How To Prepare For GATE, IES, PSU by S.K. Mondel?

How to prepare for PSU using my notes?

Please follow the step by step procedure given below for preparing PSU where only objective type
questions are asked.
General guidelines

I found that in all competitive examinations similar type of questions are asked. They are alike but not the same. The questions are not repeated but the theory (Funda) which needed to solve the question remains same. So you don’t need to remember the questions and answers but you must remember the funda behind it. Previously it was not like that. Because that time the question paper was set by PSU people. Most of the questions were copied from the book of R.K. Jain. Now every PSU papers are set by Professors of IITs or renowned Institutes. Professors don’t copy questions but they check student’s fundamentals of the subject. So we must be prepared with fundamentals. That’s why funda is repeated.

You know that in the engineering books are not made for objective type questions. The theory involves rigorous derivations, enormous calculations etc and our University examination is also conventional type. We have to prepare for Objective Questions. For that first read the book carefully try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. Mark with a pencil in your books which funda is needed to solve this problems.

For clearing doubts or any time if you have any confusion Open a PDF file from the folder “Search for solving Question” and press key Shift+Ctrl+F then type any keyword and search. Use down arrow key in the result.
Doing this 99% confusion will be clear. If confusion is not clear yet call me or mail me.

S K Mondal Contact: swapan_mondal_01@yahoo.co.in

Which subject is more important? Or from where should you start?

First check my question set and calculate the number of questions asked. The subject from which most of the questions were asked is more important and the chapter from which more number of questions were asked is more important.

1. Strength of Material

Prepare with my notes only. You don’t need any other books for this subject. First understand the theory which is given at the starting of the chapter. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations.

2. Industrial Engineering

Prepare with my notes only. You don’t need any other books for this subject. First understand the theory which is given at the starting of the chapter. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations.

3. Fluid mechanics and Fluid Machines

Prepare with my notes only. You don’t need any other books for this subject. First understand the theory which is given at the starting of the chapter. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. S K Mondal Contact: swapan_mondal_01@yahoo.co.in

4. Production Engineering (Manufacturing)

Concentrate on questions and answers. Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is P.N. Rao (2 volumes).

First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which more number of questions was asked.

5. Theory of Machine

Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but
my suggestion is Khurmi+Gupta. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which  ore number of questions was asked.

6. Material Science
Concentrate on questions and answers. Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is Hazra+Chaudhry. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which more number of questions was asked.

7. Basic thermodynamics

Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is P.K. Nag. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which more number of questions was asked. S K Mondal Contact: swapan_mondal_01@yahoo.co.in

8. Heat Transfer

Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is R.K. Rajput. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which  more number of questions was asked.
Very important chapters
• Basic concepts ( 1D conduction)
• Unsteady conduction (Lump heat capacity)
• Radiation
• Heat exchangers

9. R.A.C (Refrigeration and Air conditioning)

Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is C.P. Arora. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which more number of questions was asked. Very important chapters
• Vapour refrigeration cycle
• Psychometrics
• Psychometric process

S K Mondal Contact: swapan_mondal_01@yahoo.co.in

10.I.C Engine
Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is Sharma+Mathur. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my  question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which  more number of questions was asked. It is very less important subject. Just prepare the following topic
• Difference between CI & SI engine
• abnormal combustion
• detonation and its control
• Fuel rating ( Octane and cetane rating)
• Supercharging
• Carburetor
• Performance and testing
• Pollution control

11. Power Plant Engineering

Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is P.K. Nag. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question
set with your own and check with my explanations.
First prepare the chapter from which more number of questions was asked. From this book just study some chapters
• analysis of steam power cycle
• boiler
• turbine

S K Mondal Contact: swapan_mondal_01@yahoo.co.in
12. Machine Design
Prepare with my notes and with one other book. If you are familiar with any books buy the book but my suggestion is Khurmi+Gupta. First understand the theory from book. And then try to solve my question set with your own and check with my explanations. First prepare the chapter from which more number of questions was asked.

Strategy
how to prepare for IES???????????

Don’t think it is too hard. It is not easy as well as not hard. All it needs some serious preparation.

1st buy Previous year’s papers (New Vishal Publication)

2nd buy books from booklist I had given in this thread for your branch.

3rd try to solve Previous year’s papers with your own with the help of books.
Mark with a pencil in your books which funda is needed to solve this problems. Remember questions will not repeat but that funda will have have repeated. so try to understand that funda not question answer. after 6 months you will be confident to crack IES.

take help from. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

Self study is the best study. Coaching only reduce your preparation time. By giving the exam 2 - 3 times you will gain experience and final selection. Coaching will reduce your time. By self study you will definitely make some mistake in the total process and you will learn from your own mistake but in coaching there are many faculties they will guide you so that in total process you will not make silly mistake.

Subject Priority list for IES only
1. Fluid Mechanics
2. Thermodynamics
3. RAC
4. Heat Transfer
5. Power plant (With nuclear power)
6. SOM
7. TOM
8. Manufacturing
9. Industrial Engineering
10. Design
11. IC Engine
12. Engineering materials
13. Computer related.

Subject Priority list for GATE only
1. SOM
2. TOM
3. Math
4. Industrial Engineering
5. Manufacturing
6. Design
7. Fluid Mechanics
8. Heat Transfer
9. Thermodynamics
10. RAC
11. IC Engine
12. Power plant (With nuclear power)
13. Engineering materials
14. Computer related.

What is wrong with Indian Education?

So..what is the definition of wrong when it comes to education ? 

Lack of well rounded education . Nerds are restricted to books while jocks are restricted to practice nets. Unfortunately, nerds can benefit a lot from sports and learn team dynamics and how to work along with other people. Jocks on the other hand can learn a few things like critical thinking and logical reasoning.

Absence of disruptive innovators and rebels in our society . Like the commonly quoted Steve Jobs, we do have a lack of innovators (small when compared to our huge population) in our  country.

What we instead have in our country is nation of sloggers who are restricted by our underdeveloped society's definition of success and cramming in spite of unhappiness to get into an engineering college and later to get the next promotion. This is completely done irrespective of if they actually care about the subject and work but rather by social conditioning which deludes them into thinking this how they can attain salvation.

Is it unfair to compare India with say...United States ?

Well take a completely unrelated metric ..life expectancy and compare the US, India and  Singapore. Singapore was chosen by me because in the lifetime of our previous generation it managed to go from an under developed third world to a first world country. Now if you look at something as basic as life expectancy, India completely lacks behind US and Singapore with a life expectancy of something around 65. That would literally mean,  if you are in your 30s, more than half of your life
is gone (yes you can argue it is for the entire nation and not specifically the urban population.)  Anyway coming back to life expectancy, India is where Singapore was in the 1960s. 

Now what does that say to us ?

India is still in the "survival mode" . Since its creation in 1947, we have been and still are in the "survival mode". What happens in the survival mode is that we do cost-benefit  analysis of every decision in our lives and unfortunately in education, career as well as marriage. This explains why engineering is the overwhelming choice of the majority of the people in this country and in similar countries like China (who smartly have also recognized the potential of studying finance.) After we leave the "survival mode" as a nation, then only we will reach the developed stage like US and Canada where a significant fraction will choose subjects which they actually like and rather not forced by society to choose. After that when we reach the "Uber-Developed" status like Scandinavian countries, then the majority of our country, free of financial constraints will pursue their dreams.

Inspite of all this if we look at the enrollment in tertiary education in both US and India (assuming the correctness of the data, they are amazingly similar with approximately 20% enrollment with India doing better). As per the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012, 96.5% of all rural children between the ages of 6-14 were enrolled in school. This is the fourth annual survey to report enrollment above 96%. 83% of all rural 15-16 year olds were enrolled in school. However, going forward, India will need to focus more on quality.Gross enrollment at the tertiary level has crossed 20% (as per an Ernst & Young Report cited in Jan 2013 in Education News/ minglebox.com  "In 2006, 19.5 percent of the adult population had attended college but had no degree, 7.4 percent held an associate's degree , 17.1 percent held a bachelor's degree , and 9.9 percent held a graduate or professional degree . The historic gender gap had practically vanished.  New England had the highest proportion of college graduates, and the South Central states the lowest. "

So what is wrong with our curriculum ?

Actually nothing. Our curriculum is perfect and better than most countries. We are taught a vast majority of subjects (we will get to teaching methods later) which will allow us to recognize where  our interest lies later in life. Hardly do you get Shakespeare and C++ being taught at high school  level in developing country. Even in a developed country like Singapore, the syllabus is not so vast and people who might take History will not end up taking Geography. Unfortunately, our co-curricular activities lack behind a lot which would actually produce a well rounded individual. We end up being egoistical, individualistic narrow minded individual. However, till this crazy competition goes away, I doubt if any importance will be paid to co- curricular activities.

So who are we to blame ?

Parents, Teachers and Society "Cost Benefit Analysis of every Career Decision" When was the last time anyone studied engineering especially ECE because they liked it? They had been tinkering with circuits since young, taking apart radios and other stuff. When was the last time we studied anything because we liked doing it not because we can quote a huge starting annual salary?

Another consequence of the country being in the "survival mode", is that the insecurities of the parents are passed to the children over time and the ultimate objective is to achieve financial stability in whichever way possible.

"Myopic Definition of Success"

Standard definition of success common in our society is getting into a top engineering college followed by working in an unrelated field which would pay the most followed by getting into a B School to work in a field which you did not know  even existed when you were in high school. Although I congratulate the successful ones from the top schools, what concerns me is that the definition of success is extremely myopic. Life is  a long, long journey and although this might give you a good start, it will never determine where you end up.

In this way I will argue that we should stop blaming reservation as a curse of our society. Reservations can only stop you to a certain point and blaming them for "ruining your whole life" is extremely short sighted.

"Nation of Conformists"

We although will hate to admit, are a nation of conformists. Adventure and risk taking as a whole is just lacking in our DNA. We never explored China during ancient times (Marco Polo came from  Italy), we never bothered to go to Africa till there were jobs for us. We are shit scared to be different.  Every career decision is approved by our parents and society. We are just afraid of making a mistake and being pointed at. This comes from the very fact that  since childhood, our teachers will label anyone different to be a "problem child" who needs psychiatric help, thanks to their limitations as incomplete human beings. We are so scared that we even make our parents choose our life  partners.

Sometimes this delusion and comfort in success are gone by our early 30s and for the first time we want to live for ourselves. Unfortunately thanks to our small life expectancy and probably a family and child to support, this becomes a dream which we can never fulfill. Have you noticed why your father is grumpy all the time...this might be the very reason..!!

So is there any hope left ?

Yes! there is. This new generation is slowly breaking conventions and we are seeing more artists, more designers, more scientists.
Things will be much better by the next generation when people will choose careers out of their own free will.

Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director of IIT Madras, answersquestions on Vision 2020 for the institution. Excerpts from an interview…

Where does IIT Madras stand globally?....................Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director of IIT Madras

With the second strategic plan for IIT Madras having been put forth,  The IITs have already grown into a brand. Why then hanker for an international rank?

The IITs are not meant only for undergraduate education. What you are talking about is our global position as a top undergraduate educational institution. …you can’t do world-class undergraduate teaching without doing research also. Now the government has made it clear that they want research as a direct output, not just as a part of undergraduate teaching. So we have to aspire for a ranking on all outputs. We want to be known for our post- graduate output and research output as well. The global rankings don’t capture this too well and the government wants to set up an Indian ranking framework which takes into account what our objectives are. 

But while this may be true, we must rank ourselves to see where we stand globally. How will it change things?

It can only improve. We are also getting a lot of interest from the cream of undergraduate students, not just our own, after the launch of the direct PhD programme [PhD after BTech]. I recently met with 80 students we have picked this way; they’ve all come because they have made an early decision to get into research. As many hands were raised for industry as for teaching. This is very good for the
country and for us to pick them early and nurture them. I was really encouraged by this.

Can you talk about the MoUs with foreign universities ?

We have MoUs with nearly 150 universities. With 50 to 60 of them there are PhDs being  co-supervised with their faculty and with five there are joint PhD programmes planned.

You have talked about developing interdisciplinary centres. What are the directions in which IIT Madras is likely to make progress?
We are seeing very clearly that some 25 [interdisciplinary] centres are coming up. Propulsion technologies became obvious to me a year or so ago. For about two years now, we have been working on getting the right centre, for our capabilities, on data sciences. We want an interdisciplinary group. We’ve assembled six to seven faculties, now it’s grown to about ten. It will be based more on networks. Whether it’s a transportation network or a biological network or a network of wireless communication nodes, what you can learn about these systems and what is happening based on volumes of data that you generate, that is the area we want to look at. There is a big centre on machine tools coming up. We have proposed a large centre in advanced manufacturing, to focus on very new areas of manufacturing, not what is traditionally understood.

You plan to change the curriculum so that students will be taking 50 per cent core courses and 50 per cent electives. Please elaborate.
There are some constraints of the IIT system by which students have to choose their branch at the time of joining — whether they know anything about it or not. There’s no easy way around this. However, what we are saying is that we will define the curriculum for each of these majors in such a way that with the core courses, roughly 50 per cent, you will be legitimately qualified for a bachelor’s degree in that discipline; as you grow here, if you find that your interests are taking you [elsewhere],
through the electives you can redefine yourself. Your degree might say you’re from metallurgical engineering, but your transcript will say you are also somewhat different. And very often in the world, jobs as well as higher education is as much based on what your transcript says as your degree. The students will be able to move in the direction they want.  

Student life has changed in recent times. People are more isolated and face pressures, perhaps because of technology. Is there a plan to address this?

Our counselling setup is becoming bigger and better all the time. Now counselling is not just for those in trouble. It is for everybody. We are now seeing that everybody is involved in some activity  other than their academics — it could be sport, music, art, literature, debate… We are trying to track  that. Our counselling is becoming more proactive. We try to find out the students who are not doing anything and ask them, “Would you like to do something [else]?” We are trying to open out more things for the students. We are trying to reach out and be more available, with quick closing of feedback loops so that we can counsel if they are in trouble of any kind or confused in any way.

The campus is poised to become more student- friendly. Can you explain?

One thing I have always noticed in many universities around the world is that there is a square — where it is very nice. Somewhere off the square there is a cafeteria and a lot of people hang out there. IIT Madras in particular has had to deal from its inception that it is in a very pristine natural setting. And we just don’t have a square — a central, human-designed, architected, space. For the new academic complex that’s coming up, we have found a way to create a big social space and a food court nearby. We need a place which is a very obvious hangout for students. The new academic complex is coming up where we used to have our big godowns earlier. There used to be a bus depot
nearby, we got rid of that and it turns out that there is a big open area there which is going to become a quadrangle.

This is not the satellite campus?

No, the satellite campus may or may not happen. We are working with the Tamil Nadu government on that and they are trying very hard to find us suitable land. It obviously cannot be very far from [the main campus]. Finding a suitable land has been a challenge, but we have identified it and it is now at a very advanced stage of consideration in the government. If that comes, that will change our planning, but it will not change the need for that kind of place here.