GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2025 XH2 (English) with answers and explanations. Read each question, then practise it by topic or as a full paper.
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- Question 1 – Here are two analogous groups, Group-I and Group-II, that list words in their decreasing order of intensity. Identify the missing word in Group-II.…
- Question 2 – Had I learnt acting as a child, I a famous film star. Select the most appropriate option to complete the above sentence.
- Question 3 – The 12 musical notes are given as C, C\#, D, D\#, E, F, F\#, G, G\#, A, A\#, and B. Frequency of each note is [12]2 times the frequency of the…
- Question 4 – The following figures show three curves generated using an iterative algorithm. The total length of the curve generated after ‘Iteration n’ is: Note:…
- Question 5 – Which one of the following plots represents f(x) = - x x, where x is a non-zero real number? Note: The figures shown are representative.
- Question 6 – Identify the option that has the most appropriate sequence such that a coherent paragraph is formed: P. Over time, such adaptations lead to…
- Question 7 – A stick of length one meter is broken at two locations at distances of b 1 and b 2 from the origin (0), as shown in the figure. Note that 0 < b 1 < b…
- Question 8 – Eight students (P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, and W) are playing musical chairs. The figure indicates their order of position at the start of the game. They…
- Question 9 – The table lists the top 5 nations according to the number of gold medals won in a tournament; also included are the number of silver and the bronze…
- Question 10 – An organization allows its employees to work independently on consultancy projects but charges an overhead on the consulting fee. The overhead is 20%…
- Question 11 – Which one of the following numbers is odd one out? 31541 42651 53791 64871 75981
- Question 12 – Ankit, Arun, and Ankur have one apple each. Ankur also has one banana. Alam has one mango and one kiwi. Ankit has just bought one pineapple. Who has…
- Question 13 – If each vowel in the word RESIDE is changed to its previous letter in the English alphabet and each consonant is changed to the next letter in the…
- Question 14 – Vipul, Ahmad, Santosh, and David are playing Carrom. Vipul and Ahmad are partners sitting opposite to each other. David faces towards South. If Vipul…
- Question 15 – Consider the following sentence. What the country needs accordingly. First and last parts of the sentence are given. P, Q, R, and S are the remaining…
- Question 16 – A car started from city P at 9.40am. The time taken for the car to reach the city Q is 4 hours and 50 minutes. The time of arrival of the car at city…
- Question 17 – P is three years younger than R but one year older than S. S is one year older than Q but 4 years younger than R. R is 15 years old. The age of Q is…
- Question 18 – In a certain code language, ATTITUDE is written as TAUJUEDU and CHILDREN is written as HCJMENER. How LANGUAGE is written in that code language?
- Question 19 – The table shows the data of 450 candidates who appeared in the examination of three subjects – Social Science, Mathematics, and Science. How many…
- Question 20 – If means +, + means , - means , and means -, then 8 7 - 8 + 40 2 =
- Question 21 – Given a series 5, 8, 11, 14, … If the nth term of the given series is 320, then n (where, n 1) is
- Question 22 – Suppose, your last year taxable income was Rs. 22000. Due to hike in salary, your taxable income this year is Rs. 34200. The details for tax…
- Question 23 – Anand, Hari, and Chris are engaged in one of the three type of occupations – clerk, teacher, and plumber, not necessarily in that order. Each person…
- Question 24 – Many countries are facing water shortage crises in the past few years. A report of the United Nation has named India among the worst countries for…
- Question 25 – In the following figure, four overlapping shapes (rectangle, triangle, circle, and hexagon) are given. The sum of the numbers which belong to only two…
- Question 26 – Consider a square field ABCD. The diagonal AC is 50 meter. The cost of laying grass in the field is Rs. 5 per square-meter. The total cost for laying…
- Question 27 – Which historical event is mentioned in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger?
- Question 28 – “The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” These lines were written by .
- Question 29 – The medieval fabliau is a .
- Question 30 – Which one of the following options correctly matches the texts with their authors? Text Author --- --- --- --- a The Lay of the Last Minstrel i Samuel…
- Question 31 – Who among the following were the Cavalier Poets?
- Question 32 – Which of the following line(s) has/have been excerpted from W. B. Yeats’ writings?
- Question 33 – Who of the following were suffragettes?
- Question 34 – Which of the following narrative(s) has/have an intrusive narrator?
- Question 35 – Which among the following is/are synonymous with vibhāva (determinant) in the rasa theory?
- Question 36 – Who among the following thinker(s) viewed imagination as a faculty that unites what we receive through our senses with the concepts of our…
- Question 37 – Which of the following characteristic(s) is/are associated with the epic?
- Question 38 – Who among the following is/are NOT connected with the ‘race turn’ in the USA?
- Question 39 – Which is/are the special skill(s) associated with Harry Potter in J. K. Rowling’s novel series?
- Question 40 – Which of the following work(s) is/are NOT written by Anita Desai?
- Question 41 – Which of the following work(s) may be described as Lad Lit?
- Question 42 – Who among these colonial administrators is/are Orientalist(s)?
- Question 43 – Which of the following is/are the pre-romantic current(s) that contributed to the evolution of Romanticism?
- Question 44 – Which of these works is/are NOT written by Dryden?
- Question 45 – Match the following estimates of Shakespeare with their authors: Estimate Author --- --- --- --- a “We must have admitted that Shakespeare possessed…
- Question 46 – Which prestigious literary prize has historical ties to a colonial business enterprise subsequently associated with engineering, shipping, and rum…
- Question 47 – “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,/Is the immediate jewel of their souls/Who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing;/‘Twas…
- Question 48 – “I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror—of an intense and hopeless despair. . . . He cried in a…
- Question 49 – “I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” The literary device employed in this line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is .
- Question 50 – “I see now that as the fish Scholopidus in the flood Araris at the waxing of the Moon is as white as the driven snow, and at the waning as black as…
- Question 51 – Which among the following work(s) was/were accused of portraying obscenity?
- Question 52 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about “The Republic of Orissa: A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century,” one of the earliest…
- Question 53 – Alexander Pope produced an edition of Shakespeare in 1725, for which, he was vehemently criticized by the Shakespearean scholars of his time. One of…
- Question 54 – Which of the following characteristic(s) is/are associated with Renaissance Humanism?
- Question 55 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are true of Queer Theory?
- Question 56 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are true regarding Elaine Showalter’s essay “A Literature of Their Own”?
- Question 57 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are INCORRECT regarding post-colonial feminism?
- Question 58 – “I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their…
- Question 59 – “Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd–seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was…
- Question 60 – “I resemble everyone/but myself, and sometimes see/in shop-windows,/despite the well-known laws/ of optics,/the portrait of a stranger,/date…
- Question 61 – Which of the following political position(s) is/are advocated in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’O’s work Decolonising the Mind?
- Question 62 – Which of the following novels has/have been written by the novelist who also wrote A Goddess Named Gold?
- Question 63 – Which of the following statement(s) aptly describe(s) the novel, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale?
- Question 64 – In The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde repeatedly uses the term ‘Bunbury’. It refers to the .
- Question 65 – Who among the following developed the notion of intersubjectivity on which Stanley Fish’s idea of ‘interpretive communities’ rests?