How to Prepare for GATE Exam and How to Qualify GATE

This post is for those friends who are preparing for GATE 2014 exam. Here are some tips which are useful for your GATE preparation. Hope you will find our tips a bit useful :).


GATE is now just not meant for M.Tech, its also a medium to get job in PSU. Lot of government sector undertakings are recruiting via GATE score. You can have a look on PSU's Recruiting via GATE score

Many students who are going to write GATE exam just wastes plenty of time on Internet in search of material and solved papers. My only recommendation to you is don't depend much on Internet for getting study material. It's nowhere available. Yes believe be! Many sites will try to lure you to visit them regularly for getting stuff. But finally you will realize that its just a time waste process to depend upon Internet for getting stuff. You can't get awesome stuff on Internet free of cost :). So depend on offline stuff like printed material etc.


Limit your Facebook account usage time so that your quality time can be concentrated on GATE preparation. I am not recommending you to avoid Facebook completely. Do visit Facebook so that you cannot miss higher educational and job related updates from your friends as well as pages.

If you are having broadband and really interested in core subjects and having some problems in understanding the concept then you may consider visiting NPTEL so that you can get awesome lectures from IIT faculty members free of cost. This is the only reliable site I came across which can be helpful for GATE preparation.

Start your preparation with those subjects in which you are really interested. I mean cover your core subjects first. Because you already know these subjects well. Mathematics may be common for many papers. If you are not sound in Mathematics or if you are not related to it then don't try to learn it from scratch. You are wasting too much of your time on it, also it may have vast syllabus. Instead of it concentrate on subjects in which you have grip. What I want to say is instead of learning every subject in hurry, just learn thoroughly your core subjects. If still you have time then you can go for other subjects.

Have a look on the previous year GATE Question papers By this way you will have some idea on which type of questions can be asked in the exam so that more focus can be applied on those topics. This will also give you an idea about how twisted the GATE questions are :)

Lot of books are there in the market which gives previous paper solutions. Be careful regarding these guides. Many times they have a lot of errors in answers. So only see the question and have some reference books to clarify the solution which is correct. Or you may try to discuss the questions with your friends or faculty member so that a better resolution can be achieved. Don't trust these guides blindly.


General Aptitude is recently introduced and many people just use to ignore it. Believe me this is the best section where you can get maximum score. Concentrate on it by having some Online Mock Tests already given by GATE 2013 website. This is helpful for you for getting a clear view on which type of questions you can expect in General Aptitude.


Many students use to attend crash course to crack GATE. I am not saying that coaching is must. If possible gather material from Best coaching institutes so that your preparation will become a little bit easy. Because material will have the content in an organized manner. I recommend you to have ACE Engineering Academy material. Of course this is not compulsory. (Don't think that I am marketing a particular coaching institute. It's a fact. Majority of students prefer this material).


And at last but not least while attending the exam if you have any doubt whether the answer for a particular question is right or wrong then please don't attempt to answer it all. Yes, answer only those questions in which you feel confident that the answer is correct 100%. Negative marking will effect your total score if you try to answer the question with doubt. Once again I am saying if you are not sure just leave it.

If you find our tips helpful, then consider sharing so that they can be useful for your friends too . :)