Hi,

When I decided to write about my preparation I collected it all together and all recollected is that whole strategy I had I got from posts various toppers. So now Instead of writing each and every thing again, I’m going to write post link & I’m going to tell what I got from each blog post:) You can built your strategy from there:)

  1. http://www.engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-2015-topper-interview-ravi-shankar-mishra-air-1-in-computer-science-engineering => I got list of books from to use from him. This is essential read for any future toppers. Read this blog to see how someone can get AIR 1 in just few months of preparation in first attempt. Thank you Ravi for your blog.
  2. http://gate2015-tamojit9.blogspot.in/ => This is really nice blog. Do have a good read. Thanks Tamjit for writing this blog. Best thing you can get from this is -> “ REMEMBER THERE IS NO SHORT CUT TO HARD WORK
  3. https://cdn.rawgit.com/AgarwalPragy/GATE16Tips/master/Tips.html => This is blog by Pragy Agrawal. Best thing to take from this is “Flashcards”. This flashcards help me revising. Thanks Pragy for this blog.
  4. https://gateetude.wordpress.com/ => This is blog by Pradeep Pandey. Please check ‘https://gateetude.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/gate-paper-structure/’ this post . That is must. Every post by Pradeep is like Gold mine for serious preparing students. Thanks Pradeep for thsi blog
  5. Check answer by Arvind Devraj here -> https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-study-for-GATE-so-as-to-get-a-good-rank-to-get-into-IISc He talks about which reference books to use and how to study. This is really great post, and you should definitely go through it if you are serious. Thanks Arvind for writing this blog.
  6. http://gatecse.in/ and http://gateoverflow.in/ are two good resources for any serious GATE aspirant. You must go through this websites. Thank you Arjun Suresh , Kathleen bankson for creating this huge corpus of questions, for Gateoverflow book and compiling toppers blog, linking good video lectures etc.

Taken from -> https://akashkanasegate2016.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/how-i-prepared-for-gate-i-used-strategy-of-old-toppers/

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Hello Sir,

Thanks for such inspiring blog.

I can understand the importance of self study. But could you please tell how anyone can cover up the of 400 pages in 10-15 days as well as take notes? Could you please mention few points or mistakes people usually do in studying a textbook?
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Reasons of not getting 90+ in cs

There was no need to get 90+ marks when you are getting rank 1 in 80s and top 200 are in like 70s range and last year in 2023 you were in top 500 if you get 55+ out of 100....

so if you are in top 200 you are getting same college as air 1 or an equivalent college so that's why nobody thinks of getting 90+....

 second thing is gate cs paper is one of the conceptual papers so scoring 90+ requires a lot of accuracy and brainwork since there is time bound. other papers in which there are 90+ score it is because most of the paper is formula based and less conceptual as compared to computer science...

 if one is able to remember formulaes and has accuracy in calculation then he/she can easily get 60+ and with hard work he/she can push himself/herself to 90+. I am not saying that other papers are easy....

Third thing due to which student get 90+ is competition. you have a high level of pressure to get as much marks as possible because someone is there who is preparing harder than you to get more marks...

 There are lot of CS jobs available and after mtech placement of cs is better than most of the branches so people are less serious for getting 90+ coz they have backup options available whereas other branches mainly compete for psu as core jobs are less in other branches as compared to cs and most of them are less interested in doing mtech due to poor placement as compared to cs branch....

How to get 90+

 working hard is the only option to get 90+. for me working hard means that you should be able to attain a level such that whatever question I give you related to gate syllabus you should be able to give me the answer within 3 to 10 minutes....

Ways to achieve 90+

Ways to achieve it is by practicing good quality of new questions and learning each and every concept thoroughly. whenever some asks you some concept you should be able to visualize what is happening in the question. if that is not happening then you are weak in that concept...

 Nowadays competition is increasing in cs , so you can expect someone to get 90+ in the coming 4 to 5 years....

1.    https://gateoverflow.in/292063/Gate-2019#c292105

2.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byt7-j-JD0d0bmxlRkZGcjN2cjA/view?resourcekey=0-VfnVIJ2CEXaqv-0JK6w4CQ 

3. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pZheUyebxs25F_xhZ0pIlEx_fogE-Hc_?fbclid=IwAR0HDzPYrLb9wdkBWSSPpX_BHoOcbVUc2TxjEwKxLHZ_kcw4ec5vCs9_u7g

and

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OXc1-utb8GoWr1LL9jCU1eI_oJR0mG0e?fbclid=IwAR2b6g0W-IvVjJCkTPwzImIxdLYceWL_O09GjzXL-8rrL0AB5RVZ-eCWu_8 

4. https://www.mediafire.com/folder/gp6z7khjzyl8d/gate_materials?fbclid=IwAR0ezzTYvJdobF2hXtr3xVNZpZOFtw96yHAywR2_j9BOKGe1mBNSgVUcsvw#gp6z7khjzyl8d 

and

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/gp6z7khjzyl8d/gate_materials?fbclid=IwAR0ezzTYvJdobF2hXtr3xVNZpZOFtw96yHAywR2_j9BOKGe1mBNSgVUcsvw#mp3qyi2prh3fb 

5.  https://gateoverflow.in/blog/tag/important-questions

and

https://gateoverflow.in/blog/tag/engineering-mathematics

6. https://sites.google.com/view/nptelcse/courses

and

https://classroom.gateoverflow.in/

7.  https://gateoverflow.in/tag/gate-preparation

and

https://gatecse.in/is-solving-previous-year-questions-enough/

and

https://gateoverflow.in/blog/tag/preparation-advise

and

https://gateoverflow.in/blog/tag/testimonials

8.  https://gateoverflow.in/27820/What-is-was-your-strategy-for-gate-preparation#a29293

and

https://gateoverflow.in/blog/1752/topping-gate-2018-in-cse