Syllabus of GATE Examinations 2022

 As the GATE Examination is one of the most difficult examinations to secure good marks, students are advised to be fully updated related to the syllabus and examination pattern to maintain their clarity and better understanding. The information helps the applicants to prepare efficiently and stay acknowledged in an appropriate direction, gate syllabus 2022 for civil engineering.

The details related to the changes in the  syllabus of GATE Examinations 2022 for the different subjects and the relevant topics are mentioned below:

Civil Engineering ( Technical Subjects)

• Engineering Mechanics –

  • ( Addition )Internal forces in structures
  • ( Addition ) Centre of mass
  • ( Addition ) Free vibrations of undamped SDOF system 
  • (Reduction) Dynamics

•  Strength of Materials – 

  • ( Addition )Stress Transformation
  • (Reduction)Theory of Failures 

• Construction Materials  –

  • (Reduction) Bricks, Mortar & Timber

•  Geotechnical Engineering – 

  • ( Addition )The pile under laterally loading 
  • ( Addition )Origin of soil, soil structure, and fabric
  •  (Reduction) Westergaard theory

•  Fluid Mechanics

  • (Reduction) Hydraulic Machines 

• Hydrology –

  • ( Addition ) Reservoir Capacity 
  • ( Addition ) Watershed 

•  Environmental Engg – 

  • ( Addition )Water Quality Index 
  • ( Addition ) Air Quality Index 
  • ( Addition )Re-use & Recycling of Waste Water – 
  •  (Reduction)Noise Pollution 

• Transportation Engineering – 

  • Traffic Signs( Addition )
  •  Highway alignment and engineering surveys 
  •  Quality Control 
  •  Distresses in concrete pavements 
  • Travel time – delay and O-D study, 
  • PCU – Parking study 
  •  Control devices
  •  Types of Channelization 
  •  Level of service of rural highways and urban road( Reduction )

Electrical Engineering (Technical Subjects)

• Section-1: Engineering Mathematics 

  • Calculus: Divergence Theorem( Addition ) 
  • Numerical Methods, Transform Theory( Reduction )

•  Section-2: Electric Circuits 

  • Dependent sources, R,L,C,M elements,
  •  Star-Delta transformation ( Addition )
  • Network Graph, Passive filters ( Reduction )

• Section-3: Electromagnetic Fields

•  Section-4: Signals and Systems

  • Fourier series representation of discrete-time periodic signals,
  •  Fourier Transform for discrete-time signals,
  •  RMS value, average value calculation for any general periodic waveform ( Addition )

• Section-5: Electrical Machines

  • Transformers: Vector groups  ( Addition )
  • DC Machines: Starting of DC Motors ( Reduction )

• Section-6: Power Systems

  • Economic Load Dispatch(with and without considering transmission losses, 
  • Principles of Directional protection  ( Addition )

• Section-7: Control Systems

  • Solution of state equations of LTI system  ( Addition )
  •  State transition matrix (Reduction)

• Section-8: Electrical and Electronic Measurements

• Section-9: Analog and Digital Electronics

  • Single-stage active filters,
  •  Active filters: Sallen key,
  •  Butterworth ( Addition )

• Section-10: Power Electronics

  • Static V-I characteristics and Firing/gating circuits for Thyristors,
  •  MOSFET,IGBT.
  • Voltage and Current commutated Thyristor based converters
  • Magnitude and phase of line current harmonics for uncontrolled and thyristor-based converters.

Mechanical Engineering ( Technical subjects)

• Engineering Mechanics – 

  • Friction and its applications including rolling friction,
  •  belt-pulley, screw jack, wedge, vehicles, etc. 
  •  Frames; Lagrange’s equation

•  Strength of Materials – 

  • Shear Center 

• Machine Design –

  •  Shafts 

• Fluid Mechanics – 

  • Basics of Compressible Fluid Flow 

• Thermodynamics & Applications – 

  • Steam and Gas Turbine

•   Production

  •  Metrology and Inspection: –

 Concepts of Coordinate-Measuring Machine (CMM)

•  Computer Integrated Manufacturing: – Additive manufacturing 

• I’M & OR –
  •  Lean Manufacturing.

Computer Science And Information Technology ( Technical Subjects)

• Compiler Design

  •  Code optimization, 

•  Operating System 

  • System Calls,
  •  IO Scheduling 

• Computer Networks

  •  Network Address Translation (NAT), DHCP, ICMP, Shortest path routing,
  •  Flooding 
  • Security (Reduction)

Electronics and Communication Engineering

• Networks –

  •  Reciprocity Theorem -( Addition)
  • Driving Point & Transfer Functions – 
  • State – equations of Networks (Reduction)

• Analog

  • 555 timer (Reduction)

• Signals

  • DF design techniques,
  •  – FFT words (Reduction)

• EMTL

  • Circular waveguide ( Addition)
  •  Electrostatics  (Reduction)
  •  Radar basics (Reduction)

• EDC & VLSI

  • – IC Fabrication Process (Basics of Integrated Circuit Fabrication) (Reduction)

• Communication

  • Cyclic redundancy codes (CRC)  ( Addition)
  • Circuits for analogue communications 
  •  Timing and frequency synchronization –
  • Mitigation of ISI 
  •  Basics of TDMA, FDMA, and CDMA  (Reduction)

• Digital Circuits

  • Integer and floating-point- numbers 
  •  Critical path delay   ( Addition)
  •  Programmable logic array (PLA)  (Reduction)

• Computer Organization

  • Machine instructions and addressing modes,
  •  ALU, data-path and control unit, instruction pipelining. ( Addition)

Instrumental Engineering ( Addition)

• Process Control
  •  Tuning of PID controllers & Sizing of control valves
•  Analog Electronics
  •  Sources effects of noise & interference in electronic circuits
•  Digital Electronics 
  • Embedded Systems, Basics of distributed Control Systems (DCS),
  •  Programmable logic controllers (PLC) 
•  Measurements
  •  Standards (R, L, C, voltage, current & frequency), Linear & Weighted regression 
• Communication
  •  Quadrature amplitude
•  Sensors & Industrial Instrumentation 
  • 4 – 20 mA two-wire transmitter 
•  Optical Instrumentation
  •  Interferometer: Applications in metrology, UV – VIS Spectrophotometer, Mass spectrometer 
•  Electrical Circuits
  •  Transient analysis of RLC circuits with a.c excitation
•  Machines Single-phase transformer:
  • Equivalent circuit, phasor diagram, open circuit, and short circuit tests, regulation and efficiency; Three-phase induction motors: the principle of operation, types, performance, torque-speed characteristics, no-load and blocked rotor tests, equivalent circuit, starting and speed control; Types of losses and efficiency calculations of electric machines, gate 2022 syllabus mechanical engineering.
•  Electricity and Magnetism 
  • Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field Intensity, Electric Flux Density, Gauss’s Law, Divergence, Electric field and potential due to point, line, plane, and spherical charge distributions, Effect of the dielectric medium, Capacitance of simple configurations, Biot‐Savart’s law, Ampere’s law, Curl, Faraday’s law, Lorentz force, Inductance, Magnetomotive force, Reluctance, Magnetic circuits, Self and Mutual inductance of simple configurations, gate official syllabus.

Production Engineering

• Engineering Materials –
  •  Semiconductor 
• Strength of Materials – 
  • Thick & Thin Cylinders
  • Torsion 
• Machine Design – 
  • Friction and Lubrication 
  • Couplings
•  Quality Management – 
  • Process Capability 
  • Quality Certification – ISO 14000
•  Reliability and Maintenance –
  •  Total Production Maintenance 
•  Product Design & Development –
  •  Design for “X” 
• Work System Design
  • Job in entire schemes and Wage administration ( Reduction)
• Operation Research
  • Integer Programming 
  • Un-constrained Non-linear optimization ( Addition)
  • – Dynamic Programming 
  •  Lagrange Multipliers (Reduction)
• Engineering Economy & Costing – 
  • Activity-Based Costing 
  • The time-cost trade-off  (Reduction)
  • Resource levelling (Reduction)

Project Management 

• • Gantt Chart, GERT ( Addition)

1. Quantitative Aptitude Data interpretation: Data graphs (Bar graphs, Pie charts, and other graphs representing data), 2- and 3-dimensional plots, maps, and Tables.
2.  Numerical Computation and Estimation: Ratios, Percentages, Powers, Exponents and Logarithms, Permutations and Combinations, and Series Mensuration and Geometry Elementary Statistics and Probability
3. Analytical Aptitude Logic: Deduction and Induction Analogy Numerical relations and Reasoning
4. Spatial Aptitude Transformation of shapes: Translation, rotation, scaling, mirroring, assembling, and grouping Paper folding, cutting, and patterns in 2 and 3 dimensions
5. Verbal Aptitude Basics English grammar: Tenses, articles, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, verb-noun agreement, and other parts of speech
6.  Basic Vocabulary: Words, Idioms, and phrases in context
7.  Reading and Comprehension: Narrative Sequencing

We hope that you will prepare well and score very good marks in your GATE Examinations 2022. Stay updated and All the Best!