GATE 2024 Mechanical Engineering (ME): Exam Date, Pattern, Analysis, Cutoff

GATE 2024 Mechanical Engineering (ME) - The GATE ME 2024 exam will be conducted on February 3, 2024 . On this page, you can check all the important details about GATE ME 2024 such as exam date, GATE Syllabus 2024 , pattern, exam analysis, and cutoff. You can also download the PDF of GATE ME question papers and answer keys for 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 here.

Latest:

• GATE 2024 Admit Card Released: Download link activated at gate2024.iisc.ac.in
• GATE 2024 Paper-Wise Exam Schedule Released

Also read: GATE 2024 Admit Card

GATE ME 2024 Exam Date

The important dates pertaining to GATE ME 2024 exam are as follows -

Event	Date
GATE ME 2024 Exam Date	February 3, 2024
GATE ME 2024 Results	March 16, 2024

GATE ME Exam Pattern & Weightage 2024

The ME exam pattern of GATE is divided into two sections, i.e. General Aptitude and subject-specific, i.e. Mechanical Engineering. Check the detailed ME exam pattern of GATE 2024 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 2024 ME Qualifying Cutoff Marks

GATE Paper 2024	GATE Qualifying Marks
	General	OBC-NCL/ EWS	SC/ST/PwD
Mechanical Engineering Cutoff	To Be Updated	To Be Updated	To Be Updated

Also read: GATE Syllabus 2024

GATE 2024 ME Cutoff

The cutoff for GATE ME 2024 will be updated here once officially released by IISc Bangalore.

Category	GATE 2024 ME Cutoff
General	To be released
OBC-NCL/EWS	To be released
SC/ST/PwD	To be released

GATE 2023 ME Paper Analysis

The GATE ME 2023 paper analysis has been listed below -

• The Difficulty level of GATE ME 2023 was Moderate.
• The 2 marks questions were lengthy compared to the GATE 2022 ME exam.
• 1 marks questions were easy.
• A total of 8 MSQs, 32 MCQs, and 25 NATs were asked in the GATE 2023 ME exam.

GATE 2023 ME Cutoff

Candidates can check the ME Cutoff of GATE 2023 from the table below. We have mentioned the category wise cutoffs.

Paper Code	For General	For OBC- (NCL)/ EWS	For SC/ ST/ PwD
GATE 2023 ME: Mechanical Engineering	28.4	25.5	18.9

GATE 2023 ME Topic Wise Weightage

Candidates can check the previous year's GATE 2023 ME Topic Wise Weightage from the table below.

GATE 2022 ME Cutoff

The cutoff of GATE ME 2022 is given below -

Category	2022 Cutoff
General	33
OBC-NCL/EWS	29.7
SC/ST/PwD	21

GATE 2022 ME Question Paper and Answer Key

GATE 2022 ME-1 Question Paper	GATE 2022 ME-1 Answer Key
GATE 2022 ME-2 Question Paper	GATE 2022 ME-2 Answer Key

GATE 2021 ME Question Paper and Answer Key

GATE 2021 ME-1 Question Paper	GATE 2021 ME-1 Answer Key
GATE 2021 ME-2 Question Paper	GATE 2021 ME-2 Answer Key

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 Session 1 Question Paper	GATE ME 2020 Session 1 Answer Key
GATE ME 2020 Session 2 Question Paper	GATE ME 2020 Session 2 Answer Key

GATE ME 2022 Exam Analysis for Session 2

GATE ME 2022 Session 2 exam has been completed, and the candidates can check the detailed analysis here. According to the initial reports, GATE 2022 ME Session 1 and 2 papers were difficult and compared to the last five years, the 2022 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 2022 (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 2022

The subject wise analysis for GATE ME 2022 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 2022 Exam Analysis for Session 1

GATE ME exam 2022 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 the types of questions that are featured in the exam. The expected cutoff for the morning session exam of GATE 2022 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 the second from linear programming. These questions were not only lengthy but tough.\

• There was one mark question to find the 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's 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

• In English, there were questions on sentence correction, tenses, and paragraph

• There was one question from Machine Drawing

• There was a question on the Production

• The questions were application-based this year.

• There were questions about 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

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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 2019 ME Session 1 Question Paper	GATE 2019 ME Session 2 Question Paper
GATE 2019 ME Session 1 Answer Key	GATE 2019 ME Session 2 Answer Key

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 2018 ME Session 1 Question Paper	GATE 2018 ME Session 2 Question Paper
GATE 2018 ME Session 1 Answer Key	GATE 2018 ME Session 2 Answer Key

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 -

GATE 2017 ME Session 1 Question Paper	GATE 2017 ME Session 1 Answer Key
GATE 2017 ME Session 2 Question Paper	GATE 2017 ME Session 2 Answer Key

GATE Paper Wise Links

The paper wise links for GATE can be downloaded by clicking on the links below -

GATE CH (Chemical Engineering)	GATE Mining (MN)
GATE PE (Petroleum Engineering)	GATE CS (Computer Science)
GATE IN (Instrumentation Engineering)	GATE AE (Aerospace Engineering)
GATE ECE (Electronics & Communication Engineering)	GATE AG (Agriculture)
GATE Metallurgy (MT)	GATE CE (Civil Engineering)
GATE EE (Electrical Engineering)	GATE TF (Textile Engineering & Fibre Technology)
GATE BT (Bio-Technology)	GATE CY (Chemistry)
GATE ST (Statistics)	GATE MA (Mathematics)
GATE XE (Engineering Sciences)	GATE PH (Physics)

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