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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 very basics. I've seen several past GATE questions which seem too complicated. If you check those answers in any of 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.

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.

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)