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General Aptitude PYQs (previous year questions) for GATE ME: General Aptitude (General Aptitude) had 110 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: Grammar, Spatial Reasoning, Data Interpretation.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 11 of 11 years.
| Year | Questions |
|---|---|
| GATE ME 2026 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2025 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2024 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2023 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2022 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2021 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2020 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2019 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2018 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2017 | 10 |
| GATE ME 2016 | 10 |
Most-asked concepts
Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.
| Concept | Questions | Papers | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grammar | 12 | 10 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016 |
| Spatial Reasoning | 7 | 7 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017 |
| Data Interpretation | 6 | 6 | 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017 |
| Logical Reasoning | 7 | 5 | 2026, 2022, 2019, 2017, 2016 |
| Vocabulary | 7 | 5 | 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Analogy | 4 | 4 | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 |
| Geometry | 4 | 4 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2022 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4 | 4 | 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017 |
| Probability | 4 | 3 | 2025, 2024, 2016 |
| Clocks | 3 | 3 | 2023, 2022, 2019 |
| Inference | 3 | 3 | 2021, 2017, 2016 |
| Mensuration | 3 | 3 | 2022, 2021, 2018 |
| Work and Time | 3 | 3 | 2020, 2018, 2016 |
| Number System | 3 | 2 | 2019, 2018 |
| Averages | 2 | 2 | 2026, 2022 |
| Combinatorics | 2 | 2 | 2024, 2023 |
| Critical Reasoning | 2 | 2 | 2023, 2022 |
| Logarithms | 2 | 2 | 2026, 2018 |
| Logical Puzzle | 2 | 2 | 2026, 2023 |
| Percentages | 2 | 2 | 2020, 2016 |
| Sentence Ordering | 2 | 2 | 2025, 2023 |
| Speed Distance Time | 2 | 2 | 2025, 2022 |
| Syllogism | 2 | 2 | 2022, 2018 |
| Number Series | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Algebra | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blood Relations | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Coding-Decoding | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Coordinate Geometry | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Direction Sense | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Exponents | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Figure Series | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Functions | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Graphs of Functions | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Inequalities | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Number Puzzle | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Pattern Recognition | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Permutations | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Profit and Loss | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Proportionality | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ratio and Proportion | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sentence Completion | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Speed and Distance | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Statistics | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Symbol Operations | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
How to practise General Aptitude PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s General Aptitude 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
- Q.1 · MCQ · Grammar: Pick verb form and preposition for a cricket sentence (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Logarithms: Solve an equation with logs to bases 2 and root 2 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Figure Series: Next figure in a visual sequence (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Logical Reasoning: Statement necessarily true when a universal claim is false (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Logical Reasoning: Which statements about four numbers imply another (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Grammar: Fill articles and connectives in a passage (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Averages: Units of one product sold from average price and ratios (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Geometry: Shortening fraction so a semicircle string becomes a full circle (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Logical Puzzle: Identify the best orator from seating clues (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Spatial Reasoning: Tile pattern that generates a given figure (official answer: B) PDF
GATE ME2025
- Q.1 · MCQ · Analogy: Collective noun analogy for a group of lions (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Grammar: Grammatically correct sentence with a relative clause (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Speed Distance Time: Stopping time of a car so two cars are equidistant (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Functions: Statement about floor and ceiling not always true (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Probability: Chance of winning exactly two of three chess games (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Sentence Ordering: Order four sentences about a gold rush into a paragraph (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Coding-Decoding: Code for a word from two coded examples (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Spatial Reasoning: Figure after reflection and a 90 degree rotation (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Geometry: Shapes ordered by number of lines of symmetry (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Probability: Range of probability of receiving both job offers (official answer: B) PDF
GATE ME2024
- Q.1 · MCQ · Analogy: Word filling a gap in an order of increasing intensity (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Number Series: Odd one out in a set of numbers (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Number Series: Wrong term in a Fibonacci-like sequence (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Algebra: Value of px+qy+rz from equal ratios (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Probability: Chance that two long dice sum above 11 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Grammar: Fill four blanks contrasting two professors (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Combinatorics: Count nested non-null subset triples of a 3-element set (official answer: Marks to all) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Data Interpretation: True statement from a bar chart of batting averages (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Spatial Reasoning: Folds needed to turn a paper net into a 3D object (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Geometry: Angle between faces of a regular tetrahedron (official answer: Marks to all) PDF
GATE ME2023
- Q.1 · MCQ · Grammar: Pick the verb form that completes a causative sentence (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Analogy: Word analogy pairing planting and seed with raising (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Data Interpretation: Share of institutions in Grade III from two pie charts (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Clocks: Crossings of minute and second hands in a 30-minute window (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Logical Puzzle: Missing symbol in a Sudoku-style 4x4 grid (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Critical Reasoning: Statement that follows with certainty about Ravi and friends (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Inequalities: Sum of positive integers satisfying two inequalities (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Sentence Ordering: Order four sentences into a coherent narrative (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Combinatorics: Count of set pairs (S,T) with S a subset of T (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Spatial Reasoning: Shadow shape a suspended pyramid cannot cast (official answer: B) PDF
GATE ME2022
- Q.1 · MCQ · Grammar: Fill two blanks with the right forms of too/two (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Averages: Salary of one person as a percentage of another from group averages (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Speed Distance Time: Share of distance covered at the slower of two speeds (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Logical Reasoning: Which person studies the hardest pair of languages from rankings (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Spatial Reasoning: View of a stacked 3D block seen from the arrow direction (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Critical Reasoning: Valid inference from a lost-wallet return study (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Geometry: Largest circle inside rhombus formed by midpoints of a unit square (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Mensuration: Perimeter ratio of triangle, square and circle with equal areas (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Syllogism: Conclusions that follow from statements about teachers and males (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Clocks: Times all three clock hands coincide over 12 hours (official answer: Marks to all) PDF
GATE ME2021
- Q.1 · MCQ · Grammar: Grammatically correct placements of hardly and barely (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Direction Sense: Direction a building faces from a morning shadow (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Mensuration: Area of a circle from a right triangle at its centre (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Symbol Operations: Evaluate an expression with substituted operators (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Inference: Logical inference about leafy vegetables and lifestyle (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Benefits of a symbiotic relationship in a passage (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Spatial Reasoning: Missing jigsaw piece that completes a rectangle (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Ratio and Proportion: New animal ratio after combining two farms (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Data Interpretation: Management degree holders from a pie chart and ratios (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Permutations: Seating arrangements with adjacency constraints (official answer: D) PDF
GATE ME2020
- Q.1 · MCQ · Grammar: Choose correct prepositions after agree (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Vocabulary: Verb that fits improving production output (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Analogy: Complete a word-form analogy (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Vocabulary: Word meaning that does not match its use in a passage (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Percentages: Final price after successive 25% markups in a supply chain (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Assertion supported by a passage on climate terms (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Pattern Recognition: Missing letter in a star-shaped figure (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Work and Time: Extra days needed after some workers leave (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Proportionality: False statement about variables in a linear plot (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Data Interpretation: Ratio of boys in two streams from pie charts (official answer: D) PDF
GATE ME2019
- Q.1 · MCQ · Grammar: Choose the correct article and adjective for a writer (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Grammar: Complete a conditional sentence with a question tag (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Clocks: Time spent given the hour hand moved 225 degrees (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Number System: Difference of two integers from their sum and product (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Vocabulary: Word for avoiding mention of an issue (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Logical Reasoning: Statement that forces a judge to free a prisoner (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Profit and Loss: Ratio of investments from interchanged profit rates (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Inference about the naming of Congo and Zaire (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Data Interpretation: Employees at a skill level in 2016 from a pie chart (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Blood Relations: Statement that must be false about a family (official answer: D) PDF
GATE ME2018
- Q.1 · MCQ · Vocabulary: Choose the correct pair of confusable words (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Vocabulary: Word that should not be confused with miserliness (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Work and Time: Time for 100 machines to make 100 toys (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Mensuration: Area of a rectangle that becomes a square after reductions (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Number System: Two-digit number whose digits swap when 45 is subtracted (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Logarithms: Minimum and maximum of a+b+c given a log condition (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Number System: Parity of integers given an expression is odd (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Speed and Distance: Lengths of a train and platform from passing times (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Graphs of Functions: Identify the function matching a given graph (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Syllogism: Valid inference from statements about roses (official answer: C) PDF
GATE ME2017
- Q.56 · MCQ · Grammar: Fill blanks with correct noun and adverb forms (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.57 · MCQ · Vocabulary: Word to describe a debate between agitated speakers (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.58 · MCQ · Spatial Reasoning: Angle a cone rolls through about its apex (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.59 · MCQ · Statistics: Median salary of a company with grouped salaries (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.60 · MCQ · Logical Reasoning: Number of cars when only one of three statements is true (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.61 · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Most accurate statement about a historical paragraph (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.62 · MCQ · Number Puzzle: Sum of missing digits in a subtraction (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.63 · MCQ · Coordinate Geometry: Area of the union of two regions given by inequalities (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.64 · MCQ · Inference: Inference from a conversation about sportsmen brothers (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.65 · MCQ · Data Interpretation: Statements about bacterial growth curves at two temperatures (official answer: A) PDF
GATE ME2016
- Q.1 · MCQ · Grammar: Choose the grammatically correct phrase about a highest peak (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 · MCQ · Vocabulary: Choose the correct word in a question to a theft victim (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.3 · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Fill two blanks about a new diabetes medicine (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.4 · MCQ · Percentages: Count apples in a pile given ripe/unripe percentages (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.5 · MCQ · Logical Reasoning: Possible distance to a friend living between two others (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.6 · MCQ · Probability: Percentage infected but without disease symptoms (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.7 · MCQ · Inference: Valid inferences from a passage about friends reciprocating (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.8 · MCQ · Logical Reasoning: Which statement must be true about ages and chess wins (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.9 · MCQ · Exponents: Value of abc from three exponential relations (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.10 · MCQ · Work and Time: Ratio of work done by two workers after 7 days (official answer: C) PDF
General Aptitude in other exams
The same topic in other official papers we tagged: GATE EE (110 questions).
Other General Aptitude topics
FAQ
How many General Aptitude questions come in GATE ME?
In the official papers we tagged: 10 in 2026, 10 in 2025, 10 in 2024, 10 in 2023, 10 in 2022, 10 in 2021, 10 in 2020, 10 in 2019, 10 in 2018, 10 in 2017 and 10 in 2016. That is 110 questions in all, about 100% of General Aptitude.
Which General Aptitude topics repeat in GATE ME?
Asked in the most papers: Grammar, Spatial Reasoning, Data Interpretation. 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.