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GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) - Previous Year Papers Previous Year Paper Trends & Analysis

Explore year-wise question trends, subject weightage, difficulty and paper coverage for GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) - Previous Year Papers.

5Papers
5Years
325Questions
14Topics

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 188 57.8%
Easy 123 37.8%
Hard 14 4.3%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 214 65.8%
MSQ 104 32%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 7 2.2%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

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

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Classical and Modern Western Philosophy
72 Qs
Classical Indian Philosophy
64 Qs
Analytical Reasoning
43 Qs
Contemporary Western Philosophy
36 Qs
Contemporary Indian Philosophy
23 Qs
General Aptitude
21 Qs
Expression
14 Qs
Verbal Ability
12 Qs
Logical Reasoning
12 Qs
Reading Comprehension
8 Qs
Logic
7 Qs
Geometry
6 Qs
Probability
2 Qs
Data Interpretation
2 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Relationships and Inference
43 Qs
Orthodox Systems
34 Qs
Epistemology
20 Qs
Analytic Philosophy, Language and Meaning
17 Qs
Metaphysics
16 Qs
Heterodox Systems
15 Qs
Style, Rhetoric and Sentence Revision
14 Qs
Logic
14 Qs
Argument Evaluation and Prediction
12 Qs
Ethics
12 Qs
Phenomenology and Existentialism
11 Qs
Social and Political Philosophy
10 Qs
Gandhi and Ambedkar
10 Qs
Passage Comprehension and Interpretation
8 Qs
Pragmatism and Contemporary Critiques
8 Qs
Upaniṣads, Bhagavadgītā, and Dharmaśāstras
8 Qs
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
7 Qs
Kāṣmira Śaivism, Śaivasiddhānta, Vīra Śaivism, Śāktism and Vaiṣṇavism
7 Qs
Algebra
6 Qs
Tagore, Bhattacharyya and Radhakrishnan
6 Qs
Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Iqbal
6 Qs
Vocabulary and Idioms in Context
3 Qs
Logic
3 Qs
Spatial Transforms and Paper Folding
3 Qs
Analogies
3 Qs
Triangles
3 Qs
Permutations, Combinations and Series
3 Qs
Reading Comprehension
2 Qs
Elementary Statistics
2 Qs
Circles
2 Qs
English Grammar
2 Qs
Elementary Statistics
2 Qs
Cubes
1 Qs
Work and Time
1 Qs
Direct and Indirect Speech
1 Qs
Number Puzzles
1 Qs
Numerical Computation and Estimation
1 Qs
Krishnamurti and Daya Krishna
1 Qs
Geometry
1 Qs
Narrative Sequencing
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 - Philosophy (XH-C4) 2026
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2023
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022
65 Qs

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 20262026
65 questions in this view		2026
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20252025
65 questions in this view		2025
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20242024
65 questions in this view		2024
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20232023
65 questions in this view		2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20222022
65 questions in this view		2022
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