GATE Engineering Sciences (XE) mock tests

GATE Engineering Sciences (XE) is the sibling paper to XL, and the reason it matters to a food technologist is section XE-G: Food Technology. It is the engineering-side route into the same M.Tech, M.Sc and PSU openings — Engineering Mathematics is compulsory here where XL makes Chemistry compulsory, so the two papers suit different backgrounds. A candidate sits General Aptitude and Engineering Mathematics, then any two of eight optional sections.

Conducted by

IISc Bengaluru and the seven zonal IITs, in rotation

Eligibility for this exam is set per notification. Read the current one on the official site below before you apply.

The full syllabus is not reproduced here on purpose — the exam body's own copy is the only version that counts, and it changes with every notification.

2 compulsory sections, plus 2 you choose from 8 optionals. Timed at 180 minutes.

That is the official pattern. Our reproduction of this paper carries 92 of those 100 marks — questions that depend on a printed figure are not included, so your score here is out of 92, not 100.

Each optional section is worth the same, so the choice is about which subject you answer, not how many marks are on offer.

Every paper of this exam on the site, as it was actually set.

Detected by comparing each paper with the one before it, within the same post — not from an announcement.

1. GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2025 → GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2026

   • Questions 164 → 177
   • Marks 261 → 281
   • Added: Energy Science

2. GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2024 → GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2025

   • Questions 151 → 164
   • Marks 240 → 261
   • Engineering Mathematics 9q → 10q
   • Fluid Mechanics 18q → 20q
   • Materials Science 14q → 21q
   • Solid Mechanics 19q → 21q
   • Thermodynamics 18q → 20q
   • Polymer Science and Engineering 22q → 21q

3. GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2023 → GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2024

   • Questions 159 → 151
   • Marks 251 → 240
   • General Aptitude 5q → 7q
   • Engineering Mathematics 10q → 9q
   • Fluid Mechanics 19q → 18q
   • Materials Science 19q → 14q
   • Solid Mechanics 22q → 19q
   • Thermodynamics 22q → 18q
   • Polymer Science and Engineering 20q → 22q
   • Food Technology 21q → 22q
   • Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences 21q → 22q

4. GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2022 → GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2023

   • Questions 151 → 159
   • Marks 239 → 251
   • Added: General Aptitude

5. GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2021 → GATE XE Engineering Sciences 2022

   • Questions 175 → 151
   • Marks 275 → 239
   • Dropped: General Aptitude