TN), Karimnagar (TS), Khammam (TS), Kodad (TS), Kollam (KL), Kothamangalam (KL), Kottayam (KL), Madurai (TN), Muvattupuzha (KL), Namakkal (TN), Nellore (AP), Ongole (AP), Puducherry (PY), Salem (TN), Thanjavur (TN), Thiruvananthapuram (KL), Thoothukudi (TN), Tiruchirapalli (TN), Tirunelveli (TN), Tirupati (AP), Vellore (TN), Villupuram (TN), Virudhunagar (TN), Warangal (TS) – (40 Cities). |
| Zone-8 | Chairperson, GATE, IIT Roorkee Roorkee – 247 667 https://www.iitr.ac.in/gate/ |
Ambala (HR), Amritsar (PB), Bathinda (PB), Dehradun (UK), Ghaziabad (UP), Haldwani (UK), Hamirpur-Una (HP), Jalandhar (PB), Kangra (HP), Karnal (HR), Kurukshetra (HR), Ludhiana (PB), Meerut (UP), Mohali-Chandigarh (PB), Moradabad (UP), Muzaffarnagar (UP), NOIDA (UP), Panipat (HR), Pathankot (PB), Patiala-Sangrur (PB), Roorkee (UK), Shimla-Solan (HP), Yamunanagar (HR) – (23 Cities). |
| Zone-2** | GATE International* OI – IIT Bombay |
GATE 2021 – Previous Year’s Question Papers and Answer Keys
GATE 2020
| Paper Name | Question Paper | Answer Key |
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| AE: Aerospace Engineering | View | View |
| AG: Agricultural Engineering | View | View |
| AR: Architecture and Planning | View | View |
| BM: Biomedical Engineering; | View | View |
| BT: Biotechnology | View | View |
| CE: Civil Engineering | View (Session-1) View (Session-2) |
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| CH: Chemical Engineering | View | View |
| CS: Computer Sc. and Information Technology | View | View |
| CY: Chemistry | View | View |
| EC: Electronics and Communication Engg. | View | View |
| EE: Electrical Engineering | View | View |
| EY: Ecology and Evolution | View | View |
| GG: Geology and Geophysics | View | View |
| IN: Instrumentation Engineering | View | View |
| MA: Mathematics | View | View |
| ME: Mechanical Engineering | View (Session-1) View (Session-2) |
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| MN: Mining Engineering | View | View |
| MT: Metallurgical Engineering | View | View |
| PE: Petroleum Engineering | View | View |
| PH: Physics | View | View |
| PI: Production and Industrial Engineering | View | View |
| ST: Statistics | View | View |
| TF: Textile Engineering and Fibre Science | View | View |
| XE-A: Engineering Mathematics | View | View |
| XE-B: Fluid Mechanics | ||
| XE-C: Materials Science | ||
| XE-D: Solid Mechanics | ||
| XE-E: Thermodynamics | ||
| XE-F: Polymer Science and Engineering | ||
| XE-G: Food Technology | ||
| XE-H: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | ||
| XL-P: Chemistry | View | View |
| XL-Q: Biochemistry | ||
| XL-R: Botany | ||
| XL-S: Microbiology | ||
| XL-T: Zoology | ||
| XL-U: Food Technology |
Highlights of GATE-2021
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- Dates of examination: Friday 5th, Saturday 6th, Sunday 7th, Friday 12th, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th February, 2021. There are two sessions (forenoon and afternoon) each day.
- Fully Computer Based Test (CBT).
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- Two NEW subject papers are introduced:
- ES (Environmental Science and Engineering)
- XH (Humanities and Social Sciences) in Economics / English / Linguistics / Philosophy / Psychology / Sociology.
- Two NEW subject papers are introduced:
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- Total number of subject papers: 27
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- Syllabi of all subject papers have been revised for GATE 2021.
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- All Test Papers of GATE 2021 will be entirely objective type.
The pattern of questions will include some Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), while the remaining questions may include Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) and/or Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions.
- All Test Papers of GATE 2021 will be entirely objective type.
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- ONE or TWO subject papers allowed. 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.
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- Eligibility criteria is relaxed. A Candidate who is currently studying in th 3rd or higher years of any undergraduate degree program OR has already completed any Government approved degree program in Engineering / Technology / Architecture / Science / Commerce / Arts is eligible to appear for GATE-2021 examination.
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- There is NO age limit to appear for GATE 2021 examination.
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- Applications will be accepted ONLINE only through GATE-2021 website link GOAPS. Even if a candidate is appearing for TWO Papers, the candidate should fill ONLY ONE application form.
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- GATE-2021 score card will remain valid for THREE years from the date of announcement of results.
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- Depending on COVID-19 situation, the schedule of the GATE 2021 examination may change.
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- Due to COVID-19 related international travel restrictions, examinations at the International Centres may be dropped, if situation is not conductive by end of November 2020.
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- Details available at the official website: https://gate.iitb.ac.in
- Organising Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay).