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GATE 2021 CY Question Paper with Answer Key PDFs (Feb 6, Forenoon Session)

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GATE 2021 CY Question Paper and Answer Key can be downloaded from here. More than 23500 students took GATE 2021 CY. This year IIT Bombay conducted GATE 2021. GATE 2021 CY exam took place on February 6, 2021 in the forenoon session (9:30 AM to 12:30 PM). As per the students, the difficulty level of the exam lies between easy to moderate. The number of General Aptitude questions remained the same in GATE 2021 CY.

Students aiming for GATE next year can download the previous year GATE question papers and answer key PDFs to check their preparation level.

GATE 2021 CY Question Paper with Answer Key PDFs- Feb 6 (Forenoon Session)

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GATE 2021 CY: Paper Analysis

The question paper was full of easy questions. General Aptitude and Inorganic Chemistry questions were quite easy to attempt.

The below-mentioned table shows No. of questions asked as per the topics-

Sections No. Of Question Asked Asked Topics
Inorganic Chemistry 3-4 Base Hydrolysis, A question on Chemical Bonding - CLF3 XeoF2
Physical Spectra 2-3 Pericycle
Thermodynamics 2-3 -
Electrochemistry 2-3 Faraday First Law
Solutions 2 (Numerical Questions) -
Quantum 2 Acceptable Wave Function, De Broglie Wavelength
Chemical Equilibrium 2 Coordination, Reagent, Chemical Bonding, Geometry
F-Block 1 -
  • 40-50 attempted questions would be considered a good attempting rate
  • Reagent holds the maximum weightage in the paper
  • Questions from Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry considered the easiest questions to attempt
  • Questions appeared from Quantum section were the most difficult questions to attempt
  • Not even a single question asked from solid-state section

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GATE 2021 CY: Exam Pattern and Marking Scheme

The conducting authorities had MSQs from the year 2021. MSQs comes with one or more than one correct answers. A student had to choose all the correct answers to solve MSQs correctly. Likewise, NATs no marks would be deducted if students attempt wrong or incorrect MSQs. MSQs, MCQs and NATs constituted the GATE 2021 CY. Each question holds either 1 or 2 marks. There were a total of 65 questions holding 100 marks.

  • Candidates will have to pay penalty of ⅓ and ⅔ marks for every wrong question carried 1 and 2 marks
  • Marks would be deducted only for the incorrect MCQs
  • The cutoff for 2021 goes up to 36.2, 32.5, and 24.1 for General, OBC, and SC/ST candidates

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