General Aptitude Syllabus for GATE 2020 - Common to All Papers/Branches
GATE General Aptitude Syllabus: Verbal Ability: English grammar, sentence completion, verbal
analogies, word groups, instructions, critical reasoning and verbal deduction.
Numerical
Ability: Numerical computation, numerical estimation, numerical reasoning
and data interpretation.
Sample Questions
Sample Questions
Verbal
Ability
Choose
the appropriate answer to complete the following sentence:
To
those of us who had always thought him timid, his _______________came as a
surprise.
(A) intrepidity (B)
inevitability (C) inability (D) inertness Choose the appropriate answer to
complete the following sentence: Medicine is to illness as law is to
(A) discipline (B)
anarchy (C) treason (D) etiquette
Read
the following paragraph:
“The
ordinary form of mercury thermometer is used for temperature ranging from –40oF to 500oF. For measuring temperature
below –40oF,
thermometers filled with alcohol are used. These are, however, not satisfactory
for use in high temperatures. When a mercury thermometer is used for temperature
above 500oF,
the space above the mercury is filled with some inert gas, usually nitrogen or
carbon dioxide, placed in the thermometer under pressure. As the mercury rises,
the gas pressures is increased, so that it is possible to use these thermometers
for temperatures as high as 1000oF.”
With
what, besides mercury, would a thermometer be filled if it was designed to be
used for measuring temperature of about 500oF?
(A) Pyrometer
(B) Inert gas (C) Iron and brass (D) Gas
The cost of manufacturing tractors
in Korea is twenty percent less than the cost of manufacturing tractors in
Germany. Even after transportation fees and import taxes are added, it is still
cheaper to import tractors from Korea to Germany than to produce tractors in
Germany.
Which
of the following assertions is best supported by the above information?
(A)
Labour
costs in Korea are twenty percent below those in Germany.
(B) Importing
tractors into Germany will eliminate twenty percent of the manufacturing jobs
in Germany.
(C) The costs of transporting a
tractor from Korea to Germany is more than twenty percent of the cost of
manufacturing the tractor in Korea.
(D) The import taxes on a tractor
imported from Korea to Germany is less than twenty percent of the cost of
manufacturing the tractor in Germany.
Numerical
Ability
In a survey, 3/16 of the people surveyed told that they
preferred to use public transport while commuting daily to office. 5/8 of the
people surveyed told that they preferred to use their own vehicles. The
remaining 75 respondents said that they had no clear preference. How many
people preferred to use public transport?
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