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Appeared in GATE 2021 Mechanical exam on February 14? Check GATE 2021 Mechanical paper analysis, students’ reaction and review on this page.

GATE 2021 Mechanical Paper Analysis

GATE 2021 Mechanical Engineering (ME) paper analysis is available now. Various coaching institutes have also released the paper analysis of GATE Mechanical 2021 paper. The analysis will help students in getting a fair idea about the difficulty level of the question paper. It is an important factor that is considered while determining the GATE cutoff score.

The paper analysis is also helpful for the candidates preparing for the exam in upcoming years. The exam for ME is scheduled to be conducted in both forenoon (9:30 am-12:30 pm) and afternoon (2:30 pm-5:30 pm) shifts on February 14. Over one lakh students appeared for the GATE Mechanical Engineering exam. Read the article below to know the GATE 2021 Mechanical exam paper analysis.

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Table of contents
  • GATE 2021 Mechanical Paper Analysis: Highlights
  • GATE 2021 Mechanical exam analysis
  • GATE 2021 Mechanical Paper Students' Reaction and Review
  • GATE 2021 Mechanical Paper Analysis - Afternoon

GATE 2021 Mechanical Paper Analysis: Highlights

Mechanical Engineering is one of the most preferred and popular streams amongst engineering aspirants. As mentioned above, the GATE 2021 Mechanical exam was conducted for three hours in two shifts. There were 65 (multiple choice and numerical answer type) questions in the exam paper for a total of 100 marks. Now let us take a look at the highlights of the GATE Mechanical paper analysis:

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GATE 2021 ME Paper Analysis

Check subject-wise analysis in the table below.

Subjects MCQs NATs
TOM and Vibration 3 3
Manufacturing 3 6
Strength of Material 5 2
Machine Design 0 2
Fluid Mechanics 0 3
Thermodynamic and Application 5 4
Industrial Engineering 2 3
Heat Transfer 2 2
Engineering Mechanics 0 2
Engineering Mathematics 3 5
Aptitude 10 0

GATE 2021 Mechanical exam analysis

Candidates appeared in the GATE 2021 Mechanical exam can check the chapter-wise analysis and student reviews below:

  • Overall the difficulty level was easy to moderate
  • Not much weightage of fluid mechanics
  • Questions from industrial engineering was moderate to tough
  • Easy questions from strength of material
  • 2 questions from Beam
  • 3 questions from stress and strain
  • 2 questions from Hydraulic machine
  • 1 question from RAC
  • Relation between vapor pressure and saturation vapor pressure
  • 1 question from gyroscopic couple from TOM
  • Aptitude questions were easy in MCQ format
  • Zero MSQs
  • Questions of pressure measurement
  • Fluid mechanics was easy
  • Moderate level questions from Mathematics
  • Easy questions from Production

GATE 2021 Mechanical Paper Students' Reaction and Review

Students can check the GATE 2021 Mechanical

Students' Reactions in the video below:

GATE 2021 Mechanical Paper Analysis - Afternoon

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Now that you have knowledge of the detailed GATE Mechanical paper analysis 2021, we advise you to go through this article carefully to analyse your performance. The GATE paper analysis for Mechanical will also help the aspirants to have a better understanding of the exam.

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