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GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) - Previous Year Papers Previous Year Paper Trends & Analysis

Explore year-wise question trends, subject weightage, difficulty and paper coverage for GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) - Previous Year Papers.

5Papers
5Years
325Questions
17Topics

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.

Medium 166 51.1%
Easy 148 45.5%
Hard 11 3.4%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 209 64.3%
MSQ 103 31.7%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 13 4%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

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

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Levels of Grammatical Analysis (The primary components of grammar)
115 Qs
Analytical Reasoning
43 Qs
General Aptitude
17 Qs
Typology and Universals (Language Classification)
17 Qs
Language and Linguistics (Fundamental Concepts)
16 Qs
Expression
15 Qs
Sociolinguistics (Language and Society)
15 Qs
Applied Linguistics (Linguistics in the Real World)
13 Qs
Verbal Ability
12 Qs
Historical Linguistics (Language Change)
12 Qs
Logical Reasoning
11 Qs
Geometry
9 Qs
Reading Comprehension
9 Qs
Logic
7 Qs
Methods of Analysis (How to Do Linguistics)
4 Qs
Data Interpretation
3 Qs
Probability
2 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Relationships and Inference
43 Qs
Sound Systems
27 Qs
Syntactic Analysis
21 Qs
Meaning in Context (Pragmatics)
18 Qs
Word Formation
17 Qs
Style, Rhetoric and Sentence Revision
15 Qs
Argument Evaluation and Prediction
11 Qs
Speech Production and Perception
10 Qs
Passage Comprehension and Interpretation
9 Qs
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
7 Qs
Literal Meaning (Semantics)
6 Qs
Language Variation
6 Qs
Bi- and Multilingualism
6 Qs
Sentence Structure
6 Qs
Language Universals
6 Qs
South Asian Languages
6 Qs
Building Blocks
6 Qs
Algebra
5 Qs
The Science of Language
5 Qs
Sound Changes over time
5 Qs
Classifying Languages
5 Qs
Clinical Linguistics
5 Qs
Computational Linguistics
4 Qs
Vocabulary and Idioms in Context
3 Qs
Language and Culture
3 Qs
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Language Teaching
3 Qs
Knowledge vs. Use
3 Qs
Analogies
3 Qs
Elementary Statistics
3 Qs
Triangles
3 Qs
Spatial Transforms and Paper Folding
3 Qs
Numerical Computation and Estimation
3 Qs
Forms of Language and Description versus Prescription
3 Qs
Reconstruction
3 Qs
Language and Policy
3 Qs
Language Contact and Borrowing
3 Qs
Cubes
2 Qs
Reading Comprehension
2 Qs
Elementary Statistics
2 Qs
Major Theories
2 Qs
Circles
2 Qs
Data Collection
2 Qs
English Grammar
2 Qs
Permutations, Combinations and Series
2 Qs
History of Linguistics
2 Qs
Work and Time
1 Qs
Symmetry
1 Qs
Morphological Theories
1 Qs
Direct and Indirect Speech
1 Qs
Psycholinguistics
1 Qs
Numerical Relations and Analogies
1 Qs
The Mental Dictionary
1 Qs
Grammar and Meaning Change
1 Qs
Curves
1 Qs
Narrative Sequencing
1 Qs
Data Analysis
1 Qs
Logic
1 Qs
Set Theory
1 Qs
Corpora
1 Qs

Paper coverage

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

Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics (XH-C3) 2026
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2025
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2024
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2023
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 2022
65 Qs

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - Linguistics (XH-C3) 20262026
65 questions in this view		2026
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20252025
65 questions in this view		2025
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20242024
65 questions in this view		2024
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20232023
65 questions in this view		2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Linguistics (XH-C3) 20222022
65 questions in this view		2022
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