GATE 2026 XH2 (English) – Previous Year Questions with Solutions
All 65 questions of GATE 2026 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 – “He often the numbers. False claims are not going to help. Honesty trust”, said the manager. Choose the option with the correct order of words to fill…
- Question 2 – In the sequence of tiles shown below, the missing tile indicated by the question mark should be
- Question 3 – A school has 100 students distributed among 1st to 10th standards. Based on this, which one of the following statements is always correct?
- Question 4 – How many 3-digit numbers can be formed using three distinct single digit prime numbers?
- Question 5 – In a group of students, 10 students like Mathematics, 12 students like English, 4 students like both Mathematics and English, and 6 students like…
- Question 6 – Charity : P :: Retaliation : Q Choose the appropriate pair of words P and Q that fit the analogy.
- Question 7 – A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines (- - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface…
- Question 8 – Consider the cube shown below with its 8 corners labelled a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h. The figure is representative. All corners are to be colored such…
- Question 9 – Four hills H1, H2, H3, and H4 are present in an area. The following observations are made about them: i. Neither H2 nor H3 is the easternmost hill.…
- Question 10 – As shown in the figure, circle C 1 with center O 1 and radius r 1 touches the square VWXY at points P and Q while circle C 2 with center O 2 and…
- Question 11 – Aman, Beena, Chiranjeevi and Dhiman are four siblings. Each of them is an expert in one of the performing arts, namely, dance, theatre, guitar and…
- Question 12 – Let ABC be an isosceles triangle with the base AB of length 8 units. Let CD be a perpendicular of length 4 units drawn from the vertex C onto the base…
- Question 13 – In the given passage, fill in the blanks with most suitable set of given words: The future must no longer be by the past. While, the effects of the…
- Question 14 – Indian society is experiencing a boom in pet culture, where people are becoming responsible caretakers of pets rather than merely providing food and…
- Question 15 – Three statements, S1, S2 and S3 are given, followed with 4 conclusions, C1, C2, C3 and C4. S1: Hostel authorities organised a special lunch on…
- Question 16 – Six statements, S1 to S6, are given. S1: All GATE candidates are engineers. S2: Some GATE candidates are CAT candidates. S3: All GRE candidates are…
- Question 17 – Four couples M-N, O-P, R-L, S-E meet to have a dinner together on an eight-seater rectangular dining table with four seats each on opposite sides. The…
- Question 18 – Me and my spouse have a big family, comprising 8 females and 6 males. We have two sons and two daughters, of whom the eldest is unmarried. Out of my…
- Question 19 – Given the first four terms 30, 105, 385, 1001 in a sequence, which amongst the following is the fifth term of the sequence?
- Question 20 – Three players named Arun, Babita and Chandu play a game by tossing an unbiased coin in turn whose rules are as follows: Initially each player has 100…
- Question 21 – Choose the correct sequence of sentences so that they form a coherent paragraph: P. However, in the context of texts dealing with science or…
- Question 22 – Mental health is a global concern, especially among the youth. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when schools and colleges were operating online, students…
- Question 23 – On the basis of syntax and grammar, identify the incorrect sentence(s). I. Doctors have found high levels of cerebrospinal fluid in certain cases of…
- Question 24 – In a cricket match amongst 7 friends, named P1 – P7, P1 scored maximum individual runs of 25 and P7 scored minimum individual run of 0. No two friends…
- Question 25 – A police station has six personnel comprising an inspector (I) and five constables (C 1, C 2, C 3, C 4, C 5). Normally, a ‘raid team’ of two, three,…
- Question 26 – A man visits four relatives on a day. He purchases some sweets and gives a part of it to the first relative. Next, he purchases the same number of…
- Question 27 – Which novel by Margaret Atwood is often studied for its feminist themes and dystopian setting?
- Question 28 – Which one of the following is an example of a metaphor?
- Question 29 – What is the term for the repetition of initial consonant sounds in closely connected words?
- Question 30 – Which one of the following plays is NOT written by Girish Karnad?
- Question 31 – “River Sarayu was the pride of Malgudi. It was some ten minutes walk from Ellaman street, the last street of the town, chiefly occupied by oil…
- Question 32 – “The peasants came like swarms of flies And buzzed the name of God a hundred times To paralyze the evil one.” The above stanza appears in which poem?
- Question 33 – Which one of the following war poets did not die in action during World War I?
- Question 34 – Grimus is the first novel of which well-known author?
- Question 35 – Which of these counts as a qualitative research method in literary studies?
- Question 36 – What is/are the central theme/s of Kamala Das’s “An Introduction”?
- Question 37 – “Postcolonial Translation” deals with:
- Question 38 – Which of these is/are associated with Marxist Literary Criticism?
- Question 39 – To which of the following does the term “pastoral elegy” apply?
- Question 40 – Which of the following represent/s Jacobean tragedy?
- Question 41 – Which of these works directly engage/s with the French Revolution?
- Question 42 – Which of the following is/are (an) epistolary novel/s?
- Question 43 – Which of the following is/are (an) American novel/s of the 19th century?
- Question 44 – Which of the following is/are winner(s) of the Booker Prize/Man Booker Prize for fiction?
- Question 45 – Which one of these poems is written by William Wordsworth?
- Question 46 – Which of the following is a key work in feminist literary criticism written by Virginia Woolf?
- Question 47 – Which 19th-century novel is known for its protagonist’s struggle as a governess and her complex relationships?
- Question 48 – Which feminist author wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
- Question 49 – In feminist literary theory, what does patriarchy refer to?
- Question 50 – Which novel by George Orwell depicts a dystopian future under a totalitarian regime?
- Question 51 – Who wrote a fantasy novel featuring Prince Caspian?
- Question 52 – Which one of the following describes the practice of interpreting a text based on the author’s intentions?
- Question 53 – What is the literary device in which a part of something is used to represent the whole?
- Question 54 – “I resisted all the way: a new thing for me; and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbott were disposed to…
- Question 55 – Match Column I with Column II: Column I Column II --- --- --- --- i The Elizabethan Age a Dryden ii The Puritan Age b Shakespeare iii The Restoration…
- Question 56 – Which of the following is/are the title/s of 18th-century periodical/s?
- Question 57 – “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But,…
- Question 58 – Which of the following theorists was/were directly affiliated with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham?
- Question 59 – “Colonialism imposed its control of the social production of wealth through military conquest and subsequent political dictatorship. But its most…
- Question 60 – “Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen, And…
- Question 61 – “She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on.” Which…
- Question 62 – Which of the following is/are counted among the Movement poets?
- Question 63 – Which of the following Caribbean author/s won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- Question 64 – Which of the following themes does Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart explore?
- Question 65 – “My country! In thy days of glory past A beauteous halo circled round thy brow and worshipped as a deity thou wast— Where is thy glory, where the…