GATE Preparation Tips
After pursuing engineering, all engineering students stand at the
crossroad of making a decisive choice so as to explore interesting
avenues as a choice for their careers. A majority of people opt for
mainly two things that are management or M.Tech. With the current
economic scenario of the India, there are various colleges that are not
able to give 100% placement to their students. This results in
candidates making a tough choice between management and M.Tech. In order
to get admission in M.Tech the examination that holds significant
importance on national as well as international level is GATE.
So,
if you are the one seeking admission in post-graduation programmes in
reputed engineering colleges and institutes in India, you need to crack
GATE. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), is an All-India
examination that holds high significant and is conducted in eight zones
across India by the GATE committee. The main objective of GATE test is
to identify the quality of students and assess their potential to
continue higher education. By conducting GATE, it becomes easy to
evaluate the students on the required skill scale and consistency to
pursue higher studies in the field of engineering.
With the
cut-throat competition, even those who save more than 85% in the GATE
examination, lag behind in getting admissions into the reckoned
institutions such as NITs and IITs. The questions of GATE are usually
the derivation of fundamentals and preparation of GATE is an ongoing
process and is supposed to take place in varied stages. Prepare your
best with the fundamentals and then test yourself those fundamentals.
There
are students who prepare at home with the number of book options
available in the market today. Then there are few aspirants who opt for
correspondence coaching courses. A coaching material cannot be assessed
until one goes through the same word by word. Hence GATE aspirants can
go by some tips of their seniors.
Those who are getting regular
classroom coaching need to check whether the institute suits their
requirement or not by considering some of the following parameters:
•
Distinct Study Material- Now-a-days all the coaching institutes offer
study material for assistance in studies. But if this material simply
copy paste or re-write of materials taken from other books then these
hold minimal importance. In comparison to all this, there are several
standard books on each subject by good authors which can make your study
enjoyable as well as interesting.
• Compilation of quality books-
While studying theory, conceptualization and building application
capabilities, and one needs good collection of books, which can really
put our brain on exercise. Ensure that your coaching institute has a
collection of good and informative books.
• Flexibility- There are
aspirants who have slow or fast grasping power than the average. In such
cases, it is better to ascertain the model that suits your needs and
provide enough guidance to you at the same time.
• Tests and
Evaluation Model- Ensure and track your progress through a set of tests
and evaluation as this is the most crucial part of the preparation. This
is the main area where the students fail due to lack of essential test
and evaluation material.
How To Manage Time For GATE Preparation
Time management is a real trick for achieving any goal in life. GATE
is no exception. Recently, I have been receiving many emails and
questions regarding time management for GATE exam. The questioners are
either having full time job or students of final or pre final year.
The
answer is not easy, and every great thing is not easy in life. If
someone has a full job or college to attend they need a give an extra
effort by managing their time tightly. For managing time first one need
to find where is the time that they can use. I have few points to share
with you all regarding time management.- Check daily routine and write down these activities on a paper with hours. Don’t need to be very hard and strict about timing, don’t need to mention exact hour and minutes of the activity.
- Once we have a list of activities we do in a day we also have a good idea of what we are doing in a day.
- Figure out activities we are doing for fun and can be compromised for certain time.
- Make use of this time for GATE preparations.
The first thing I did was started using public transportation. And second thing was to go little early. By which I can get a seat in bus to go to college and I spend that travel time either for reading, revising or taking rest in bus.
I was a student so I used that early hours to sit in library and prepared GATE and other exams. And another thing I did was to leave college very late may be at library closing time. I tried to make best use of library. When I finished my B.Tech, everyone knows where I am, if I am not in class. To make it great we need to sacrifice and need cut some of the thing which we love. Every time we make a hard decision by knowing what are we are doing, it will benefit us in long run. The hard work always pays us, one or the other day, in one or the other day.
The common distracters for students are
1. Travel long distance driving our own vehicles on regular basis.
2. TV serials
3. Too much unproductive time wasting friends
4. Too much sleeping
5. Spending too much in markets
6. Watching movies almost every weekend, watching them from bed till return to bed.
These are few common time consumers in life. If we manage them properly we can do many things miraculously on time.
The last point is to be very consistent in our preparation. It’s not a one day job it’s a consistent effort achieve big result.
GATE is big opportunity for student who didn’t have a chance to prove, because of image issue with lectures in B.Tech. They have a golden opportunity to prove. GATE is totally an open competition and you may beat the best student of your college with consistent efforts.
Your friends may tease for your change, please don’t worry about them much. They will also cherish your great achievements in future and feel great to associate themselves with you. Hard work with consistency will take you there.
THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED:
Do wear your wrist watch, without fail
now a days we people are used to cellphones so we never mind wearing a
wrist watch but this attitude will not help you in the time of
examination. So please do wear your watch.
Do carry a water bottle with you, so if
you feel thirsty you can have it in between the exam. Never think that
you can get bottle from nearby shops of your exam center at times you
will end up in the place where you find no shops in and around the area.
People think that GATE is all about
marking in OMR SHEET, but the fact is the space allotted to you will not
be sufficient enough, if you go wrong somewhere then you will find a
strong hurdle to workout, whereas if you pick a pencil with you then you
will find it easy.
Don’t take heavy breakfasts, better have
some light breakfast or fruits which are easily digestible, and that
wont make you feel drowsy too, and get some biscuit packets with you so
that after exam you can have it if you feel hungry
Wear clothes which is comfortable for you,so that you will feel ease.
Take a writing board with you, so if you find that furniture at classroom is not proper you can switch to your writing pad.
Take your own vehicle to reach your
centre, or if you are opting for public transportation please plan it
earlier and so that you will be in safer side.
Learning before the day of examination is
not advice able, so better take rest and so that you could challenge and
solve even more difficult problems.
If you are unable to solve the questions,
pick some random questions and try solving it, please don’t get tensed
it at all you are arriving with answers, try to tackle situation in
logic way. Start working with the area where you are strong enough so
you will gain your confidence level.
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