GATE XE 2026 question paper — Paper 1
197 questions · 311 imported marks · source session 1. Browse the original paper or practise online.
Questions
197
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Imported marks
311
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Sections
10
GA · XE-A · XE-B · XE-C · XE-D · XE-E · XE-F · XE-G · XE-H · XE-I
Year
2026
Archive paper 1
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General Aptitude
- Questions
- 10
- Imported marks
- 15
Section XE-A
- Questions
- 11
- Imported marks
- 15
Section XE-B
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 35
Section XE-C
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 35
Section XE-D
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 35
Section XE-E
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 35
Section XE-F
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 35
Section XE-G
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 35
Section XE-H
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 36
Section XE-I
- Questions
- 22
- Imported marks
- 35
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GA · Question 1
General Aptitude
Suresh said, “I did it yesterday.” Which one of the following options is the correct form of this sentence in indirect speech?
GA · Question 2
General Aptitude
To continue the sequence of tiles shown, the tile indicated by the question mark should be
GA · Question 3
General Aptitude
Consider an art gallery whose walkways are shown as lines in the diagram. A black dot represents a junction of two walkways. A guard may be placed at a junction to watch…
GA · Question 4
General Aptitude
The 2ⁿᵈ of June is a Thursday in a certain year. Which day of the week is the 3ʳᵈ of July in that year?
GA · Question 5
General Aptitude
A coin with heads facing up is shown as H and a coin with tails facing up is shown as T. Six coins are placed in the Starting Arrangement, as shown in the figure below. …
GA · Question 6
General Aptitude
Exacerbate : Mitigate : Choose the option with the correct pair of words to fill the blank.
GA · Question 7
General Aptitude
A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines ( - - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface of the cube. Refe…
GA · Question 8
General Aptitude
In a population, patients who have high cholesterol also have high blood-pressure (BP). Some patients with high BP also have diabetes. There are no patients who have bot…
GA · Question 9
General Aptitude
Four people P, Q, R, and S, of different ages, make the following observations. P – I am younger than S. Q – I am neither the youngest nor the oldest. R – P is older tha…
GA · Question 10
General Aptitude
Circles , , and , with centers , , and , and radii , , and , respectively, touch each other as shown in the following figure. Given cm, cm and the angle is , cm.
XE-A · Question 11
Section XE-A
For the complex function consider the following two statements P: is not analytic at . Q: does not satisfy the Cauchy-Riemann equations along the -axis. Then, which one …
XE-A · Question 12
Section XE-A
Let be the circle oriented counterclockwise. Then, the value of the line integral is
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