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The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has released the detailed schedule for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2021 exams on its official website gate.iitb.ac.in. All the candidates who applied for GATE 2021 can now check the schedule paper-wise and shift-wise. The IIT Bombay has released the exam dates for GATE 2021 and they are- 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th and 14th February 2021. There are two sessions (forenoon and afternoon) each day.

The GATE 2021 will be a computer-based test and will be conducted for 27 subject papers. Two new subject papers have been introduced in GATE 2021.

ES (Environmental Science and Engineering)
XH (Humanities and Social Sciences) in Economics / English / Linguistics / Philosophy / Psychology / Sociology.

The IIT Bombay has also informed that Syllabi of all subject papers have been revised for GATE 2021.

GATE Schedule 2021

GATE Exam Pattern 2021

Particulars	Details
Examination Mode	Computer Based Test (CBT)
Duration	3 Hours
Number of Subjects (Papers)	27
Sections	General Aptitude (GA) + Candidate’s Selected Subject
Type of Questions	(A) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

	(B) Remaining types
	1. Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) and/or
	2. Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions

Questions for testing these abilities	Recall
	Comprehension
	Application
	Analysis and Synthesis
Number of Questions	10 (GA) + 55 (subject) = 65 Questions
Distribution of Marks in all Papers EXCEPT papers AR, CY, EY, GG, MA, PH, XH and XL	General Aptitude: 15 Marks + Engineering Mathematics: 13 Marks + Subject Questions: 72 Marks = Total: 100 Marks
Distribution of Marks in papers AR, CY, EY, GG, MA, PH, XH and XL	General Aptitude: 15 Marks + Subject Questions: 85 Marks = Total: 100 Marks
Marking Scheme	All of the questions will be of 1 mark or 2 marks