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Timed Mock 2 (mixed)

A second timed, mixed mock under exam conditions — a fresh set of questions across every subject, GATE negative marking, and a per-subject score breakdown at the end.

50 min read Advanced GATE DA Lesson 120 of 122

What you'll learn

  • A second full rehearsal under a countdown with real GATE negative marking
  • Switching between subjects mid-paper on a completely fresh question set
  • Reading a per-subject breakdown to track whether your weak areas have moved

Here is that second read. The first mock gave you a number; this one tells you whether to trust it. The logic is simple and unforgiving: a weakness that surfaces in both papers — on a fresh question set, with not one question repeated from Mock 1 — is a real gap, not a bad day, and a timing slip that recurs in both is a habit, not nerves. So sit this exactly as you sat the first, and afterwards read the two breakdowns side by side. This is your second timed, mixed mock: 33 questions spanning all eight areas, none repeated. The timer auto-submits at zero, MCQs carry GATE negative marking (−1/3 on a 1-mark, −2/3 on a 2-mark; MSQ and NAT never penalise), and you get a per-subject breakdown at the end. Every answer is verified against the worked examples and quizzes in the lessons.

Timed Mock 2 — mixed, all subjects

33 questions47 marks50 min
  • The timer starts when you click Start and auto-submits at zero.
  • GATE negative marking: a wrong MCQ loses 1/3 (1-mark) or 2/3 (2-mark).
  • MSQ and NAT carry no penalty — always attempt them.
  • No feedback until you submit; then you get a full per-subject breakdown.

A question to carry forward

Two scores now, read together. Where they agree, you have the truth: the subjects that bled marks in both mixed papers are your real weak areas — named, confirmed, and no longer dismissible as the ghosts of one bad sitting. Repeating the measurement is what turned a single noisy reading into a diagnosis.

But a full mixed mock is a diagnostic, not a drill. Across fifty minutes it touches each subject only a handful of times, and the very subject-whiplash that makes it feel like the real exam also makes it a clumsy tool for repairing a single weak area — you can never get twelve straight Probability questions in a row to hammer one shaky topic. Here is the thread onward: once two mocks have named the one or two subjects still costing you, how do you drill just those — one subject at a time, under the same clock and the same negative marking, with nothing to switch away to?

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