General Aptitude · Spatial Aptitude
Official IIT answer key · IIT Guwahati · Audited Aug 2026
GATE CSE 2025 Set 1 Q9 · MCQ · 2 marks
A square paper, shown in figure (I), is folded along the dotted lines as shown in the figures (II) and (III). Then a few cuts are made as shown in figure (IV). Which one of the following patterns will be obtained when the paper is unfolded?
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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 →Independent practice explanation verified by the GateAI team. GATE is conducted by the IITs; question text follows the official paper.
