GATE 2026 Previous Year Questions, Sample Paper For XE-I Released

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, the organising institute for GATE 2026, has released the sample question paper for Energy Science (XE-I), along with downloadable soft-copies of previous years’ GATE question papers from 2007 till 2025.

Candidates can access both the previous year question papers and the sample paper from the official website, gate2026.iitg.ac.in.

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2026 is scheduled to be conducted on February 7, 8, 14, and 15, 2026.

How to download GATE 2026 sample and previous year papers

Step 1: Go to the official website of IIT Guwahati, gate2026.iitg.ac.in.

Step 2: On the homepage top banner, go to ‘Downloads’ section

Step 3: You will be redirected to the downloads page where you can access sample question paper for Energy Science (XE-I) and previous year’s papers.

Step 4: Click on the “Question papers of previous years” option for bulk download; or, scroll down to find the “Year-wise download of question papers 2021-2025”.

Step 5: On the first link, candidates will get the option to download from a google drive, or the second link will give them a year-wise breakdown of the subjects and subsequent question paper links.

GATE 2026: Direct link to download previous year question papers

GATE Paper	Answer Keys	GATE Paper	Answer Keys
Aerospace Engineering	AE	Instrumentation Engineering	IN
Agricultural Engineering	AG	Mathematics	MA
Architecture and Planning	AR	Mechanical Engineering	ME
Biomedical Engineering	BM	Mining Engineering	MN
Biotechnology	BT	Metallurgical Engineering	MT
Civil Engineering	CE-1	Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering	NM
Civil Engineering	CE-2	Petroleum Engineering	PE
Chemical Engineering	CH	Physics	PH
Computer Science and Information Technology	CS-1	Production and Industrial Engineering	PI
Computer Science and Information Technology	CS-2	Statistics	ST
Chemistry	CY	Textile Engineering and Fibre Science	TF
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence	DA	Engineering Sciences	XE
Electronics and Communication Engineering	EC	Humanities & Social Sciences – Economics	XH-C1
Electrical Engineering	EE	Humanities & Social Sciences – English	XH-C2
Environmental Science & Engineering	ES	Humanities & Social Sciences – Linguistics	XH-C3
Ecology and Evolution	EY	Humanities & Social Sciences – Philosophy	XH-C4
Geomatics Engineering	GE	Humanities & Social Sciences – Psychology	XH-C5
Geology and Geophysics – Geology	GG-1	Humanities & Social Sciences – Sociology	XH-C6
Geology and Geophysics Geology	GG-2	Life Sciences	XL

 

GATE is a national-level Computer-Based Test (CBT) administered jointly by the Department of Higher Education and several IITs, with IIT Guwahati being the organizing institute for 2026.

GATE scores are used for admissions to postgraduate engineering and science programs and for PSU recruitment.

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This year IIT Guwahati announced the introduction of a new optional sectional paper ‘Energy Science (XE-I)’. This will come under the Engineering Sciences (XE) category.