The common General Aptitude paper every GATE candidate takes — verbal aptitude (grammar, vocabulary, reading, sequencing), quantitative aptitude (arithmetic, percentages, ratios, data interpretation, mensuration) and analytical and spatial aptitude (logical reasoning, puzzles, transformations of shapes, paper folding).
General Aptitude (GA) is the one section whose weight is fixed: 10 questions worth 15 marks (five 1-mark and five 2-mark) in every GATE paper. That is as much as a mid-sized technical subject, and the questions are short, so GA marks are the cheapest marks in the paper.
What the GA syllabus lists: verbal aptitude (basic English grammar, vocabulary, reading and comprehension, narrative sequencing); quantitative aptitude (data interpretation, numerical computation and estimation — ratios, percentages, powers, exponents, logarithms, permutations and combinations, series — mensuration and geometry, elementary statistics and probability); analytical aptitude (logic — deduction and induction, analogy, numerical relations and reasoning); spatial aptitude (transformation of shapes — translation, rotation, scaling, mirroring, assembling, grouping — and paper folding, cutting and patterns in 2 and 3 dimensions).
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Read in order — later topics build on earlier ones