Hi Siva,

GATE stands within the top 10 toughest exams in the entire world. Preparing for it is no joke. However, if you are sincere and disciplined enough, you need not join any coaching institute. But, if financial issues isn't a thing for you and you want a perfectly structured preparation, getting admitted to some coaching institute like Gate Academy, The Gate Academy, Made Easy, Ace Academy or any other as such would turn out to be helpful. In fact, Unacademy, GradeUp and a few other online platforms as such impart extremely high-level education and guidance for GATE (Do not be scared to try the online platforms, because the offline ones have been suffering heavily imparting online classes in this covid period; therefore you should prefer the online ones which have experience of online methodologies). Free platforms include separate official Youtube channels of Unacademy for different disciplines.

The syllabus of GATE for any discipline is extremely lengthy, so do not give up. Write your own notes instead of relying on text books or hand-made notes from someone else. Keep revising whatever you learnt. Don't try to memorize everything, but only those facts, values, formulas and concepts based on GATE. Solve a lot, instead of just learning up the concepts. Last but not the least, pay a visit to previous years' questions, because similar questions with repeated value are often repeated.

Thank you. Regards, a GATE-2022 aspirant :)

Hi Siva,

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, is a test designed for graduates to admissions in post-graduate programmes.

This exam is jointly conducted by Indian Institute of Sciences and Indian Institutes of Technologies.

This exam is of 3 hours and 100 marks.

It is a highly competetive exam and the qualification rate of this exam is 17.82%.

Before thinking about self-study or joining a coaching, you need to know its pros and cons.

So, we need to evaluate the importance of both self study and coaching.

If you join the coaching you get the study material and a guide who will systematically help you go through the syllabus and like-wise environment where similar goal sharing people would be competeting for the exam but coachings can be really coastly for anyobe.

And if you do self-study then you need to gather the study material yourself and you have to give a lot of time here and there for the things which coachings could provide you right at the entry in classroom.

And if you do both, that will be the perfect decision. Because coachings will guide you and provide you the material and can help you in the areas where you are more prone to do mistakes. While when you self-study you practise what you read in the coaching room and do revision multiple times.

So, the choice is totally yours.

Thankyou.

I suggest you to do self-study and take an online course from some good coaching like akash, fiitjee or other for test series. But if you are willing to get some guide like coach or mentor, go with coaching. Whatever, don't get bothered enough. It's on you, the more you will cover and focus, the higher results you will get.