GATE 2025 February 1 Shift 2 Analysis: Paper moderate with conceptual questions; section-wise difficulty level

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has ended the shift 2 of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2025 February 1 exam at 5:30 pm. The GATE 2025 Feb 1 shift 2 was conducted from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. The duration of the GATE exam will be three hours. As per candidates who appeared for the exam, the GATE 2025 Feb 1 shift 2 paper was moderate in difficulty level. GATE 2025 live

GATE 2025 February 1 shift 2 paper was easy to moderate in terms of overall difficulty level. Certain branches of the subject will be more conceptual while others will be calculation-heavy. General Aptitude is comparatively easy which will benefit the candidate in improving their overall score.

GATE 2025 February 1 shift 2 question paper will be available soon. The GATE 2025 February 1 shift 2 question paper will be based on memory-based questions shared by exam candidates. The GATE 2025 question paper comprised two sections, one on General Aptitude (GA) and another on the paper selected by the candidates.

GATE exam 2025 is being conducted on February 1, 2, 15, and 16 for admission to master’s programmes offered by IITs and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. GATE 2025 scores will also be used by the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) for recruitment..

GATE 2025 Feb 1 shift 1 analysis

As per the GATE 2025 marking scheme released by IIT Roorkee , each question in the GATE 2025 question paper will carry either one or two marks. GATE 2025 February 1 shift 1 exam was overall moderate, according to students’ reactions. Most of the students found the mathematics section moderate in difficulty level and aptitude section easy.

GATE 2025 will be held in a computer-based test mode for 30 papers. As per GATE 2025 exam pattern, each paper will carry a total of 100 marks. All the test papers will contain a General Aptitude (GA) section of 15 marks and the chosen subject of 85 marks

GATE 2025 negative marking

Candidates can check the negative marking scheme in GATE 2025 exam.

• There will be negative marking for a wrong answer chosen in a multiple-choice question (MCQ). For a 1-mark MCQ, one-third mark will be deducted for an incorrect response.
• For a 2-mark MCQ, two-third marks will be deducted for a wrong answer submitted by the candidate.
• There will not be any negative marking for wrong answers to MSQ and NAT questions.
• There is no partial marking for any question.