GATE CSE Programming and Data Structures syllabus

C programming, recursion and core data structures.

About Programming and Data Structures in GATE CSE

The GATE CSE 2027 syllabus lists 5 topics under Programming and Data Structures.

It is one of the 9 subjects that together carry 72 of the 100 marks (Computer Science subjects). General Aptitude adds 15 marks and is common to every paper. The exam has 65 questions (MCQ, MSQ and NAT) in 3 hours.

See the full GATE CSE syllabus for every subject and the marks distribution.

Same material in another paper

GATE DA: Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms →

Programming and Data Structures topics

Programming in C
Recursion
Arrays, stacks, queues and linked lists
Trees, binary search trees and binary heaps
Graphs

Programming and Data Structures PYQs & weightage

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GATE CSE previous year questions (PYQs) on Programming and Data Structures, with answers, solutions and topic-wise weightage, will appear here as they are published.