Marks:68 AIR:308 Currently BTECH Final Year SGGS College nanded I had no coaching but I never felt like one as whenever I got problem I just googled it out n guess what first link was of GO. Comments in that problem on GO page by experts really helped me a lot #I'm not bragging but hatssoff to u arjun suresh sir . Thanks GO once again

Reading the past year's toppers testimonials on GO and thinking whether I will be able to perform well and be an example for future aspirants always seemed to be a motivating factor for giving my best, and now this feeling is totally magical. I am Tejasvi Sharma, a BE CSE 2018 graduate from UIET, PU, Chandigarh, managed to climb up from 4 digit rank(1707) in Gate-18 to 2 digit rank(78) in Gate-19. Joined an abc coaching for last year's attempt but was not satisfied by the performance last year. Thought of giving an attempt with Job for the next year. Got motivation from my senior who also achieved the same feat there. About the preparation strategy, the best thing is planning beforehand and creating a roadmap for the journey that lies ahead. The best resources available for study are the ... the past year examinations. As has been rightly said Those who sweat more in training bleed less in war' so give good quality tests by joining a decent test series and try to learn from the mistakes and constantly aim for improvement. Also there is no shortcut to success so yeah one has to invest a lot of time for the same and there is no substitute for that. Thanks GO for everything..

Words would fall short to express how much thankful I am to GO for the helping hands that the wonderful users of this site had extended to me to enable me land up at AIR 116 in GATE CS 2019 in the very first attempt. I am currently pursuing my Btech in 4th year. Thank you @Arjun Sir , @Bikram Sir to come up with such a wonderful site and always helping fellow aspirants like us. Though this isn’t such an impressive rank, but behind the scenes, there were countless number of sleepless nights and lot of struggle and hard work which got all the recognition today because of GO. I would personally like to thank my best friend @Manas Kumar Mishra for picking me up at times when I was low..for motivating and inspiring me to the extent that enabled me to carry on my preparation till the last minute. I can’t express my gratitude in words..There are certain emotions that cant be expressed in words..:) Also, I would personally like to thank @Shaik , @MiniPanda , @Magma for helping me endlessly to clarify my doubts. Thank you so much :) My GATE journey has been described here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Somoshree-Datta

I am Shreyansh Jain, a B.Tech CSE 2018 graduate from a tier-3 college, managed AIR-86 in GATE-19 with two months of dedicated preparation. This post might help people who messed up their exam or could not held their nerves on the D-day. I will try to pin point everything wrong I did while preparing last year. Before that I would like to thank everyone who has contributed in the making of GO book and Arjun sir especially for all his selfless efforts to make this platform and bringing all aspirants under one roof. After GATE 2018, I was looking for an answer to the question Should I drop completely / or continue preparation with job / or focus on Job entirely? having scored AIR 323. As I got placed in a product based company so I thought I can continue preparing with job. ... and Mark for Review to prioritize order of solving problem based on difficulty level Mentally prepared myself not to get panic by looking at some alien problem (test by @rituraj helped) Blunders I made : Ate something non-sense night before exam, woke up with headache $225 \times 4 =1000$, might cost me with IITB All the best to future aspirants. Prepare well without thinking about results. Thank you :)

Firstly i would like to thank gateoverflow community for my success. Without gateoverlfow air 45 would have been only a distant dream for me. The detailed solutions to all the question on gateoverflow is unmatched. I would also like to thank all the members of gateoverlow community for guiding me directly or indirectly through their comments and blogs. I would also like to thank my seniors abhijeet pandey sir and sarthak chauhan sir for their valuable guidance during my preparation. They were the people who inspired me to get better rank. Last but not least i am also thankfull to my friend sarthak sharma for his valuable input during discussions and motivating me through my preparation. Tips for gate2020 inspirants. Gate is not a 100 m race it’s like a marathon. one should plan his/her preparation in well advance. set some benchmarks for yourself and try to achieve them. Don’t take test series too lightly they are vital part of your revision. Don’t get disheartened if you get low marks/ranks in test series. but always look for improvement. Do previeus years question atleast twice or thrice.

Before you read any further, you should judge me, because I am not a topper! My rank(558) and gate score(729), marks (63.67). It is important for you to decide if my experience is worth your time. Also, the usual disclaimer, below is My reasoned routine for GATE 2019. First things first, there is "NO SHORT CUT TO THE GATE JOURNEY". Quite trivial a line it is and you must indeed learn to value the meaning that it holds. For those preparing for GATE 2020, the biggest challenge you have right now is time. Not that you have less time in hand, but the fact that you have way way more than whats required to kill GATE, calls for immense dedication to keep the regularity of studies going. At times you shall feel that the pace at which your preparation is going is pretty good, and you deserve a ... THINK OF ME AS SOMEONE WHO BOASTS(CAUSE INITIALLY MY COLLEGE GRADES WERE HARDLY AROUND 6.5 TO 7, INCREASED LATER THOUGH). THE THING IS, IF YOU ADVERTISE YOUR POTENTIAL SUCCESS, YOU ARE SUB-CONSCIOUSLY FORCING YOURSELF TO DELIVER. Even if you fail, worst case is people remember you as a jerk. But its up to you to decide what you want. All the best for 2020. Wish you a good health. :) Jai Hind.

AIR-$175$ Marks-$71.67$ This was my third attempt and I got AIR-$175$. Gate preparation can be described as $30:70$ ratio, $30$% is learning concepts from videos/classes/books. $70$% is about practice. So for $30$% have a look at videos, books before joining anything/ paying your money. Gate Overflow is very helpful for the $70$% part of preparation. Previous year questions(more than 3000 questions) are very important and solving them required me around $4$ months, because if I couldn't solve a question means I didn't knew the concept well so I had to learn them properly and not just see the solution and happily move on to next question. You get answers to all the previous year questions with enough discussion and even after that if you are not satisfied you can ask doubts ... had $3-4$ wrong answer keys provided, and were changed as soon as the Gate key were out. But all the key provided by Gate Overflow were right. Further Gate Overflow has guidance for post exam also for admission and counseling and college predictor is also very accurate. If I did not knew about Gate Overflow I could not have managed to get 70+ in Gate. My other blogs: Test Series Figuring out attempt strategy

Marks : 66.33 AIR: 410 . It is my first attempt to GATE CS.Firstly I am not topper but I tried my best to qualify gate with good rank. I am currently pursuing B.Tech. from Tier-3 college. GATE Overflow Books really helped me to achieve that rank and also post GATE guidance provided by Arjun Suresh Sir really helped me a lot. I got IIT Guwahati in COAP 2nd round . At the end I would like to thank GATE OVERFLOW Community.

*This is my first post, so forgive me if its written badly* After preparing twice (Gate 17 & 18) and failing twice I was frustrated and disheartened. I left the hope of getting into premium institutions and joined NIT Delhi with no other option. But still that dream was awake in some corner of my heart. I decided to appear for Gate 19. I started stealing time from academics to prepare for gate 19. I had this in mind that I know the concepts well as I have had prepared earlier so I will revise the syllabus and practice gate questions. I joined GO_classroom and started reading discrete maths and doing programming assignments given but I couldn't continue this with other subjects. So then I switched to my notes which I made while preparing for gate 18. It was really tough to find out ... motivation degrades and it continues for next 3-4 months. Here you need to sustain. Don't Quit! If you could pass this phase you will be able to regain your motivation and will be able to finish your preparations as you thought. And chances are you will win! Finally remember to follow Gate Overflow, it'll help you throughout your preparation. Thank you Arjun sir for gifting us with Gate Overflow!

This was my first attempt for gate and I scored gate score 737 and rank 498.. Though it is not that good score.. But without gate overflow I seriously dont think that it could have been possible.. A big thanks to all the gate overflow community members especially Shaik Masthan Sir, Arjun Suresh Sir, Srestha Mam.. I started preparing for gate since 3rd year but at that time I didnt know much about gateoverflow site I started using it from may 2018 and that was the turning point of my preparation. I think the previous year questions are sufficient for practice and one should do them atleast twice.. I guess there is no need to say as we all know that the best resource for it is The Great GO Previous Year book!!! Tests do help us to rank ourselves as we can test our concepts and work upon our real areas.. One ... will always regret.. So be confident and practice as much as you can.. At this rank I knew that being from general category there is no chance for any old iit.. I got interview call from iitb ra but couldnt convert it .. But my studies and hardwork didnt go waste as I got admission in IIITH.. A very big thanks to Gate Overflow for it .. Thanks and all the very best to all f

First of all thank you everyone here in Gate Overflow Community for making this place a knowledge heaven. I learned lot of new things , cleared lot of doubts regarding various topics here.Finally Got AIR 260 About My Journey I am 2015 pass out from Guru Jambheshwar University,Haryana where i didn't learned anything at all.Quality of education is miserable there.But i managed to get a job in Service Based MNC through off campus placement and they didn't gave me joining during whole year. At that time i didn't know much about GATE so my only thinking was to get into an MNC only.I wasted about an year just for a joining .I learned some Web Development and mostly wasted my time.But after an year i started to realize i can't live like this.Then one of my friend advised me to take GATE coaching ... GO community is my only source for doubt clearing and learning new concepts and finally i was able to secure AIR 260 and also cleared ISRO exam with 24 rank but Got rejected in interview. Thats all ,this is my story in short.Again I wish to thank all GO community and my family for such support because without them i couldn't have done this. My English is also miserable like my Btech college :D

A journey from AIR 3511 to AIR 94 I completed my B.Tech. from The NorthCap University Gurgaon in 2017. I have given gate twice once during final year(rank 3511) and now in 2018 with full-time repeat by self-preparation. I really want to express my gratitude to WAHEGURU, MY FAMILY and GO OVERFLOW Community. How Gateoverflow helped me:- Best possible solution to each and every previous year questions. It has not only helped me in building my concept but also the answers written by people like Arjun Sir, Sachin Mittal, Debashish Deka motivated me to have to the good grasp over the concept and in-depth knowledge regarding the topic like them. Best Test Series as the level of the questions were similar to GATE. Thank you Bikram Sir for providing these tests. Best possible answers to my doubt by ... bit late i.e in end of December due to which able to score only 11/15 marks despite the fact that this year aptitude was very easy. Feeling depressed when use to score lesser marks in test series but actually marks in test series are not the right way to judge your preparation. While giving the GATE exam couldn't able to maintain the cool and panicked because of thinking about the results.

Hello everyone :) So after a long time, writing comments, answers and asking the question, finally a day came to write a testimonial. i am currently final year undergraduate and secured AIR-14, GATE-2018(CSE). Firstly, i would like to thank my family for having belief and faith on me. now 50% credit goes to me(my hard work, passion) and other 50% completely goes to Gateoverflow. If i start to descirbe a role of gateoverflow in this testimonial, i will end up in taking lot and lot of time, therefore i will just summarize it. Arjun sir is my idol and i owe my success to him. apart from this a great thanks to Bikram sir, Habib sir, K.D sir, srestha mam, Anu007 sir and some of my good friends Hemant Parihar, Ashwin Kulkarni, just_bhavana, saxena0612, rahul sharma, Shivam Chauhan and many more. Now here ... that i have to not touch english questions, after exam i came to know that those questions were very very easy and due to which i was in lost of 2 marks(silly lost). Finally, all the best to all the aspirants of GATE-2019, Use gateoverflow as much as possible(if you are really aiming for top ranks), have a faith and belief in yourself and that's all that is needed :) Thank you!

Sorry for the length of the post! For someone who had no clue about the GATE exam, GO came to the rescue! For those who are still oblivious to the power of this community, the websites https://gateoverflow.in and https://gatecse.in/ are such a huge support that you don't have to look anywhere else for most of your needs. So, a huge thanks to the creators and contributors of this forum. Furthermore, I implore the GATE 2018 toppers to add their own few cents if GO has benefited you, for remember the time when you read such posts and they motivated you. I'd also like to add a few points as an advice for the times when the going gets tough for the aspirants : 1. When I started my preparation, I had already quit my job and traveled for two straight months. It was only after that, ... your plan has to be your own. Analyze what works for you. GATE is easy because competition is not much unlike other exams. 10. Last but so not the least - Keep yourself hydrated. Never overwork yourself. Jog everyday. Breathe fresh air. Love computer science. P.S. - I made silly mistakes of 10 marks - which was a constant during tests too. That made the difference between the topper's marks and mine. :(

I secured AIR 157 in Gate-2018. Thanks to the entire GO community. About myself: I did my B.tech from BIT Sindri ( Jharkhand state govt. college), passed out in 2017, IInd attempt ( got AIR 1457 in 2017), Self preparation ( Only took online tests ). GATE-2018 JOURNEY: After getting the Gate-2017 result, I was unsure about whether I should join any college ( IIITB,D, NITs/ New IITs ) or I should repeat fulltime. I decided to give one more try and started my preparation in the month of July ( A bit late because I was busy enjoying the last few days of college life). But, Before starting my actual preparation I took some time to analyze myself, to know where I lagged in previous attempt. I made a lists of all the subject, topic etc. in which I was weak and ... : One should use GO pdfs as a guide/mentor and shouldn't use this in memorizing an answer but understanding concepts. Same can be applied to Online test.( you should give tests to examine your concept and preparation level and shouldn't learn any new concepts from these tests before verifying those concepts ) Good luck to all future GATE aspirants. Wish me Luck in my future endeavors. Edit : Ignore grammatical mistakes, if any.

Hello Everyone, I'm Ashwin Kulkarni GATE 2018 AIR 323, in my first attempt. Though the rank is not very very much attractive But it is quite good. I joined GO in mid-October, I guess after that it boosted my confidence drastically. The confidence of tackling questions, a habit of continuously exploring new terms helped me a lot while solving a question paper. I will share my journey (I'm sure many people can correlate with it :P) So in the third year, I decided to go for a GATE 2018. But as I mentioned in the title I was very very crazy during my college days from 1st year itself, took part in almost every anchoring, interviews, Street-Plays, magazines team head and many more college events. Then the question arises How should I prepare if I'm not stable enough. Because ... exam and we are fortunate our competition is little less compared to CIVIL and MECHANICAL, Just prepare consistently and positively. Solve as many as question papers in the last month. If you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend keep him/her aside for few months :p. Do everything in the college don't miss those days too. But while studying you should be focused and consistent. Thank you so much, GO family.

Although AIR275 (GATE18 1st attempt) is not that good rank. But 5 months back when I joined GO even this was not possible...thanks a lot, everyone in GO ... I was not much of a contributor but more of a follower but now I think I should have participated in those healthy discussions. I devoted first 3 years of my college life to competitive coding, web and Android development but being from a teir3 college these things were not enough to fetch a job with a decent package... after discussions with friends and seniors, I decided to prepare for gate'18 half-heartedly (because I thought getting into IIT would be tough just like JEE advance but this is not the case with GATE if you are conceptually clear and have a good presence of mind you can crack gate with a good rank ) .... although the list of people who guided me and helped me during GATE is large but would like to give special mention to Ashwin Kulkarni , My batchmates Atul Bhandari ,Amrendra, Satyam rohella,Shubham,Neeraj discussions and following these guys helped and encouraged me a lot to clear my concepts. THANK YOU so much, GO, family,

( Its a brief "Thank You note". I am looking forward to write a lengthy post in near future to help future aspirant ). I am a final year student and I got AIR 94. Marks 67.33. (Quite disappointed because of the stupid blunders I committed worth 15 marks but it is what it is and I can't do anything but accept the fact. But hope it helps whosoever reads it to realize the importance of solving questions carefully.) I want to thank Arjun sir, all the veterans of GO and the whole GO community who is always willing to help and guide one through one's way. The quality discussions with sources to reliable content helped to level up my thinking and shaped the perspective as how to approach a problem. Actually to a famous person who once said that "nothing worthwhile comes free", I ... study this part very thoroughly and in first place. 4) If possible Do competitive programming, it will help you in ways you can't imagine. BONUS: Colleagues who used to do programming got better rank ( Just an observation, doesn't necessarily mean its true). I am very grateful to whole GO community and whosoever has ever contributed even in a very small proportion. Thanks a Trillion. Wish you a lot of success.

Hi everyone! My name is Rishabh Gupta and I secured AIR - 2 in GATE 2018. Marks: 83.00. Credit goes to my parents and GATE OVERFLOW. I am a final year student in a tier-3 college. It was my first attempt. Even being in a central university, we have zero placements. Really, not a single company visited our campus this year for CSE(till now), not even the mass recruiters like TCS and Infy. But I think that is why I got this rank. There was no other option, but to study and prepare for a competitive exam which offers a decent chance to excel in the professional sphere. Whatever I am writing here is a part of my own viewpoint. Many might disagree with me. I would, rather, like to suggest you do not follow me blindly but rather analyse yourself and do what suits you best. I always followed ... you very much Arjun sir for this platform, thanks to Bikram sir for so many good tests(which are way better than paid ones), and thanks to all seniors here at GO, whose blogs and answers motivated me. And Thanks to all other active users of GO. It was a great experience preparing with you people :) All the best to future aspirants. You can message me anytime, I will be glad to help :) Thank You!

I owe my success to GO. This is the best place for previous year question and explanation. Never thought I will get into top 100 . I can surely tell one thing, doing all the previous year questions honestly , will land you in top 100 ( I am definitely not suggesting to mug them). Unfortunately I have never contributed as such to GO,only countless upvotes (if that counts) to the beautiful answers by experts like Arjun Sir , Bikram Sir , Habib Sir , Praveen Sir (TOC answers) , Sachin Sir ,Praggy Sir (always seen him answering the most difficult math questions) and many more . I know only these words will do no justice , but thanks again.

I am Ahwan Mishra, Air: 223 in gate 2018, This is all about my journey with gateoverflow. I had started my preparation for gate 2017 from a long time before the exam. I could not get what I wanted in my first attempt. I felt like, I gave my best, so GATE might not be my cup of tea. This is what I deserve. I was going to study in NIT Durgapur/Rourkela. Then someone came into my life for whom my life is going to be better. He is @Bikram sir. He said me again and again that you should try once more, you will get into IITs next year. He knew me just for 2-3 months before that. Still, I had not decided to drop a year, I was not convinced enough. Then I saw a video in youtube by Sandeep Maheshwari. Its title was "Kuch To Log Kahenge". That video affected my ... else is even close to it.. Do I need to say anything about it? The best source for prev yr qsns, most accurate rank and score predictor. Simply the best source for GATE. Anyway, in the end, I thank all my teachers, seniors and friends. Thank you Arjun Sir, Bikram Sir, Ravi Sir, Praveen Saini sir, @Debashish Deka bro, @Sachin Mittal bro, @Shiva Kulshreshtha bro, @Habib bro, @Digvijay Pandey bro, @balaeinstein, @Vineet, @Hemant.

AIR-71 THANKS GO THANKS ARJUN SIR ,MANISH JOSHI SIR , SHIVAM CHAUHAN SIR , NIRMAL GAUR, TUSHAR BHATT I AM FINAL YEAR ECE STUDENT FROM COT PANTNAGAR (STATE GOVT. CLG) WHO STARTED DOING PREPRATION FOR ECE GATE BUT IN ONE WEEK I UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY FOR ME TO PREPARE WHOLEHEARTEDLY FOR ELECTRONICS .THEN TWO OF MY FRIENDS TUSHAR BHATT AND NIRMAL GAUR RECOMMEND ME TO SWITCH BRANCH FROM ECE TO CS GATE. BEFORE THAT I WAS CODING ON CODECHEF SO I KNOW ABOUT PROGRAMMING AND LITTLE IDEA ABOUT ALGORITHMS AND MATHEMATICS. AND FOR THE REST OF THEM I WAS FULLY UNAWARE BUT AFTER TALKING TO MY SENIORS MANISH JOSHI SIR(AIR-29, EE ), SHIVAM CHAUHAN SIR (AIR-14 , ECE ) I MADE MY MIND TO TAKE THAT RISK. IN THIS JOURNEY GATEOVERFLOW IS REALLY AWESOME AND THERE CAN NOT BE ANY BETTER ... BE WASTED IF U HAVE TO SIT FOR PLACEMENT IN COLLEGE . BELIEVE ME GATE IS A CONCEPTUAL EXAM EVEN IF U KNOW LESS U CAN SCORE GOOD BY ONE YEAR OF PREPRATION.ONE OF MY FRIEND OF ECE BACKGROUND IN CS SCORE 45 MARKS BY HARDLY TWO MONTHS OF PREPRATION (ANCHAL JAKHMOLA JAI HO.. ).AT LAST DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS. STAY FOCUSED. WISHING ALL THE FUTURE ASPIRANTS VERY BEST FOR THE PREPARATIONS.

I went all out. Year: 2017(Final year, Engg.) I didn't opt for placements as I wanted to do masters. I applied for MS in the US, got rejects from every university(top 30 - 50). I took the decision to drop an year and not to apply for MS in US as it doesn't make sense to spend lakhs of rupees for universities below 50 rank. I went all out. I prepared for gate 18 like hell. Sacrificed everything, movies, friends, even family. I messed up during the exam or maybe the surroundings messed me up. There was construction going on near the test center(just for three hours 9 am to 12 pm). I know I am "lucky". I believe I lost at least 400-450 rank because of the disturbances. I Failed. Gate 18: Score 659 Rank 960. Is it possible to get into any good research institute in India with this score (and OBC-NC category)? Is it the end for me and my dreams to build a strong research-oriented career in Computer Science(AI/ML specialization)?

Hi, I got AIR 94 in GATE CSE 2018. The actual preparation started after my 6 sem exam in May. I started with Discrete Mathematics. The strategy I used to follow is that at a time I used to do only 1 subject. I learn the concept either from Standard Books or Videos. Make my own notes. Then do the previous year of that subject. Then move to the other subject. and Keep revising in between. For previous year I used GO PDF soft copy. For easy question, I solved it within the PDF only. For good question, I used to open it into the browser, then I try to solve it. Whether I solved it or not. I checked the answer, read the discussion, and visit the mentioned links to understand it properly. Especially the links mentioned by Arjun sir, are really awesome, it really helped me to understand the concept ... want to quote, 2 of my favorite quotation for inspiration for future aspirants. I used to take print out of quotation and paste them at my workspace. They give positivity. :) "There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than the commitment to a dream." ~Ignited Minds "It doesn't matter what your past is, it doesn't matter what your present is, what only matter is where you want to go."

AIR - 118 I cannot thank GO enough for the motivation and guidance I got from it. GO PDF and course text books are all you need for GATE CSE preparation. The accuracy and the clarity of concepts in GO PDF is no where to be found. Since few months, visiting GO and it's Facebook page has become kinda hobby for me. I don't know how can I repay the forum. Hats off to the owners and every active contributer here. I have committed many silly calculation mistakes in the exam and had to pay for them with around 12-13 marks. Else I could've made it to top 50. So, I feel that good grip on GO PDF can make you score above 75 if not 80 if you don't commit silly mistakes. I vouch for it. (By good grip, I don't mean to memorize the process of each model of sum. I mean to understand the intuition behind every solution with clarity.) Million thanks once again.

I secured an AIR 377 . A lot of thanks to GATE OVERFLOW community. The GO pdfs for previosu year questions where absolutely fantabulous. The way the questions were organized and answered and the discussions about each and every question helped me to acquire immense amount of knowledge and concepts.

I started preparing for GATE after completing my B.E in Electronics. The major reason for most of us to appear in CSE is because of the subject Data Structure and Algorithms. I was introduced to DS & A in my final semester and from then and there everything happened! Thank you Gate Overflow community for your superb answers which fetched me an AIR of 352.

I would like to thank you all for helping me achieve this dream. This was my first attempt. I did my B.Tech in CSE and graduated in 2016. I was working in TCS and simultaneously preparing for GATE. Gateoverflow content made my concepts stronger as I progressed. Towards the end I started enjoying re-reading the solutions (even for the questions which I marked correct while practicing) only because of the perfect way they were answered. How to tackle a question from all possible scenarios, making use of every word in the question, etc are what I learned from this site. Kudos to the team, I've already resigned from the company as I already knew I'd be in top 100 (my predicted rank was 71-97). The rank predictor kept me and my dad on an adrenaline pumped journey since a month now. I'm ... . My dad became an active member of the group towards the end. Because of you all and my family's support I could be in top 100 and now am looking forward to the next big turning point of my life. My younger brothers have also started preparing for GATE and I've asked them to refer to this bible called "Gateoverflow" for their practice sessions and doubt clearance. Thanks & Regards, Abhishek Varma

GATE 2018 AIR: 352 NIELIT Scientist-B Rank(17 Dec 2017): 11 NIELIT Scientific Assistant Rank (17 Dec 2017): 59 ISRO Written Rank(22 April 2018) : 35 IIT Kanpur M.Tech. TA Selected (Test Experience) IIT Delhi M.Tech. Computer Technology Selected (Interview Experience) BARC OCES/DGFS-2018 Selected (Interview Experience) Hello Everyone! My name is Vidhi Sethi. I have done my B.Tech. from the University Of Delhi, Kalindi College, 2013-2017 batch. In final year I prepared for GATE and also joined some coaching institute but managed to get a rank of 1867. I even cleared the Code Chef, written and interview rounds of IIITD and managed to get an admission there. Through my campus placements, I was placed at Hitachi. But, somewhere in my heart, I believed that I deserve even better things and somehow ... to GO in any manner. I would also like to thank people that I met here on GO during my preparation Nitish Joshi, Hemant Parihar, Sreshtha, Chotu Ji, rahulsharma5, Sadbhavna, Rishab, Ashwin Kulkarni,Churchil and many more. It was wonderful discussing concepts with you all. I owe GO a lot! I seriously would consider it as my privilege if I could be of any help to GO and the future aspirants.

I have found gateoverflow.com great help. Specially previous year paper that were put by site for practice purpose were great help in last time of preparation and they also boost my confidence. And all of the answers on previous year are well debated and beautifully explained. Thanks to Arjun Suresh Sir who made it possible. PS i got AIR 174 in 2017

Gate Overflow is a site I've come to know and love during my preparation for GATE 2017. I got AIR 77, with GATE score 865 and 71 marks out of 100. I'm thankful to GO for their free guidance and providing excellent tests and platform for discussion. Every year, GO answer keys always turn out to be correct and since 2 consecutive years even IITs changed the official keys after members from GO challenged it, so one can be assured of the credibility of the answers by GO mentors. GO prediction tool was also very accurate and it predicted my rank to be 64-86, so all in all GO is a great initiative and the best part is that they're here to help students free of cost.

AIR: 72. I'm originally from ECE branch. Preparing for GATE in a separate branch within 10 months felt like an impossible task at first. Fortunately in the early days itself I somehow got introduced to GO. The real strength of the GO platform lies in the brilliant community and Moderators ( specially Arjun Sir, He's made this site the best resource and discussion forum for everyone who decides to prepare for this exam seriously). I referred ME notes, joined a coaching for some time in Bangalore, joined ACE and ME test series, but nowhere have I found the rigor which you can find in the GO community. Every answer will be debated and discussed pertaining to it's foundational basics. There would be no hand waving, you won't be asked to just remember some random formula. Everything would be formulated from the ... the Coaching Institutes books, you'll see how easily they go around the important details. But if you review the same answers in GO, you'll see how much effort has been put in getting the answers. Thanks a lot Arjun Sir. If it wasn't for this platform I'm reasonably confident the preparation would have been hell for me and I very highly doubt I would have got a decent rank.

I joined Gate overflow last yr this time and I am active here from September.What I found here best is its reliability of Answers.Most of the questions are discussed by all aspirants.So it is such a platform which is open for arguments and asking questions till you have any doubt.And that I found very impressive about it.And many will be agreed with me that those comments and discussions made many doubts clear. For previous year questions also this is the best source to follow as there is no other book available in market(I checked all) which is as accurate as GO.So this is a great initiative by Arjun Sir and other experts to open up such a platform to build much more stronger concepts. So my message to future aspirants is be active here,read as much questions as u can,post those questions you facing tricky,discuss and clear ur doubt. Thank You... Kishalay Das AIR-37,Gate 2017;ISRO-SC Selected

Greetings!!! I got AIR-172 along with final year. Yes i know its not under 100 , but that's a different story . But a big part of this was all possible because of Gateoverflow. As everyone know that it provides a great platform for all the queries, but apart from that it helped me to do the things in the right way. There are some amazing people in this community that will affect you in positive way and will help to achieve your dream. Where education is becoming a means of business and where cracking exams is more important than learning , Gateoverflow is providing far more better resources and guidance than anyone and i learned a lot in this journey. For GATE preparation you should trust only 3 things:- yourself , Reference books and gateoverflow . Thanks to Arjun Sir and all the contributors of Gateoverflow .

GATE CSE is an exam where the more you learn and relate things, the more questions your mind develops, and only a healthy discussion can help firm your understanding of such concepts. GateOverflow community helped me exactly that way. Each and everyone here has a thing or two to teach you and the answers by veterans and mentors simply put all doubts to rest. You don't need any coaching if you know how to use GO. Saying that, if you are interested, here's a little advice from me : Don't just check the best answer to a question, grasp it and move on; read all the comments (especially if they are by veterans) and other solutions and develop a coherent understanding as to why that particular concept is applied to that particular question. Helps a lot in subjects like CN, CO. A big THANK YOU to ARJUN SURESH sir and the whole team for their selfless and tireless efforts. And a personal THANK YOU note to BIKRAM BALLAV sir for helping out personally. Ishita Gupta ; AIR 248 (GATE 2017)

My journey towards AIR 39!! I would like to start by thanking the person whose guidance made the journey pleasant and interesting, Arjun Suresh Sir. I believe it's the legacy that he is continuing. As Lord Krishna guided Arjun during war similarly Arjun Sir is guiding all of us during our war. I would also like to thanks Bikram Sir and other GO members for their contribution in my journey. Students asked me whether to join a coaching institute? Which institute should I join? I believe there are two ways you can gain knowledge. Read all the reference textbooks. Do everything by your own. Learn from those who are already master in it. There are pros and cons of both. From textbooks, you get exact information but effort and time needed is more. To minimize your effort, you can get the guidance from GateOverflow ... started the real part that is practicing and revising. I daily studied for 6 to 8 hours. Note that here daily' is important aspect, number of hours depends on the individual. At the end, I would like to say don't follow anyone. Everyone has their own strategy that suits them and may not suit you. So set your own time table, your boundaries and work smarter. All the best!!

A year ago if someone has said to me that I'm going to get this result I wouldn't have believed them, hell I wouldn't have believed it myself 4 months ago. Because before December 20, the day since I started using GO for preparation or I should say I actually started my preparation I was not even prepared for qualifying the exam. It was GO that took me from 5000 rank like preparation to 5. I think what makes GO great is the community. You can find answers to questions from numerous sources but GO is the only place where you can contradict those answer, get contradicted and have a productive discussion where no matter if you were right or wrong before but you will end up better informed after. In the 50 days that I used GO I have asked a lot of questions some may be stupid or too easy for others but remember gate is an easy exam and all those stupid and basic questions you skip today will haunt you on the day of the exam. So my only advice to other aspirants is, don't be afraid to ask. Ask for help and there always be someone to help you here at GO. Thank You GO for all the help... Pankaj Joshi, AIR - 5, Gate 2017

I am an ECE, B.Tech pass out from NIT-Jamshedpur. A long story behind why I switched to CSE that I will tell in another post. First of all, salute to @Arjun sir for providing this platform. Bikram Sir and You are so so good in so so many ways. Thanks for being so generous to our each silly doubts and showed a lot of patience. This online community played a key role in GATE preparation especially for the students like me who do preparation from home without having a suitable GATE environment. Most of the GO test paper are really balanced with a good number of quality question, so big thanks to @Bikram sir for making test series possible. And thanks sir for your suggestion on avoiding my silly mistakes( But did 4-5 question silly mistakes in core section and could score 4.66 / 15 in ... test ( Interview is on 6th of April ). Irrespective of my GATE result, I learnt a lot just by reading answers and comments. Whenever needed any resource, gatecse.in helped a lot and with some important previous year statistics as well. Thanks, @Praveen sir for giving the proper solution in TOC and Digital. Finally, I want to thank all GO members who helped me in one or another way. AIR - 265.

I am a Final Year Electronics and Telecommunication student with a decent AIR of 242 in my first attempt with 5 months and 15 days of dedicated studying. Let me start from the top - I was planning to apply for masters in the US and infact gave my GRE and TOEFL as well. I wanted to do my masters in Computer Science but being an electronics student the only way I could apply was via ECE branch and take additional credit courses, but any ways coming to the point during my internship while browsing through top colleges for masters in India I stumbled upon Ravi Shankar's blog ( AIR-1 2015) and his journey from changing his branch from Mechanical to Computer Science, that is where I got to know IIT's allow students to apply to any field. So I started my preparation for computer science from scratch from August. I read through all ... have been there. So a BIG THANK YOU To All OF YOU !! I could have scored more ( lost 6.67 marks to silly mistakes) but then again every other person reading this blog feels the same way. So that's just makes it Fair :) If I could score a decent rank against all odds. So can you. DO NOT GIVE UP till the time you come out of the Examination Hall. AIR - 242

Hello everyone, I got AIR 302 in GATE 2017. So, here's my GATE journey and experience on this awesome community. I was introduced to GATE Overflow last year by one of my friends who is doing M.Tech in IIT Kanpur. It was around the time when IISc Bangalore released the answer key for GATE 2016, and everyone was predicting their rank in the GO App. Yes, 2016 was my first attempt, and I got AIR 3935 in that. Once I predicted my rank, I knew what was coming, and decided to drop an year and reappear next year. My Preparation: I had a habit of reading textbooks during semesters. While the rest of my friends read the University Question Bank before exams, I used to read textbooks. So, I had finished majority of the textbooks (Galvin for OS, CLRS for Algorithm, some part of Forouzan for CN etc) ... gradually helped me in overcoming my that problem, and I am thankful to the members for the same. Thank you Arjun Sir, for your so precise explanations. Thank you Bikram Sir, for your support. And I didn't wish to write a blog (because I was a bit disturbed because of my rank. A little better would have kept me on a safe side). Thank you Bikram Sir, for motivating me yesterday to write it.

Thanks Bikram sir for encouraging me to write this . Yes , I needed encouragement . I never thought a person having Gate AIR 297 can motivate anyone . First let me tell you about myself, I am one of those students,who doesn't have any long term goal in life . Seriously before my B.tech in CS I never thought about M.tech, and in IITs ,never ever . So ,I heard about GATE in my second year .I was in college hostel ,where I saw one of my senior Suman Da preparing for GATE14 day and night .May be that created the first petal of my dream (may be small but for me it was a dream).So following his path me,with some of my friends joined a coaching institute in third year . But none of us was serious enough and the expected result in Gate16 AIR 3000+. Some of my friends had great ranks in Gate16. But one day ... if I had those 20 minutes . So plan accordingly . Above all thank you all GO team , and specially Bikram sir ,Arjun sir and Habib Dada ,others also (If I missed anyone sorry) Though the journey seems small but it was great for me . I don't know how much I can help anyone .But if you have any issue I will try my best to help . Thank you ,there is a long way to go before death.

Hello, everyone, This post is not about advising or telling preparation strategy or motivating future aspirants. Here I am just going to share my short story behind attempting CS Gate'17 and eventually joining this Gateoverflow platform. I am a B.Tech graduate from NIT-Silchar in Mechanical Engineering ($2011-2015$). While I was in $3$rd or $5$th semester of my engineering I was attracted towards programming and algorithms. One of my ECE friend advised me to practice algorithmic questions from CLRS. At that time I enjoyed those topics but I was having no idea what I am going to do with my newly found interest in programming. Anyway I continued studying only programming and some standard algorithms. It was in the year of $2015$, when I was placed in some MNC in mechanical area in the ... all go contributors who helped me in one or other way during last year. Finally, I would like to say that, everything starting from computer science subjects + coaching + gateoverflow + writing answers , all these started in $2016$ and most importantly my passion in CS and all these prevailed throughout the entire year. Thank you all and hope that I will be able to contribute more in upcoming years.

So, Finally it comes to write a testimonial after writing answers, asking questions, comments here. I must say that CS students are extremely lucky/fortunate to have GO for GATECSE preparation. So, first thanks to @Arjun Sir, for creating this platform, maintaining GO and answering queries even now. Although there is GO book for past year problems but i preferred solving questions from Gateoverflow because of discussions here. Those discussions gave me answer to many related questions that didn't came to me. Many points in my notes are from answers and comments here. Thanks GO for providing right solution to many Test Series Questions and correcting questions itself at various occasions. Thanks for Rank Predicter due to which Final Result wasn't a big surprise. Thanks Dhananjay, for helping me with my stupid doubts when i was new to GO around aug'16. ( I can ... other users will think of you) Thanks Gateoverflow !! It feels great to be $\tt AIR-28$ as a final year EE undergrad. I can say for sure that without Gateoverflow the outcome of GATE'17 journey wouldn't be what it is today. $\bf \color{green}{(:\; Jio\; gave\; free\; net\; and\; this\; GO\; gave\; free\; knowledge\; :)}$

Hey friends and all the aspirants of GATE 2018 I SUMIT KUMAR GUPTA, AIR 88 In Gate 2017, wants to share some of my experience, the flavour of my journey to all of you. Friends first of all best wishes for all of you to opt the way to crack GATE. Really this decision would lead you to reach your dreams soon. I also chose the same like you in 2015 , when I was in 3rd year. I was not much aware of so much thing so I joined coaching but in final year when I wanted a trusted and helpful guidance and material for self study, soon, I came to know the MOST AMAZING AND TRUSTABLE source of preparation that is GATEOVERFLOW. yes, friend, it is no doubt best place to prepare. you all come across a plenty of doubts and confusion during study or revision where you need some trusted and easily available ... and queries of people in your news feed so that it make you scroll some beneficial material with your entertaining FB time. and please don't forget to take its 2-3 test at last time to judge you and boost you before final battle because you will find a different type of question set here that will be available nowhere. SO ALL THE BEST GUYS............ KEEP PRACTISING & KEEP LEARNING .......

I am Amit Sadashiv Patil, GATE 2017 AIR 31. GO played a wonderful uplifter in my GATE preparation. All what I wanted to mention is already done by most of the toppers. My feelings are not so different from them. I thank all GO team and especially to Arjun sir for such a big support.

I would like to thank all the members of GateOverflow for their vital role in my Gate preparation by extending their valuable support and help by solving my doubts, queries and encouraging fruitful discussion. I had relied highly on GateOverflow answers/materials for my Gate preparation. I would like to thank Arjun Sir for his great and selfish-less support to all the GATE aspirants. I have learned a lot from his answers and found them extremely useful. Even the day before exam there were few CO questions reading them and understanding his answer actually gave me more clarity. Not only his answers and explanation but also his tips and hints were very important. I still remember his words before exam when he said "From now on in 1 week reading new things or mugging up formulas wont help. Your ... marks were again very crucial. You are very approachable and thank you for your continuous guidance. There are so many other aspirants that I would want to thank including Habib, Debashish, Sushant, Srestha for their great efforts and helping me in solving my doubts. Thus just to wind up I may not have achieved this success without all your efforts, help and support. Thank You All, AIR-167

Hii, A big thanks to GO team ,Arjun Suresh sir and Bikram ballav sir for their creation of wonderful platform which eventually lead me to reach rank of AIR - 164 in a very short time(4 months). As this GO site helped me to get wonderful answers for my doubts and I hope it will be gateway to the future gate aspirants. Especially I want to thank Arjun Suresh sir for keeping the previous year papers live on the site and for valuable detailed explanation for each and every question and Bikram Ballav sir for his wonderful mock tests and awesome explanation to the answers . I also would like to thank who have written awesome explanations like habib mohammad , praveen saini and to every contributor whose answers helped me to reach where I am now. Thanks, Rajesh - AIR - 164

Hello all, I am Venkat from hyderabad. I secured AIR 35 in GATE 2017. I would really thank Gate Overflow Community for helping me achieve my goal. The answers to previous year questions given here are really amazing and they helped me a lot in gaining the correct concept and thinking in the right way.I did not take any coaching and just applied for test series. I came across GO in middle of my preparation and i personally felt that tests were waste if u solve the previous questions.Gate is all about concepts and one can learn it here by solving the previous year questions. The discussions by Arjun sir on decidability problems were awesome. Also i would really thank Arjun sir for keeping me motivated and inspired through his posts. I would like to thank all the members of Gate Overflow for beautiful answers. Note: Many are asking how did u use GO without an account? Actually when i was preparing, i didn't get the requirement to create an account and just followed it as a guest. Now i created it for writing the testimonial. There is no need of an account to see all the activity and answers.

Hi, this is Shravani Joshi, AIR 70. GATE Overflow helped me understand all the tricky questions in all the subjects! I would like to thank Arjun sir and all the members on this community, for their active discussion and detailed explanations which helped all of us understand concepts better. Also GATE Overflow is by far the best platform where ALL the previous years' GATE questions with accurate answers are available, this helped me confirm my answers from time to time :D Also the tests made freely available as the exam neared helped me uncover my weak areas and taught time management as well. I strongly recommend GATE Overflow to all future GATE CS aspirants!

I would like to thank Gate Overflow for helping me in this journey to IIT Kanpur, Especially I would like to thank Arjun Suresh Sir, Bikran Ballav Sir and my friends Pratyush and Habib to be with me in the whole counselling process. Gate Overflow is a platform where people are available 24*7 for the gate aspirants. There are no books in the market that have all the correct solutions to the previous year gate problems. Here at gate overflow we can not just solve a problem but we can discuss it with the people who are master in the field. GateOverflow Test Series questions matches the level of the gate paper and it was very helpful to analyze the preparation. Gate book was really helpful when i had to practice a particular topic.In this book all the questions are placed at one place related to particular topic.And various solutions to the questions are given. For Gate Aspirants "गते शोको न कर्तव्यो भविष्यं नैव चिंतयेत्। वर्तमानेन कालेन वर्तयंति विचक्षणाः॥" This means "One should not regret the past. One should not worry about the future. Wise men act by the present time" and finally a big thanks to GO Family. Neeraj Kumar(Gate Rank 207, IIT Kanpur)

I joined Gate Overflow in 2016 to prepare for GATE. As I had a Electronics and Telecomm. background, I had to start the subject from the base (except some subjects like programming and Digital Logic). For preparing I diligently followed Gate Overflow for previous year GATE questions and followed all the books and videos(specially lectures by Shai Simonson) recommended on the website. In the end my rank was rather dissappointing (AIR 2803-GEN) mainly due to ignoring COA, OS and making too many mistakes on the final day. But GO helped me in developing a good understanding of the core CS topics, specially Data Structures, Algorithms, Theory of Computation and Discrete Maths. I was again preparing this year for GATE but luckily got shortlisted for MS (winter admissions) at IIT ... understanding developed really helped in interview where the professors grill you on the fundamentals. I want to thank Arjun Sir for creating this wonderful platform and all the other super awesome contributors who take special effort to make the concepts clear, rather than relying on cheap tricks. It is helpful for anyone who is interested in CS, regardless of whether he is appearing for GATE or not.

Gateoverflow is best source of previous year question and place to get your doubts solved. Answers on Gateoverflow are very nice and informative, they not only tell what answer is but also entire process how answer is derived and give total idea about that question. I found Gateoverflow very useful in my Gate preparation. Experts like Arjun Suresh, Praveen Saini and others are always present to solve any doubts an aspirant can get. Gateoverflow book of previous year questions along with answers is best study material anyone will need. Gateoverflow answer key this time was 99%+ correct. Overall I can say that If you are preparing for Gate computer Science , using Gateoverflow is MUST now. Gatecse is best source of study material. I found great lectures of Shai Simpson and others there. I found best collection of books, links to various toppers blog and last years analysis.Gatecse is resource which any serious aspirant should know about. I want to thank founder of this website Arjun suresh, for discussing with me regarding study strategy and many other issues related to GATE. Keep doing good work :) Akash Kanase AIR 28, Gate 2016

www.gatecse.in and www.gateoverflow.in are two websites that provide extensive information for most of the GATE CSE queries - Almost complete coverage all the required information one needs to know about GATE, right from preparations to the admissions. While getting information of what GATE is all about, www.gatecse.in played an important role in getting me acquainted with the know-hows of preparation, the standard books and lectures available, and also a lot of statistics from previous year(GATE 2014,2015) results. When my preparation was at the crucial stage in the last two months, www.gateoverflow.in played the role of helping me get over some of my misconceptions, with the detailed answers on the previous years questions by experts like Arjun Sir, Praveen Sir and other senior members and fellow aspirants. Also, the ... and usually its answered in a detailed manner by other users. In all, i feel the extra 10 marks i got, which is the difference between getting a rank of 300 and a rank of 30, was due to use of the Gate Overflow platform in the last two months. I would recommend future aspirants to make full use of this platform available. Abhilash Panicker AIR 34, GATE 2016

I would like to share my experience from the point of view of student who had coaching. I joined Made Easy while I was in my final year. Some teachers were quite awesome but others were just fine. The most important advantage of joining coaching classes is that they make you regular in your studies other than that you have to do all the things by yourself. I started following Gateoverflow when there were 8-9 months left for the exam. According to me, to get a good rank in GATE you'll need the following 3 resources: 1) http://gateoverflow.in/ : To get the clear and accurate explanations of all the previous year questions and other NON-GATE questions. Gateoverflow book contains all the questions compiled into pdf format and I highly recommend you to solve it THOROUGHLY!!! 2) ... the questions that you are able to solve easily but the ones that you're not able to answer should bother you. Solve to learn new concepts and not to increase your count. According to me, the quality of your preparation is going to give you a good rank rather than the quantity. If you find any difficulty during your preparation you can always contact me ([email protected]) AIR 119 Saurabh Sharma

Gateoverflow is not only the best online resource for previous year gate questions but also best resource for other related computer science exams like TIFR and many others. It is a forum where all your doubts get resolved, queries get answered by experts with lucid explaination. Gateoverflow has been important part of my gate preparation. It has been over an year I am user of Gateoverflow and I have learnt lot from here and still learning. I would suggest you to use Gateoverflow book of previous year questions ,this will ensure that you dont miss any previous year question. I would say Gatecse is best available online resource for all computer science gate aspirants. Here you will get all information regarding gate i.e from preparation strategy to cutoffs and admission.Gateoverflow has ... year questions were discussed. I would like to thank Arjun Sir for his guidance and motivation.I would also like to thank Arjun Sir, Praveen Sir, Pragy Agarwal and entire Gateoverflow community for providing awesome and clear explainations over questions. I would suggest all future gate aspirants to make best use of this platform. Wishing all future aspirants good luck. Pooja Palod AIR 51,2016

Hi, I got AIR 4 in Gate Cse 2016. I will like to share about Gate Overflow. Gate Overflow is a a very good website for Gate CSE Preparation. It has an edge over other preparation material & coaching classes. It's free you can learn from home(with comfort) - lots of time can be saved here for a person studying from home, it gets difficult to create gate preparation environment , here in right side chat box people talk about Gate mostly. It helps in building the appropriate Environment for Gate at your Home. I have noticed that coaching classes teach some extra things, that consume your time unnecessarily , so you can avoid those things here. you can choose what question to study & what not to , based on previous gate questions. many gate toppers are here , so nice answers come - Its a very nice way , U directly get cream concepts. Two things matter in Gate Preparation - right concepts & then practice those concepts - both u can get here. You should extract Good Concepts from trusted, selected answers & practice a lot here. Best wishes to all future Gate Aspirants. Himanshu Agarwal AIR 4, Gate 2016

The thing with Online learning is, that there are too many resources offering what you think you need (and in the process confusing you ), but only few that know what you exactly require and give you that. Gateoverflow gives you exaclty what you require. I gave GATE 2015 and secured a rank of 1135 , This year however, with GATEOverflow's help , i ended up achieving AIR-96 Be it Previous year's questions , questions from random test series , or which college is better for what , or where should I go . If your question is related to GATE CSE , you will not be disappointed here. All you have to do is ask. A very big plus factor is that I got an insight, on how others were thinking, and I often learnt more than 1 way to solve a question ( Praveen Sir and Other previous GATE Toppers , Thanks For that ) I owe my good rank to this community, and the GateOverflow Book (a .pdf compilation of previous year questions with well explained answers, That was the icing on the cake for me ) Talk about giving back to the society , I cannot thank Arjun Sir and Pragy enough , you guys have set a standard in helping students, Thanks a Ton Ganesh - AIR 96, GATE-2016

Although my rank is not so fancy but still GATEOverflow helped me a lot in getting good marks in GATE.It is best source for cracking GATE with good marks. This is a place where you get a lot of questions in addition to previous year questions posted by students from all over the country. You can see the answers are well elaborated,nicely explained and by this way you will also come to know what is the quality of students sitting with you on the exam day.Experts like Arjun Suresh, Praveen Saini and others are always present to solve any doubts an aspirant can get. GATEOverflow book of previous year questions,along with answers is the best study material anyone will need. GATEOverflow answer key this time was 99%+ correct. Overall I can say that if you are preparing for Gate computer Science ... will need it for the whole life in whatever you do. I want to thank founder of this website Arjun Suresh, for helping me and all the aspirants of GATE who look for coaching materials or other materials available in market as this is the only site which you one must follow whole heartedly for succeeding in GATE. Keep doing good work and wishing all future aspirants good luck :) Ashish Gupta

I started following gateoverflow.in since january this year , though I had done a lot of preparation before that , but there were many doubts in my mind about certain problems , so starting using this website and got lot of my doubts cleared with very good inputs from others , I think gateoverflow.in helped me gain extra few marks made a difference from 300+ rank to 159 my current rank in gate 2016 , so I would like to thank all the users of this site and best of luck for those who will be giving GATE 2017. Thanks , Vikram Bhat , AIR 159 GATE 2016