GATE – 2026 TEST SERIES

OVERVIEW
TOPIC AND FULL TESTS:
After completing each topic and subject, a test will be conducted. Each topic test includes a minimum of 25 questions
worth 2 marks each, while full-length tests consist of at least 40 questions worth 2 marks each.
• Duration:
o Topic Test: 60 minutes
o Full Test: 120 minutes or 2 hours
The number of tests per subject is as follows:
[Link]. Subject Name # Topic Test # Full Test Total Tentative Months of Test
1 Discrete Mathematics (DM) 5 1 6 Feb – March
2 C-Programming (C-Prog) 1 1 2 March
3 Data Structure and Algorithms (DSA) 4 1 5 March – April
4 Computer Network (CN) 4 1 5 April - May
5 Operating System (OS) 3 1 4 May
6 Digital Logic (DL) 3 1 4 May
7 Computer Organization and Architecture (COA) 3 1 5 June
8 Database Management System (DBMS) 4 1 5 July
9 Theory Of Computation (TOC) 3 1 3 July - August
10 Compiler Design (CD) 2 1 2 August
11 Mathematics (MATH) 4 1 5 August - September
12 Aptitude (APTI) 2 1 3 September
Total Topic Tests: 36
Total Full Tests: 12

ROUND-1 TESTS (FULL TESTS):

• Timeline: September, October and November
• Coverage: Full syllabus of each subject
• Duration: 2 hours
• Questions: 40 questions per test
[Link]. Subject Name # Full Test
1 Discrete Mathematics(DM) 1
2 Data Structure And Algorithms(DSA) 1
3 Computer Network(CN) 1
4 Operating System(OS) 1
5 Digital Logic (DL) 1
6 Computer Organization And Architecture(COA) 1
7 Database Management System(DBMS) 1
8 Theory Of Computation (TOC) 1
9 Compiler Design (CD) + C Programming 1
10 Engineering Mathematics 1
11 General Aptitude 1
Total Round-1 Tests: 11

ROUND-2 TESTS (MIXED TESTS):

• Timeline: November - December
• Coverage: Full syllabus of 2-3 mixed subjects per test
• Duration: 3 hours
• Questions: 50 questions per test
[Link]. Subject Name # Mixed Full Test
1 OS + DBMS + C Language 1
2 DS and Algorithm + Network 1
3 Discrete + TOC + Compiler 1
4 Digital + COA 1
5 Apti + Math 1
Total Round-2 Tests: 5

ROUND-3 TESTS (MOCK TESTS):

• Timeline: December - January
• Coverage: Full GATE syllabus
• Questions: 65 questions per test (55 technical/Math + 10 aptitude)
• Total Mock Tests: 12
 • Duration: 3 hours
• Additional Tests: 4 All-India Mock Tests (AIMTs)
Total Tests in the Series: 80
Total Number of Questions in the Series: 3110

TENTATIVE DATES OF EACH TEST PAPER

Subject Name Test ID Test Number Date Day
1 Test- 1 15-Feb-25 Saturday

2 Test - 2 21-Feb-25 Friday

Discrete Mathematics 3 Test - 3 27-Feb-25 Thursday

(DM) 4 Test - 4 05-Mar-25 Wednesday

5 Test - 5 11-Mar-25 Tuesday

6 Full Test 18-Mar-25 Tuesday
C-Programming 7 Test - 1 17-Mar-25 Monday
(C-Prog) 8 Full Test 30-Mar-25 Sunday

9 Test - 1 23-Mar-25 Sunday

10 Test - 2 29-Mar-25 Saturday

Data Structure and Algorithms
11 Test - 3 04-Apr-25 Friday
(DSA)
12 Test - 4 10-Apr-25 Thursday
13 Full Test 20-Apr-25 Sunday
14 Test - 1 16-Apr-25 Wednesday

15 Test - 2 22-Apr-25 Tuesday

Computer Network
16 Test - 3 28-Apr-25 Monday
(CN)
17 Test - 4 04-May-25 Sunday
18 Full Test 13-May-25 Tuesday
Operating System 19 Test - 1 10-May-25 Saturday
(OS) 20 Test - 2 16-May-25 Friday
 21 Test - 3 22-May-25 Thursday
22 Full Test 31-May-25 Saturday
23 Test - 1 28-May-25 Wednesday

24 Test - 2 03-Jun-25 Tuesday

Digital Logic (DL)
25 Test - 3 09-Jun-25 Monday
26 Full Test 13-Jun-25 Friday
27 Test – 1 15-Jun-25 Sunday

Computer Organization and Architecture 28 Test – 2 21-Jun-25 Saturday

(COA) 29 Test – 3 27-Jun-25 Friday
30 Full Test 12-Jul-25 Saturday
31 Test - 1 03-Jul-25 Thursday

32 Test - 2 09-Jul-25 Wednesday

Database Management System
33 Test - 3 15-Jul-25 Tuesday
(DBMS)
34 Test - 4 21-Jul-25 Monday
35 Full Test 31-Jul-25 Thursday
36 Test - 1 05-Aug-25 Tuesday
Theory Of Computation
37 Test - 2 12-Aug-25 Tuesday
(TOC)
38 Full Test 15-Aug-25 Friday
Compiler Design 39 Test - 1 18-Aug-25 Monday
(CD) 40 Full Test 22-Aug-25 Friday
41 Test - 1 14-Aug-25 Thursday

42 Test - 2 20-Aug-25 Wednesday

Engineering Mathematics (EM) 43 Test - 3 26-Aug-25 Tuesday

44 Test - 4 01-Sep-25 Monday

45 Full Test 15-Sep-25 Monday
46 Test – 1 07-Sep-25 Sunday
General Aptitude (GA)
47 Test - 2 13-Sep-25 Saturday
 48 Full Test 19-Sep-25 Friday
Round – 1 [Full Subject Tests]

Discrete Mathematics (DM) 49 Full Test 06-Sep-25 Saturday

Operating System (OS) 50 Full Test 13-Sep-25 Saturday

Data Structure and Algorithms (DSA) 51 Full Test 20-Sep-25 Saturday

Computer Network (CN) 52 Full Test 27-Sep-25 Saturday

Digital Logic (DL) 53 Full Test 04-Oct-25 Saturday

Theory Of Computation (TOC) 54 Full Test 11-Oct-25 Saturday

Computer Organization and Architecture (COA) 55 Full Test 18-Oct-25 Saturday

Compiler Design (CD) + C Programming 56 Full Test 25-Oct-25 Saturday

Database Management System (DBMS) 57 Full Test 01-Nov-25 Saturday

Engineering Mathematics (EM) 58 Full Test 08-Nov-25 Saturday

General Aptitude (GA) 59 Full Test 15-Nov-25 Saturday

Round – 2 [Mixed Full Tests]

DM + TOC + CD 60 Mixed Full Test 20-Nov-25 Thursday

DL + COA 61 Mixed Full Test 25-Nov-25 Tuesday

DSA + Network 62 Mixed Full Test 30-Nov-25 Sunday

OS + DBMS + C Programming 63 Mixed Full Test 05-Dec-25 Friday

EM + GA 64 Mixed Full Test 10-Dec-25 Wednesday

Round – 3 [Mock Tests]

Mock – 1 65 Full GATE syllabus 13-Dec-25 Saturday

Mock – 2 66 Full GATE syllabus 16-Dec-25 Tuesday

Mock – 3 67 Full GATE syllabus 19-Dec-25 Friday

AIMT – 1 68 Full GATE syllabus 22-Dec-25 Monday

Mock – 4 69 Full GATE syllabus 25-Dec-25 Thursday

Mock – 5 70 Full GATE syllabus 28-Dec-25 Sunday

 Mock – 6 71 Full GATE syllabus 31-Dec-25 Wednesday

AIMT – 2 72 Full GATE syllabus 03-Jan-26 Saturday

Mock – 7 73 Full GATE syllabus 06-Jan-26 Tuesday

Mock – 8 74 Full GATE syllabus 09-Jan-26 Friday

Mock – 9 75 Full GATE syllabus 12-Jan-26 Monday

AIMT – 3 76 Full GATE syllabus 15-Jan-26 Thursday

Mock – 10 77 Full GATE syllabus 18-Jan-26 Sunday

Mock – 11 78 Full GATE syllabus 21-Jan-26 Wednesday

Mock – 12 79 Full GATE syllabus 24-Jan-26 Saturday

AIMT – 4 80 Full GATE syllabus 27-Jan-26 Tuesday

TOPIC TEST SYLLABUS

Test Test
SNo. Subject Name Topic
Number ID
Test- 1 1 Set Theory, Properties Of Relation & Equivalence Relation
Test - 2 2 Partial Order Relation, Lattices& Function
Discrete
Test - 3 3 Algebraic System (Group Theory)
1 Mathematics
Test - 4 4 Graph Theory
(DM)
Test - 5 5 Logic
Test Full 6 Complete Syllabus
Basic Programming (Operators And Expressions, Data Types And Input-
C-Programming Test - 1 7 Output Operators, Control Statements And Decision Making, Arrays,
2
(C-Prog) Strings and Functions
Test Full 8 Complete Syllabus (Basic Programming, Pointers, Structures And Unions)
Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, Insertion Sort, Heap Sort, Basic Concept Of
Test - 1 9
Data Structure Asymptotic Notations, Time Complexity
3 And Algorithms Recurrence Relation (Iterative, Master's And Tree Method), Complexity
(DSA) Test - 2 10 Of Code, Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Counting Sort, Radix Sort, Searching
(Linear & Binary)
 Stack, Recursion, Queue, Linked List, Hashing, Binary Tree, Binary Search
Test - 3 11
Tree
Construction Of AVL Tree, AVL Tree, Greedy & Dynamic Approach, 0/1
Knapsack Problem, Fractional Knapsack Problem, Job Scheduling with
Test - 4 12 Deadline, Huffman Encoding, Dijkstra's & Bellman Ford Algorithm, LCS
Problem, Adjacency Matrix & List, MST, Kruskal’s and Prim’s, Matrix
Chain Multiplication Problem, Optimal File Merge Pattern
Test Full 13 Complete Syllabus
Layered Model: OSI And TCP/IP, Data Link Layer(Framing, Error Control
Test - 1 14
And Flow Control)
Data Link Layer (MAC), Basics of Packet, Circuit And Virtual Circuit-
Test - 2 15 Switching; Ethernet Bridging; Network Devices (Hub, Repeater,
Computer
Switch/Bridge And Routers)
4 Network
Routing Algorithms (Distance Vector, Link State), Ipv4 Addressing,
(CN) Test - 3 16
Formatting, CIDR, NAT, ICMP.
TCP/UDP, Sockets, Congestion Control, Application Layer Protocols
Test - 4 17
(DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP And DHCP).
Test Full 18 Complete Syllabus
Basics Of OS, Process Management, Thread Management, CPU -
Test - 1 19
Scheduling.
Operating System Inter-Process Communication, Concurrency And Synchronization And
5 Test - 2 20
(OS) Deadlock.
Test - 3 21 Memory Management, Virtual Memory, File Systems And Disk Scheduling
Test Full 22 Complete Syllabus
Test - 1 26 Number System
Test - 2 23 Boolean Algebra, Minimization, K-Map And Combinational Circuits
6 Digital Logic (DL)
Test - 3 24 Combinational Circuits And Sequential Circuits
Test Full 25 Complete Syllabus
Computer Test - 1 27 Cache Memory
7 Organization And Instruction Set Architecture And Addressing Mode, And Basics Pipeline
Test - 2 28
Architecture Concept
 (COA) Advanced Pipeline Concept, I/O Interface(Interrupt And DMA), ALU,
Test - 3 29
Data-Path And Control Unit
Test Full 30 Complete Syllabus
Relational Model, SQL - 1 (Create, Insert, Update, Select, Aggregate
Test - 1 31
Database Functions, Group By, Order By, Nested Query, Self Join, Constraints)
Management Test - 2 32 SQL – 2 (FULL) and Relational Algebra - 1
8
System Test - 3 33 Relational Algebra - 2 And Normalization
(DBMS) Test - 4 34 Indexing, B-Tree, B+-Tree, Transaction and Concurrency Control
Test Full 35 Complete Syllabus (Including ER-Model)
Chomsky Classification Of Grammar, Regular Expression, Finite
Automata, Regular Language, DFA, NFA, Minimization Of DFA, NFA To
Test - 1 36
DFA Conversion, Properties Of Regular Language, Pumping Lemma For
Theory Of
Regular Languages,
9 Computation
CFL, PDA, CFG, Properties Of CFL, Pumping Lemma For CFL,
(TOC)
Test - 2 37 Construction Of TM, Types Of TM, Decidability And Undecidability Of
Language, Countably Finite And Infinite Languages.
Test Full 38 Complete Syllabus
Parameter Passing Techniques, Lexical Analysis, Syntax Analysis(LL, LR,
Test - 1 39
SLR, CLR, LALR)
Compiler Design Complete Syllabus (Parameter Passing Techniques, Lexical Analysis,
10
(CD) Syntax Analysis(LL, LR, SLR, CLR, LALR, Syntax Directed Translation,
Test Full 40
Runtime Environments, Intermediate Code Generation And Code
Optimization)
Test - 1 41 Matrices
Test - 2 42 Calculus
Mathematics
11 Test - 3 43 Permutation & Combination
(MATH)
Test - 4 44 Probability
Test Full 45 Complete Syllabus
Test – 1 46 Quantitative Aptitude
12 Aptitude Test - 2 47 Analytical Aptitude, Spatial Aptitude and Verbal Aptitude
Test Full 48 Complete Syllabus