“Structured, conceptual and practical test of subjects.”

Hi,

I am one of the eight fortunate ones who were selected for OCES Computer Science program last year. I am Abhilash Bhardwaj, currently working as Trainee Scientific Officer in BARC, Mumbai. Last year I was shortlisted for interview based on my performance in BARC TS Online Exam ( 170/300 while cut-off was 159) . Approximately 100 students were called last year for interview, out of that, 8 students were finally selected for this program ( 765/1000 Interview Score where Interview cut-off was 650).

So now coming to interview experience.

My interview was scheduled on 11th June last year. I reported in the morning. After basic document formalities I went to the waiting room. I was second in sequence so nearly after one hour my name was called by the panel. We all have fear of interview especially when you know this is going to last for an hour or so. I entered into the interview room. A total 6 people were there in the room. They started with the basic introduction about my college, my cgpa ( they asked how you managed in college ), my native place etc, just to make me comfortable with the panel.

And here it begins !!!!!

The first question was by the President regarding the subjects that interests me more.They did not ask me to list it down but I jotted it down on a paper. I wrote Operating System, RDBMS, COA , DS and C. Just when I finished,the panel asked that why you have written COA, as most of people don’t write this. ( Don’t answer like its my favourite subject and all, you need to justify it ). I answered the relevance of advancement of architecture, processor design, multiprocessor systems, GPUs in current era. I gave examples of Blockchain and Machine learning where we require high computing power. Then, as I mentioned, I used the term GPU so they began with that… ( so the moral of the story-don’t use just fancy terms if don’t know it!!). Fortunately I was aware of basics of GPU. They asked whether is SIMD,MISD,MIMD or SISD, why we are using this,how it makes computation faster,can’t we achieve the same with CPU, power requirements of CPU and GPU etc. I was knowing the plot not the entire story so at last I surrendered on a comparative question of CPU and GPU, I accepted my defeat. They responded don’t worry it was out of context because of your interest in GPU we asked this much. Then they asked basics of RISC, CISC,current RISC architectures, difference of RISC and CISC, Microprogramming and its types ,Pipelining hazards, how we avoid them, Linking and Loading operations,Addressing modes, CPU flag register etc.

Here my suggestion is to speak relevant to the topic but take examples, explain on paper sheets, draw diagrams. Like when you are explaining Microprogramming start with why we need this, then its categorization, difference etc. They will ask question in every step of explanation. You need to know why RISC, What is RISC and How it is implemented. These concepts are not beyond our understanding. If you don’t know the answer better to say sorry!

Then they switched to Operating system. They started with what was taught in B.Tech. Then they asked me write a critical section program where I was needed to produce H2OH2O. But with different constraints. I used mutexes, again they they asked why mutexes not semaphores ? what advantage you will get by using mutexes? After producing H2OH2O in three different constrained way they asked me a basic question, lets say CPU generated a virtual address, now you tell us complete steps to get the data (structured, conceptual, practical question ) . It looks simple but while answering the question they asked about TLB and its use, memory heirarchy, then different types of cache memories, physically addressed and virutally addressed cache, how page translation is done, what happens if page fault occurs, why interrupt is used when page fault occurs, concept of virtual memory and its use etc. I explained all steps with diagram by taking examples. Then they asked about thrashing, Page replacement and Belady’s anomaly, example where FIFO algorithms shows Belady’s anomaly.

Then they asked a bit more about virtual memory.

After OS they shifted to RDBMS, they started with why we require normalization and what all concepts you learnt in B.Tech. Then they asked me to write a nested SQL query to fetch some data ( I remember it was lengthy ). Then they asked about locking mechanism in database, how locks are implemented in any database, what data structures are to be used to implement locks and some questions related to transactions.

Next they started with C. Process image in RAM when program is loaded ,basics of all four segments and what they contain ,what is an extern variable and its use,storage class of global variables,how to define structures in C ,represent a rectangle using structures in 2D coordinate system then using this structure to write a program in C to check whether two rectangles are overlapping or not .I defined rectangle initially four points but they asked to improve it, further I changed it to origin points, length and breadth. Then I wrote the function to check the overlapping.

Overall, interview was pretty nice.I answered most of the questions. There were very few places where I was stuck and wherever I was unaware of the exact answer I said sorry. Like they asked me about convex hull and I was not much sure about that so straight forward I said sorry.

My basic strategy was to stay calm, listen to the question carefully and to think before answering even if the question may seem very easy. I used the given paper sheets to draw diagrams, write examples. Whenever it was needed I explained the things by showing steps and sequence on paper. I related my learnt concepts with real life as well as other subjects, like COA with OS, Transactions with shared memory access etc. Throughout the Interview the panel will help you .When you get stuck they will try to point in correct direction so that you can rectify yourself.

Thank you for your utmost patience to give it a read.I hope this small piece of my experience will be of some help to the aspirants. All the best !!

I will be posting some other contents related to BARC. Feel free to reach me in case any doubts:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilash-bhardwaj-6000b7b4/

www.facebook.com/abhilashbhardwaj.kasap

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Hello Everyone,

I’m Aditya Pradhan, a final year student of Information Technology at a state government college in Udaipur. I have secured $AIR\ 312$ in $GATE\ 2020$. I expected much better rank before the exam, but was not able to attempt more questions (attempted only $52$) and was depressed because of this. But hopefully I got only $4$ or $5$ of them wrong and landed at this rank. Now, I am preparing for IIT Kanpur M.S., IIT-B M.Tech. RA and IISc CDS Coursework and CSA Research interviews and hoping that my semester exam dates don’t clash with any of them.

Regarding my preparation journey, I used to study my semester subjects through standard books and resources given on $gatecse.in$ and started proper GATE preparation from the month of July after I got placed on-campus. I had gone through all the standard books once again and used to solve GO PDF after completion of a subject. In the month of January, I revised all the subjects once again and gave 7-8 full length mock tests.

I want to thank Arjun Sir for creating this platform and now people can crack GATE CS purely by self-studying and not relying on any coaching institute. Government of India should be grateful to GateOverflow for increasing the quality of students going for masters at IITs and IISc.

For future aspirants, my message is that utilize your $4$ years of engineering well. Even if your classmates have ‘copy-paste’ attitude, you should always try to learn using standard resources and do lab assignments on your own, trust me, this will build your base in Computer Science and will help you in the long run.

Thank you :)
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Edit : I’m selected in IIT Bombay M.Tech. (RA) and will be joining it, for interview experience please visit: https://gateoverflow.in/blog/10586/iit-bombay-m-tech-ra-interview-experience

Admission forms out for IIITD:-

Check out here, this time there is coding test too.

Non gate:- written +coding+interview test

Gate:- coding+interview test

https://www.iiitd.ac.in/admission/mtech/2020/cse-ece-details

Quick Read : Follow the resources given in gatecse.in. Those are the best that you can find online. Solve GO pdf thoroughly unless you've mastered the concepts involved in the PYQs. Read comments and different approaches for answers. Take test series if you've time but don't take the marks seriously :P

A big thanks to GO community. Here you will find everything you need to strengthen your concepts. Best thing about GO is that you can argue about answers, have healthy discussions and get to the root of why the solution is the way it is. Aspirants of GATE CS are fortunate to have this platform.

I fell sick in last week leading to the exam. All my confidence was lost and was unable to perform that well in test series. So I decided to once again go through the GO pdf and discussions and not give any tests. In this period I did all 3 books and complete revision of my notes. Even on the day of exam, I was not feeling well. A bigger achievement for me was begin able to conquer the fear of failing. I never felt nervous before or during exam. I was calm and high on confidence. Most of my friends who prepared well for the exam lost the battle to panic and anxiety. One more thing you need to care about is silly mistakes. Everybody makes silly mistakes but it’s about who makes less of them.

There is no such thing as born-genius. Just work hard. You can’t control the luck factor so focus on things you can control. You don't learn anything from exams. You learn while preparing for them. Don't forget to live a life.

GATE is an easy exam and not as competitive as JEE. So if you have failed at JEE, don't think you won't make it in GATE. Life never stops throwing opportunities at you, it's upto you to make the most of them.

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AIR 29

BARC 2020 Paper :

Every Year students search BARC previous year paper.Here is this year exam paper. Hope this blog will helpful for future aspirants.not all the questions but most of the questions are covered here.

Slot 1: Date 14/03/2020 

1) C programming & Data Structure:

A)  C programming pointer     declaration Expression was given, asking about which one is the correct expression, you can refer the similar  type of question here: 

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPABbqfElA8)

B) 1D & 2D array declaration was given, asking about which one is correct? A similar kind of question is asked in the gate exam.

    Ref: https://gateoverflow.in/893/gate2003-2

C)   2 Questions came from the Recursion topics, we have to guess the output of program.

 Refer here for Recursion questions: https://gateoverflow.in/tag/recursion)

D)  preorder/ postorder was given, asking about how many numbers of binary tree possible from the given tree.

E)  A BFS tree was given asking which of the following edge are not BFS edge.

F) Linear probing (gate similar question 2010 ) 

   Refer Here: https://gateoverflow.in/1322/gate2009-36

G)  Min heap  (Min Heap property based question)

H)  Max heap insertions after 2 node insertion what is the output??

   (Refer previous year questions based on max heap insertion.:https://gateoverflow.in/tag/heap)

I) 1 question based on parameter passing technique.

2) Digital electronic:

A) count the  number of 1’s in decimal system(decimal to binary conversion)( previous year patterns, data is changed in the exam)

  Refer here: https://gateoverflow.in/152702/ugcnet-dec2009-ii-10

B)  K-map basic question

     (Practics K-map from here: https://gateoverflow.in/tag/k-map 4 variable k-map is given asking correct expression in sop from)

100.  (4 variable exor gate is given asking about correct K-map)

D)  ( 4X1 Mux is given asking for an expression of line number 2)

E)    (3DFF was given asking what is counting sequence after 6th clock)

F) question-based on RAM.

3) Algorithm:

A) Greedy and Dynamic basic question (Property-based theory question)

B) Time complexity calculation based

C) Recurrence relation matching (pyq ditto) Refer here

D) ( Quicksort, merge sort, insertion sort, selection sort)

  A sequence of number was given, after applying some algorithm new input is generated, which algorithm is used for generated input. (MS,QS.IS,SS, sorting based)

4) TOC, Cd: 

A)   (Finite automata is given asking Regular expression)

B). No of A's div by 3 or 5 

     Asking for # of state in NFA aur DFA .

C) Design the Regular expression using eipsilon NFA

D) Parsing if a grammar is left recursive then which is invalid ( recursive descent, LR, LALR,)

E) Valid palindrome seq asking compiler 

 F) Language Identify question practics from here: https://gateoverflow.in/tag/identify-class-language

5)  Engineering Maths:

 A) probability 4-5 question (hypergeometric based, conditional probability)

B) linear algebra 2×2 matrix inverse 

6) DMS:

A) Predicated logic gate level question.

B) on set {1,2,3,4} A relation was given asking weather it is equivalence or poset.

C) .(where we use the associative property,group, monoid, semi group, lattice.

D) # of Disconnected graph for even number of vertices n>=4

7) CN:

A) Basic IP add question asking # of the host.

B) DVR (gate que kitne link unused hoge)

C) cryptography theory

D) digital signature (Anarkali Salim gate question)

E) Web browser & HTTP  (gate question asking correct sequencing order)

F) TCP basic numerical

8) DBMS:

A) ER table minimization (1:m & m:m) 

B) BCNF decomposition which is the invalid decomposition

C (some theory question on view,SQL )

D) question based on Where clause & having

E) Indexing formula based numerical

F) (Sql query based question.

9) CSA:

A) Machine instructions (gate que halting , programs counter que 2006 ya 2007 same type of question))

B) direct mapping aur SAM mai property based difference

C) LRU. aur LFU  based mapping question.

10) OS: 

A) (SRTF, asking TAT of the process a)

B) disk scheduling (SCAN) (Ref Here: https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=disk-scheduling+)

C) BANKER ALGORITHM ( safe seq deadlock unsafe can't say, pyq type) refer here:https://gateoverflow.in/tag/deadlock-prevention-avoidance-detection?start=30

D)Gate 2020 ditto question (process diagram wala new ready running. Kn sa invalid hai) Refer here:https://gateoverflow.in/333219/gate2020-cs-12

E) binary semaphore(programming question, the final value of S, pyq type)

F) dining philosopher (programming based question, output find)

G) #page fault-based question

H) TLB calculation formula-based

I) theory on trashing & domp 

J) question based on best-fit algorithm & external fragmentation theory-based

Out of 100 70 -80 questions are from gate syllabus remaining from c++ (oops concepts, polymorphism.friend functions, constructor)

Question is output finding type.

Today BARC question.

 (By Himansh Chaudhary:https://gateoverflow.in/user/myid3740 )

Slot 2: Date:15/03/2020 

1.OS:

A- find EMAT, TLB hit ratio is given (similar in pyq)

B- Page fault question- comparison in LRU nd FIFO Refer here:(https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=page-fault+)

C- Max possible size of the file, block size given, Direct (present in PYQ inode type) easy question

D- Semaphore question- given S= 3, 7P and 10V, find the value of S

E- Safety algorithm question with single resources type

F- Theory question on Deadlock

G- SRTF question (disk scheduling) and 1 more question from same topic. Ref: https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=page-fault+

H- 2 questions on disk management. Ref:https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=disks+

2. CSA:

A- Cache hit on set associative mapping

B- Pipeline question (4 stages, 1000 inst, different time given for each stage and 5 sec register time)

C- Calculate execution time (PYQ type) - some instruction is given, time for each type inst. is given

D- some instruction is given, we have to find main memory location Which save in stack during interrupt .(similar in PYQ)

3.Prog& DS:

A- 2 question from the concept of static variable and return function.

B- 3 question, find output (PYQ) Refer:https://gateoverflow.in/questions/programming-in-c?sort=gate

C- C program Which has switch case and Folk() , how many time prints

D- Pointers and array type question( PYQ ) Refer:https://gateoverflow.in/questions/programming-in-c?sort=gate

E- Find the number of BST, built from 3 keys (PYQ)

F- Find inorder from pre and post order(PYQ)

G- Expression(X= (a+b)*(c-d)) is given , we have to select incorrect option which is neither preorder, inorder and postorder

4. ALGORITHM:

A- which algorithm doesn't follow DP(https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=dynamic-programming+)- prims, Dijkstra, Floyd, bellman

B- Match the best, avg, the best time complexity of the different sorting algorithm.

C- find time complexity, code in which heapify & build heap fun.

D- analysis of time complexity, omega and big O cases

5.Maths:

A- Laplace question

B- Matrix(Linear algebra) question

C- 2 question of probability. (PYQ type) 

6.DMS:

A- Negation of a quantifier equation

B- negation of C statement -- ( a!=n && z+2<=4)

7.OOPs:

A.Java- We have to find the output of code

B. C++- 2 questions on the concept of auto constructor and deconstructor

C. Abstract classes kyu use krte h

D- inheritance related question

E- 2 aur the(2 more questions)

8.Computer graphics :

A- scalar Matrix of 3D transformation

B- 2 aur qus , attempt hi na kiye :p 

9.ML(Machine Learning):

A- find an example of clustering 

B- 2-3 others question( I even didn't read the question carefully 🤣)

2 question from physics

10.DBMS:

A- Find Nf from the table (https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=database-normalization+)

B- SQL question - from following which one executes first- where, order by, having 

C- other 2 SQL questions (simple)

11.CN:

A- DVR question, find the distance at node

B- DVR, LSP theory question (PYQ type- in which count to infinity problem present something type)

C- routing table is given, match the network address(PYQ type)

D- calculate no. of subnet from the subnet mask

E- Why CSMA/CD is not used in the wireless network

12. TOC: 

A- 2 questions of REG expression

B- 2questions- Find language from automata

C - which is not CFL ( https://gateoverflow.in/tag/identify-class-language )

D- Mealy, Moore question

E- Regex question ( same as PYQ) 3 exp given we have to find which is a subset of which one 

13- DELD:

A- minimize the POS, Output given in form of SOP

B- the circuit of 3 DFF, SIPO, We have to find output after 4 cycle

C- *(function as X-or) operator diya hua tha , usse operation btane the

D- 2 more question

The overall exam was easy to moderate.According to him.

Something like 1 mark GATE question.

Goodluck for future BARC aspirant.

BARC 2019: https://www.quora.com/How-was-your-BARC-Computer-Science-Exam-2019

please shear your BARC exam experience so that it will helpful for the future aspirant.

My Background

During my 11th-12th I studied in a school where there were no one preparing for JEE. Everyone just wanted to get into some local engineering college. Best scenario possible was getting into some private college with tuition-fee-waiver. If one cannot make it into some engineering college then he/she would join BSc or something. That’s what our teachers told us. I didn’t know what’s the difference between IITs and local colleges is. Actually, at the time of solving MCQs from books we skipped the question if it had been asked in previous JEE papers :). That was the scenario. I really find it very frustrating sometime that I didn’t even recognized difference between premier institution and some very creep institutions. Every one of us just believed that JEE is not for us. We didn’t even think of it at first place.

Now, I got into some local private college based on my performance in state board exam. That’s what I could best dream of during those days. At that time, I was actually very happy that I was able to get into an engineering college on full tuition fee waiver.  I thought that there would not be any problem if faculties would not be good, I would work very hard and would get into wherever I want to. Btw best job I could think of after college at that time was engineer in some local company providing 27k Rs/month. Nothing more than that.

But after entering college, scenario was very different. I started using Quora, started surfing internet to learn things in CSE and then I got to know that what my faculties used to teach me during classes was very poor education if not wrong. I came to realize that it really matters in which college you are. I started hating my college ******* hardly. I didn’t like anything about it. They were focusing mostly on discipline rather than engineering (Because most people didn’t know engineering I think). Focus was not on deep understanding of concept but rather on discipline. You would feel outlier if you are discussing some programming problem in class room. That was the situation. Faculty would take interest in gossips with students and another faculty member. If you would ask some technical question then there would be very little chance that faculty would be able to answer it. (Here I must mention that there were some very good faculties too. But those were very rare.)

Now, one day I came across this question on Quora about local college CSE grad vs IIT CSE grad. That seeded the thought of getting into IITs someday in future. Then that thought became stronger and stronger with time. At that time, I was also actively participating in coding competition at CodeChef which helped me to build quite a good foundation of problem-solving ability. Which would eventually help in my GATE preparation in future (preparation for which I had not even thought about at that time). I wanted to go to google when I entered into college and that idea was because of my friend Milan. He knew about it and he used to tell me that never let your dream die ever. So, I just knew that I wanted to get into Google somehow. So that was which got me started with competitive coding (Btw if you talk about competitive coding to someone from my college there are 95% chances that he/she will not even aware about it).

Now, as 2nd year of college ended, I started to think about what next. I had option to go for TCS (Companies like this one is a best case for a student in our college. But I would be able to get into that though CodeVita competition. Which I think is not up to the mark of course, but It can get you hired easily in TCS). But I did not want to get into such a service company. I wanted to do some really interesting work. So here comes GATE into my mind. I searched strategies to prepare for GATE. I used to read blogs by toppers a lot. And I came across Gate Overflow.  I downloaded the GO pdf 2016. I used to read some questions on algorithms, programming, DS while I was free to figure out what type of questions get asked in GATE. And to my surprise I was able to answer algorithm and DS-programming related question quite accurately. So, that was my starter block. In start I didn’t thought about other subjects much. I thought I would be able to manage them if I give them a try. Actually, being good (at least that’s what I used to think during those days) in competitive coding gave me confidence that I can perform well in GATE.

Now, here comes a break. During beginning of 6th semester, I started my GATE preparation on full swing just to realize that I can’t just do it with full pressure of college which requires virtually 100% attendance. Yes, you read it right 😊. The rules at my college was such a ******* strict that they required around 2 breaks of time just to complete the formalities of getting leave application signed. If you are not having leave acknowledgement slip you would have to stand 2hrs in lab and zero marks in experiment and after all this nonsense you are still left with pending task of getting same ******* leave application.  --- I also could not study after college because I felt exhausted after returning from college. In short, I could not continue my preparation in such a college. So, I decided to quit (probably delayed) my preparation.

Then during 7th semester, I got offer from TCS through CodeVita. But after discussing with my father I decided to not joining it and give GATE one another try as fulltime aspirant. I used to do programming whole day at my house during my early years in college. So, habit developed for concentrating for longer period of time helped me a lot in preparation. This preparation started around December-2018. I started with Discrete-Math. Here some blogs by arjun sir has literally made me obsessed with standard books and resources. So mostly I used standard books during my preparation. I gave GATE-2019 CSE with little expectation of just qualifying. And to my surprise I got 42.33 marks with rank about 5050.

My Strategy

Before starting preparation for 2020 I already was quite familiar with what to study and what works and what not as I have given GATE-2019(However I didn’t prepare well for that). Now there were some subject completely new to me as I was from IT branch which does not have TOC and Compilers in syllabus (at least not in my college).

I started with Discrete math. For This I used book by Kenneth Rosen. I used to solve most exercise problems as I focused on improving my problem-solving ability rather than just mugging up formulas and concepts. I believe that exercises are really an important part in learning most things. Now here some exercise in standard books are outside of scope of gate syllabus. But at starting phase of my preparation I had time to do that. So, during my early preparation I tend to solve most exercise problems.

Then I picked up TOC.  I used book by Peter Linz for this along with video lectures by Sai Simonson (He made most concepts really obvious. He is such a great professor). This subject was complete alien to me before I started. (I also read starting few pages of book during my previous preparation to find out that I just could not cope up with material in that book) I kept my pace slow. I used to read a concept and imagine it visually as much as possible. I tend to explore various possible corner cases. I just fixed that I will give this subject 30 days (which is relatively longer) if I have to but I will excel in this. I used to watch video lectures by Sai Simonson then read a concept and then solve corresponding exercises in book. And to my surprise the subject which I thought I would not like became one of my favorite subjects.

Then came compilers. I thought I would try to implement compiler in this subject as I had time. But It turned out lot of work😊. I find Ullman book quite hard to follow. But it is better than other resources.  For compiler questions related to parsers I used to read answers on Stack Exchange for hours. This subject raised some really interesting questions. I particularly enjoyed those questions.

Then came digital logic and COA. I used Morris Mono and Carl Hemacher respectively.

Now at this stage I was solving some of the exercises only. Not all. I felt my interest in solving exercises has decreased. But I think most aspirants would find decreased interest in midway and where they would probably quit. But remember that finishing a race is prerequisite for winning it. To be a topper you at least have to finish your preparation😊.  So, I used to continue with my study even if I find decreased interest in some of the subjects. Things would be well with time (If you lack command in some subject it is not a good idea to quit preparation overthinking about it. Do your best possible at the moment. Then come back to that subject after few days.) 

Now mostly following this strategy I finished all the subjects from standard resources. I also made my notes which I used hell lot of time to revise from. I used to revise subject on weekends in round-robin fashion (suggested by Shaik Masthan).  I also solved subject wise question from GO pdf once a subject got finished.

Then once syllabus got completed, I started attending mocks. I was getting marks in range of 65 to 70 in first stage. Then during second stage my marks increased to 65 to 75. Then in third stage I got 80+ in some tests and 73+ in most tests. (These all marks are corrected marks means if some question was incorrect then I find out whose mistake it actually was - Mine or test-series mistake - and I would update my marks accordingly.)  Here I joined test series from various institutions and also found tests by mentors on GO quite well as they didn’t have much mistakes in question.

Now for test series part I would suggest that don’t get bothered much by lower test scores. Just do the best that’s possible at the moment and continue with your preparation.

Now, for those who are afraid of competition remember that your competition is not with fellow aspirants. You just have to do better than some extent and chances for you getting a good rank is much better. Because fellow aspirants are also a human. They are not some super-human kind (Maybe there might be one or two but it does not really matter 😊). You just have to train yourself such that you can get 70+ in average GATE paper. (Again, I said average GATE paper. By this I want to say that you should be having such a level of understanding that you can get 70+ in average GATE paper.)  If you can do that than chances are pretty good that you would get a good rank. So, just target to become damn good at subjects instead of targeting to get under 100 rank out of 100000 students.

My result

I got AIR 12 in GATE CSE -2020.

            I heartily thanks to Arjun Suresh sir. If he has not created this platform I would probably never had prepared for GATE and had joined TCS instead😊. His blogs made me such a student which mostly looks for in-depth understanding.

          I thank to Shaik Masthan for being active participant at csedoubts.gateoverflow.com.

          Then I thanks to those volunteers at GO who freely gives their mostly scarce time for GATE aspirants.

          There are also many fellow aspirants whose questions on csedoubts.gateoverflow.com taught me a lot. So, I’m really thankful to them😊.

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IIT Bhubaneswar (Mtech in Computer Science and Engineering , Mtech in Climate Science & Technology)

http://webapps.iitbbs.ac.in/mtech-application/index.php

IIT Ropar (MTech in Computer Science and Engineering , Mtech in Artificial Intelligence )

http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/mtech-admissions-2020-2021

IIT Bhilai (Mtech in Computer Science & Engineering)

https://www.iitbhilai.ac.in/index.php?pid=adm_mtech_new

IIT Tirupati (Mtech in Computer Science & Engineering)

https://mtechadmissions.iittp.ac.in/

IIT Palakkad (M.Tech in Data Science , M.Tech in Computing and Mathematics ,M.Tech in System-on-Chip-Design)

https://pgadmit.iitpkd.ac.in/?q=node/3

IIT Indore (M.S. (Research) in Computer Science and Engineering )

https://academic.iiti.ac.in:8443/nregistrationmtech.jsp

IIT Patna (Mtech in Computer Science & Engineering , Mtech in Mathematics and Computing ,)

http://academic.iitp.ac.in/?vacancy_type=3 

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad  ( Mtech in Computer Science and Engineering , Mtech in Computer Science and Engineering [Specialisation in Information Security] ,Mtech in Data Analytics ,Mtech in Geomatics)

https://mtech2020.formflix.com/

NOT ON COAP :

IIT Gandhinagar  (MTech in Computer Science and Engineering.)

https://www.iitgn.ac.in/admissions/mtech

IIT Jammu (M.Tech In Data Science ,M.Tech In Information Security )

https://iitjammu.ac.in/pg-admissions

comment when rest are started...if anybody finds out immediately.

Please fill in your GATE 2020 Results here: 

https://forms.gle/Mnh4oaWH66YJMLJj9

Please visit the below blog for seeing detailed admission response of GATE 2019 and this can tell you what you can get for a given rank. 

Use GATE rank for comparison and not GATE score. Because score can vary between years and so rank is a better factor for comparison.

For GATE ranks 80-1500 you’ll be getting calls for interviews and you can make use of the experiences given below. 

https://bit.ly/2MVz4j4

Responses

NIMCET-2020

• https://www.nimcet.in/
• Information Brochure
• Seat Matrix

Important Dates

https://www.nimcet.in/important_dates

Check out by loggin in: https://www.jest.org.in/score_card

$\textbf{Admission Experience}$

Experience shared by: Ritik Sunita Jain

#nsit #counseling #process
Hi friends,

I got selected for mtech cse in NSIT delhi. In this post i am telling some important information about counseling process.

First you have to fill the application form after that the institute publish a list of eligible candidates (candidates with valid GATE score). After that you have to report to the institute for counseling (all the candidates). You should have these compulsory things:-

1. Demand draft of fees
2. 10th marksheet
3. 8th sem marksheet or Provisional degree
4. Any govt ID

There are total of 20 seats in CSE dept and 10 for general candidates.
My gate score is 566, rank is 2893 gen category. And in the list published by nsit i am on 40 number instead of this i got selected on 5th number.
Many of the candidates who applied didn't appear.
(Because dtu also have the same date for physical reporting). So overall the cutoff of nsit went low for this year.

I hopes this information help you guys.

$\textbf{Interview Experiences}$

Collection of interview experience at IIIT Delhi.

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rO_nwm5HHLbjJMHHzOQrDHkaIcEAUHgh 

$\large \color{Blue}{\textbf{ COAP INFO BROCHURE}}$ http://coap.iitm.ac.in/pdfs/COAP%202020_IB_v7.pdf

$\large \color{Blue}{\textbf{ LAST YEAR STATISTICS :-}}$   https://gatecse.in/important-dates/

$\large \color{Blue}{\textbf{ INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE LIST :-}}$ https://gateoverflow.in/blog/9628/

$\large \color{Blue}{\textbf{ LAST RANKS :-}}$ http://gatecselastrank.com/

$\LARGE \color{Blue}{\textbf{ IISc and IITs}}$

$\LARGE \color{Blue}{\textbf{ Other Colleges}}$

$\LARGE \color{Blue}{\textbf{ PSUs}}$

Please comment below if there is some mistake or any new exam application begins , I will keep updating this blog.

BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS

Detailed Advertisement :

https://bis.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Final-Detailed-Advertisement-for-Website.pdf

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Further reference :

https://bis.gov.in/index.php/recruitment-to-the-post-of-scientist-b/

Basics required:

1-Basic operation of computer

2-Memory addressing and languages

3-software and architecture types( watch from 14:26 seconds )

4-Instruction Set architecture

5-Representation of numbers

6-measuring of CPU performance(importantfor pipelining)

                                                                 Actual syllabus:

7-Inst format and addressing modes

Control unit:

8-Introduction to Control unit

9-Explaining control steps for instructions..

10-Some more examples

11-Implementation and types of control unit

Memory:

12-How processor and memory interact

13-Memory interfacing and addressing

14-Memory hierarchy and some important definitions

15-Some numericals on Memory hierarchy 

16-Mapping techniques in cache

17-Types of cache misses,cache write stratergies,

18-Improving performance of cache

Pipelining:

19-Basic concepts of pipeling

20-Pipeline scheduling

21-Intro to data hazards

22-hazards while accessing memory and types of hazards

23-Control hazards( watch till 15:11 seconds)

Input output

24-Secondary storage devices( watch till 24:33 seconds. you can watch till the end if you want)

25-IO organization

26-Data transfer techniques

27-Interrupt handling-1

28-Interrupt handling-2

29-Direct memory access

If you are not satisfied or couldn’t understood any topic in above videos,you can refer those in below courses.

Some other sources:

course1

course2

course3

course4

Computer Organization by Prof. S. Raman

Computer Organization by Prof.P.K. Biswas

High performance computing by prof.Matthew jacob

Answer by bikram sir

Nptel web course

carry and overflow

Assignments:

Do these only after you’re done with previous gate questions.

course1

course2

course3(Highly recommended to solve these assignments)

course4

for some topics like arithmetic you can refer Carl hamacher ,Marris mano.

Note:The above sources are not exhaustive.

I may have missed some topics.But you can cover them through textbooks and while solving questions.

All the videos are taken from this course.Incase i have missed or misplaced any video links,you can refer the nptel course.

Completing Digital logic subject before starting this subject is highly recommended.

I will edit this blog if i find any good sources in future.

Thank you :)