How To Study For Gate?

What books should one study in preparation for the GATE examination?

• I am interested in giving the GATE exam. I still have one and half year for it though. What are the books, Notes, etc. I need to study. How should I approach it? How should I prepare for it?

• Answer:

  Who am I? http://asgiit.blogspot.in/2014/04/who-am-i.html Since you have approximately one and a half year left for GATE, i believe you are aspiring for GATE-2016. Now for me this is plenty of time to prepare for GATE and so you are quite an advantage in GATE Preparation so the preparation should be done in two phases: First Phase Identify standard text-books for each and every subject, that you can find online at various blogs and you can also follow my post for that: http://asgiit.blogspot.in/2014/04/recommended-books.html Please go through each and every text-book for clear explanation of all topics and it will have twin benefits for you which are: Your preparation for GATE and IES is going well When sitting for placements both on-campus and off-campus you will be technically more sound than other candidates. While studying from any textbook you must take notes, please keep a separate notebook for each subject and prepare notes as clearly as possible so that you do not have any reading problem while going through them once again. Be as detailed in your notes as possible because if you are appearing for interviews after GATE whether for PSU/M.Tech you need to be technically sound. While covering different subjects try to set a deadline for each subject as that will help you manage time better or one better thing that you can do is to prepare a road-map so that you can evaluate at times whether you are on-track or off the track. You can even do one more thing that if you are an undergrad the prepare the subjects in your current curriculum along the college and the subjects that you have already completed in previous semesters try to cover those by assigning one month to each subject and never prepare only a single subject at a time but rather multiple subjects to avoid saturation and boredom. Since problem solving is most important aspect for GATE preparation, please solve the exercises given at the end of each topic from the text-books first and solve most of the problems by subjective methods as now GATE is subjective by including Numerical Type Questions so that will give you an exposure as how to tackle numerical problems and if you are aspiring for IES pay special attention to structuring of your answers as that will come in handy for IES Conventional Exam. I believe the first phase of preparation should be completed in 8-10 months so that you are left with enough time and you have good knowledge of each and every subject. Then you are ready to proceed to second phase. Second Phase The second phase of preparation is about preparation specific to GATE and not generic preparation. So first tep is to pick-up the GATE curriculum and highlight the topics that are covered in GATE as not all the topics in text-books are covered in GATE but rather a very small subset of those topics. The advantage that you now have is that you have your own very detailed notes so you do not need any study-material and rather buy a book which gives previous-year GATE and IES Problems as that will be much more relevant to your preparation and most of study material problems do come from those only so no need of wasting any money on that. Now just read from the notes that you prepared and prepare another set of short-notes which can cover each and every subject in at most 20-30 pages so that you can have quick revision before the exam or even mock-tests. Now these short notes should not be generic in any way and are fine if those are clear to you and no matter whether others are able to understand or not. But if you do not want to prepare those notes, please follow this link where we'll upload short-notes on each subject for ECE and EEE branches. http://www.kreatryx.com/ After revising each topic solve previous year problem to improve your speed and accuracy and this part of your preparation should be completed approximately 2 months prior to the GATE exam. Then join a good test series which i can say at present is offered by Gateforum and evaluate your performance after each full-test and whatever your weak-points are should be thoroughly revised from your short-notes and re-tested with the help of Part Tests from that subject which will improve your performance by leaps and bounds Try to solve as many full-tests as possible in the last month as possible by even collecting last year test series papers from your seniors and that will give the finishing touches to your preparation. For any other GATE related queries, please join this group where no advertisements go on but rather qualitative discussion happen: https://www.facebook.com/groups/525599064217673/