Many students keep asking me about gate, hence i decided to write this page to help them out..

1.Read text books only. dont read anything else. dont read any notes, books, ur knowledge and ur own judgement.

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2.buy any book in the market which has got old GATE papers. do not trust the answers given in those books,most of them are wrong!
3. u may but u need not go for the extra topicwise que. given in those books, again dont trust those que. and those answers, u may use them for practise only.
4. u r ur own judge, ask teachers in case of doubt.
5. duration: i did it for 15-17 days.( but i prepared very rigorously during those days) some of my seniors also did it for the same period. If u think u have studied in last 2 years and u have understood the subjects then that much period should be sufficient. to be on safer side, u may prepare for one month. otherwise if u think that u dont know the things then prepare for whole year
6. what is imp in gate is how much u can solbe in those 180 minutes.  practise of solving papers is very imp. solve 2-3 of them before exam. u can solve one or two now to judge urself.