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GATE 2026 Paper Analysis for ES by The APSEd Academy: Candidates can check the GATE 2026 Paper Analysis for ES by APESc Academy on this page after the conclusion of the exam. APSEd will prepare the exam analysis for GATE 2026 based on the students' reactions. The GATE 2026 Paper analysis for ES by APSEd experts contains observations on question trends, difficulty, topic-wise weightage, and anticipated cutoffs. The analysis will also provide useful forecasts for the session to guide the candidates in finalizing their preparation strategies for the GATE exam.
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The exam was conducted for a total of 30 subjects across various engineering disciplines.
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GATE 2026 Environmental Science and Engineering Paper Analysis by APSEd
GATE 2026 Environmental Science and Engineering will be conducted online by IIT Guwahati. If you are an environmental enthusiast aiming for a career in this field, this paper can provide significant opportunities. Students had mixed opinions on the difficulty level of the paper; however, there were no major surprises, and the questions aligned with initial expectations.
The authorities analysed the GATE ES 2024 paper, which was conducted in February 2024. The key highlights of the GATE 2024 ES analysis have been released.
APSEd has analysed the GATE 2021 paper. The key highlights of the ES papers are as follows:
GATE 2021 ES paper being introduced, the only source of information we had to access beforehand were the ES syllabus and sample paper. Overall, the paper was moderate, neither too tough nor too easy.
The paper had more conceptual questions rather than memory-based questions. A clear understanding of topics was required to attempt the questions. There were a few tricky questions as well.
The GATE ES paper had about 10-12 MSQs.
Aptitude and Mathematics turned out to be easy and direct questions were asked from these subjects.
There was a good emphasis on NATs with 12-15 questions asked, especially from subjects like Solid Waste Management, Water & Waste Water Engineering and Environmental hydraulics.

The questions were divided among all subjects, almost in line with the Environmental Science sample paper subject weightage
Solid and hazardous waste management carried the maximum weightage in the paper out of all the ES subjects. Water & Waste Water Treatment and Management was next to this, in the paper around 8 questions were asked from the same.

Global and regional environmental issues, Environmental Chemistry carried the least weightage in the paper.
APSEd will release the answer key as soon as the response sheet is out by IIT Bombay Officials in the 3rd week of February.
Based on the paper analysis, and the previous year new GATE papers introduced, experts at APSEd have predicted the cut-off for GATE Civil Engineering 2026.
In recent years when they introduced some new papers in GATE, their cutoff went pretty high, as high as 35. These papers' cutoff (having fewer candidates) is very volatile, so it is difficult to predict. It goes 35 in one year and 25 in the next year. This was probably due to fewer candidates appealing for the paper or easy level of the papers.
This GATE ES paper had around 15000 candidates, so we compared the paper with GATE Physics, Chemistry and Instrumentation, which had around the same number of candidates. The OC cut-off may swing around 30.
Coming to the rank part, a paper that has fewer candidates generally gives you a very good rank with a comparatively low score. Talking about GATE Physics, a 70+ mark would give you a top 100 rank, and a 60+ in GATE Chemistry would give you a top 100 rank. In these papers, just 40+ marks give you a top 1000 rank. The GATE ES paper is comparable to these papers.
Disclaimer: The highlights, paper analysis, subject weightage, and expected cutoff are memory-based and based on students who will appear for GATE 2026 ES.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Yes, candidates can check the official GATE 2026 questions papers on the official website.
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