GATE Ecology and Evolution (EY)

Your paper has no Engineering Mathematics section. Its mathematics is Section 3, Mathematics and Quantitative Ecology, one of five sections, and it is asked with ecological data. The derivative and the slope of a function are in the borrowed derivatives chapter (its techniques and optimisation go further than your list); basic and conditional probability are in the borrowed Probability and Statistics chapter; the binomial, Poisson and normal distributions are in the GATE Probability and Statistics chapter, whose uniform and exponential distributions you can skip. Two chapters are written for this paper alone, because no shared chapter teaches what they do: simple functions as ecological models and how to read them on log axes, permutations and combinations, probability applied to detection and spatial dispersion, and descriptive statistics with the coefficient of variation and confidence intervals; and study design, hypothesis testing, p-values, Type I and Type II errors, the t and chi-square tests, correlation, linear regression and ANOVA. No integration, differential equations or matrices are named in Section 3. All four discipline sections — Ecology, Evolution, Behavioural Ecology, and Applied Ecology & Evolution — have chapters of their own.

Paper pattern

65 questions
100 marks
180 minutes
Yes negative marking

Mathematics, as this paper sets it

Ecology and Evolution — discipline chapters

Frequently asked questions

Is this GATE Ecology and Evolution material free?

Yes. Every chapter is free to read in English and Hindi. A free account adds scored practice, the full-length EY mock test in the real 65-question pattern, and the AI mentor.

How much of the GATE EY syllabus is covered?

The whole paper: 5 mathematics chapters as this paper's syllabus words them, and 7 chapters across all 4 discipline sections. General Aptitude is shared by every paper.

What is the GATE exam pattern?

65 questions for 100 marks in 180 minutes: General Aptitude for 15 marks and the paper for 85. A wrong MCQ costs a third of its marks; MSQ and NAT questions carry no negative marking.

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