GATE Statistics (ST)

Your paper has no Engineering Mathematics section. Its mathematics is Sections 1 and 2, Calculus and Matrix Theory, asked at the depth of a first course in real analysis and linear algebra rather than as engineering technique. Limits, continuity, derivatives, maxima and minima and definite integrals are in the borrowed limits, derivatives and integration chapters; partial derivatives, saddle points and multiple integrals in the Multivariable Calculus chapter; rank, eigenvalues and Cayley–Hamilton in the Linear Algebra chapter; and rank–nullity, quadratic forms and singular values in the Vector Spaces chapter. Three chapters are written for this paper alone, because no shared chapter teaches what they do at your depth: countable sets, sequences, series and their convergence tests, power series, uniform continuity, Taylor’s theorem and the Riemann and improper integrals; several-variable limits, directional derivatives and the gradient, Taylor’s theorem, Lagrange multipliers and the Jacobian; and subspaces and row reduction, trace, determinant and inverse, inner products and Gram–Schmidt, Hermitian and unitary matrices, similarity, positive semidefinite matrices and the SVD. The Vector Calculus chapter is deliberately left off your list — your syllabus names the gradient and nothing after it. All ten discipline sections — Probability through Regression Analysis — have chapters of their own.

Paper pattern

65 questions
100 marks
180 minutes
Yes negative marking

Mathematics, as this paper sets it

Statistics — discipline chapters

Frequently asked questions

Is this GATE Statistics material free?

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

How much of the GATE ST syllabus is covered?

The whole paper: 9 mathematics chapters as this paper's syllabus words them, and 13 chapters across all 10 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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