Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) successfully conducted the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) for Mechanical Engineering ME branch on 3rd February 2018. A huge number of candidates applied and appeared for the exam across various examination centers. All the candidates who had written the GATE 2018 ME exam would like to check the section wise review & analysis, topics which had covered in the exam for both morning & Evening shifts. You are on the right page. Check GATE 2018 3rd Feb Review, Exam analysis here.

GATE 2018 ME Review & Exam Analysis:

GATE exam is conducted every year as a gateway to postgraduate courses at the Masters and Doctoral level across the country. The score is also used by some Public and Private Sector Undertakings for employment processes. Direct recruitment to Group A level posts i.e., Senior Field Office (SFO Tele), Senior Research Officer (SRO) (Crypto) and SRO(S&T) in Cabinet Secretariat is now being done on the basis of GATE scores. It primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of the candidates in various undergraduate subjects in Engineering/Technology/Architecture and post-graduate level subjects in Science.

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) jointly administer the conduct of GATE. The operations related to GATE in each of the 8 zones are managed by a zonal GATE Office at the IITs or IISc. The Organizing Institute (OI) is responsible for the end-to-end process and coordination amongst the administering Institutes. The Organizing Institute for GATE 2018 is Indian Institute of Science. This year it has released the notification and the candidates who had appeared for the GATE Mechanical exam can check Review & Section wise analysis here.

GATE 2018 Mechanical ME Morning Shift Analysis:

Exam Pattern:

The GATE 2018 consists of 65 questions for 100 marks. The exam paper consists of General Aptitude, Engineering Mathematics & Mechanical Engineering section. The duration of the exam is 3 hours. There will be both Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions & Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). For 1-mark MCQs, 1/3 mark will be deducted for every incorrect attempt and 2-mark MCQs, the candidate will be penalized 2/3 mark for the wrong attempt. Also, questions that aren’t attempted, zero marks will be awarded and there will be no negative marking for numerical answer type (NAT) questions.

The paper includes General Aptitude (GA) section comprising 10 questions. 5 of these questions will carry 1-mark each, while the remaining 5 will each carry 2 marks, for a total of 15 marks.

GATE 2018 Session 1 (Morning) ME Review & Analysis:

Strength of Materials (SOM): (Easy) 10 Marks

Poisson’s Ratio, Columns

1 Mark Questions 4
2 Marks Questions 3

Mechanical Precision Engineering: (Moderate) 17 Marks

Slab Milling, non-traditional machining, Casting, Welding

1 Mark – 5
2 Marks 6

Theory of Machines (TOM) and Vibration (Moderate) 9 Marks

Natural Frequency, Dynamics of Slider Crank Mechanism, Epicyclic Gear Trains

1 Mark – 1
2 Marks 4

Heat & Mass Transfer (Easy To Moderate) 5 Marks

Conduction, Heat Exchanger

1 Mark – 1
2 Marks 3

Fluid Mechanics (Moderate) 10 Marks

Flow through Pipes, Kinematics

1 Mark – 4
2 Marks 2

Engineering Mechanics (Difficult) 5 Marks

1 Marks 1
2 Marks 2

General Aptitude (Moderate to Difficult) 15 Marks

Family Relations, Grammar, Inference, Co-ordinate Geometry

1 Mark – 5
2 Marks 5

Machine Design (Moderate) 4 Marks

S-N Curve, Theories of Failure

1 Marks 2
2 Marks 1

Industrial Engineering (Moderate) 4 Marks

Scheduling

2 Marks 2

Engineering Mathematics (Moderate) 14 Marks

Differential Equations, Probability, Rank of the Matrix, Eigen Values

1 Marks 5
2 Marks 2

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GATE 2018 ME Afternoon Session (Slot 2) Review & Analysis:

GATE ME Exam Analysis 2018 & Questions Asked – 2nd Shift

General Aptitude:

The GATE ME Exam Analysis 2018 & Question Asked from general aptitude part are as follow:

1. 1 Qs based on fill in the blank on Complement & compliment.
2. BC, FGH, LMNO,         .Find the missing term of the series.
3. 6 unbiased coins were tossed 6 times in a row. 4 Trials were done. Probability was asked in 4th trial?
4. Circle, square & equilateral triangle have same perimeter. Which will have maximum area?
5. A wire was bent in a square of area 1936 m². The wire is cut into two pieces such that longer wire is thrice of shorter. Now, shorter wire is bent on a circle & longer in a square. Find teh total area?
6. Find the house number. The following statements were given:
   i) If house number is multiple of 3, then the number lies between 50 & 59.
   ii) If house number is not a multiple of 6, then the number lies between 70 to 79.
7. A work is to be done in 52 days by 125 robots working 7 hours per day. After 39 days 5/7th of work was completed. How many additional robots will be required to complete the work in scheduled time, if robots are working 8 hours per day?
8. 40 Students watching films namely A, B & C. Either they watch one film or all three. 13 Students watch film A, 16 Students watch film B & 19 Students watch film C. What is the number of students who watch all three movies?

Technical Section :

The technical part was Moderate to difficult level with around 45-50% numerical questions. Here are the GATE ME Exam Analysis 2018 & list of questions asked in 2nd Shift of GATE Mechanical exam.

Qs on modified Goodman’s criteria for combined steady and fluctuating load.

Find the work done from a given P-V diagram.

In a piston cylinder, arrangement with massive piston. Find the value of temperature so that piston will just start to move. The pressure & temperature values outside and inside the cylinder was given.

Heat flux for a slab in which both side there are perfect black surface are given.

Heat transfer in the condenser where heat transfer & area was given.

Compression ratio of Otto cycle when specific fuel consumption and caloric value of flue was given.

Find the work input to compressor when the P-N Diagram and isotropic efficiency of compressor was given.

Find specific humidity, when relative humidity was given.

50%reaction turbine means?

Entropy of Ideal gas formula.

Find Euler’s Bucking load for both pinned column.

 

1 Qs on random variable function.

1 Qs on random variable function.

Find the value of T_P and T₈ in the diagram shown below?

E₅= 210 GPa, E_A9= 70 GPa. If there is axial strain of 10^-6 in steel and compressive strain of 10^-6 in Aluminium. Find the value of P?

In a thin cylinder pressure vessel, value of mean radius and thickness was given and the axial tensile stress was applied. Find the value of internal pressure for a condition that longitudinal and circumferential stress are same.

Find the linear acceleration for a roller have a force acting at center and subjected to rolling without slipping.

Find the distance travelled by a ball in the slanted for a frictionless motion.

Find the value of V in the shown diagram below?

Find the determinant of A^-1 when the determinant of A was given?

In Casting, a numerical on solidification time for a rectangular box was asked.

Feed formula for slab milling.

In EDM, material is removed by                ?

Match teh following for production processes.
i) Tooth Paste                          a) Tube
ii) Metallic                                b) Pipe
iii) Threaded                            c) Bolt

For unsymmetrical object in a center lathe, which type of tool will be used?

Economic order quantity numerical.

A numerical on waiting line theory was asked.

Problem on maximization for
Z = X₁ – X₂
X₁ + X₂ ≤ 10     where  X₁≥ 0, X₂≥0
X₂≤ 5

Find the shortest path time for a given activity diagram.

Numerical on EDM, where MRR was given.

Find welding speed for given value of specific energy, voltage, current & bead area?

Relationship between true stress & strain was given. Initial area when stress & strain was zero provided. Area after Necking was asked?
σ = K ∈^0.y

In tool life, find the value of tool life, when speed & life for two test were given.

Rake angle was given along with the uncut chip thickness & chip thickness. You have to find the shear angle in turning?

1 Qs on Eutectoid reaction.

In a pipe of varying cross section, pressure difference at two point was asked.

Power in Francis turbine when the data for 1/5th scale model were given.

In the flow over a flat plate, the thickness of boundary layer is ∫,then for length 2L what will be the thickness of boundary layer?

In a spring mass system, when damper is added in parallel, what will be the effect on the under-damped system?

For a compound gear train, teeth & torque to driving gear was given. Torque of driver was asked?

Maximum velocity was asked for a uniform acceleration & retardation motion of follower.

1 Qs was based on instantaneous center method where acceleration was to be determined.

Fouries coefficient (a₂) value in the given Fourier series.

Find the value of A?

Find the value of y (1), in following equation:

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