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Physics exam analytics & most important topics
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50 Most Important Physics Topics — all five exams
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975
Questions analysed
2012–2026
Years covered
12
Subjects
90
Topics
In GATE Physics, General Aptitude carries the most weight (15.4% of questions), and the single most-asked topic is Reasoning.
Subject weightage
General Aptitude150 · 15.4%
Quantum Mechanics122 · 12.5%
Solid State Physics99 · 10.2%
Electromagnetism97 · 9.9%
Classical Mechanics96 · 9.8%
Mathematical Physics87 · 8.9%
Nuclear and Particle Physics85 · 8.7%
Atomic and Molecular Physics68 · 7%
Electronics63 · 6.5%
Statistical Mechanics59 · 6.1%
Thermodynamics32 · 3.3%
Optics17 · 1.7%
Question types
MCQ627 · 64%
NAT260 · 27%
MSQ88 · 9%
Questions per year
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Top 50 most important GATE topics
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