The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all-India examination that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in engineering and science for admission into the well-known institutes of the country NITs, IITs, and other reputed private institutes and universities. The upcoming 2020 Gate examination is going to be organized by IIT Delhi in February 2020. Below are the details about Gate subject wise weightage for Mechanical.
GATE exam for mechanical engineering (ME) is held in various topics of mechanics, engineering mathematics and general aptitude. The common subjects of the GATE exam are: Engineering Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Industrial Engineering, Machine Design, Manufacturing Engineering, Strength of Materials, Theory of Machines & Vibration, Thermodynamics, and Engineering Mathematics along with numerical and verbal ability. Following below, you can find the Gate Subject wise weightage for mechanical 2019-2014 in terms of total marks for each subject for the given year.
GATE Subject wise weightage for Mechanical 2019-2017
| Subject | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | S1 | S2 | |
| Engineering Mathematics | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 13 |
| Engineering Mechanics | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Fluid Mechanics | 5 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| General Aptitude | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Heat Transfer | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Industrial Engineering | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| Machine Design | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Manufacturing Engineering | 18 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 13 |
| Strength of Materials | 8 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| Theory of Machines & Vibration | 9 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| Thermodynamics | 11 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Must check: Gate mechanical previous papers from 1991-2019
GATE Subject wise weightage for Mechanical 2016-2014
| Subject | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | S2 | S3 | S1 | S2 | S3 | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | |
| Engineering Mathematics | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| Engineering Mechanics | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Fluid Mechanics | 8 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| General Aptitude | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Heat Transfer | 7 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| Industrial Engineering | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| Machine Design | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| Manufacturing Engineering | 9 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 12 |
| Strength of Materials | 9 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Theory of Machines & Vibration | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 8 |
| Thermodynamics | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
