Subject Mini-Mocks
Short, timed, single-subject drills for the four heaviest GATE DA subjects — a 12-minute sprint each, with GATE negative marking and a score at the end.
What you'll learn
- Drilling one subject at a time under a tight 12-minute countdown
- Building speed and accuracy on the four highest-weight areas in isolation
- Using a focused timer to find which single subject still costs you marks
The two mixed mocks did their real job: read together, they named the subjects that cost you marks on both sittings. But naming a weak subject and repairing it are different tasks. A mixed paper is built for the first — it scatters a few questions across eight areas and keeps yanking you between them, which is exactly what diagnoses a weakness and exactly the wrong way to drill it out. To rebuild a shaky subject you need the opposite shape: many questions from one area, back to back, under the same clock. That is what these mini-mocks are — pick the subject the mocks flagged, and hammer it with no context-switching to dilute the work.
Probability & Statistics
Probability — 12-minute drill
- 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.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning — 12-minute drill
- 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.
Linear Algebra
Linear Algebra — 12-minute drill
- 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.
Programming & DSA
Programming & DSA — 12-minute drill
- 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
Between the full mocks and these single-subject sprints you now hold two instruments: one that finds the weak subject, one that drills it back to strength. Both train you to solve — to carry a problem from blank page to boxed answer under the clock — and worked steadily, they will move every score on your breakdown.
But in the final days, solving from scratch is a luxury you run out of. The night before the exam there is no time to work a hundred problems; there is only time to scan — to run your eye down every formula that might appear, every trap that has ever caught you, every one-line rule that turns a ninety-second derivation into a ten-second recall. Here is the thread onward: when there is no practice time left, what is the single densest page you could read — the one sheet that holds every formula, every recurring trap, and every must-not-forget result across all eight subjects at once?