GATE ME 2021 will be conducted on February 14. Check the GATE Mechanical Engineering 2021 exam date, pattern, syllabus, old question papers, exam analysis and cutoff here.

- GATE ME 2021 Exam Date
- GATE ME Exam Pattern & Weightage 2021
- GATE ME Cutoff 2020
- GATE ME 2020 Question Paper & Answer Key
- GATE ME 2020 Exam Analysis for Session 2
- Subject Wise Analysis for GATE ME Session 2 (2020)
- GATE ME 2020 Exam Analysis for Session 1
- Subject Wise Analysis for GATE ME Session 1 (2020)
- GATE ME 2019 Question Paper & Answer Key
- GATE ME 2018 Question Paper and Answer Key
- GATE ME 2017 Question Paper and Answer Key
- GATE Paper Wise Links
GATE ME (Mechanical Engineering) 2021 will be conducted on February 14. On this page, you can check all important details about GATE ME 2021 such as exam date, syllabus, pattern, exam analysis and cutoff. You can also download the PDF of GATE ME question papers and answer keys for 2020, 2019, and 2018 here.
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GATE ME 2021 Exam Date
The important dates pertaining to GATE ME 2021 exam are as follows -
Event | Date |
Exam Date | February 14, 2021 |
Results | March 22, 2021 |
GATE ME Exam Pattern & Weightage 2021
The ME exam pattern of GATE 2020 is divided into two sections, i.e., General Aptitude and Subject Specific, i.e., Mechanical Engineering. Check the detailed ME exam pattern of GATE 2020 here -
Subject | Total No. Of Questions | Questions Division | Marks |
General Aptitude | 10 Questions | Question No: - 1 to 5 | 05 Marks (One Mark for Each Question) |
Question No: - 6 to 10 | 10 Marks (2 Marks for Each Question) | ||
Physics (Subject) | 55 Questions | Question No: - 1 to 25 | 25 Marks (1 Mark for Each Question) |
Question No: - 26 to 55 | 60 Marks (2 Marks for Each Question) | ||
Total Number of Questions | 65 Questions | - | 100 Marks |
GATE ME Cutoff 2020
The cutoff for GATE ME 2020 is as follows -
Name of the Category | Cutoff |
General | 34.0 |
OBC | 30.6 |
SC/ ST PH | 22.6 |
GATE ME 2020 Question Paper & Answer Key
GATE ME 2020 Exam Analysis for Session 2
GATE ME 2020 Session 2 exam has been completed, and the candidates can check the detailed analysis here.According to the initial reports, GATE 2020 ME Session 1 and 2 papers were difficult and compared to the last five years, 2020 paper turned out to be difficult.
Overall Difficulty: Tough (Moderate to Difficult to be Precise). There were a total number of 30 NAT questions.
Topic with Highest Weightage: Production, Thermodynamics and SOM major subjects. There were fewer questions from TOM
Students Response & Questions:
- Mathematics and GA sections were easy.
Topic Wise Weightage in GATE ME 2020 (Session 2)
Name of the Topic | Weightage (Marks) |
Engineering Mechanics | 04 |
Strength of Materials and Machine Design | 08 |
Theory of Machines and Vibrations | 04 |
Machine Design | 08 |
Fluid Mechanics | 08 |
Heat Transfer | 06 |
Thermodynamics and Applications | 13 |
Engineering Materials and Manufacturing | 17 |
Industrial Engineering | 04 |
Engineering Mathematics | 13 |
General Aptitude | 15 |
Subject Wise Analysis for GATE ME Session 2 (2020)
The subject wise analysis for GATE ME 2020 is as follows -
Name of the Subject | Total Marks in Shift 1 | Total Marks in Shift 2 |
General Aptitude | 13 | 15 |
Engineering Mathematics | 15 | 13 |
Theory of Machines and Vibration | 08 | 04 |
Manufacturing | 18 | 17 |
SOM & MD | 12 | 09 |
Fluid Mechanics | 08 | 08 |
GATE ME 2020 Exam Analysis for Session 1
GATE ME exam 2020 for the morning session has been concluded, and the question paper was tough compared to the last five years. Candidates appearing for the afternoon session can check the detailed analysis of the morning session so that the candidates will have an idea of types of questions that featured in the exam. The expected cutoff for the morning session exam of GATE 2020 ME is updated here.
Overall Difficulty: The overall difficulty level of the GATE ME was difficult.
Topic with Highest Weightage: Manufacturing and Thermodynamics
Students Response & Questions:
- From Industrial Engineering, there were two questions, and there was one from line assembly and second from linear programming. These questions were not only lengthy but tough.\
- There was one mark question to find Logarithmic Mean Temperature Difference from Heat Transfer.
- There was one question from Compressor, One from Baryton and One from Otto Cycle
- The was a question on Brake Power and Flywheel.
- There were questions on Inertia and Gravity
- Froud Number is the Ratio of..............................
- Build: Building Grow
- Structure of Austenite
- Jofra Archer, England fast bowler is...............than accurate
- Match the column - tempering, quenching, annealing, normalizing
- Basic questions from Laplace and Matrices
- There were many numerical based questions.
- There were questions on Temperature also
- From English, there were questions on sentence correction, tenses and paragraph
- There was one question from Machine Drawing
- There was a question on Production
- The questions were application-based this year.
- There were questions from Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning.
Topic Wise Weightage in GATE ME 2020 (Session 1)
Name of the Topic | Weightage (Marks) |
Engineering Mechanics | 05 |
Strength of Materials and Machine Design | 12 |
Theory of Machines and Vibrations | 08 |
Machine Design | 05 |
Fluid Mechanics | 8 Marks |
Heat Transfer | 6 to 7 Marks |
Thermodynamics and Applications | 08 to 11 Marks |
Engineering Materials | 18 Marks (Approximately) |
Manufacturing | 18 |
Industrial Engineering | 04 - 05 |
Engineering Mathematics | 13 - 15 |
General Aptitude | 15 |
Subject Wise Analysis for GATE ME Session 1 (2020)
The subject wise analysis for GATE ME 2020 is as follows -
Name of the Subject | 1 Mark Questions | 2 Mark Questions |
General Aptitude | 05 | 05 |
Engineering Mathematics | 07 | 04 |
Theory of Machines and Vibration | 04 | 02 |
Manufacturing | 04 | 07 |
SOM & MD | 02 | 05 |
Fluid Mechanics | 02 | 03 |
GATE Marks vs Rank 2021 Analysis | GATE Normalization Process: How to Calculate GATE Score 2020 |
GATE ME 2019 Question Paper & Answer Key
The difficulty level of the GATE ME exam 2019 was easy to moderate. The NAT-based questions last year were lengthy. There were more questions from Manufacturing and Thermodynamics. Among the two sections, General Aptitude was easy. You can check the question paper and answer key here -
GATE ME 2018 Question Paper and Answer Key
You can also check and download the 2018 question papers and answer keys of GATE ME 2018 here -
GATE ME 2017 Question Paper and Answer Key
You can check and download the 2017 question paper and answer key of GATE ME 2017 here -
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