Hi all,

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I prepared for GATE with three of my BTech juniors – Anish, Pawan and Prasanna Karthik. They finished UG this year. They wrote GATE 2009 and got fantastic scores of 99.63, 99.60 and 99.71 percentiles respectively! The number of people who took the exam was around 41000, and these guys got ranks of 158, 162 and 117!! Needless to say, they performed spectacularly in the written tests and interviews and got admits into almost all the places they tried! Delighted to see them succeed SO spectacularly!!

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PK has started blogging here about his GATE experiences. Since I was fully preparing with them for GATE 2008, many posts are as much about me as they are about him.  I had blogged about IIT Interviews and choosing between MS and MTech. He’s written a lot of stuff that I wanted to, but was too lazy to write after these two :D Moreover, his detailed descriptions of the strategies we adopted for preparing, our experiences etc will help GATE aspirants. Two good reasons to check him out..

The strategies he puts up are tested on two GATEs, and all four of us have succeeded through them. So I can safely claim that they are good and that they work for most. Please go ahead and adopt them or modify them as you wish, and let us know what worked for you :) Do check out his blog.

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The previous few posts have been about some other blog or video or the like. That’s because I was nearly drowning in work ! Second sem got over, and I got an S in both the courses I took. I’m a ten-pointer this sem!! With this, my course requirement is fulfilled, and my final CGPA is 9.21 :) Now I’ve started my research. Am working on improving reliability of architectures.

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I also realized that my prof is a regular follower of the blog – he makes snide comments on every post, which means that he reads them all! Hi sir ;)

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karthrags