Dear Aspirant,

unfortunately 80 marks in GATE is not sufficient to secure a seat for yourself for your master's degree in any of the IITs or NITs. You will be required to secure a much better score in order to secure a seat at IITs or NITs for your post graduation degree.

Given below are some of the highly recommended textbooks you can use for preparing for GATE exams,

• Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth Rosen

• Higher Engineering mathematics - B.S. Grewal

• Theory of Elasticity - Timoshenko & Gere

• Soil Mechanics - Gopal Ranjan and Rao,Venkat Ramaiha,S. K. Garg

• Water Resources - S K Garg

• Transportation - Justo Khanna

• Environmental Engineering - S. K. Garg Part I & Part II

• Surveying (vol. 1,2,3) - B.C.Punmia, Ashok Jain, Arun Jain

Dear Student ,

If you have pursued Civil Engineering as your academic curriculum , then the syllabus is almost 90% same as your overall academic syllabus .Still, I'm sharing the major topics that you need to study for GATE exam .

Note : Engineering Mathematics and General Aptitude is necessary to appear for all papers of engg.

Civil Engg GATE syllabus :

• Structural Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Geo-Technical Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• Geomatics Engineering
• Water Resources Engineering

For more details about the syllabus , you may check this link or you can visit the IIT KGP GATE official website for 2022:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-syllabus-for-civil-engineering

Hope this helps !

Hello aspirant,

Yes, you have a fair chance of getting the new IIT's. However, I would suggest getting a score of 55+. You should aim for a high score in GATE, as it increases the chances of getting good marks and helps prepare w ell for the exam.

Usually, for civil engineering, or to pursue Mtech in any civil engineering branch a rank below 2000 is good to get into IIT's but if you are targeting top IITs"s then anything below 500 will help you.

Additionally, you could also check the previous year cut off trends

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-cutoff-for-ce/amp

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/what-are-gate-scores-for-psu-recruitment

I hope this information helps!

Thank you!

Hello,

It is very important to select books which will help to score good marks. So some of the books which you can refer for the GATE preparation civil engineering are:

• R.C.C Design- Reinforced concrete design- Devdas Menon and S. Pillai
• Strength of materiasl- UC jindal
• Basic Structural Analysis - C.S. Reddy
• Design Of Steel Structures- S.K Duggal Edition
• Basics and Applied Soil mechanics-Gopal Ranjan, A.S.R.Rao
• Highway Engineering-:S.K.Khanna, C.E.G.Justo
• Engineering Hydrology -K Subramanya,

Hope, it helps!

Hello Aspirant

Yes any student from any BTECH branch can write any gate exam for different branch.

Talking of difficulties as we already know that gate is anyways tough.The gate syllabus mostly have questions that are related to that particular branch.Because it is said that if you want to give gate you should be clear with all of the basics right from the beginning of your Engineering.

Therefore there might be a chance that civil students will find that exam more easy that other branch student.

But don't lose hopes there have been cases where Mechanical student have appeared for CS gate and secured an absolute great rank.

All you will need to do is a little bit of extra studies and you will be good to go.

Regards!

Hi,

GATE syllabus of Civil engineering consists of seven sections namely- Engineering mathematics, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Water Resources engineering, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Geomatics Engineering.

Hope this helps.

Hello! Hope you are doing good

Gate scores are dependent on the highest and lowest marks and thus are subject to variation every year. Its very unpredictable az to whether or not one will get a college. According to the previous years trends, you can apply for IIT Roorkee, IIT- BHU and many other good IITs. IIT - Madras may still be a bit too doubtful.

Please click the following link to know more about the cutoff trends: https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-cutoff-for-ce/amp

All the best