GATE Exam Syllabus 2025, Download, GATE Computer science syllabus 2025

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GATE Computer science syllabus 2025: The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2025 syllabus for the computer science and information technology (CS) paper has 10 sections. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee released the syllabus and paper pattern for GATE 2025 on the official website, gate2025.iitr.ac.in.

GATE 2025 registration will commence from August 24. The exam will be conducted on February 1, 2, 15, and 16 for 30 test papers. GATE 2025 scores will be used by the IITs and other participating institutions for admitting students to their MTech programmes.

GATE Computer science syllabus 2025

The section-wise chapters in GATE computer science syllabus are as follows:

Section 1: Engineering mathematics
Discrete mathematics	Propositional and first order logic. Sets, relations, functions, partial orders and lattices. Monoids, Groups. Graphs: connectivity, matching, colouring. Combinatorics: counting, recurrence relations, generating functions.
Linear algebra	Matrices, determinants, system of linear equations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, LU decomposition.
Calculus	Limits, continuity and differentiability, Maxima and minima, Mean value theorem, Integration
Probability and statistics	Random variables, Uniform, normal, exponential, Poisson and binomial distributions. Mean, median, mode and standard deviation. Conditional probability and Bayes theorem

Section 2: Digital logic
Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits. Minimization. Number representations and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).
Section 3: Computer organization and architecture
Machine instructions and addressing modes. ALU, data‐path and control unit. Instruction pipelining, pipeline hazards. Memory hierarchy: cache, main memory and secondary storage; I/O interface (interrupt and DMA mode).
Section 4: Programming and data structures
Programming in C. Recursion. Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.
Section 5: Algorithms
Searching, sorting, hashing. Asymptotic worst case time and space complexity. Algorithm design techniques: greedy, dynamic programming and divide‐and‐conquer. Graph traversals, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths.
Section 6: Theory of computation
Regular expressions and finite automata. Context-free grammars and push-down automata. Regular and context-free languages, pumping lemma. Turing machines and undecidability.
Section 7: Compiler design
Lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation. Runtime environments. Intermediate code generation. Local optimisation, Data flow analyses: constant propagation, liveness analysis, common sub-expression elimination.
Section 8: Operating System
System calls, processes, threads, inter‐process communication, concurrency and synchronization. Deadlock. CPU and I/O scheduling. Memory management and virtual memory. File systems.
Section 9: Databases
ER‐model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, SQL. Integrity constraints, normal forms. File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees). Transactions and concurrency control.
Section 10: Computer networks
Concept of layering: OSI and TCP/IP Protocol Stacks; Basics of packet, circuit and virtual circuit switching; Data link layer: framing, error detection, Medium Access Control, Ethernet bridging; Routing protocols: shortest path, flooding, distance vector and link state routing; Fragmentation and IP addressing, IPv4, CIDR notation, Basics of IP support protocols (ARP, DHCP, ICMP), Network Address Translation (NAT); Transport layer: flow control and congestion control, UDP, TCP, sockets; Application layer protocols: DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, Email.

GATE Computer science syllabus 2025

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