GATE preparation and JOB... How it goes!!!

To the response of last article 'Starting preparation for GATE 2015', an aspirant of higher studies put up some more questions. Let us examine what is the need of an hour. There are number of people who previously opt for corporate sector but now, they realize the need of higher studies. Out of curiosity, Vivek asked me about the time management during preparation along with job.

PERFECT TIME TO START PREPARATION

Best time to start with preparation depends on your own capability. No one else can guide you regarding the same except YOU. For GATE preparation, you need to devote two hours daily. It has been examined that even with job if you devote two hours without any pause, you shall get through. Now as per results, percentile depends upon since how long you have been giving these two hours. It may vary from 3 to 12 months and so will your percentile.

TIME AND TIDES NEVER COME BACK

To start preparation from scratch, start in June-July. However, if you think you have good knowledge about subjects (which is often less with work experience) and can handle tricky question, you can give some space in between and can start preparing from October onwards. But if you find your skills to be perfect and matching with the capability of handling all the competitive questions in GATE, you can brush up from December onwards.

NEED OF COACHING

GATE preparation needs devotion. With job, if you find hard to sit for long hours during studies, you should join some coaching where you are bound to study. But if you think you are responsible enough to manage to give time, if will be much better than the previous choice. This is because coaching center shall teach you the limited material but self study shows you all aspects of the concept. However, if you feel that your concepts are weak, then you may opt for coaching but to this, you have an alternative of www.nptel.ac.in in which you may find the study material and video lectures of different subjects and topics taught by IIT/IISc professors.

Collecting irrelevant study material and multiple books for each subject shall lead you to ambiguous approach towards study. You may start with good potential but it decelerates very soon. So, avoid over excitement for anything and try to maintain consistency in your graph. Instead of making long time tables, try to put up one for a week and then make another chart as progressive chart. In this progressive chart fill up the targets you achieved. Now plot graph with difference between two. Make sure the curve of chart falls day by day.  

ENOUGH TIME TO GET INTO GOOD COLLEGE

Good college is very powerful word and for every individual, it has different meaning. Good college comes under different categories. You need to fetch different points for various category colleges. For example top scorer shall go for IIT/IISc. But for mediocre, UOH Hyderabad is also good college. For lower rank, RVCE Bangalore is believed to be good college. So, seeking admissions in good college is not as important as your decision of what you want to achieve. According to your aspirations, go for best place. First, you need to decide you want to go for research or corporate. Anyhow, you have to go for research during masters.

Time required for getting into good college depends upon how much you want to perceive and how much you can go beyond.

TO GET SUCCESS COME OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONES

Time management is in your hands. It depends upon your potential. Sometimes, even three months are enough. Sometimes, it takes three years to go for best option.

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Muskan Mishty