GATE Mathematics (MA)

Your paper is mathematics from end to end and has no Engineering Mathematics section: its eleven sections — Calculus, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations, Algebra, Functional Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Topology and Linear Programming — are all its discipline, and every one has chapters written for this paper alone. The shared Engineering Mathematics chapters are written for the engineering papers and stop well short of MA’s depth, so none of them is on your list, not even the calculus ones: the MA Calculus chapter adds the continuity and differentiability counterexamples, Lagrange’s multipliers, surface area and the hypotheses of Green, Stokes and Gauss. Real Analysis takes three chapters (metric spaces; sequences and series of functions with the inverse and implicit function theorems; Lebesgue measure and Lp spaces), and Linear Algebra, Complex Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations and Algebra take two each. Expect “which of these is true” MSQs: every chapter pairs its theorems with the counterexamples that break them.

Paper pattern

65 questions
100 marks
180 minutes
Yes negative marking

Mathematics — discipline chapters

Frequently asked questions

Is this GATE Mathematics material free?

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

How much of the GATE MA syllabus is covered?

The whole paper: 17 chapters across all 11 of its 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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