| Forum Topic : How to prepare for GATE exam? | |
| Submitted by John on 29/05/2009 - 06:13 PM | |
| GATE is an exam that tests you on your fundamentals. The questions are generally derivations of the fundamentals. Preparation for GATE is an ongoing process, and is supposed to happen in stages. First get your fundamentals right, and then test yourself on those fundamentals. When you have done this, you should pit yourself with the competition, which means a mock test which would give you a percentile to let you know where you stand amongst competitors. choosing the right material is very important but how do you choose which coaching material to go with. This is something that is quite subjective. A coaching material cannot be assessed until you have gone through it. So, you could go by the word of your seniors as to what coaching material they followed to prepare for GATE. Here are some parameters on which you can decide whether you should go for a particular coaching institute, use a particular coaching material, or tests: 1. Material Collection: All the syllabus based books, problem oriented books and also collect previous questions papers. 2. Keep contact with some expert and GATE experienced persons. 3. Study - Syllabus and Previous questions papers 4. Start from the first chapter: study at least 5 books, solve more and more papers, for each chapter continue the same and finally take mock test for reviewing yourself. 5. Well, So...... on the exam day…you will be at your best, who can stop you? 6. Uniqueness in their study material: Study material provided by the coaching institutes is of little assistance if they are compact copy-paste or rewrite of materials taken from other books. 7. Flexibility in the Coaching Model: Try to minimize the wastage of time. 8. Quality of questions discussed: Number of questions discussed is not that important. By discussing and solving 10-15 conceptual questions on each topic you can build a good application capability. On the other hand solving many tricky non-conceptual questions will simply waste your time. 9. Tests and evaluation model. 10.Simulate actual test environment. 11.Take up an all India test series which gives you your percentile and All India Rank: It is very important because the mentality of the students is that once u get high scores they will be playful. So remind in your mind that your are competing the best in India and to be selected you have to work harder and harder. 12.Analyze: Analyzing your test results is a very important part of taking the test. Only by analyzing we could improve and beat the exam.. |
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