June is about to end, starting from July you have 6 months upto December. It is high time for a serious GATE aspirant to start preparing NOW. The glorious GATEs of IISc and IITs are just six “labour-months” away from you. It is the exact time when you should pack your bags and start your journey towards your destiny. However before setting on for this journey it will be better to know what you are going to deal with.
Your aim is to crack Gate exam, and why only crack it, let’s say your aim is to hit the "GATE" so hard so as to flung it open to make your entry into your dream Institutes. GATE exam provide passage to M.Tech course, research scholarship and Phd in IITs, IISc and some foreign universities like NUS etc. Besides that almost all PSU now require GATE score for candidate selection.
Some Stats:
As per the IITB statics total number of candidates who appeared for GATE 2013 in four major papers are Electronics and Communication Engineering (2,56,135), Computer Science and Information Technology (2,24,160), Mechanical Engineering (1,65,814) and Electrical Engineering (1,52,381).
Complete statics are given here: http://www.gate.iitb.ac.in/gate2013/gate-2013-result-statistics/
This just gives you the idea of competitiveness of this exam. These stats may be daunting to any aspirant but here is my observation which you will find very comforting. For a serious candidate actual number of worthy competitors are only 6000-7000, may be less but not more, as far as CS paper is concerned. I am sure this is pretty much same about other papers too. So no matter how many lakhs of candidates appear for exam you will always be competing only against few thousands of them for good rank.
How must one plan:
Ideally planning must be done in such a way so as to complete the entire syllabus by November end or mid December and then only revision and problem solving should be done.
More about this later...
Before ending I would like to iterate one thing here that every serious candidate must understand that what you are aspiring to achieve is no joke. Be determined to work very hard. There are no short cuts, no easy formulas to cram but one and only one thing which will make you through and that is your planned hard work.
Your aim is to crack Gate exam, and why only crack it, let’s say your aim is to hit the "GATE" so hard so as to flung it open to make your entry into your dream Institutes. GATE exam provide passage to M.Tech course, research scholarship and Phd in IITs, IISc and some foreign universities like NUS etc. Besides that almost all PSU now require GATE score for candidate selection.
Some Stats:
As per the IITB statics total number of candidates who appeared for GATE 2013 in four major papers are Electronics and Communication Engineering (2,56,135), Computer Science and Information Technology (2,24,160), Mechanical Engineering (1,65,814) and Electrical Engineering (1,52,381).
Complete statics are given here: http://www.gate.iitb.ac.in/gate2013/gate-2013-result-statistics/
This just gives you the idea of competitiveness of this exam. These stats may be daunting to any aspirant but here is my observation which you will find very comforting. For a serious candidate actual number of worthy competitors are only 6000-7000, may be less but not more, as far as CS paper is concerned. I am sure this is pretty much same about other papers too. So no matter how many lakhs of candidates appear for exam you will always be competing only against few thousands of them for good rank.
How must one plan:
Ideally planning must be done in such a way so as to complete the entire syllabus by November end or mid December and then only revision and problem solving should be done.
More about this later...
Before ending I would like to iterate one thing here that every serious candidate must understand that what you are aspiring to achieve is no joke. Be determined to work very hard. There are no short cuts, no easy formulas to cram but one and only one thing which will make you through and that is your planned hard work.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda