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GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) - Previous Year Papers Previous Year Paper Trends & Analysis

Explore year-wise question trends, subject weightage, difficulty and paper coverage for GATE Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) - Previous Year Papers.

5Papers
5Years
325Questions
18Topics

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 174 53.5%
Medium 147 45.2%
Hard 4 1.2%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 240 73.8%
MSQ 76 23.4%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 9 2.8%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Sociology
195 Qs
Reasoning and Comprehension
80 Qs
General Aptitude (GA)
50 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Analytical Reasoning
48 Qs
Sociological Theory
48 Qs
Sociological Concepts
41 Qs
Indian Society/Sociology of India
31 Qs
Research Methodology and Methods
25 Qs
General Aptitude
21 Qs
Sociology of Development
18 Qs
Family, Marriage and Kinship; Theoretical Approaches
14 Qs
Verbal Ability
12 Qs
Expression
12 Qs
Reading Comprehension
10 Qs
Logical Reasoning
10 Qs
Social Movements
10 Qs
Agrarian Sociology and Rural Transformation
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
48 Qs
Classical Sociological Traditions
30 Qs
Sociological Concepts
27 Qs
Style, Rhetoric and Sentence Revision
12 Qs
Recent theoretical developments, Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism
12 Qs
Kinship Theories and Gender Relations
12 Qs
Perspectives on Indian Society
12 Qs
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
11 Qs
Village Studies, Communalism and Secularism
11 Qs
Passage Comprehension and Interpretation
10 Qs
Argument Evaluation and Prediction
10 Qs
Perspectives on the Study of Development
9 Qs
Development and its critique
8 Qs
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
7 Qs
Social Movement in India with Specific Reference to Social Basis, Leadership, Ideology and Actions
6 Qs
Social Institutions
6 Qs
Social Stratification
6 Qs
Social Institutions and Stratification in India
6 Qs
Research Techniques
5 Qs
Agrarian Change, Land Reforms and Rural Development
5 Qs
Conceptualizing Social Reality
5 Qs
Algebra
4 Qs
Research Design
4 Qs
Numerical Computation and Estimation
4 Qs
Vocabulary and Idioms in Context
3 Qs
Logic
3 Qs
Analogies
3 Qs
Triangles
3 Qs
Agrarian Structure and Class Relations
3 Qs
Reading Comprehension
2 Qs
Elementary Statistics
2 Qs
Spatial Transformations and Paper Folding
2 Qs
Theories of Social Movements
2 Qs
Structural-Functionalism and Structuralism
2 Qs
Spatial Transforms and Paper Folding
2 Qs
Circles
2 Qs
Hermeneutic and Interpretative Traditions
2 Qs
Social Change
2 Qs
Conflict Theory
2 Qs
English Grammar
2 Qs
Permutations, Combinations and Series
2 Qs
Elementary Statistics
2 Qs
Family Law and Gender-based Violence
2 Qs
Tradition, Modernity and Social Change
2 Qs
Cubes
1 Qs
Work and Time
1 Qs
Direct and Indirect Speech
1 Qs
Numerical Relations and Analogies
1 Qs
Social Movements, Civil Society and Globalization
1 Qs
The Micro-Politics of Development
1 Qs
Narrative Sequencing
1 Qs
Percentage
1 Qs
Set Theory
1 Qs
Introduction to Social Movements
1 Qs

Paper coverage

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

Humanities & Social Sciences - Sociology (XH-C6) 2026
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2024
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2023
65 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2022
65 Qs

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - Sociology (XH-C6) 20262026
65 questions in this view		2026
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 20252025
65 questions in this view		2025
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 20242024
65 questions in this view		2024
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 20232023
65 questions in this view		2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 20222022
65 questions in this view		2022
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