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GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) - Previous Year Papers Previous Year Paper Trends & Analysis

Explore year-wise question trends, subject weightage, difficulty and paper coverage for GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) - Previous Year Papers.

5Papers
5Years
325Questions
15Topics

Historical question trend

Compare question volume by year and subject.

Questions by year

Compare question counts across years.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 167 51.4%
Medium 147 45.2%
Hard 11 3.4%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 181 55.7%
MSQ 135 41.5%
Fill in the blanks 5 1.5%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 4 1.2%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

English
196 Qs
Reasoning and Comprehension
79 Qs
General Aptitude (GA)
50 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression
55 Qs
History of English Literature and Literary Studies
51 Qs
Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions
48 Qs
Analytical Reasoning
42 Qs
Contemporary Literary Cultures and Research Methodologies
21 Qs
General Aptitude
17 Qs
Comparative and World Literatures in English Translation
17 Qs
Verbal Ability
12 Qs
Expression
11 Qs
Reading Comprehension
10 Qs
Logical Reasoning
10 Qs
Logic
9 Qs
Geometry
7 Qs
Data Interpretation
3 Qs
Probability
2 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

English Literary Traditions across Time
47 Qs
Theoretical Paradigms, Socio-Cultural Movements shaping Literary Studies
45 Qs
Relationships and Inference
42 Qs
Narrative, Poetic and Rhetorical Techniques
32 Qs
Literary Genres and Subgenres
23 Qs
Translated Literatures and Cross-cultural Exchange
14 Qs
Literary Awards, Festivals and Networks
12 Qs
Style, Rhetoric and Sentence Revision
11 Qs
Passage Comprehension and Interpretation
10 Qs
Argument Evaluation and Prediction
10 Qs
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
9 Qs
Research in literary studies
9 Qs
Algebra
4 Qs
Vocabulary and Idioms in Context
3 Qs
Spatial Transforms and Paper Folding
3 Qs
Global Perspectives on Literary Studies
3 Qs
Analogies
3 Qs
Triangles
3 Qs
Numerical Computation and Estimation
3 Qs
Elementary Statistics
3 Qs
Elementary Statistics
2 Qs
Circles
2 Qs
English Grammar
2 Qs
Indian Literary and Aesthetic Traditions
2 Qs
Translation Studies and Language Politics
2 Qs
Cubes
1 Qs
Work and Time
1 Qs
Logic
1 Qs
Theoretical Frameworks for Comparative Literature
1 Qs
Direct and Indirect Speech
1 Qs
Geometry
1 Qs
Reading Comprehension
1 Qs
Interdisciplinary fields
1 Qs
Numerical Relations and Analogies
1 Qs
Curves
1 Qs
Narrative Sequencing
1 Qs
Percentage
1 Qs
Literature, Social Movements and Allied Disciplines
1 Qs
Permutations, Combinations and Series
1 Qs
Set Theory
1 Qs
Spatial Transformations and Paper Folding
1 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Humanities & Social Sciences - English (XH-C2) 2026
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 2025
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 2024
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 2023
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 2022
65 Qs

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - English (XH-C2) 20262026
65 questions in this view		2026
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Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 20252025
65 questions in this view		2025
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Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 20242024
65 questions in this view		2024
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Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 20232023
65 questions in this view		2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-English (XH-C2) 20222022
65 questions in this view		2022
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