Dear Aspirant,

unfortunately 80 marks in GATE is not sufficient to secure a seat for yourself for your master's degree in any of the IITs or NITs. You will be required to secure a much better score in order to secure a seat at IITs or NITs for your post graduation degree.

Given below are some of the highly recommended textbooks you can use for preparing for GATE exams,

• Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth Rosen

• Higher Engineering mathematics - B.S. Grewal

• Theory of Elasticity - Timoshenko & Gere

• Soil Mechanics - Gopal Ranjan and Rao,Venkat Ramaiha,S. K. Garg

• Water Resources - S K Garg

• Transportation - Justo Khanna

• Environmental Engineering - S. K. Garg Part I & Part II

• Surveying (vol. 1,2,3) - B.C.Punmia, Ashok Jain, Arun Jain