Syllabus and Study Materials

GATE XH Paper Syllabus

The Humanities and Social Sciences (XH) Paper is structured to assess candidates across a broad range of disciplines with a focus on analytical, reasoning, and subject-specific knowledge.

Paper Structure: The XH paper consists of three sections:

• General Aptitude (GA) – 15 marks (common to all GATE papers)

• Reasoning and Comprehension (XH-B1) – 25 marks (compulsory for all XH candidates)

• Optional Subject (One out of Six) – 60 marks

Total: 100 marks, Duration: 3 hours, Mode: Computer-Based Test (CBT)

IIT-JAM Economics Paper Syllabus

The IIT JAM Economics syllabus spans five major areas: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics for Economics, Indian Economy, and Mathematics for Economics.

Microeconomics covers consumer theory (preferences, utility, Slutsky equation, revealed preferences), production and cost (technology, isoquants, returns to scale, short‑run/long‑run costs), general equilibrium, welfare economics, market structures (competition, monopoly, price discrimination, oligopoly), game theory (Nash equilibrium, Cournot, Bertrand), and market failures including externalities and asymmetric information.

Macroeconomics includes national income accounting, consumption theories (life‑cycle, permanent income, random‑walk), investment, money demand and supply, business cycle models (Classical, Keynesian, IS‑LM), open‑economy models (Mundell–Fleming, AD–AS), inflation and unemployment, and growth models like Harrod‑Domar, Solow, AK, and Romer.

Statistics for Economics covers probability theory, distributions, sampling, estimation (MoM, MLE), hypothesis testing, and regression using OLS with classical assumptions.

Indian Economy includes pre‑1950 economic structure, planning, post‑1991 reforms, banking and financial sector policies, poverty measurement, social development, and labor market issues.

Mathematics for Economics spans functions, calculus, linear algebra, differential/difference equations, and optimization (unconstrained and constrained, Lagrange multipliers, linear programming).

Topic-Wise YouTube Videos

Microeconomics

• Price Discrimination by a Monopolist

Microeconomics

• Money Multiplier in Fractional Reserve Banking System

Mathematics

• Arithmetic Progression

• Finding Increasing and Decreasing Intervals for a Cubic Function

• Euler Method to find remainder

• Integration by parts

• Optimization using First Order Condition (FOC)

• Sum of a series

• Permutation and Combination

Statistics and Econometrics

• Expectation of a Random Variable

• Identifying Independent Events

• Slope of Coefficient of Linear Regression

• Goodness-of-Fit of Linear Regression

• Regression Line Passes Through Average Points