GATE 8th February 2026 Overall Paper Analysis
The GATE 8th February 2026 exam was conducted smoothly across all scheduled papers in both sessions. The question paper was designed to test conceptual and problem solving skills.
GATE 2026 February 8 Paper Analysis: Forenoon Session
A detailed GATE 2026 February 8 paper analysis for the forenoon session question paper has been provided here for subjects such as CS-1 and ST. The analysis covers important aspects like overall difficulty level, type of questions asked, weightage of topic, and important trends followed. Watch this section to get the details about the GATE 2026 question paper. This gate 2026 feb 8 paper review help students understand how the question paper was designed and what level of preparation was required to attempt the exam easily and score good marks.
- Paper was overall moderate for both CS and ST
- The general aptitude question seems to be easily doable.
- CS 1 was on difficult side where tricky questions from Compiler, algorithm are asked
- OS, and TOC questions were on moderate to difficult side.
- In ST section questions from Probability Theory, Statistical Inference and Design of Experiments
- CS section is lengthy and logic intensive
- In ST section questions based on interpretation rather than straight calculations are asked.
GATE 2026 February 8 Paper Analysis: Afternoon Session
GATE 2026 February 8 Afternoon Session paper analysis has been provided here for subjects like CS-2, Environmental Science and Engineering (EY), Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NM), and Petroleum Engineering (PE) . Check this section for the latest updates. This analysis cover important aspects like overall difficulty level, type of questions asked, weightage of topics, and important trends followed. The gate 2026 feb 8 exam analysis focuses on overall difficulty level of question papers, the types of questions asked, and the important topics from which questions are asked repeatedly.
- GATE 2026 February 8 Afternoon Session paper was moderate to tough.
- Lengthy due to tricky MSQs are asked that tested students time management skills.
- In CS2 4 Question from Algorithm, 5 from Operating system, 8 from Pogramming & Data structure
- Eng. Mathematics section was moderate questions from Linear algebra, Probability: concept based question and Discrete mathematics: Graph theory and combinatorics some tricky questions
- Questions from Database, Computer network, COA, Discrerte mathematics, Compiler design, TOC are also asked in CS-2 session
- General Aptitude difficulty level is Easy to moderate where questions from Basic Arithmetic, Verbal ability and Logical reasoning are asked
- EY was moderate and questions from Population Ecology, Community Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology and Evolutionary Processes are asked
- NM was easy to moderate questions are asked from Hydrostatics and Ship Stability and Resistance and Propulsion
GATE 7 February 2026 Overall Paper Analysis
The GATE 7 February 2026 exam was conducted smoothly across all scheduled papers in both sessions. The question paper was designed to test conceptual and problem solving skills.
- The General Aptitude section was easy in both session
- The difficulty level for the core subjects ranged from moderate to difficult.
- Questions based on verbal ability and numerical ability are asked in GA.
- Few concepts which were not asked in previous years are seen in this exam.
- This time new concepts, or we can say different questions were asked compared to previous years.
- Engineering maths were seen to be on a tougher side.
GATE 2026 February 7 Paper Analysis: Forenoon Session
As the exam has concluded, we are providing a detailed GATE 2026 February 7 forenoon session paper analysis here for subjects such as AG, ES, GG, IN, MA, MN, TF, XE, and XL. The analysis we have covered important aspects like overall difficulty level, type of questions asked, weightage of topic, and important trends followed. Watch this section to get the details about the GATE 2026 question paper.
- The overall difficulty was moderate to tough
- General aptitude was easy, and was mostly doable
- Questions were asked from Dice, Pythagores, Age related problems, Distance problem
- Microbiology was moderate
- Biochemistry was easy, MSQ and NAT questions were significantly increased compared to earlier.
- Zoology was moderately challenging
- Food technology was easy
- Botany was moderate to tough
- Chemistry was moderately challenging
- Engineering Sciences is Moderate
- AG is moderate
- ES is moderate to tough
GATE 2026 February 7 Paper Analysis: Afternoon Session
GATE 2026 February 7 Afternoon Session paper analysis for subjects like AE, BT, CH, CY, GE, PH, and XHhas been updated and is now available. Check this section for the latest updates. The analysis we have covered important aspects like overall difficulty level, type of questions asked, weightage of topics, and important trends followed.
- The overall difficulty was moderate to tough
- General aptitude was easy, and was mostly doable and questions were asked from Dice problems, Paper unfolding, Venn diagram, Permutations and combination, Analogy, Hill direction
- Biotechnology paper was comparatively on a tougher side.
- Few concepts which were not asked in previous years are seen in this exam.
- Engineering maths were seen to be on a tougher side.
- Questions from Differentiation, Integration, Eigen value, Parallel equation are seen in engineering mathematics.
- AE is Moderate with few statement based questions.
- CY session ranged from moderate to difficult.
- PH ranged from moderate to difficult
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GATE 2026 Memory Based Questions
Below are memory based questions from GATE 2026:
GATE 2026 February 7 Memory Based Questions:
Question 1: The Peaxn that gives mero 1,2 Piphnye Ethan 1,2 diol?
Question 1: Oxygen transfer rate depends upon.
Question 2: Question on Klinefelter syndrome
Question 3: 5 ′ capping of mRNA
Question 4: A vaccine that uses a piece of microbial DNA to produce antigen in the host is known as:
(1) Live attenuated vaccine
(2) Inactivated vaccine
(3) Conjugate vaccine
(4) DNA vaccine
Question 5: In a Monod model describing microbial growth, the specific growth rate $\mu$ is given by $\mu=\mu \max \mathrm{S} \mathrm{K} \mathrm{s}+\mathrm{S}$ what is the ratio $\mathrm{S} / \mathrm{K}$ ?
GATE 2026 February 7 Shift 1 Question Paper: Life Science (XL)
Question 1: Not a storage polysaccharide?
1. dextron
2. chitin
3. starch
4. Glycogen
Question 2: A compound containing 1 chinal Carbon?
1. Leucine
2. Serine
3. Isoleveine
4. Threonine
GATE 2026 February 7 Shift 1 Question Paper: Engineering Science
Question 1: $\sigma x=-40 \mathrm{MPu} \sigma y=100 \mathrm{MPu} \sigma x y=50 \mathrm{MPu}$
Then radius of Mohrs circle=?
GATE 2026 8 Feb Memory-Based Questions
GATE 2026 CS 1 Memory-Based Question
Question 1: Let M be a Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) with 6 states over Finite Alphabet. Which of the Following can't be No. of states in minimal deterministic Finite Automata. That is Equivalent to m
a) 1
b) 32
c) 65
d) 128
Question 2: Consider the following C statement
Chor * str 1 = "Hello"; // Stmts 1
Char* stor = "Hello;", // stmt S2
Question 3: statement True|False
a) For Grammar to be LL(1) st must be LeFt Factored (T)
b) For Grammar to be LL (I) et must LeFt recusion (F)
c) LL (1) Parsar uses Backtring (F)
d) LL(1) Parser are more powyrul than SLR(1) Parsey (F)
Question 4: $\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}, \mathrm{R}, \mathrm{S}$ be rational schema, Let $\mathrm{X} \rightarrow \mathrm{Y}$ indicates FD in context where $x, y \subseteq P, Q, R, S$
(a) if $\{\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}\} \rightarrow \mathrm{R}$ then $\{\mathrm{P}\} \rightarrow \mathrm{R}$ or $\{\mathrm{Q}\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{R}\}$
(b) if $\{\mathrm{P}\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{R}\} \&\{\mathrm{Q}\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{S}\}$ then $\{\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{R}, \mathrm{S}\}$
(c) if f P$\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{R}\}$ then $\{\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{R}\}$
(d) if $\{\mathrm{P}, \mathrm{Q}\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{R}\}$ and $\{\mathrm{P}\} \rightarrow\{\mathrm{R}\}$ then $\{\mathrm{Q}\} \rightarrow[\mathrm{R}\}$
Question 5: $F(P, Q, R, \delta)=\sum m(1,2,3,4,5,7,10,12,13,14)$
(a) $\mathrm{P}^{-} \mathrm{S}+\mathrm{QR}^{-}+\mathrm{PQS}^{-}+\mathrm{PRS}^{-}$
(b) $P^{-} S+Q R^{-}+P^{-} Q^{-} R+P R S^{-}$
(c) $\mathrm{P}^{-} \mathrm{S}+\mathrm{QR}^{-}+\mathrm{PQS}^{-}+\mathrm{Q}^{-} \mathrm{RJ}$
(d). $P^{-} S+Q R^{-}+P^{-} Q^{-} R+Q^{-} R S^{-}$
Question 6: with respect to TCP connection e/w client and server which of the following is True
a) TCP connection is Half duplex
b) The client and server usewo way Handshaking mechanism
c) Before starting data Transmission client and server can initiate closing connection at the same time
d) The server can not initiate closing of correction monge; the client initiates closing of the connection
GATE 2026 February 8 CS-2 Memory-based questions
Question 1: Subnet mask =255.255.240.
Find the number of Host/subnet
Question 2: $\mathrm{A}=\{1,2, \cdots 10\}$
$$
R=\{(x, y) \mid x \cdot y=k 2 k \rightarrow \text { int }\}
$$
(1) Symmetric
(2) Asymmetric
(3) Transitive
(4) Reflexive
Question 3: How many combinations
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[ABS,S0]0/py=1
Question 4: $F(A, B, C, D)=\sum m(0,1,2,3,8,9,10,11)$. $F$ is
(a). $\mathrm{B}^{-}$
(b) $\mathrm{A}^{-}$
(c). $\mathrm{A}^{-} \mathrm{B}^{-}+\mathrm{AB}$
(d) $\mathrm{A}^{-}+\mathrm{B}^{-}+\mathrm{C}^{-}+\mathrm{D}^{-}$
Question 5: 4 bit, 2's compliment represented numbersare
N1=1011N2=1101N3=1010N4=1001
following remelts in the authernatic overflow
Question 6: Find the decimal value of this hexadecimal representation
(c2710000)16
Question 7: Which one of the following may need to broadcast some of its messages?
a) HTTP
b) FTP
c) SMTP
d) DHCP
Question 8: Which of the following recurrences will give time complexity as theta(m)?
a) T(n)=2T(n/2)+n,T(1)=1
b) T(n)=T(n−1)+1,T(1)=1
c) T(n)=2T(n/2)+1,T(1)=1
d) T(n)=T(n−1)+n,T(1)=1
Question 9: Question on CRC
Msg = 110001011
g(x)=1001
a) 000
b) 101
c) 011
d) 100
Question 10: Which of the Following Grammar is ambiguous
a) $\mathrm{E} \rightarrow \mathrm{E}+\mathrm{E}|\mathrm{E} \star \mathrm{E}|$ id
b) $\mathrm{s} \rightarrow \mathrm{asle}$
c) $\mathrm{s} \rightarrow \mathrm{as}|\mathrm{sa}| \epsilon$
a) s → asble
Question 11: Question from Engineering mathematics
$f(x)=132 \pi e-x 218 x \in(-\infty, \infty)$
