Once you are decided to take up GATE exam and read important information related to it, you are ready to go ahead with preparation. I have few suggestions for students who are serious about cracking GATE exam.
I divided the whole process of preparation in few steps and every individual student who aced the GATE will follow these in one or the other way. These are just simple guidelines but the most important thing is your dedication and determination. If you read these steps and appreciate them but don’t follow them then these are of no use. Therefore, I recommend every student to be very sincere and give a good try. The steps are as follows.
Buy or get a copy of previous year question papers if possible with solutions. Having a hard copy is very important and we are going to refer it again and again during whole preparation.
Refer to syllabus and analyze the number of questions asked in each subject. As all subjects don’t have equal marks, few subjects are preferred over others. I mean few subject may have more questions asked in exam than others. I don’t have this subject break up for GATE. If you have done this exercise, please share with us to share with many other students and also we can have a discussion over its validity.
Make a priority list of subjects based on marks or preference given it in previous exams. Marks distribution of subject will help you prioritize and allocate preparation time to different subjects. If distribution is not prepared we usually end up in a random preparation and finally will have tough time dealing with important subjects.
Just for example, in GATE CS and IT paper, around 15~20% is from Mathematics, and then Programming and Data Structures, Theory of computation, OS and digital logic.
Allocate realistic time for each subject. And read it all, as there is huge to cover and it’s easy to ask few marks question from anywhere in a subject.
Finish through reading of a chapter of subject, make short notes of important points, this will help you at last moment to revise what you have read.
Once finish a chapter, go back to GATE Question papers and solve the problems from that chapter. These days there lots of question banks available in market for GATE do buy one and practice. Also to try to get Test Series from other friends. Solve all of them. This will help you to assess yourself for level of understanding of the chapter you read. Use a single note book for question answer solution because you may refer it while revising.
Finish detailed reading at least one and half month before. Keep one month for revisions and clearing leftover doubts. Have a look of question you solved during preparation for GATE and remember how you solved them.
Keep last 15 days for fast practice and revision. Solve as many papers and question banks as you can get from any source.
Keep documents related to GATE like, acknowledgment of application, like hall tickets, application number and other details, in a safe place. Give it to mom or someone responsible, who can give that back to you when you need them. This is to avoid last minute tension for obvious things.
I hope these points will help many of to take a start off. Please don’t waste time and take a start. The one who start early and work consistently reach early and hope see IITs for M.Tech. GATE is a simple exam just needs constant effort to crack it. Don’t worry about competition by number of candidates appearing for GATE, make highest marks as your competition.
This post is a part of a series of posts called GATE Preparation: A complete Guide. You may find many useful articles related to GATE there. This series is made to help students appearing for GATE exam and want to score really high to join IITs and NITs.
M.Tech Specializations and preference
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Master of Engineering in many streams is very specialized course and lead to a very specific future in that industry. As any engineering stream is developed, more scope in industry will comes up leading to specialized courses in universities.
This post answers questions like, what M.Tech specializations are available for some field for engineering, M.Tech specialization preference based on placement opportunities. This is a part of series I m going to write for GATE preparation and M.Tech admissions. To make a truly informative recourse for millions of students, and hope this help them to set their targets and work for them.
Every specialization has its own value, demand and future. Few give better scope of placement because of its higher application and demand. In this post I tried to give a preference based on opinion collected from IITians in related departments. Hope this will help both student appearing for GATE and who looking for M.Tech admissions.
M.Tech specializations in Civil Engineering and their order of preference
1. Engineering Structures
2. Construction Technology & Management
3. Geotechnical Engineering
4. Transportation Engineering
5. Environmental Engineering
6. Remote Sensing & GIS
7. Water Resource Engineering
8. Offshore Structures
M.Tech specializations in Chemical Engineering and their order of preference
1. Chemical Engineering
2. Energy Engineering
3. Process Control & Instrumentation
M.Tech specializations in Computer Science and Engineering and their order of preference
1. Computer Science
2. Information Technology
3. Information Security
4. Software Engineering
5. Distributed Computing
6. Image Processing
M.Tech specializations in Electrical Engineering and their order of preference
1. Power Electronics & Drives
2. Power Systems Engineering
3. Instrumentation & Control Systems
4. Computer Controlled Industrial Power
M.Tech specializations in Mechanical Engineering and their order of preference
1. Thermal Engineering
2. Computer Integrated Manufacturing
3. Automobile Engineering
4. Manufacturing Engineering
5. Material Technology
6. Industrial Engineering
7. Product Design and Development
8. Industrial Safety Engineering
M.Tech specializations in Electronics and Communication Engineering (E&CE) and their order of preference
1. Advanced Communication Systems
2. VLSI System Design
3. Signal Processing
4. Electronic Instrumentation
Truly speaking, every specialization have good demand, the better specialization will give a little advantage. If you get a good score why to leave the little advantage. This is just to help find that little edge. If you don’t work hard even a good specialization don’t work for you, whereas with hard work any specialization can fetch what your are looking for.
This post answers questions like, what M.Tech specializations are available for some field for engineering, M.Tech specialization preference based on placement opportunities. This is a part of series I m going to write for GATE preparation and M.Tech admissions. To make a truly informative recourse for millions of students, and hope this help them to set their targets and work for them.
Every specialization has its own value, demand and future. Few give better scope of placement because of its higher application and demand. In this post I tried to give a preference based on opinion collected from IITians in related departments. Hope this will help both student appearing for GATE and who looking for M.Tech admissions.
M.Tech specializations in Civil Engineering and their order of preference
1. Engineering Structures
2. Construction Technology & Management
3. Geotechnical Engineering
4. Transportation Engineering
5. Environmental Engineering
6. Remote Sensing & GIS
7. Water Resource Engineering
8. Offshore Structures
M.Tech specializations in Chemical Engineering and their order of preference
1. Chemical Engineering
2. Energy Engineering
3. Process Control & Instrumentation
M.Tech specializations in Computer Science and Engineering and their order of preference
1. Computer Science
2. Information Technology
3. Information Security
4. Software Engineering
5. Distributed Computing
6. Image Processing
M.Tech specializations in Electrical Engineering and their order of preference
1. Power Electronics & Drives
2. Power Systems Engineering
3. Instrumentation & Control Systems
4. Computer Controlled Industrial Power
M.Tech specializations in Mechanical Engineering and their order of preference
1. Thermal Engineering
2. Computer Integrated Manufacturing
3. Automobile Engineering
4. Manufacturing Engineering
5. Material Technology
6. Industrial Engineering
7. Product Design and Development
8. Industrial Safety Engineering
M.Tech specializations in Electronics and Communication Engineering (E&CE) and their order of preference
1. Advanced Communication Systems
2. VLSI System Design
3. Signal Processing
4. Electronic Instrumentation
Truly speaking, every specialization have good demand, the better specialization will give a little advantage. If you get a good score why to leave the little advantage. This is just to help find that little edge. If you don’t work hard even a good specialization don’t work for you, whereas with hard work any specialization can fetch what your are looking for.
PhD after B.Tech
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As many IITs are calling for PhD after B.Tech and students who appeared for GATE and could not make it to M.Tech in IITs usually called for PhD exam and interview.
A letter from IIT can make you or anyone think about that program. Here in this post I would like to tell all the pros and cons of this.
The biggest advantage of doing PhD right after of B.Tech is you get to see IITs with not very high score and have a chance to study with highly competitive students. You can also prove to be better than them with hard work and determination.
If you have long term plan for research then this could be a wonderful opportunity. Most of the students are worried about PhD pressure and research aptitude right after B.Tech or BE, I think this will not be an issue. The reason for this is that, one need to take up a bunch of subjects before they start the actual research. These subjects are usually recommend by ones guide and useful in research and also help you to build a solid base to start working. The number of subjects, usually, are same as M.Tech and sometimes professor may ask you to take additional class too.
If you looking for an industry job right after your studies, I think you need to think again about PhD program. A doctorate degree may help you to secure a position in some research lab but finding an industry job is not easy. I was exceptionally lucky in this case because I came to Samsung electronics in Korea in summer internship and they right away offered me a job while leaving. So It was my decision to join or not. I liked teaching, therefore joined Indian Statistical Institute Kolkota for certain amount time too.
The time duration for PhD is also not well defined and may differ from lab to lab or research area. Usually it is something around 4~5 years. During this time one need to be self motivated and stay focused. Always try to have at least one research paper in top most journal of your area of interest.
Most of the PhD students would go abroad for post doctoral research or join as faculty in some college, university or institute based on there quality of research. Few take up the challenges and luck support them to join industry and they choose their career from there. Getting an industry position especially in research is not easy as there are limited laboratories and requirements are too low, as the people who are working as researchers usually don’t move frequently.
To summarize, if you are patient, have really long term plans, self motivated and willing to work for future then you should knock the doors of IITs for PhD. If you are not very patient with books, long reading hours, and would like to complete studies as soon as possible then I would recommend you to try hard to get into to M.Tech in good universities to based on your scores.
A letter from IIT can make you or anyone think about that program. Here in this post I would like to tell all the pros and cons of this.
The biggest advantage of doing PhD right after of B.Tech is you get to see IITs with not very high score and have a chance to study with highly competitive students. You can also prove to be better than them with hard work and determination.
If you have long term plan for research then this could be a wonderful opportunity. Most of the students are worried about PhD pressure and research aptitude right after B.Tech or BE, I think this will not be an issue. The reason for this is that, one need to take up a bunch of subjects before they start the actual research. These subjects are usually recommend by ones guide and useful in research and also help you to build a solid base to start working. The number of subjects, usually, are same as M.Tech and sometimes professor may ask you to take additional class too.
If you looking for an industry job right after your studies, I think you need to think again about PhD program. A doctorate degree may help you to secure a position in some research lab but finding an industry job is not easy. I was exceptionally lucky in this case because I came to Samsung electronics in Korea in summer internship and they right away offered me a job while leaving. So It was my decision to join or not. I liked teaching, therefore joined Indian Statistical Institute Kolkota for certain amount time too.
The time duration for PhD is also not well defined and may differ from lab to lab or research area. Usually it is something around 4~5 years. During this time one need to be self motivated and stay focused. Always try to have at least one research paper in top most journal of your area of interest.
Most of the PhD students would go abroad for post doctoral research or join as faculty in some college, university or institute based on there quality of research. Few take up the challenges and luck support them to join industry and they choose their career from there. Getting an industry position especially in research is not easy as there are limited laboratories and requirements are too low, as the people who are working as researchers usually don’t move frequently.
To summarize, if you are patient, have really long term plans, self motivated and willing to work for future then you should knock the doors of IITs for PhD. If you are not very patient with books, long reading hours, and would like to complete studies as soon as possible then I would recommend you to try hard to get into to M.Tech in good universities to based on your scores.
IIT Hyderabad M.Tech Admissions 2011
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad invites applications for admission to various departments for M.Tech admissions. The departments are Chemical, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical, Materials Science & Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Every department has several specializations. Please visit the below official link for more details.
Eligibility for M.Tech:
Though nothing is mentioned clearly, I strongly believe it will be in accordance with the Eligibility criteria of IITM (as IITM is mentor for IITH).
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture from educational Institutions approved by AICTE/Government or Master’s degree in Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry/Life Science/ related subjects from educational Institutions approved by UGC/ Government or Candidates yet to appear or have appeared in the final examination for the qualifying degree specified and whose results are likely to be declared by July 2011.
Official Website: IIT Hyderabad M.Tech Admissions 2011
Application Fee: Rs. 200/- (Rs. 100/- for SC/ST/PD)
Important Dates:
Last date of submitting completed application form: 16.05.2011
Eligibility for M.Tech:
Though nothing is mentioned clearly, I strongly believe it will be in accordance with the Eligibility criteria of IITM (as IITM is mentor for IITH).
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture from educational Institutions approved by AICTE/Government or Master’s degree in Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry/Life Science/ related subjects from educational Institutions approved by UGC/ Government or Candidates yet to appear or have appeared in the final examination for the qualifying degree specified and whose results are likely to be declared by July 2011.
Official Website: IIT Hyderabad M.Tech Admissions 2011
Application Fee: Rs. 200/- (Rs. 100/- for SC/ST/PD)
Important Dates:
Last date of submitting completed application form: 16.05.2011
NIT Allahabad M.Tech Admissions 2011
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Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MN NIT) Allahabad invites applications for Master degree in Engineering (M.Tech) in various Engineering departments such as Applied Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Department and GIS Cell.
Eligibility for Admission:
The applicant must have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a Master’s degree in appropriate discipline with marks/CPI not below 60%. The admission to M.Tech. programme will be based on the Percentile/Score secured by the candidate at the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). For detail please refer to official link given below.
Official website: MN NIT Allahabad M.Tech Admissions 2011
Application Fee: Rs. 500/-
Important Dates:
Start date for issue of application form on line: 25.04.2011
Last date for receipt of the application form: 27.05.2011
Display of short listed candidates : 10.06.2011
Counseling dates for M.Tech & Ph.D. : 15.06.2011 to 15.06.2011
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Eligibility for Admission:
The applicant must have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a Master’s degree in appropriate discipline with marks/CPI not below 60%. The admission to M.Tech. programme will be based on the Percentile/Score secured by the candidate at the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). For detail please refer to official link given below.
Official website: MN NIT Allahabad M.Tech Admissions 2011
Application Fee: Rs. 500/-
Important Dates:
Start date for issue of application form on line: 25.04.2011
Last date for receipt of the application form: 27.05.2011
Display of short listed candidates : 10.06.2011
Counseling dates for M.Tech & Ph.D. : 15.06.2011 to 15.06.2011
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Common M.Tech 2011 Admissions In 8 NITs
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Last year 6 NITs conducted common admissions and I predicted that it could beyond 6 and its happening. Now it’s 8 NITs. I think after some time it goes like AIEEE and at least NITs would take their own admissions based on common counseling. This will help both students and institutes to streamline the admission process. Please refer to common NIT M.Tech admission2010 and where to apply for M.Tech for more details.
NIT Agartala, NIT Calicut, NIT Jaipur, NIT Nagpur, NIT Rourkela, NIT Suratkal, NIT Trichy and NIT Warangal invites applications for M.Tech admissions in various branches for 2011 academic year.
Eligibility Criteria:
The candidates should have BE/B.Tech/MSc or equivalent degree in relevant course of engineering with now less than 60% marks or 6.5 CGPA in qualifying examination.
The candidates appearing for B.E/ B.Tech/ Msc examinations may also apply for the M.Tech course. However they to produce their marks sheet showing 60% marks or 6.5 CGPA in aggregate.
For more details please refer to official website.
Official website: Common M.Tech Admission to 8 NITs 2011 (This is not working now, we were first to announce it huhuuu. Thanks you all contributors specially Binusha B)
Official Website: Common M.Tech Admissions in NITs
Application Fee: Rs.500/- (Rs.200/- for SC/ST)
Important Dates:
Last date for filling online application: 27.05.2011
Last date for receipt of printout of the completed online application along with processing fee: 03.06.2011
Date of FIRST round of allotment: 25.06.2011 at 4.00 p.m.
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NIT Agartala, NIT Calicut, NIT Jaipur, NIT Nagpur, NIT Rourkela, NIT Suratkal, NIT Trichy and NIT Warangal invites applications for M.Tech admissions in various branches for 2011 academic year.
Eligibility Criteria:
The candidates should have BE/B.Tech/MSc or equivalent degree in relevant course of engineering with now less than 60% marks or 6.5 CGPA in qualifying examination.
The candidates appearing for B.E/ B.Tech/ Msc examinations may also apply for the M.Tech course. However they to produce their marks sheet showing 60% marks or 6.5 CGPA in aggregate.
For more details please refer to official website.
Official website: Common M.Tech Admission to 8 NITs 2011 (This is not working now, we were first to announce it huhuuu. Thanks you all contributors specially Binusha B)
Official Website: Common M.Tech Admissions in NITs
Application Fee: Rs.500/- (Rs.200/- for SC/ST)
Important Dates:
Last date for filling online application: 27.05.2011
Last date for receipt of printout of the completed online application along with processing fee: 03.06.2011
Date of FIRST round of allotment: 25.06.2011 at 4.00 p.m.
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