GATE 2026 Official Syllabus — All Papers

About this resource

Almost every aspirant who runs out of time made the same early mistake: they started studying before they knew the boundaries of the exam. The syllabus is those boundaries. It lists every topic that can appear in your paper — and, just as usefully, everything that cannot — so your months go into what actually earns marks.

Every GATE paper is built from three parts: General Aptitude (15 marks, common to all papers), Engineering Mathematics where applicable, and your core discipline. The official syllabus breaks each of these down, subject by subject. Reading it first is what lets you weight your effort toward high-return topics instead of treating every chapter as equally important.

These are the exact syllabi released by the GATE organising institute for 2026, covering all 30 papers — from CS, EC, EE, IN, DA, BT and CE to every other discipline. Whether this is your first attempt or your third, keep your paper's syllabus open beside you all year as your single source of truth.

What's included

• ✓Official GATE 2026 syllabus for all 30 papers
• ✓Subject-wise and topic-wise breakdown for your discipline
• ✓General Aptitude syllabus, common to every paper
• ✓Engineering Mathematics syllabus, where applicable
• ✓The complete list of examinable core subjects
• ✓Straight from the GATE organising institute — nothing added, nothing left out
• ✓Free PDF, ready to download

How to use this resource

Start here, before anything else. Read your paper's syllabus end to end and turn it into a checklist — every topic gets a box. This one page becomes the map for your whole preparation and stops you drifting into material GATE will never test.

As you finish each topic, tick it off and note how confident you feel. Come back to the list every few weeks: the boxes you keep avoiding are exactly the ones to revise next. Pair it with previous-year papers to see how each topic is actually asked, and how heavily it is weighted.

It works for everyone — first-time aspirants planning a fresh timetable, final-year students fitting prep around college, and working professionals chasing a PSU job or an M.Tech seat with only a few hours a day to spare.

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