Hi everyone. I kindly request all the people who don't find this relevant please ignore this post and follow yourself just read it once it may be helpful.
It's 4 and we all are going to appear for the GATE paper on 6, so i felt to talk something about what i felt is important about the paper.
so first of all Why i feel my view may be helpfull??
like Arjun sir , people who cracked gate and have a experience for success can guide u on how to crack it, i have a experience on failure and in the same way i can tell you what u should avoid according to me to avoid failure. so these are the things i feel u should keep in mind while attempting the GATE paper.
1- Brain is a muscle.
the human brain is same like the other muscle in human body, what i mean is muscles become weak with workout and need time to regain there power. LIke if u start pushup at the first go , u go to 30 then 25, then 20 like that.In gate 2 marks question are the one which require a more thinking and focus. as u will go on the mind will become tired so my suggestion is that attempt 2 marks first or you have your own strategy follow your own. It will increase your score as well as will reduce pressure on you, and when u will enter 2nd or 3rd hour not much of thinking will be required and u will
feel comfortable reducing your chances of doing wrong and as well as reduce your negative marks .
2- every time u r reattempting question read the question again .
what most of us do is after we write the nessasary information on the pad we start solving it, and if none matches we again start from the pad only.Most of the time we read the question only once and thats where we again miss the point we missed once , and this will go on and on. after every unsuccessful at tempt read the question again, u will find something there only, pad is not going to make that point for you.
3- Brain follows pattern .
In the gate exam if u are not able to solve a problem after solving it, and again rechecking for error u can't get it , and none matches. leave it because brain follow patterns, if u will again recheck it u will get the same answer, because your mind will again work the same way it worked for
the first time, This will waste your time in exam. but be sure at the first
attempt only. and the first point will be very helpful here . when your mind will be fresh u will be able to solve in one go only in case u can't get after 2 attempts leave it for sometime.
3- Try reading values from screen and plz be very sure about copying the values
what the most common error we do is copying a wrong value from the computer screen and then we just go on solving it. in may case i missed "\" in the null and thought it was a 0. missed 2.66 marks. my suggestion is read values from screen only or double check values and don't be in a hurry
there is a lot of time.
4- confidence
u should be confident during the exam. seeing a question off topic should not make u nervous, many time if the portion we start with is contain question from the topic we left we feel like the paper is very tough and ur mind just reset itself to that and this can ruin everything, paper will
never will be tough , if u even miss 4-5 question in a row, don't be tensed. this means u are going to solve everything there after, refuel yourself , and carry on. don't lose confidence in that 3 hour.
5- make use of the facility given by paper.
the question has a option to view the paper as PDF. i think most of us don't use it on virtual gate anyone use it, It's really helpful . like if your strategy is to first do the questions you know use it to fastly access everything, want to read the paper to see difficulty read it there.
and what i personally feel is that , i used GATEOVERFLOW pdf's of pervious year question paper, Seeing only one question on screen and a blank to fill make me uncomfortable and i am very much comfortable with the pdf view and feel a much relaxed when question appear like pdf. u may use that feature
and try it out on virtual gate .
Feel relaxed now. u have done everything ,believe yourself, revise once
again , And remove the fear of failure. Anything that can't kill u make u
stronger, and remember the tag line of mountain dew
" JEETE WAHI HAI JO RISK LETE HAI "
you have taken the risk, u dare to do this that 90% engineer don't think of
" DAR KE AGE JEET HAI "
And we all are going to win our fear this time only. revise hard and just
go, WIsh YoU BEst Of Luck .
