How to Use GeeksforGeeks to Prepare for GATE CS?

Last Updated : 21 Apr, 2025

Everyone knows that GATE is one of the very popular, versatile, and standard exams in India as it leverages you with numerous career benefits whether it be about getting admissions to the country’s top colleges like IITs, NITs, etc. for Post-Graduation or direct recruitment in Indian PSUs. Some of the PSUs that use GATE scores to shortlist the candidates for employment are ONGC, GAIL, BARC, and many others. It is indeed a life-changing exam. The questions in the GATE exam assess your abilities for – Recall, Comprehension, Application, and Analysis & Synthesis.

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However, as the GATE exam rewards you with such remarkable benefits – it requires you to follow the well-structured preparation process consistently with quality learning resources to ace the exam. And, in a similar context, let us tell you that the renowned platform GeeksforGeeks can help you in this i.e., to prepare for the GATE exam. Yes, you heard it right!

Step by Step Procedure for Using GFG Resources

Here are a few steps/guidelines mentioned below that you can use to prepare for your GATE CS exam with the help of the GeeksforGeeks website. Follow each and every step in sequence:

1. GATE Syllabus

The very first thing that you need to do to start your GATE preparation is – Understand the GATE Syllabus. You can simply access the GATE syllabus by clicking on “GATE 2024” present on Home Menu Bar.

On this page, you’ll find that we have listed articles subjective-wise and according to the GATE CS syllabus. There are four columns :

GATE CS syllabus, which includes all the topics for the GATE exam in an ordered manner.
Learn, which listed important articles for learning purposes.
Practice, which listed all important Quizzes and Previous Year Topic-wise Solved questions.
External Resources, which listed all-important external links of foreign universities and CS portals.

You should read/learn the content/articles of this table subject-wise and in the above-given sequence.

2. CS Subject-Wise

Then, you can explore and go through the tutorials of CS subjects in accordance with the GATE syllabus.

GATE CS Subjects

According to the current syllabus of GATE CS, there are 11 Subjects :

General Aptitude:- Verbal Aptitude, Quantitative Aptitude, Analytical Aptitude, and Spatial Aptitude.
Engineering Math and Discrete Math:- Discrete Mathematics: Propositional and first order logic. Sets, relations, functions, partial orders and lattices. Monoids, Groups. Graphs: connectivity, matching, coloring. 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.

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

Programming and Data Structures:- Programming in C. Recursion. Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Theory of Computation:- Regular expressions and finite automata. Context-free grammars and push-down automata. Regular and contex-free languages, pumping lemma. Turing machines and undecidability.
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.
Digital Logic:-Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits. Minimization. Number representations and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).

You can find/analyze GATE CS 2024 (Revised) Syllabus for learning the relevant topics.

3. Searching Particular Topic/Article

You can use the search bar to find/search published GATE articles in GFG.

GeeksforGeeks - How to Search Topic?

You can also get to know the Important Topics for GATE 2024 Computer Science for preparation purposes. You can use GfG as following steps for GATE CS preparation:

Analysis GATE CS revised syllabus
Choose Subject
Choose Topic
Search topic on GFG
Read the Article

You can click on related/suggested articles if you wish to clarify more. Also, you can click on Tag(s) or Category of that article, if you wish to read articles of that tag or category.

You can also use the GATE CS category to read relevant articles.

GATE CS Tag

4. Practice Phase

Whenever your preparation is ready and you have learned all the GATE concepts, you can start your practice phase. You should practice previous year’s GATE CS papers and all those relevant to the GATE CS syllabus, like ISRO CS, NET CS, TIFR, etc. You should practice as much as possible. Here, we have listed these GfG links for practicing questions, these have topic-wise and year-wise collections.

Practice Phase - GeeksforGeeks

Here are important links for practice purpose:

5. Revision Phase

Revision is necessary. GeeksforGeeks have prepared “Last Minute Notes (LMN)” for revision of CS Subjects. These are explained in brief and to the point. You should start reading LMNs before 1 or 2 months of the GATE exam.

Revision Phase - GeeksforGeeks

6. Sudo GATE CS (Free of Cost Test Series) by GeeksforGeeks

GeeksforGeeks has been providing free of cost GATE CS Test Series since 2015. Links are given below, you can practice. Questions of these test series are fresh and developed by GATE CS qualifiers with a high score.

7. Revision

Revision is the key to crack GATE exam, Regularly revise each and every topic that you are studying. Revise every topic around 2 to 3 times that will make you strong in the concepts.

8. Community and Discussion

You can Participate in the GeeksforGeeks community. Discuss your doubts and you can solve doubts of others, share your knowledge, and learn from others. participating in discussions can provide additional things.

Again, you need to remember that to crack the GATE exam – you’re required to follow the right approaches with the right mindset and learning resources. Also, do not forget to practice and revise all the concepts efficiently to crack the GATE exam with a higher score!

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