GATE Environmental Engineering Syllabus

GATE Environmental Engineering covers 10 subjects: Mathematics Foundation, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Water Resources and Environmental Hydraulics, Water & Wastewater Treatment and Management, Air and Noise Pollution, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and Global and Regional Environmental Issues, and 2 more. Together they contain 48 chapters and 232 named topics.

The full GATE Environmental Engineering outline breaks down into 48 chapters, 232 topics and 35 sub-topics. Environmental Microbiology is the largest single subject with 45 topics across 5 chapters.

Roughly 180 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 9 weeks.

Yes — 514 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 Environmental 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.