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GATE Electrical Engineering

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2025 Q1

Kavya ________ go to work yesterday as she ________ feeling well. Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.

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Spheres of unit diameter are centered at ( $l, m, n$ ) where $l, m$ and $n$ take every possible integer values. The distance between two spheres is computed from the center of one...

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Scores obtained by two students P and Q in seven courses are given in the table below. Based on the information given in the table, which one of the following statements is INCORRE...

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Identify the option that has the most appropriate sequence such that a coherent paragraph is formed : (P) It is because deer, like most of the animals that tigers normally prey on,...

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What is the value of $\left(\frac{3^{81}}{27^4}\right)^{1 / 3}$ ?

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Good : Evil : : Genuine : ? Select the most appropriate option to complete the analogy.

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2025 PYQ

Kavya__________go to work yesterday as she________ feeling well. Select the most approrpriate option to complete the above sentence.

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2024 PYQ

In the given text, the blanks are numbered (i)–(iv). Select the best match for all the blanks. Following a row ____(i) ______ the shopkeeper ____(ii) ______ the price of a frying p...

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2024 PYQ

If, for non-zero real variables $x$, $y$, and real parameter $a > 1$, $x : y = (a + 1) : (a - 1)$, then, the ratio $(x^2 - y^2) : (x^2 + y^2)$ is

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A shopkeeper buys shirts from a producer and sells them at 20% profit. A customer has to pay ₹3,186.00 including 18% taxes, per shirt. At what price did the shopkeeper buy each shi...

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The decimal number system uses the characters 0, 1, 2, ... , 8, 9, and the octal number system uses the characters 0, 1, 2, ... , 6, 7. For example, the decimal number 12 ( = 1 &ti...

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P and Q have been allotted a hostel room with two beds, a study table, and an almirah. P is an avid bird-watcher and wants to sit at the table and watch birds outside the window. Q...

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2024 PYQ

If ‘→’ denotes increasing order of intensity, then the meaning of the words [talk → shout → scream] is analogous to [please → _______ → pander]. Which one of the given options is a...

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2024 PYQ

A surveyor has to measure the horizontal distance from her position to a distant reference point C. Using her position as the center, a 200 m horizontal line segment is drawn with...

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2023 PYQ

Permit : __________ : : Enforce : Relax (By word meaning)

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2023 PYQ

Rafi told Mary, "I am thinking of watching a film this weekend." The following repots the above statement in indirect speech: Rafi told Mary that he _________ of watching a film th...

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2023 PYQ

Given a fair six-faced dice where the faces are labelled '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', and '6', what is the probability of getting a '1' on the first roll of the dice and a '4' on the s...

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A recent survey shows that 65% of tobacco users were advised to stop consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted to stop using tobacco. Based...

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Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college elections. However, by the time t...

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Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it? We tend to think of cancer as a 'modern' illness because its metaphors are so modern. It is a diseas...

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2023 PYQ

the digit in the unit's place of the product $$3^{999}\times7^{1000}$$ is __________.

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2022 PYQ

The price of an item is 10% cheaper in an online store S compared to the price at another online store M. Store S charges Rs.150 for delivery. There are no delivery charges for ord...

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2022 PYQ

The letters P, Q, R, S, T and U are to be placed one per vertex on a regular convex hexagon, but not necessarily in the same order. Consider the following statements : $$\bullet$$...

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2022 PYQ

As you grow older, an injury to your __________ may take longer to ___________.

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In a 500 m race, P and Q have speeds in the ratio of 3 : 4. Q starts the race when P has already covered 140 m. What is the distance between P and Q (in m) when P wins the race?

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Given below are two statements and four conclusions drawn based on the statements. Statement I : Some bottles are cups. Statement II : All cups are knives. Conclusion I : Some bott...

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Altruism is the human concern for the well being of others. Altruism has been shown to be motivated more by social bonding, familiarity and identification of belongingness to a gro...

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There are two identical dice with a single letter on each of the faces. The following six letters : Q, R, S, T, U and V, one on each of the faces. Any of the six outcomes are equal...

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2021 PYQ

Seven Cars $P, Q, R, S, T, U$ and $V$ are parked in a row not necessarily in that order. The cars $T$ and $U$ should be parked next to each other. The cars $S$ and $V$ also should...

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2021 PYQ

For a regular polygon having 10 sides, the interior angle between the sides of the polygon, in degrees, is

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Let $X$ is a continuous random variable denoting the temperature measured. The range of temperature is $[0,100]$ degree Celsius and let the probability density function of $X$ be $...

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The importance of sleep is often overlooked by students when they are preparing for exams. Research has consistently shown that sleep deprivation greatly reduces the ability to rec...

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Oasis is to sand as island is to $\_\_\_\_$ . Which one of the following options maintains a similar logical relation in the above sentence?

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Which one of the following numbers is exactly divisible by $\left(11^{13}+1\right) ?$

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The people $\_\_\_\_$ were at the demonstration were from all sections of society.

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2019 PYQ

The missing number in the given sequence 343, 1331, _______, 4913 is

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The ratio of the number of boys and girls who participated in an examination is 4 : 3. The total percentage of candidates who passed the examination is 80 and the percentage of a g...

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It takes two hours for a person X to mow the lawn. Y can mow the same lawn in four hours. How long (in minutes) will it take X and Y, if they work together to mow the lawn?

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I am not sure if the bus that has been booked will be able to ______ all the students

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Given two sets X = {1, 2, 3} and Y = {2, 3, 4}, we construct a set Z of all possible fractions where the numerators belong to set X and the denominators belong to set Y. The produc...

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How many integers are there between 100 and 1000 all of whose digits are even?

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An award-winning study by a group of researchers suggests that men are as prone to buying on impulse as women but women feel more guilty about shopping. Which one of the following...

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Consider five people- Mitra, Ganga, Rekha, Lakshmi and Sana, Ganga is taller than both Rekha and Lakshmi. Lakshmi is taller than Sana. Mita is taller than Ganga. Which of the follo...

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2019 PYQ

The passengers were angry __________ the airline staff about the delay.

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Newspapers are a constant source of delight and recreation for me. The _____ trouble is that I read _______ many of them.

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2018 PYQ

A class of twelve children has two more boys than girls. A group of three children are randomly picked from this class to accompany the teacher on a field trip. What is the probabi...

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2018 PYQ

For what values of k given below is $${{{{\left( {k + 2} \right)}^2}} \over {k - 3}}$$ an integer?

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Functions F(a, b) and G(a, b) are defined as follows: F(a, b) = (a - b) 2 and G(a, b) = |a - b| , where |x| represents the absolute value of x. What would be the value of G(F(1, 3)...

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2018 PYQ

In a certain code, AMCF is written as EQGJ and NKUF is written as ROYJ. How will DHLP be written in that code?

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P, Q, R and S crossed a lake in a boat that can hold a maximum of two persons, with only one set of oars. The following additional facts are available. (i) The boat held two person...

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2018 PYQ

The three roots of the equation f(x) = 0 are x = {-2, 0, 3}. What are the three values of x for which f(x -3) = 0?

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"Since you have gone off the ________, the _________ sand is likely to damage the car." The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are

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"A common misconception among writers is that sentence structure mirrors thought; the more _________ the structure, the more complicated the ideas." The word that best fills the bl...

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An e-mail password must contain three characters. The password has to contain one numeral from 0 to 9, one upper case and one lower case character from the English alphabet. How ma...

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