The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering is popularly known as GATE. There are only Multiple Choice Questions in the paper. All the questions have four alternative answers but only one of them is correct. You have to darken the circle corresponding to your answer on the OMR sheet. For every wrong answer 25% of the marks of the question are deducted as penalty. The pattern of the questions is given below.
The paper is of a total of 150 marks. The questions are divided in the following groups.
The first group consists of questions 1 to 20. All of them carry 1 mark each. Thus this group carries 20 marks.
The second group consists of questions 21 to 75, carrying 2 marks each. These 55 questions carry 110n marks.
Question numbers 76 to 85 are also 2 marks questions. The sub total is 20 marks. The questions in this group are known as linked answer type of questions. So there are five pairs of linked answer type questions. The second question has its answer dependent on the first answer. The evaluation of the second question also depends on the correctness of the first answer. Negative marking is not there for these questions.
Questions 76 to 85 also carry 2 marks each and the sub total is 20 marks. These questions are the linked answer type questions. There are five pairs of questions in this group. The answer of the second answer of the pair depends on that of the first question. If the first question of the pair is answered incorrectly the next question will not be evaluated. There is no negative marking for the linked questions.
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