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.

Hiiii I got AIR 20 in GATE17(CSE).. GATE OVERFLOW is the best resource available for the preparation of GATE CSE.. I solved GO book and found it very useful in understanding a lot of concepts.. In addition to previous year GATE and TIFR questions,a lot of quality tests are available which help in analysing the GATE preparation... I will like to suggest all future aspirants to solve GO book and all the tests available here which are more than sufficient to get a decent rank in GATE... I am grateful to GO community to provide us such a wonderful platform... All the best for all the future aspirants!!!

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 month ... 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!

Hello friends, i am Uddipta Bhattacharjee ,one of GO's previous user just like you.And today i would like to share something regards GATE,GO,and IIT.After all we are all here because of this.But before sharing about my exp in GO ,i would like to give u a small account of mine so that you can get a picture about the painful journey.And then will talk about a relatively new Line for middle rankers of Gate. I am a Btech CS passout of 2016 from a state Govt. Engineering college in West Bengal. I always was fascinated about Research and my family also carry this trend :D. So when i got a job in Wipro, i just put it away and continued my preparation for Gate 16. Somehow though, i was lacking in concept and got a very poor marks. Okay but still i was very much in this line,never ever thought about ... the quality of Education and the Gap of it in Top IITs and all other institution has forced me to go in this line. And i can assure ,that someday your GATE will be history ,but the Peer group of GO will have a place in your life. Thanks P.S : For any query about system & IT you can ping me.Always happy to answer .My fb profile: https://www.facebook.com/uddipto.bhattacharjee.5?ref=br_rs

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) ... by the questions that you are able to solve easily but the ones that you're not answering 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