Loading previous year questions
General Aptitude · Spatial Aptitude
Official IIT answer key · IISc Bangalore · Audited Aug 2026
GATE CSE 2024 Set 2 Q9 · MCQ · 2 marks
Key concept
No account needed
Sit 5 related Spatial AptitudePYQs as a guest. We'll score the set and show which traps cost marks — sign in only if you want to save the run.
Topic notes
Spatial Aptitude in GATE assesses a candidate's ability to manipulate, transform, and reason about 2D and 3D geometric objects, patterns, and maps. Questions consistently test spatial transformations (rotations, reflections, line symmetry), paper folding and unfolding/cutting, 3D cube nets and orthographic projections, and 2D tessellation/tiling invariants. All 16 questions in this dataset are Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), heavily reliant on visual diagrams (75% image-based) with a split between 1-mark perceptual checks and 2-mark multi-step geometric reasoning.
Full Spatial Aptitude guide →A cube is to be cut into 8 pieces of equal size and shape. Here, each cut should be straight and it should not stop till it reaches the other end of the cube. The minimum number of such cuts required is
Topic-wise GATE CS PYQs with verified steps
Independent practice explanation verified by the GateAI team. GATE is conducted by the IITs; question text follows the official paper.