Home › Mock tests › GATE
Waitlist — not open yetGATE mock tests that know a NAT is not an MCQ
Three question types, three different marking rules, and one of them punishes a guess while another does not. Most candidates never work out what that means for how they should sit the paper.
- One email when it opens
- No drip sequence
- Leave any time
Next up: a short set built from the two weak areas, then the same material again in a fortnight to check it held.
Illustration. Your report is built from your own answers.
Being straight with you: GATE tests are not built yet. Joining the waitlist gets you one email the day they open — nothing else, and you can leave at any time. Everything described on this page is how the product already works for JEE Main, which you can try free today.
GATE is a strategy exam wearing an engineering costume
Two candidates with identical knowledge can finish fifteen marks apart, purely on how they handled the question types and the clock. Leaving NATs blank because “there is negative marking” is the single most common way to give away free marks in this paper.
The engine tracks accuracy and time by question type, so the report tells you not only which topics are weak but whether your problem is knowledge or handling. Those need different fixes, and only one of them takes months.
What GATE actually looks like
The structure our GATE papers will follow.
65 questions, 100 marks
Three hours, computer-based, in your chosen paper. General Aptitude is common and carries 15 of the 100 marks.
Three question types
Multiple choice with one answer, multiple select with more than one, and numerical answer type where you enter a value with no options at all.
Negative marking on MCQs only
One third of a mark off a 1-mark MCQ and two thirds off a 2-mark one. MSQs and NATs carry no penalty — which changes when a guess is worth making and when it is free.
Checked September 2026 against the published GATE pattern. The organising IIT publishes the definitive information brochure each year — confirm it there. TestGuru is not affiliated with the IITs or IISc.
What you get either way
The same engine sits behind every exam we support.
The test adapts to you
Questions are chosen against what you have already shown you can and cannot do, so your three hours go where the uncertainty actually is.
Every error gets a cause
Not "Q14 wrong". The report names the idea behind the mistake and counts how often it has cost you marks before.
Practice built from your gaps
After each test you get a short set assembled from your own errors, not a generic sequence someone wrote for everyone.
Re-tested later, unannounced
The material you got wrong comes back weeks later, so you find out whether the fix held under time pressure.