General Aptitude

A non-exhaustive syllabus for this section:

• English comprehension
• Logical thinking
• Visual and spatial reasoning
• Elementary mathematics
  • basic number theory
  • algebra
  • geometry
  • trigonometry
  • sets and functions
  • basic probability
  • basic statistics
  • profit and loss

There are ten questions from GA every year. Five of these questions carry one mark each and the rest two marks. A total of 15 marks is allocated to GA. All the questions that are in this bank are drawn from previous year GATE papers, particularly CS, the nearest paper to DA.