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Exam pattern

GATE XH paper pattern

GATE Humanities and Social Sciences

  • 65 questions
  • 100 marks
  • 180 minutes
  • a wrong MCQ costs a third of its marks, a wrong MSQ or NAT nothing
  • General Aptitude — 15 marks10 Qs
  • Humanities and Social Sciences — 85 marks55 Qs

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  • Chapters in English and Hindi53 chapters on the official syllabus, each ending in a quiz that explains every answer.
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From the chapter: Reading Comprehension: Main Point, Inference, Tone and the Structure of a Passage

“Every book returned after its due date carries a fine. Rohan returned a library book last week and it carried no fine.” Which statement is best supported?

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Answer: B.

A book returned after its due date carries a fine, so a book that carried no fine was not returned after its due date. That does not make it early: handing it back on the due date itself also incurs no fine, so ‘before’ goes beyond what is forced. One book says nothing about what Rohan always does, and nothing is said about other readers.

Syllabus

GATE XH syllabus, section by section

Open a section to see its chapters. General Aptitude’s first chapter is free.

General AptitudeFree chapter3 chapters
  1. Verbal Aptitude — Grammar, Usage, Vocabulary and ComprehensionFree
  2. Quantitative Aptitude — Ratios, Powers, Mensuration, Statistics and Data
  3. Analytical Aptitude — Number Relations, Analogy, Deduction and Induction
Reading Comprehension (XH0 Reasoning and Comprehension)1 chapter
  1. Reading Comprehension: Main Point, Inference, Tone and the Structure of a Passage
Expression (XH0 Reasoning and Comprehension)1 chapter
  1. Expression: Revising Sentences for Economy, Clarity, Coherence and Tone
Analytical Reasoning (XH0 Reasoning and Comprehension)1 chapter
  1. Analytical Reasoning: Relationships, Deductions and Drawing Valid Conclusions
Logical Reasoning (XH0 Reasoning and Comprehension)1 chapter
  1. Logical Reasoning: Evaluating Arguments, Assumptions, Flaws and Predicting Outcomes
Microeconomics (XH1 Economics)1 chapter
  1. Microeconomics: Consumer Theory, Production, Markets, Games and Welfare
Macroeconomics (XH1 Economics)1 chapter
  1. Macroeconomics: Income, Consumption, Investment, Money, Inflation and IS–LM
Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (XH1 Economics)1 chapter
  1. Statistics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics
International Economics (XH1 Economics)1 chapter
  1. International Economics: Trade, Policy, Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates
Public Economics (XH1 Economics)1 chapter
  1. Public Economics: Market Failure, Taxation, the Budget and Project Appraisal
Development Economics (XH1 Economics)1 chapter
  1. Development Economics: Theories, Indicators, Poverty and Growth Models
Indian Economy (XH1 Economics)1 chapter
  1. The Indian Economy: Growth, Sectors, Money, the Budget and the External Sector
Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression (XH2 English)1 chapter
  1. Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression
History of English Literature and Literary Studies (XH2 English)1 chapter
  1. History of English Literature and Literary Studies
Comparative and World Literatures in English Translation (XH2 English)1 chapter
  1. Comparative and World Literatures in English Translation
Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions (XH2 English)2 chapters
  1. Western Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Fields: Structuralism to Posthumanism
  2. Indian Literary and Aesthetic Traditions: Rasa, Dhvani and the Schools of Sanskrit Poetics
Contemporary Literary Cultures and Research Methodologies (XH2 English)1 chapter
  1. Contemporary Literary Cultures and Research Methodologies: Prizes, Festivals, Methods and Integrity
Language and Linguistics: Fundamental Concepts (XH3 Linguistics)1 chapter
  1. Language and Linguistics: Nature, Design, Competence and the History of the Field
Levels of Grammatical Analysis (XH3 Linguistics)2 chapters
  1. Sounds and Words: Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology
  2. Sentences and Meaning: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
Historical Linguistics: Language Change (XH3 Linguistics)1 chapter
  1. Historical Linguistics: Sound Laws, Grammaticalization, Reconstruction and Contact
Sociolinguistics: Language and Society (XH3 Linguistics)1 chapter
  1. Sociolinguistics: Variation, Pidgins and Creoles, Multilingualism and Language Policy
Typology and Universals: Language Classification (XH3 Linguistics)1 chapter
  1. Typology and Universals: Structural Types, Greenberg, South Asian Families and Language Law
Methods of Analysis (XH3 Linguistics)1 chapter
  1. Methods of Analysis: Data Collection, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Ethics and Corpora
Applied Linguistics (XH3 Linguistics)1 chapter
  1. Applied Linguistics: Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Clinical Linguistics
Classical Indian Philosophy (XH4 Philosophy)2 chapters
  1. The Six Orthodox Systems: Sānkhya, Yoga, Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta
  2. Heterodox Systems, the Upaniṣads and Gītā, and the Theistic Schools
Contemporary Indian Philosophy (XH4 Philosophy)1 chapter
  1. Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Ten Thinkers and Their Key Ideas
Classical and Modern Western Philosophy (XH4 Philosophy)2 chapters
  1. Western Metaphysics and Epistemology: From the Pre-Socratics to the Gettier Problem
  2. Western Ethics, Social-Political Philosophy and Logic
Contemporary Western Philosophy (XH4 Philosophy)1 chapter
  1. Contemporary Western Philosophy: Analytic Thought, Phenomenology, Existentialism and Pragmatism
Research Methods and Statistics (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
Psychometrics (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Psychometrics: Measurement, Test Construction and Standardization
Biological and Evolutionary Basis of Behaviour (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Biological and Evolutionary Basis of Behaviour
Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Perception, Learning, Memory and Forgetting
Cognition: Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making and Intelligence (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Cognition: Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making and Intelligence
Personality: Theories, Biology and Assessment (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Personality: Theories, Biology and Assessment
Motivation, Emotion and Stress and Coping (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Motivation, Emotion, Stress and Coping
Social Psychology (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Social Psychology: Perception, Influence, Attitudes and Groups
Development Across the Life Span (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Development Across the Life Span
Clinical Psychology and Organizational Behavior (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Clinical Psychology and Organizational Behaviour: Disorders, Assessment, Psychotherapies, Culture, Decisions and Leadership
Applications of Psychology (XH5 Psychology)1 chapter
  1. Applications of Psychology: School, Counselling, Organizations, Environment and Mental-Health Intervention
Sociological Theory (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Sociological Theory: Classical, Functionalist, Interpretive, Contemporary and Indian Traditions
Research Methodology and Methods (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Research Methodology and Methods: Philosophy of Science, Design, Methods and Techniques
Sociological Concepts (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Sociological Concepts: Structure and Culture, Institutions, Stratification and Social Change
Agrarian Sociology and Rural Transformation (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Section XH6.4: Agrarian Sociology and Rural Transformation
Family, Marriage and Kinship; Theoretical Approaches (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Section XH6.5: Family, Marriage and Kinship; Theoretical Approaches
Indian Society / Sociology of India (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Section XH6.6: Indian Society / Sociology of India
Social Movements (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Social Movements: Nature, Types, Theories, Indian Movements and Citizenship
Sociology of Development (XH6 Sociology)1 chapter
  1. Sociology of Development: Perspectives, Dependency and World Systems, Micro-Politics and Critique

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What does the GATE Humanities and Social Sciences course cost?

The first chapter of the GATE course is free. Every chapter of this paper, in English and Hindi, unlocks with the GATE plan — ₹29 a month, less than ₹1 a day, cancel anytime — with scored practice and the full-length XH mock test in the real 65-question pattern. Premium adds the AI mentor.

How much of the GATE XH syllabus is covered?

The whole paper: 50 chapters across all 46 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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