GRE or GATE - Sandeep Reddy GATE A.I.R- 5

Before discussing about Gate or Gre let us put a question to ourselves. Why higher studies? After all what are u’r preferences? Whether money or job satisfaction or zeal for research. If u never thought in this way, now first think about all these things before you take a decision.

For an engineer there are lots of options to choose. Higher studies or MBA or a job in MNCs.all these options are good. But don’t make a decision only thinking of salaries. First asses’ u’r capabilities and first think about u’r interests. Each and every option will provide you good payment if u are dedicated. Now let us talk about higher studies.
Before selecting between gre and gate, u need to know some thing about the universities. In India there are some premier institutes providing Mtech like IISc, IITs.of course there are NITs too. But it’s better not to join those for MTech. Even in IITs IITg, IITr are rated low. So at last there are IISc, five IITs total six institutes providing excellent education. But there are thousands of aspirants in each and every branch. So now you imagine how tough it is to get in to these.

But it is not that difficult if u have a proper planning and dedication. Now let me tell you it’s not only GATE score that matters to get admission here in iits. It’s your interest towards subject and your practical knowledge that is u’r project that matters at the time of interview for admission. Even if you have less gate score and have a good project you can get admission easily. Let me tell you the procedure most of the IITs follow to take the students. First depending on the GATE score they will call some students it may be 1:5 or 1:6. Now from here onwards gate score is not given much importance. They will screen again by conducting a written test and then they will interview the candidate and now they will give the admission. Here in interview mostly u’r practical knowledge is tested. So u’r final year project plays a main role here, now let me tell u one thing that if u’r project is not related to u’r branch of interest (I meant the branch for which u have applied) then in most of the cases they will reject you. that is u have to be focused from u’r third year onwards towards u’r future and what they intend is you must have special interest towards the subject u must be motivated by u’r zeal for research in that field so it’s not the job opportunities or money that insists u to select the field.

So be aware of all the opportunities and all fields from third year onwards. Most of the people do the same mistake that after writing GATE or GRE they start choosing their field and college. this is absolutely ridiculous because you are trying to pass two years and I warn such people because to get admission in to IITs you need prior knowledge of u’r field as I said earlier and even in case of MS also if you want to get assistantship and any sort of aid, you need to have very good practical knowledge. So now if u choose to get in to higher studies first choose some fields and get some practical knowledge about them by spending some time in u’r laboratories. And of course most of the Indian engineering colleges do not provide good faculty and better infrastructure but u must make use of available resources. Read some magazines related to u’r field of interest.

now coming to research IISc is the best institute in INDIA for research and here admission is solely based on gate score only but in most of the cases only top 15 (or some times top 10 only) rankers can get admission here . so before choosing MS or MTech you need check in which universities u’r field of interest is available and whether the course content is up to date or not and u need to check the faculty also. And let me tell u one more thing, in India shifting from one branch to other is the most difficult thing that is lot of questions will be asked by interviewer about changing of branch so if u are desperate to shift from one branch to other it is better to take the branch paper in GATE. But it is not at all easy because in most of the cases you do not know basics. for example if u are from electrical back ground and want to get in to communication field then it’s better to take EC paper rather than EE paper if u r capable of writing it. But don’t be scared by all these things. even if u write EE paper u may have chances to get communication but u need to have good practical and theoretical knowledge of communications that’s why I advice you people to be focused and selective regarding u’r field of interest and then enquire about all these things I mentioned above before choosing MTech or MS.

Now don’t get scared. It is the fact that there is less chance to get seat here in India, but if you have a good project in u’r hand and if you can manage to get below 150 rank you can make it. Even though it is easy to write gre rather than gate, if you are not from iits or nits it’s very difficult to get admission in to top5o universities for MS. even if you manage to get admission there u may not get funding and assistantship. So in that case iits are better than other colleges which are not top50 universities. So all these things matters before choosing GATE or GRE. So all guys and girls all the best for u’r future and as I’m from electrical and electronics background I can help people from EE,EC in a better way and of course I can help any one up to my knowledge.

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