GATE 2018 Exam Analysis For ME

By Jitender Sinha

GATE 2018 exam commenced on February 3 in online mode. The exam, which is being conducted by IIT Guwahati, will be further held on February 4, 10 and 11 for 23 papers in eight sessions. The exam is a gateway for admissions to ME/MTech and PhD programmes offered by IITs, IISc, NITs, GFTIs and other universities across India.

Each paper in GATE 2018 is three hour long and will comprise of 65 questions each. The paper will be a total of 100 marks where students are required to answer Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Numerical Answer Type (NAT) questions.

GATE-2018 Paper was more or less on the same lines as GATE -2017 paper. There were some changes in weightage across sections. This year we saw Strength of Materials had more questions than last year. Students of other streams can expect such changes in their streams as well. We expect cutoff to remain same like GATE-2017.

Subject-wise Analysis of GATE 2018:

Mechanical Engineering (ME) – Forenoon Session

	1 mark	2 marks	Total
Engineering Mechanics	0	2	2
Strength of Materials	4	5	9
Fluid Mechanics	3	4	7
Design of Machine Elements	2	2	4
Theory of Machines	2	3	5
Manufacturing	6	4	10
Industrial Engineering	1	2	3
Heat Transfer	0	1	1
Thermodynamics	2	3	5
Engineering Mathematics	5	4	9

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Jitender Sinha is the Director, GateForum.

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