GATE 2017 exam is just 2 months away and if you have made up your mind to score high then start your preparation right away, without losing any time. Working hard and managing time well is essential to get you through the GATE exam, and to get into a reputed institute for your post-grade engineering/architecture/technology program. Here are few essential tips to ace the GATE exam:
Understand Syllabus Pattern: When you start preparing for 2017 GATE exam, know the syllabus well to list important topics to study in details. This approach is useful as every topic or sub-topic is not important from the examination point of view.
Study Previous Question Papers: GATE 2017 preparation is incomplete without analyzing previous question papers. Knowing question patterns, mark allocation and identifying critical topics, help you stay alerted and prepare in the right direction from the beginning.
Check this link for GATE previous years question papers with answer keys:
http://gateforum.com/gate-exam/previous-gate-papers/
Best Books: Choosing right books is critical for success in any exam. Before buying any book – check reviews online, discussion forums for GATE and experts’ suggestions, to finalize on a book. Right books make your preparation easy and learning fun.
Practice and Speed Up: Practice questions, calculation skills and applications for a given formulae, to improve on your speed and accuracy. It is important to challenge yourself by practicing every day to increase your speed with 100% accuracy.
Clarify Doubts: It is important to clarify your doubts from time to time, to get a better hold of the exam topics. If you have joined a coaching institute or classes, you can get your queries answered by GATE experts and if you have not enrolled in any form of coaching, try to find the answers online at various GATE discussion forums.
Take Notes: Taking down notes is very important when you go through different topics preparing for GATE. It helps you to revise quickly later and enable you to identify doubts to be clarified later.
Positive Mindset: When you run a competitive race, it is sure to drain your energy and make your mood swing from time to time. Maintaining a positive mindset is important to keep yourself pushing to reach your goal with enthusiasm.
When it comes to success in an exam – hard work, dedication, focus, practice and positive mindset, always counts. The best way to prepare is to get into a mindset where you are in the fix of getting into one of the reputed institutes for a post-graduate program.
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