GATE Chemical Engineering Syllabus

GATE Chemical Engineering covers 10 subjects: Engineering Mathematics, Process Calculations and Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Mechanical Operations, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Instrumentation and Process Control and Plant Design and Economics, and 2 more. Together they contain 46 chapters and 148 named topics.

The full GATE Chemical Engineering outline breaks down into 46 chapters, 148 topics and 49 sub-topics. Engineering Mathematics is the largest single subject with 35 topics across 6 chapters.

Roughly 120 hours for one full pass. That estimate allows about 45 minutes per topic plus 12 minutes per sub-topic, so it is first-pass coverage — revision, past papers and mock tests sit on top of it. At 3 hours a day that is about 6 weeks.

Yes — 507 question-and-answer flashcards across 10 decks, one per subject, written against this syllabus. A sample of every deck is readable on this site for free, and the complete decks are in the Examius app.

Yes. Every page here is free to read, and importing the GATE Chemical Engineering syllabus into the Examius app to tick off topics as you finish them is free too, in India and everywhere else. No account is needed to start.