Where GATE EE's marks have come from, 2018–2026: nine subjects, paper by paper

This post counts where GATE EE's marks have shown up across nine published study subjects, using IAE's own subject tags on the seven keyed GATE EE papers — 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. It is written for a GATE EE candidate weighing which subject to open first. The GATE 2027 Information Brochure (printed page 4) fixes every paper at 65 questions and 100 marks, and on every paper except AR, CY, DA, EY, GE, GG, MA, PH, RA, ST, XH and XL splits them as General Aptitude 15, Engineering Mathematics 13 and the remaining subject questions 72. Engineering Mathematics and the other subject questions together make an 85-mark subject component; General Aptitude's 15 marks sit outside it and are common to every paper.

Where GATE EE's 85 subject marks have come from, paper by paper

The rows show how many marks of each paper's 85-mark subject component IAE's classifiers filed under each published subject, year by year. Engineering Mathematics runs from 12 marks (2020) to 17 (2026) across the seven papers, averaging 14.0 — a range that straddles the brochure's fixed 13: below it in 2020, level with it in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and above it in 2018, 2022 and 2026, because the tags are IAE's reading of each question, not the paper's own section boundary. The last data row, 'Not yet filed under a published subject', runs from 14 marks (2023) to 21 (2024 and 2026), averaging 18.3 marks a paper: these are marks on questions that no published subject's classifier has filed, which includes the sections not yet in the study library and can also include a question from a covered section that no classifier took.

GATE EE subjects in order of average marks per paper

By average marks per paper across the seven keyed papers, the order runs Engineering Mathematics at 14.0, then Networks (Electric Circuits) at 10.1, Electrical Machines at 9.4, Control Systems at 8.7, Signals and Systems at 8.6, Analog Electronics at 5.1, Electromagnetics at 5.0, Digital Electronics at 3.6, and Electrical and Electronic Measurements at 2.1. None of these nine averages match another at one decimal place, so the order carries no shared places. A plan that follows the marks would take Engineering Mathematics first, 3.9 marks a paper clear of Networks next in line. From there the drop-off is gradual rather than a single clear break: Networks leads Electrical Machines by 0.7, and Electrical Machines leads Control Systems by the same 0.7. Control Systems and Signals and Systems follow within a tenth of a mark of each other; Analog Electronics and Electromagnetics sit close together lower down; Digital Electronics and Measurements close the list, with Measurements the only one of the nine absent from one of the seven papers — it carried 0 marks in 2023.

The GATE EE syllabus, section by section, against the study library

Two sections of the printed GATE EE syllabus have no matching study subject yet: Power Systems (Section 6) and Power Electronics (Section 10). These are real marks in the paper — the syllabus prints them as full sections alongside Electrical Machines and Control Systems — that the study library has not solved yet. The 'Not yet filed under a published subject' row above includes marks from these two sections, and can also include a question from a covered section that no classifier filed; the row does not separate the two.