Sunday, June 28, 2009

Introduction

This blog has been made from the view of helping students who want to appear for GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers). We will try to guide you on matters related to how to prepare where to get material from and other such queries. Personally all the authors being related to Mechanical Field it would be difficult for us to guide on other subject but we will try to rope in new contacts to help students who are really interested in the same. Also the procedure after clearing gate is the toughest one and making proper choices and filling forms properly can make a world of difference, we would like to give guidance regarding the same too.

12 comments:

  1. Well, let me start with introducing myself.
    I am Ashutosh Jani doing M.Tech in Thermal Engineering from IIT Madras.

    While writing this post I keep in mind the aspirants for GATE 2010.

    So, first of all you should ask a question to yourself.

    Why GATE?

    How will your academic life be once you clear GATE?

    I would request all the students preparing for GATE to get rid of a mental block that IIT is a place where only NEWTONs and EINSTEINs can reach. IITs are not supposed to be the places for THE GENIUS,they provide you with a platform to make a Genius out of yourself.

    Now comes the question. Why GATE?

    If you want to write GATE seriously, aim nothing less than IIT, it is not so difficult as it is thought to be, but you can work sincerely in that direction, only if you are conviced about yourself pursuing a PG in your respective field.

    Normally you can opt for M.Tech. or MS course after clearing GATE.

    I would request all to spare at least a few hours in surfing the websites of all the IITs before opting for GATE.

    Get some myths clarified.

    "You will get a very good pay package once you finish your PG."
    If you are after a good salary, you should better opt for MBA and not M.Tech., MS or M.Pharm. Of course you will get a brighter package compared to the one you may get after your UG, but the difference may not be salivating. Basically you should continue your technical education, only if you feel the longing to remain connected to your field, or you feel like innovating.

    "Another myth is that you will be doing research in your M.Tech. course."

    M.Tech. is NOT about research. In most of the M.Tech. programmes across all the IITs, theory subjects are taught during the first year, and project is carried out in the second year along with a few courses in the third semester. You cannot expect anyone to come up with a feasible innovation leading to major improvement in a short span of one year. By doing M.Tech. you are specializing your area of interest and getting deeper into it.

    MS is research oriented course, where you get enough time to carry out your project work, which starts from the first semester itself and above all MS does not have any time restriction.

    "You can get a job of a lecturer only after doing M.Tech."

    To get this myth clarified, you should have a look once at the placement statistics of IITs. Normally more than 70% to 80% of M.Tech. students get jobs in the industries, and very few opt for teaching profession, this is not an attept of proving anything inferior or anything superior, but it is a general trend that I would like to reveal.

    Now once you are convinced about writing GATE, let me share some tips for preparation of GATE.

    When you are about to finish your graduation, or you've already finished, keep yourself away from asking the Childish questions like HOW MANY HOURS SHOULD I READ DAILY? HOW MANY MONTHS ARE ENOUGH TO GET A HANDSOME SCORE IN GATE?

    One of our seniors could secure an IIT admission without a dedicated preparation for the exam; why? Because he was thorough with his fundamentals and the approach towards the exam.

    Normally a month of serious preparation should suffice.

    When it comes to competitive examinations, your approach has to be practical.

    Out of my experiences of writing GATE twice, I can claim that it is not all conceptual knowledge that is required. You should be clear about all the concepts, but try not distracting yourselves from the other aspects of the syllabus. Keep in mind the structure of GATE syllabus.

    Do not rely solely on any printed material for preparation. Do refer the books that you used to refer during your UG course. Along with that keep solving multiple choice questions. You may refer to G.K.Publisher's book for GATE preparation. GATE Forum also provides with some set of MCQs, but do refer the books simultaneously, as the credibility of the answers provided by them is not reliable in a good amount of cases.

    That's it for now. Will come with something more soon.
    All The Best.

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  2. Excellent Blog man. It was really good. I think these words are must read for anyone having so many untold myths. Great work. Go on. You rock

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  3. good work. Please try to popularize your really good blog, I`m sending the link to all my friends. Thanks da.

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  4. We are trying to popularize it, but our attempts will be worth if some confusions about GATE can be clarified. If you really want to pursue PG from IIT, start your efforts in the same direction and feel free to ask any doubt that comes to your mind. Three of us frequently visit the blog.

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  6. This is awesome Ashutosh!!! Can you suggest some material which has more of multiple choice questions? Speed is my weakness (I am too lazy for solving problems).

    Or some short notes (nectar) for most important formulae...

    OOO sorry!! I am B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering

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  7. Well, I did say, it's an easy job, but only if you're sincere enough. There are no shortcuts. There are coaching classes teaching such short-cuts (tricks in picking up most probable answer among the options), but I would not like to popularize them nor would I recommend short-cuts, because the outcome of it can hardly survive in the cut-throat competition outside IIT.

    For B.Tech. mechanical I can recommend few things.
    First and foremost is that you should be knowing the answer to the most common yet most difficult question about any field "WHY?" That makes you fundamentally sound.

    From design portion, you should be thorough with the concepts of Engineering Mechanics and Strength of Materials along with the formulae relating the stress and load for various machine elements. You may need to cram a few formulae in case you find the derivation difficult; otherwise always derive formulae and never mug them up, as this reduces the chances of any silly mistake in the formulae, but cramming the formulae won't do, practise problems as many as possible. GATE Forum test series or similar may be enough.

    Learn Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer thoroughly. Try and plot all the processes viz. isentropic, isobaric, isothermal, isochoric, isenthalpic etc on P->V, P->T, P->H, T->S, H->S and all possible property diagrams. Derive all the formulae of various cycle efficiencies once and then remember them, but always keep the derivation fresh in mind.

    It's been more than a year since when I've touched Manufacturing engineering or industrial engineering, so I would request the co-authors to clarify it as they have written the examination this year only.

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  8. Hi ashutosh.. I have a query..The admission for NITIE,Mumbai is through GATE right?
    Actually i am interested in MBA.But getting an MBA from any good institute demands job experience.I heard that PGDIE from NITIE is equivalent to an MBA.
    I just wanted to know your opinion about it?

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  9. Sorry.. I forgot to introduce myself.This is Ravi Shankar from Hyderabad.I am now into 3rd yr Mechanical Engg.

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  10. Well, I may not be the right person to contact for this, as I was never interested in pursuing MBA, you better try surfing the site of NITIE, you may also send a query as an email, they will reply for sure...

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  11. thanks bro for your valuable comments.

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