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Casting, Forming and Joining PYQs (previous year questions) for GATE ME: Casting, Forming and Joining (Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering) had 42 questions across the 11 official GATE ME papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 11 of them. Asked in 11 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Welding, Casting, Rolling.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 11 of 11 years.
| Year | Questions |
|---|---|
| GATE ME 2026 | 2 |
| GATE ME 2025 | 7 |
| GATE ME 2024 | 6 |
| GATE ME 2023 | 2 |
| GATE ME 2022 | 2 |
| GATE ME 2021 | 3 |
| GATE ME 2020 | 3 |
| GATE ME 2019 | 4 |
| GATE ME 2018 | 4 |
| GATE ME 2017 | 4 |
| GATE ME 2016 | 5 |
Most-asked concepts
Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.
| Concept | Questions | Papers | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welding | 9 | 7 | 2025, 2024, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016 |
| Casting | 5 | 4 | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021 |
| Gating System | 4 | 4 | 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016 |
| Rolling | 4 | 4 | 2025, 2022, 2021, 2016 |
| Forging | 3 | 3 | 2020, 2019, 2018 |
| Solidification | 3 | 3 | 2025, 2024, 2016 |
| Sheet Metal Forming | 3 | 2 | 2026, 2024 |
| Casting Defects | 2 | 2 | 2026, 2019 |
| Wire Drawing | 2 | 2 | 2025, 2018 |
| Arc Welding | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Deep Drawing | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Joining Processes | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Resistance Welding | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Riser Design | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Sheet Metal | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Yield Criteria | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
How to practise Casting, Forming and Joining PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s Casting, Forming and Joining questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
- Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
- Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.
Questions by year
Each line gives the question number, type, concept, our one-line summary and the official answer, with a link to the official PDF.
GATE ME2026
GATE ME2025
- Q.21 · MCQ · Welding: Welding process used for tailor-welded blanks (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.33 · NAT · Welding: Power density in an annular heated region (official answer: 9.92–9.98) PDF
- Q.34 · NAT · Casting: Cube edge after solidification and solid shrinkage (official answer: 189.8–190.0) PDF
- Q.38 · MCQ · Casting: Match mould elements with their functions (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.39 · MCQ · Wire Drawing: Maximum reduction per pass in ideal wire drawing (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.41 · MCQ · Rolling: Feasibility and maximum draft for a rolling pass (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.62 · NAT · Solidification: Solidification time ratio of a cube and a cylinder (official answer: 0.83–0.87) PDF
GATE ME2024
- Q.29 · MCQ · Sheet Metal Forming: Process associated with earing defect (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.31 · MCQ · Casting: Pattern allowance for easy withdrawal from sand mould (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.32 · MCQ · Welding: Suitable electrode for GMAW of low alloy steel (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.61 · NAT · Solidification: Solidification time ratio of a cube and a sphere casting (official answer: 1) PDF
- Q.62 · NAT · Sheet Metal Forming: Punch size for blanking a disc with clearance allowance (official answer: 19.84–19.92) PDF
- Q.63 · NAT · Welding: Percentage heat lost in an arc welding process (official answer: Marks to all) PDF
GATE ME2023
GATE ME2022
GATE ME2021
- Q.36 · NAT · Casting: Rotational speed for true centrifugal casting (official answer: 660–664) PDF
- Q.37 · NAT · Resistance Welding: Thermal efficiency of resistance spot welding (official answer: 30–36) PDF
- Q.40 · NAT · Rolling: Roll force in flat rolling with strain hardening (official answer: 775–784) PDF
GATE ME2020
GATE ME2019
- Q.13 · MCQ · Gating System: Name of the vertical channel in a gating system (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.14 · MCQ · Welding: Welding method with the highest heat flux (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.34 · MCQ · Forging: Stress component in plane-strain forging by Tresca (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.37 · MCQ · Casting Defects: Match sand casting defects with causes (official answer: D) PDF
GATE ME2018
- Q.12 · MCQ · Welding: Identify the weld type from a figure (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.35 · MCQ · Wire Drawing: Maximum area reduction per pass for a perfectly plastic material (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.36 · NAT · Sheet Metal: Percentage scrap in blanking from a continuous strip (official answer: 52.00–54.00) PDF
- Q.50 · NAT · Forging: True strain when a bar is compressed to half length (official answer: 0.69–0.70) PDF
GATE ME2017
- Q.21 · NAT · Yield Criteria: Yield stress by von Mises for given principal stresses (official answer: 245–246) PDF
- Q.23 · MCQ · Arc Welding: Effect of doubling welding speed on bead area (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.48 · NAT · Deep Drawing: Blank diameter for drawing a cylindrical cup (official answer: 28.71–28.73) PDF
- Q.54 · NAT · Gating System: Velocity of molten metal at the bottom of a sprue (official answer: 2.04–2.07) PDF
GATE ME2016
- Q.21 · MCQ · Welding: Order of temperatures in welding, brazing and soldering (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.22 · MCQ · Gating System: Gating element that controls pouring rate (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.49 · NAT · Solidification: Latent heat of fusion from a cooling curve (official answer: 49.9–50.1) PDF
- Q.51 · MCQ · Riser Design: Riser height by modulus method for a cylindrical casting (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.52 · NAT · Rolling: Maximum possible reduction in cold rolling (official answer: 1.90–1.94) PDF
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FAQ
How many Casting, Forming and Joining questions come in GATE ME?
In the official papers we tagged: 2 in 2026, 7 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 3 in 2020, 4 in 2019, 4 in 2018, 4 in 2017 and 5 in 2016. That is 42 questions in all, about 26% of Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering.
Which Casting, Forming and Joining topics repeat in GATE ME?
Asked in the most papers: Welding, Casting, Rolling. The concept table lists every one with its count.
Are these official GATE ME questions?
Yes. Every question is from an official GATE ME paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.