GATE 2026 IN Syllabus
Official chapter-wise syllabus breakdown.
Engineering Mathematics
Linear Algebra, Calculus, Differential Equations, Analysis of complex variables, Probability and Statistics, Numerical Methods.
Electricity and Magnetism
Coulomb's Law, Electric Field Intensity, Electric Flux Density, Gauss's Law, Divergence, Capacitance of simple configurations, Biot‐Savart’s law, Ampere’s law, Curl, Faraday’s law, Lorentz force.
Electrical Circuits and Machines
Voltage and current sources, Kirchhoff's laws, mesh and nodal analysis, network theorems. Single-phase transformers, DC machines, induction machines, synchronous machines.
Signals and Systems
Periodic, aperiodic and impulse signals, Laplace, Fourier and z-transforms, transfer function, frequency response of first and second-order linear time-invariant systems, impulse response.
Control Systems
Feedback principles, signal flow graphs, transient response, steady-state errors, Bode plot, phase and gain margins, Routh and Nyquist criteria, root loci, design of lead, lag and lead-lag compensators, state-space representation.
Analog & Digital Electronics
Characteristics and applications of diodes, BJT, MOSFET; Op-amp circuits (amplifiers, integrators, filters, oscillators). Combinational and sequential logic circuits, multiplexers, ADCs, DACs, microprocessors (8085) basics.
Measurements
SI units, standards, systematic and random errors in measurement, expression of uncertainty. Bridges, measurement of voltage, current, power, energy, power factor, phase, time and frequency, Q-meter, oscilloscopes.
Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation
Resistive, capacitive, inductive, piezoelectric, Hall effect sensors; transducers for industrial instrumentation (displacement, velocity, acceleration, force, torque, pressure, flow, temperature, liquid level, pH, conductivity).
Communication and Optical Instrumentation
Amplitude and frequency modulation, sampling theorem. Optical sources and detectors (LED, laser, photo-diode, PIN, avalanche), interferometers, optical fibers.