Updated on Feb 9, 2020 15:54 IST
GATE 2020 Mechanical, Physics, Metallurgical, and Instrumentation exam Student Reaction & Review is available now. IIT Delhi is conducting the exam for MTech admissions and PSU recruitment.

Shiksha brings here students' reactions & review for GATE 2020 Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Metallurgical, and Instrumentation exam. Check the difficulty level of these exams from the GATE aspirants.

GATE 2020 Student Reaction & Exam Review - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi is conducting the GATE 2020 exam for MTech courses and PSU recruitment on February 1, 2, 8, and 9 in different sessions. The forenoon session for the GATE 2020 Electrical exam was held today i.e. February 8 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.

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Shiksha.com has visited the exam center to know the students' reviews and analyses of the subjects whose exam conducted on February 1, 2020. According to the students' feedback, who appeared in the first shift of the GATE 2020 exam, the overall difficulty level was moderate. In this article below we bring you the student reaction & exam review for Mechanical, Physics, Metallurgical, and Instrumentation exam held on February 1, 2020.

Table of contents
  • Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 Civil question paper
  • Watch Student Reaction & Review for GATE 2020 Civil Engineering (CE)
  • Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 CSE
  • Watch student reaction and review for GATE 2020 CSE
  • Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 Electrical Exam
  • Watch GATE 2020 student reaction & Review for Electrical Exam (February 8)
  • Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 Mechanical Exam
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Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 Civil question paper

Parminder said that the Civil Engineering paper was difficult than that of the last year. Almost all the 2-mark questions in Civil Engineering Section were very difficult. 1-mark questions were easier.

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Nikhil stated that the last year's GATE Civil Engineering paper was easier than this year's. In today's paper, the numerical questions were more than that of the question based on theory. The aptitude section of today's paper was easy. 

According to Amit the GATE 2020 Civil Engineering paper was difficult than that of the last year's. 

Akash shared that the GATE 2020 Civil Engineering Paper was moderate to difficult. Analytical questions were in a good number. 1-mark questions were easier but 2- mark questions were difficult.

According to Avnish, in comparison to last year, the GATE 2020 civil paper was lengthier. Numerical Answer Type questions were more and the paper covered all the topics of the subject.

Rahul said that the paper of GATE 2020 civil engineering was of moderate level. Most of the questions were easy.

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Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 CSE

CSE student Ruchir Verma said that question paper was moderate to tough. According to him, some questions were very easy apart from the programming section. Questions from Computer Organisation were tough.

Rishabh Raj appeared for the GATE CSE exam for the afternoon session. He told us that the difficulty level of question paper can be considered 50-50. Some of the questions were very easy whereas he found some of the questions hard to attempt.

Another GATE aspirant, Anshul Kumar shared the same experience of Computer Science and Information Technology question paper is moderate to tough.

Twinkle Arora shared that CSE paper was not moderate and it was a bit difficult. According to her questions among each section were equally distributed and as compared to last year paper was tough.

Shivam Kumar from Computer Science and Information Technology branch said that questions were easy to moderate for him. He also stated that some of the questions were a bit tricky and hard.

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Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 Electrical Exam

One of the GATE aspirant Rishab from the Electrical branch told us that this was his second attempt and paper was tougher than the previous year. According to him, 1 mark questions were easy whereas 2 mark questions were tough. Paper was of medium difficulty level and not much difficult to attempt.

Vishal Sanjay Wadekar appeared for Electrical Exam and he is from Government College of Engineering in Amravati, Maharashtra. He told us that the GATE EE question paper was a combination of tough and easy questions. Questions were from PSA three type questions from Power Sytems, the technical part was not hard and English was easy. But he found the exam a bit lengthy.

Another GATE aspirant, Ajay Jadhav from Maharashtra shared the same experience of EE question paper is moderate to tough. According to him, the paper was moderate but it was. He also told us that the GATE 2020 exam was moderate as compared to last year's GATE question paper. Questions from Math, Machine, and Network were easy and simple.

Madhav Goyal from Galgotias University shared that the overall difficulty level was tough. According to him the cut off for EE paper will be low.

Another GATE aspirant, Sumit Jain shared the same experience of EE question paper is moderate to tough and 50% questions in the exam were easy.

Another GATE aspirant, Shristy Singh shared the same experience of EE question paper. She told us that the technical part of the exam was tougher and the general aptitude section was easy.

Watch GATE 2020 student reaction & Review for Electrical Exam (February 8)

Students' reviews and analysis for GATE 2020 Mechanical Exam

One of the aspirant Loveleen said he had appeared for the first time for GATE and he did not prepare much for the exam but questions that he attempted were of moderate difficulty level and the paper was not much difficult to attempt. He also shared that the topics which he had studied and covered, the questions were asked from those topics which he had solved properly and he elaborated that he chooses not to even touch the question which he has not studied.

Satvik from the Mechanical branch, the questions were easy and moderate. According to him, 2 marks questions were a little bit tougher, especially the Industrial Engineering part but the rest of it was ok. He also said that the exam was a little bit tougher than the last time.

Another GATE aspirant, Tushar shared the same experience of question paper is being easy. According to him, the paper was moderately easy. He also told us that the GATE 2020 exam was easy as compared to last year's GATE question paper. There were only a few questions asked from the nuclear and atomic sections.

Another GATE candidate Mohammad Ujefa gave his reviews about the GATE Mechanical exam that there were a lot of questions asked in the numerical section and paper was moderate.

Yagyayesh Kumar shared that the overall difficulty level was easy. The questions were equally distributed to both the sections i.e. numerical and theoretical. According to him, the paper was the same as last year and he prepared a lot for GATE 2020.

Kuldeep, who was taking the paper for the second time said that this year's GATE paper was very traditional and moderate. Questions in the exam were equally divided among numerical & theoretical sections. He also told us that paper was eas to attempt.

Arun Kaushik who appeared for the GATE exam shared that if he has done an only self-study to prepare for the GATE 2020 and his exam went well. According to him the level of the exam was easy and questions were extremely easy to attempt. He felt happy after the exam.

Sunil Kumar Khushwaha, another GATE aspirant shared his views on Mechanical paper that he found the paper moderate and there were 45-50 numerical in the exam.

IIT Delhi is conducting the GATE 2020 exam on GATE 2020 on February 1 & 2 and February 8 & 9. Instrumentation (IN), Mechanical (ME), Metallurgical Engineering (MT)Petroleum Engineering (PE), and Physics (PH) were conducted on February 1, 2020, in the forenoon session (09:30 am – 12:30 pm).

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