Where is the official GATE CS 2025 question paper?

IIT Roorkee publishes it as a public PDF — the link above opens it on the official site. placd does not host or reproduce it.

Is placd's 2025 set the real GATE CS 2025 paper?

No. It is an original pattern set assembled to the 2025 paper's distribution — the same shape, section split, question types and mark weighting, scored the way the paper scores — with placd's own solutions. Past-paper text is not reproduced.

What was the GATE CS 2025 cutoff?

General: 29.2, OBC-NCL / EWS: 26.2, SC / ST / PwD: 19.4 (from the official notice).

GATE Computer Science 2025 Question Paper — Pattern, Cutoff, Official PDF & Practice Set

GATE Computer Science 2025

Published by IIT Roorkee as a public PDF. Below: the paper’s shape, where the marks sat, the cutoff, and placd’s own set built to this year’s distribution.

The paper

Questions: 65
Marks: 100
Duration: 180 min
Types: MCQ, MSQ, NAT
Negative: 1/3 mark on a wrong 1-mark MCQ, 2/3 on a wrong 2-mark MCQ; none on MSQ or NAT
Official paper: Official paper on gate2026.iitg.ac.in
Answer key: Official key

The year

Registered: 2,07,851
Appeared: 1,70,825
Vacancies: Not applicable / not published

Qualifying cutoff

General29.2
OBC-NCL / EWS26.2
SC / ST / PwD19.4

Practise this year’s pattern

GATE CS 2025 pattern set: an original set assembled to the 2025 distribution — same shape, section split and question types, timed and scored exactly as the paper scores.

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Where the marks sat

General Aptitude
10 questions · 15 marks
Engineering Mathematics
13 marks
CS subject
72 marks

Topic weightage

Topic	Marks	Practise it
General Aptitude	15	Aptitude
Engineering Mathematics	13	Engineering Mathematics bank
Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms	18.8	—
Computer Networks	8.4	Subject bank
Databases	8.4	Subject bank
Compiler Design	5.2	Subject bank
Operating Systems	8.4	Subject bank
Theory of Computation	8.3	Subject bank
Computer Organization & Architecture	8.3	Subject bank
Digital Logic	6.3	Subject bank

The 2025 paper ran in 2 sessions; the link opens session 1 — every session's paper and key is on the archive page. Topic weightage is as reported by exam-analysis sites, not by the organising institute. Sources: Master question papers & keys, IIT Guwahati archive · GATE 2025 cut-off marks (IIT Roorkee). Verified 15 Sept 2026.

Frequently asked

Where is the official GATE CS 2025 question paper?: IIT Roorkee publishes it as a public PDF — the link above opens it on the official site. placd does not host or reproduce it.
Is placd's 2025 set the real GATE CS 2025 paper?: No. It is an original pattern set assembled to the 2025 paper's distribution — the same shape, section split, question types and mark weighting, scored the way the paper scores — with placd's own solutions. Past-paper text is not reproduced.
What was the GATE CS 2025 cutoff?: General: 29.2, OBC-NCL / EWS: 26.2, SC / ST / PwD: 19.4 (from the official notice).