List of Important Topics – You Can’t Miss During GATE 2019 Preparation
(Last Five Year GATE Detail Analysis)
I always give stress on smart work instead of hard work. Preparing for any competitive exam with very vast syllabus requires a little bit of strategy because sometimes if hard work is not done in the right direction, it may lead to an unsatisfactory result.
So today, we are going to discuss all the significant and insignificant topics one must study during GATE preparation. So to find these topics, I will analyze questions of last five years papers, distribute them according to their chapters and find out the average times questions of particular topic came.
So before starting, let’s recall one thing that 15 marks of General Ability and 15 marks of Engineering Mathematics is common for every GATE paper and guys, do not make a mistake of leaving Mathematics because it’s easy and at the same time it covers the major part of the Mark distribution.
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For 2014, 2015 and 2016 year average marks have been considered.
Important Topics for GATE 2019 Mechanical (ME) Paper
Table-1 GATE Mechanical (ME) Detail Analysis of Question Paper
Rank | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | Result | |||
Subject | Paper-1 | Paper-2 | Paper-1 | Paper-2 | Avg | Avg | Avg | ||
1 | General Aptitude | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
2 | Engineering Mathematics | 13 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 13.5 |
3 | Manufacturing Engineering | 19 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 13.2 |
4 | Mechanics of Materials / SOM | 8 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 9.9 |
5 | Thermodynamics | 12 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9.7 |
6 | Fluid Mechanics | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 9.5 |
7 | Theory of Machines & Vibration | 8 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 9.4 |
8 | Industrial Engineering | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 6.6 |
9 | Heat Transfer | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5.2 |
10 | Engineering Mechanics | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4.2 |
11 | Machine Design | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3.8 |
Marks | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
For Mechanical, we can see that Majority of the question comes from Manufacturing Science, Thermal Science, Theory of Machines and Strength of Materials and Least number of question comes from Mechanics. So one can leave Mechanic instead of leaving other subjects.
Important Topics for GATE 2019 Electronics (ECE) Paper
Table-2 GATE Electronics and communication (ECE) Detail Analysis of Question Paper
Rank | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | Result | ||
Paper-1 | Paper-1 | Paper-2 | Avg | Avg | Avg | |||
1 | General Aptitude | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
2 | Engineering Mathematics | 14 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 13 |
3 | Electronic Device Circuits | 12 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 10.5 |
4 | Signals and Systems | 7 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9.7 |
5 | Digital Circuits | 11 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9.2 |
6 | Control Systems | 8 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9.1 |
7 | Network Theory | 8 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 8.5 |
7 | Analog Circuits | 8 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8.5 |
8 | Electromagnetic Theory | 8 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 8.3 |
9 | Communications | 9 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 8.2 |
Marks | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
In Electronic and Communication, we can see that Electronic Device Circuits, Signals and Systems, Digital Circuits, and Control Systems are the topmost worthy topics.
Important Topics for GATE 2019 Electrical (EE) Paper
Table-3 GATE Electrical (EEE) Detail Analysis of Question Paper
Rank | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | Result | |||
Paper-1 | Paper-1 | Paper-2 | Paper-1 | Paper-2 | Avg | Avg | |||
1 | General Aptitude | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
2 | Engineering Mathematics | 10 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
3 | Electrical Machines | 12 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 11.86 |
4 | Network Theory | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 9.14 |
5 | Power Systems | 10 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9.14 |
6 | Power Electronics | 10 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 8.71 |
7 | Control Systems | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8.57 |
8 | Signals & Systems | 6 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6.71 |
9 | Digital Circuits | 7 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5.57 |
10 | Analog Circuits | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5.43 |
11 | Measurement | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4.29 |
12 | Electromagnetic Theory | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3.57 |
Marks | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
In Electrical, Electrical Machine, Network, Power Electronics, Control Systems and Power System are the most important topic among other and Least important is Field Theory
Important Topics for GATE 2019 Civil (CE) Paper
Table-4 GATE CIvil (CE) Detail Analysis of Question Paper
Rank | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | Result | ||||
Paper-1 | Paper-1 | Paper-1 | Paper-2 | Paper-1 | Paper-2 | Avg | Avg | |||
1 | General Aptitude | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
2 | Geotechnical Engineering | 11 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 15.5 | 13 | 13.6875 |
3 | Engineering Mathematics | 15 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 12.625 |
4 | Environmental Engineering | 13 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9.75 |
5 | Transportation Engineering | 3 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 7.125 |
6 | Irrigation & Hydrology | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
7 | Fluid Mechanics | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5.875 |
8 | R.C.C | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6.5 | 5.1875 |
9 | Solid Mechanics | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4.5 | 4 | 5.0625 |
10 | Geomatics | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
11 | Structural Analysis | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | 4.1875 |
12 | CMM | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 4 |
13 | Steel structure | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
14 | Engineering Mechanics | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.5 |
Marks | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
For Civil Geotechnical, Environmental and Transportation are important topics than Mechanics. So it will make more sense to complete topics with a higher ranking than the one with lower.
Computer Science:
Programming and Data Structures, Database, Computer Networks and Operating System are the most important chapters whereas Compiler Design is the least significant.
During Revision pay more attention to high-ranking topics than the lower ranking one.
Sir please provide information on which part of maths has high weitage in Gate for mechanical and how to prepare in last month ?
Plz give the important topics information that possibility to come subject apptitude and maths
Please provide that information for instrumentation also.
Which topics are important for gate from aptitude and reasoning. and which topics have been coming regularly coming since last 4-5 years…
Please give me reply…
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you didn’t give details about subject ranks for CS branch
Plz do the same analysis on chemical engineering.
Sir/Madam…
Do we have such analysis for Instrumentation paper ??? If so could you please share the information as it would be very useful..
Thanks
Hello sir, My name is Bhavani Ashware and I’m preparing for gate by self. My stream is electronic&instrumentation please give some information related to my subjects. What subjects should I prefer mainly.
Main subjects of Elecrronics & Instrumentation Engg. For GATE …
Analog circuits
Transducers,Sensors
Measurements and
Basics of network
Tell us about chemical engineering
Thank you sir/madam…The information you provided is very worthy.
Plz suggest any book for gate aptitude…
thank you for providing such a valuable information and guidance to us. please tell about topic included in general ability.
Very helpfull and important tip for gate, thank u very much
Sir/ Madam, the branches you covered in the above article are the common ones. I’m from aeronautical and I would be very glad to see at least one article for gate aero preparation. There is not a single article on any of the gate preparation websites which is very frustrating because we don’t even have a guide while other branches have hundreds. So please take the initiative of considering even us.
Thank you for your valuable information