In this blog, I cover everything required to prepare a particular subject for GATE.
Weightage table:
C Programming
Level of questions: Easy to Moderate
No. of questions: 2-3
Important topics: Pointer, Recursion & Arrays.
Study material: Just do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT.
Time required: Around 40-45 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: No test series required.
Standard book: Denis Ritchie (No need to read)
Accuracy level: 100%
Data Structures
Level of questions: Easy to Moderate
No. of questions: 3-4
Important topics: Trees, Graph & Hashing
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 60-65 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Made Easy test series (Topic-wise, single subject)
Standard book: Narsimha Karumachi (Read for uncleared topics only)
Accuracy level: 90%
Algorithms
Level of questions: Moderate to Difficult
No. of questions: 3-4
Important topics: Asymptotic analysis, greedy algorithms & sorting techniques
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 55-60 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Made Easy test series (Topic-wise, single subject)
Youtube channel: Abdul bari Youtube videos (Read for uncleared topics only)
Accuracy level: 90%
DBMS
Level of questions: Easy to Moderate
No. of questions: 4-5
Important topics: Normalization, Transaction management, B/B+ trees & SQL.
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 70-80 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: (No need to read)
Accuracy level: 90%
OS
Level of questions: Easy to Hard
No. of questions: 4-5
Important topics: CPU Scheduling, Process Synchronization & Memory management
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 100-120 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: (No need to read)
Accuracy level: 70% - 100%
COA
Level of questions: Moderate to Hard
No. of questions: 3-4
Important topics: Caching, Addressing modes & Pipeline
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 80-90 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: (No need to read)
Accuracy level: Same as OS
DLD
Level of questions: Easy to Moderate
No. of questions: 2-33
Important topics: Number System, Minimization & Synchronous circuits
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 70-90 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: (No need to read)
Accuracy level: 100%
Maths
Level of questions: Easy to moderate
No. of questions: 4-5
Important topics: Set Theory, Graph Theory, Probability & Prepositional logic
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 40-50 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: (No need to read)
Accuracy level: 70-80%
TOC
Level of questions: Moderate to Hard
No. of questions: 3-4
Important topics: Decidability, Closure properties of Language, DFA, PDA & Turing Machine
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 100 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: (No need to read)
Accuracy level: 80-100%
CD
Level of questions: Easy
No. of questions: 2-3
Important topics: Parsing, SDT, DAG & Machine dependent & independent issues
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 30-40 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: (No need to read)
Accuracy level: 100%
CN
Level of questions: Moderate to Hard
No. of questions: 3-5
Important topics: Flow control, Ipv4, Multi-layers protocol & TCP/IP.
Study material: Must do previous 15 years' questions asked in GATE CSIT and give Made Easy topic-wise test for more practice.
Time required: Around 120-150 hours to complete notes, revise concepts, and practice questions.
Test Series: Go for Made Easy test series only.
Standard book: Tanenbaum
Accuracy level: 70-100%
Important points:
1. Toppers have around 85-100% accuracy in these subjects.
2. Focussed on the concepts asked in previous years.
3. Must do previous year's questions 3-4 times.
4. Must write a test for all the subjects.
5. Don’t try multiple resources.
Great blog for gate aspirants
ReplyDeleteCan you share your preferred order in which gate cse subjects should be completed?
ReplyDeleteI actually had a doubt
Can i complete Digital logic and then COA
And after these two subjects TOC,CD,DBMS,OS,CN
I have completed Engineering Maths, Discrete maths and Programming data structures and algorithms
I think the order should be like:
DeleteC & DS --> Algorithms --> DBMS --> TOC --> CD --> DLD --> COA --> CN