What is the Right Time and Right Strategy to Prepare for GATE ?

One frequent question that crosses all the aspirant’s mind at some point of time or other is, “What would be the correct time to start one’s GATE preparation and how to channelize it in the right direction?”

Right Time vs The Ideal Time

“Right time to do a thing is when you’re sure you want to do it” because only then you have enough determination and patience to achieve it. Since there is no bar on the age of candidates applying for the GATE exam, Different people work in different time frames and accordingly, achieve the same goal in different time slabs; but no one is ideal, it all depends on the level of determination you put, the strategy you follow and the guidance you get.

The Ideal Time for College Students

Ideally speaking, for a technical exam like GATE, it is advisable to start preparing from second year onwards of college. It is not advised to start preparation in the first year itself since candidates are hardly acquainted with the knowledge of what technical studies,A delay of the semester or a month in your preparation won’t do as much damage to your career as lack of a planned preparation or perplexed start of the career would do.

How to Start

Since there is ample time for preparation, you can dedicate sufficient time to each subject, solving questions along with practicing previously asked questions in GATE. Ideally, no technical subject should take more than 20 days to maximum one month for preparation.Short notes or micro notes prove to be an important part in one’s preparation in later stages when you start taking tests. Joining a classroom course for your preparation would be a good idea since it streamlines your preparation.

GATE preparation tips to keep the spirits high:

There are a number of ways you can do that if you are preparing by yourself or with a job or college, Form small support groups, consisting of 2-3 aspirants with similar goals, any successful senior for guidance or maybe a faculty, who can help with doubt resolution. It’s known that no one can succeed alone, you cannot go long if you plan to go alone. Taking help and guidance from fellow aspirants and faculty is, thus, always a good idea.

Forming a flexible GATE 2020 strategy and modifying it, when and as needed according to how you are performing would be beneficial for the GATE exam. The performance can be judged through thoroughly preparing for and following a good online test series for GATE.

The Final

Online Test Series are the final stroke for your strategy. It is advisable that you enroll for a test series, just two or three months down the beginning of your preparation. Opposed to the general convention, test series should not only be taken in the end, very close to the GATE exam, in fact, it should help you analyze and evaluate your performance after each subject. With the help of a test series, you can also keep in touch with all the technical subjects regularly by taking topic wise and mixed subject tests frequently. Full syllabus tests, according to varying difficulty levels, though, can be taken towards the end of your preparation, just before the final GATE exam to analyze and get the complete picture of your preparation level.

What matters in the end, is not how well you studied and prepared but only how well you retained and performed. Little things add to efficiency and add up to big results. Make and stick to realistic schedules and routines. Make it a habit to make and read micro notes, eat healthily, take proper sleep breaks. Don’t lose your calm, be sure of your aim and stay confident of yourself. Time taken does not matter in the end if the result is worth the time and the effort. Your determination and required motivation to achieve comes from within as they say, “lost are the people who search for motivation anywhere outside themselves.”