Post Gate Experience 2012

Today I am going to share my Post Gate Experience 2012. It will be very helpful to students who cleared  Gate 2013 and also for others. Please feel free to ask any question. I would also say, please add your experience too.

Following are my details:
Name: Vinkal Vishnoi
Gate Rank & Score: 215 , 797
Branch & Year: CSE-2012

• I applied for IISc Bangalore M.Tech,IISc Bangalore MSc (Super Computer), IIT Madras MS(3 year Programme), IIT Mumbai RA(3 years), IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi (RA and TA) , IIT Delhi Interdisciplinary, IIT Kharagpur(CS/IT), IIT Roorkee.

•  Call From: IISc Bangalore MSc(Super Computer) for written test and Interview, IIT Madras MS(3 year Programme), IIT Mumbai RA(3 years), IIT Kanpur  M.Tech,IIT Delhi (RA and TA) , IIT Delhi Interdisciplinary, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee.

•  Colleges Which got converted: IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur(IT), IIT Madras MS (I did not give exams for IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai)

My Experience:

• First Exam was in April for IISc Bangalore : For this exam they roughly call upto 900 Gate Rank. General seats for this program-me are around 15.It is very good opportunity for those who got more than 400 rank. Super computers is a very good field and it also deals with parallel computing.I did not know the format of the exam, so was not able to clear written test. Written test consisted of 30 Objective question and time alloted was around 45 min. The written test has no question related to gate, and consisted of 28 Math problems and 1-2 C program. The Math problem were from 12th syllabus. Topics were 3D-Co-ordinate Geometry, 2-D Co-ordinate Geometry, Complex numbers, Trignometry,etc. My suggestion is to those who have greater than 400 rank, can give their full effort for this exam. My written test was not clear, so I don't have knowledge about interview. Some one having experience of Interview can share his experience.

Note: IISc M.Tech  takes direct admission. If you are under 60 rank, you can apply for that. Last year OBC rank 280 and SC 1800 got direct admission for this program-me in the last list( This data is as per my knowledge)

•  My second exam was for IIT Madras MS 3 year programme. I guess they also call upto 1000 gate rank, again a good opportunity for high rankers. There were 2 written tests, one being 1 hour test and other 1.30 hr test.   First written had objective and "Fill in blank" type questions. It was easy test. Questions were of type aptitude, Gate pattern etc. Around 15 questions were there. Second test was 1.30 hr subjective. The questions were mainly from Maths and some choice was given(like you have to attempt 5 out of 7 questions). It was bit difficult. I attempted around 3.5 problems out of 5. I will let you know if I remember the questions.I cleared this exam and got selected for Interview. I will share Interview experience in next blog. Note that for IIT madras takes directly for M.Tech programme. If you are under 200 rank, you can grab seat in it(90% chances). To see the IIT Madras MS paper, see this post.. http://useful-info-collection.blogspot.in/2013/03/post-gate-experience-journey-to-iit.html

• My third Exam was for IIT Kanpur M.Tech programme. IIT kanpur also had written and Interview. They call upto 540 General rank, 1100 OBC rank and 3500 SC/ST rank. The witten test was 2.5 hrs exam with all objective questions, but it was a bit tougher than GATE exam. Written test is followed by Interview. I will share full experience of this in another blog.
• Last Interview was for IIT Kharagpur. They generally call upto 600 General rank and 1100 OBC rank, but the interview weightage is 30%. It was an easy Interview. Please do apply for both CSE and IT for this college.

Here is my blog for general suggestions. Please have a look at this page. It may help you to decide further..
http://useful-info-collection.blogspot.in/2013/03/post-gate-general-suggestions.html

Students who are appearing for Gate 2014(CS/EC/ME/EE/CH/CE/AE/Others) can join the following facebook group. It will help you guys. Here you can ask questions and guide others.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gateguidance/

Best of luck to all Gate Aspirants 2014.

Following are some of other Gate experiences shared by friends, they might be useful to you:-

1. http://useful-info-collection.blogspot.in/2013/03/what-after-gate-experience-of-gate-2011.html
2. http://useful-info-collection.blogspot.in/2013/03/my-journey-from-gate-2012-to-iitd.html
3. http://useful-info-collection.blogspot.in/2013/03/what-after-gate-experience-of-gate-2012.html
4. http://useful-info-collection.blogspot.in/2013/03/gate-experience-journey-to-iitk.html

Note: I am writing this blog, with what I remember. There can be case that, I don't remember every minute Information, mean to say that there can be some mistakes. 

Important Info: If any of you want to share their GATE experience in this blog, can mention their Gmail Id and name in comments. Sharing is caring. It will help future Gate aspirant and also students will get a single place where they can get ample amount of Post experience with less effort. I would like to invite Gate 2013 guys for this. Thanks in advance.