Production Planning and Control GATE ME PYQ Topic Wise

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Production Planning and Control PYQs (previous year questions) for GATE ME: Production Planning and Control (Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering) had 15 questions across the 11 official GATE ME papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 9 of them. Asked in 9 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Scheduling, Forecasting, Project Management.

Year-wise question count

Asked in 9 of 11 years.

Most-asked concepts

Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.

How to practise Production Planning and Control PYQs

1. Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
2. Solve one year’s Production Planning and Control questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
3. Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
4. 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.47 · MCQ · Scheduling: Jobs with critical ratio below one (official answer: A) PDF
• Q.60 · NAT · Forecasting: Exponential smoothing forecast for the third month (official answer: 572) PDF

GATE ME2025

• Q.37 · MCQ · Forecasting: Mean forecast error and mean absolute deviation (official answer: B) PDF

GATE ME2024

• Q.34 · MCQ · Scheduling: Job sequence minimising makespan on two workstations (official answer: Marks to all) PDF

GATE ME2022

• Q.59 · NAT · MRP: Extra units of a component needed from a product structure (official answer: 110) PDF

GATE ME2021

• Q.28 · MCQ · Scheduling: Johnson sequence for two-machine flow shop (official answer: A) PDF
• Q.35 · NAT · Project Management: Probability of PERT project completion in 40 days (official answer: 0.5) PDF

GATE ME2020

• Q.13 · MCQ · MRP: Lot sizing approach for high holding and zero setup cost (official answer: B) PDF
• Q.23 · NAT · Project Management: Slack on an activity in a network (official answer: 2) PDF
• Q.33 · MCQ · Forecasting: Smoothing constant from exponential smoothing data (official answer: A) PDF

GATE ME2019

• Q.17 · MCQ · Forecasting: Three-month moving average forecast (official answer: B) PDF
• Q.55 · NAT · Project Management: Maximum duration of an activity without delaying a project (official answer: 6) PDF

GATE ME2018

• Q.16 · MCQ · Forecasting: Forecasting method giving equal weight to recent data (official answer: A) PDF
• Q.52 · NAT · Scheduling: Average tardiness under the shortest processing time rule (official answer: 6.31–6.35) PDF

GATE ME2017

• Q.52 · NAT · Scheduling: Minimum average flow time for four jobs on one machine (official answer: 31) PDF

Other Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering topics

• Engineering Materials PYQs
• Casting, Forming and Joining PYQs
• Machining and Machine Tools PYQs
• Metrology and Inspection PYQs
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing PYQs
• Inventory Control PYQs
• Operations Research PYQs

FAQ

How many Production Planning and Control questions come in GATE ME?

In the official papers we tagged: 2 in 2026, 1 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 3 in 2020, 2 in 2019, 2 in 2018 and 1 in 2017. Not asked in the other 2 years. That is 15 questions in all, about 9% of Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering.

Which Production Planning and Control topics repeat in GATE ME?

Asked in the most papers: Scheduling, Forecasting, Project Management. 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.