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Answered 6 months ago · Author has 590 answers and 1.2M answer views

GATE EEE is a national exam conducted once every year. It is one of the most sought
after exams for students from the IITs and NITs as it offers a post-graduation course.
However, it is to be noted not only does GATE offer a postgraduate course, over 200
Public Sector Undertakings consider GATE scores and even offer a stipend on a
monthly basis to the students pursuing an M.Tech. course. This is what makes GATE
EEE one of the most competitive exams for engineering students.

Students, therefore face one of the most common yet difficult questions, ‘How do I
prepare for GATE EEE?’ The answer to this is quite simple and if you are determined,
you can easily clear GATE with ease.

Follow these simple steps as you follow your daily routine and there is just no looking
back.

Begin With Your Preparations Early

You may often read about articles stating how to prepare for GATE in XYZ months but
honestly, time waits for none. It's always best to start early. The best time to begin is
the third year of engineering. Waiting for the last few months will only increase stress.

Know the Syllabus

The most important step to clear GATE is to know the syllabus; understand how the
paper covers different topics, understand weightage of each topic, the marking system
used for different questions, etc. GATE covers these 10 topics:

Engineering Mathematics

Electric Circuits

Electric Machines

Electromagnetic Fields

Control Systems

Power Systems

Signals and Systems

Analog and Digital Electronics

Electrical and Electronic Measurements

Power Electronics

Knowing the syllabus helps you to identify your strengths and weaknesses. This in turn
will help you to distribute your time and effort more effectively.

Engineering Mathematics

Being well versed with the syllabus will enable you to understand that the engineering
mathematics section is a mandatory section and weighs approximately 12-18% of the
total paper. The topics covered under Engineering Mathematics are:

Differential Equations

Calculus

Linear Algebra

Probability and Statistics

Transform Theory

Numerical Methods

Complex Variables

Identify the Right Books

There is a pool of content available to scour. However, what may be perfect for one,
may not be even close to perfection for another. The perfect book can be the one
where the language is more comprehensible or which provides some tips and tricks or
simply because a student is more comfortable with the writing style of the author. The
choice is yours to make.

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Prepare a Study Plan

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Draft a foolproof, practical, and tactical study plan. Understand your goals and
prepare a plan that will help you use your potential to the optimum. Add the number
of hours of study, include test series, quizzes, previous year papers etc. Also, include
breaks and recreational activities. The study plan should evolve as you come closer to
finishing the portion.

Prepare Notes

As old school as it may seem, preparing your notes is the best practice. Making your
notes helps you to retain what has been learned more effectively. Make flow charts
include formulas and synopsis of topics, prepare diagrams, etc.

Test Yourself
Lastly, test your knowledge after every topic. Testbook offers quizzes based on topics,
level of difficulty, weightage, etc. Once confident of finishing the GATE EEE syllabus,
take video lectures available online, attempt previous year papers and test series too
as they help in understanding time management. These services are offered by
Testbook too.

Remember, it was Iron man, an engineer who helped win the End game!!
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Shanti, GATE'17 AIR 66 | Author Control Systems for ESE|GATE

Answered 1 year ago · Author has 118 answers and 1.3M answer views

Originally Answered: How do I prepare for the GATE EE?

PREPARING YOUR MIND

There are two approaches for cracking GATE

1. Long but rewarding method: Study sincerely in college - truly complete

your assignments and not merely copy paste, study well for mid exams and
semester exams not just by one night stands. Then in final year you can focus
to study in Gate point of view. This includes doing past year questions,
revising often asked concepts over and over.

2. Short but tricky method: You may be in final year/job /taking year off- you
can still crack Gate. But this time your strategy should be different. You
simply dont have time for the conventional method of reading from
textbooks for preparation. You need coaching or atleast study material. This
will give you direction and enable you to complete in the shortest possible
time.

I myself was more oriented towards the first method(though not 100%). But I have
seen more number of people successful through the second method. So, both
methods work. Choose one according to you!

ALONG THE PREPARATION

Once you decide how your preparation is going to be, the next isue is feeling
demotivated midway through preparation. You may forget concepts read previously,
you may fear of there is enough time…All this is very natural. Remember to just keep
going!

TEST SERIES AND REVISION

These two are something you cannot dream of ignoring. From around Nov-Dec, this
should be your main focus rather than reading new concepts.

SUBJECTS WEIGHTAGE

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past year trends. You can check it out. (Only for EE)

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

See to it that you are not stressed. Stress pulls you down so very badly! Remember
this exam is not the end-all.

If you are sincere in your preparation, then it will truly help even if not in the way you
expect it to!

Best wishes!
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Mrudula Bellala, former Senior Engineer (Electrical) at Apgdc (2017-2018)

Updated 3 years ago

Originally Answered: How do I prepare for the GATE EE?

I wrote GATE 2016 and secured rank of 949 with score 715 and percentile 99.24.

Person targeting for GATE should have strong determination and affection towards
the subject. I belong to EEE and a person of EEE unless he loves the subject he cant
get a grip over the topics.

Coming to the preparation one should be very clear of the basics and as we write the
GATE at least after completing the Bachelors, I expect here that, one will be clear with
all fundamentals and if you aren’t then the first thing you should learn is basics.

I was not pretty much interested in the GATE exam but my family wanted me to
attempt so I did, but I was in great love with my subjects so I was a bit clear on the
fundamentals.

Though I was not interested in GATE I was interested in the subjects so I used to
concentrate on the GATE classes and I used the class time properly. I went for ACE
classes and the faculty there had a great dedication towards the subject. Their
teaching made me get more interest to concentrate on the topics. I used to solve all
the problems given in the class on my own at the same time I solved the problem -
books provided by them. And then I had a look over the previous year papers. I
observed that if a person concentrates more on the problem based subjects like
Digital, Analog Electronics, Control Systems, Circuit Theory, Measurements,
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scoring would be easy and don’t leave even a single topic from these subjects. I don’t How do I prepare for the GATE EEE 2021?
mean Machines and Power Systems aren’t important but If you are lacking of time, like
u started preparation before 5 months (provided u are clear with basics) of GATE then How do I start preparing for the GATE 2021
concentrating on Machines and Power Systems would take lot of time as they have lot (EEE)?
of theory in it. Luckily for me many of the problem based subjects were all time
favorites. I am a 3rd year B.E. in EEE student. How can I
prepare for the GATE? What are the books I…
Then 1 month before the exam one should do a revision of all the topics and related
formulas read so far at least for 3 times and has to write minimum of 10 full length How many months of preparation are required
tests. Writing as many tests would decrease the silly mistakes u do. I was a bit careless to clear the GATE exam in EEE?
here and I just wrote 5 full length tests and revised formulas only once for which I
What are the best books for GATE (EEE) and
made many silly mistakes in the exam. The tip I can give here is to write the test at the
when is right time for preparing?
scheduled hour of the original test you were supposed to write this makes your mind
set for the particular time. How do clear GATE in the year EEE?

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Now, don’t over burden your mind with new formulas on the day before test. Be calm
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and relaxed and the same on the test day. Don’t discuss about the answers once you
are done with the exam.

Wait for the result to come.

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Tumuluru Karthik
Answered 2 years ago
Originally Answered: How do I prepare for the GATE EE?
First of all, ask yourself whether you are ready to fight till the very end. Every year
lakhs of engineering graduates come into this rat race, either by quitting their job or
taking a year drop or compromising their final year campus placements. As per my
observation, for every 100 aspirants who come into this race, hardly 2 to 3 are well
settled in their dream PSU or dream IIT/IISC. Once you have decided to take part in
this race, just know one reality:

70% your efforts matter (hard work + smart work + failure analysis and improvement)
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Ravi Teja, worked at L&T Construction (2017-2019)

Answered April 23, 2021

I secured AIR-77-EE , AIR-58-IN in GATE-21.

I personally feel having a good mentor/coaching centre will give you a good start to
your preparation.

I took coaching from OHM Institute Hyderabad.

Having a good gate oriented class notes and problem set will help to revise the
concepts and subject on regular basis.

Since, gate is mathematical oriented exam , practising more models of questions will
help us improve problem solving capability.

To know the type of questions that can be asked in gate. Previous year question bank
can be a standard reference. Continue Reading

Abeer Mittal, Sr. Operations Officer at Indian Oil Corporation Limited (2019-
present)
Answered 1 year ago

Originally Answered: How do I prepare for the GATE EE?

If you are planning to join any coaching then they will guide you about it but if you
are not then you can read below.

For preparation of GATE without joining any coaching will demand more time and
determination from you. As in coaching you will study only those topics which are
relevent for GATE and that too in a concise manner.

For self preparation you will be required to first create base and understand the
concepts through the standard books then you can go for some coaching materials.
After you have prepared that you can certainly
Continue go for coaching materials notes. And it
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Rishi Hazra, Amazon Alexa-AI (2019-present)

Answered 4 years ago
Originally Answered: What are the best tips to prepare for GATE EE?
I got just one.

Regardless of what your ambitions are, it boils down to a simple question.

How obsessed you are to achieve your objective.

This obsession will keep you motivated and will decide the extent to which you can go
to fulfill your dreams. So, you must contemplate on what you would like to do with a
GATE rank and imagine yourself in that place every time you lose your motivation. In
my case, it was IISc.

As to your question, I would request you to go through these answers.

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Swatantra Kumar, Senior Administrative Assistant at Ministry of Agriculture

(2019-present)
Updated 4 years ago · Author has 275 answers and 6.7M answer views
Originally Answered: How do I prepare for the GATE EE?
You have two option before you start, either to prepare your own or take coaching.

Now according to me first one is the best. Coaching will be helpful only when your
basic are not at all clear.

First download the syllabus and then start preparing. You can refer to the following
books:

1. Power electronics - P.S.Bhimhra

2. Power system - Nagrath kothari

3. Electrical machines - P.S.Bhimra

4. Networks - Valkenburg (Madeeasy notes are sufficient)

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5. Control system - Madeeasy notes (B.S.manke,nagrath kothari)

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Yogesh Verma, AIR 206 (Electrical Engineering)-GATE 2017

Answered 2 years ago · Author has 78 answers and 1.2M answer views

Originally Answered: How do I prepare for the GATE EE?

To get a good grip on electrical subjects you have to have a hold on selective topics of
following subjects:

1-) Engineering Mathematics- Matrix algebra and differential equations.

2-) Signals and Systems- Basics, Fourier and Laplace transform.

3-) Electromagnetics- 12th class basic concepts.

If you start preparing for GATE after studying the above subjects, I am pretty sure you
will be able to understand difficult subjects with less dificulty and in less time.

P.S- You dont have to be an expert in above topics. Just have a decent understanding.
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Aditya Gupta, UPSC ESE AIR 5 (Mechanical Engg.)

Answered 1 year ago · Author has 201 answers and 572.2K answer views
Originally Answered: How do I make a plan for the GATE EE?
Every person has his/her own way of preparation so you should make your own own
plan for your preparation. What works for someone may or may not work for you.
Make your plan such that it suits you.

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Solve previous years questions: As you study any subject, simultaneously solve previous
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years questions of GATE and ESE.

Practice: Solve as many questions as you can. But be confined to the syllabus.

Doubt clarification: Clear your doubts as soon as possible. Don’t postpone it.

Short notes: Make short notes of the subjects

Continue that you study. They will help you before
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Rakesh Goyal, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi

Answered 1 year ago · Author has 310 answers and 506.6K answer views
Originally Answered: How do I prepare for the GATE EE?
Thanks for A2A.

Every student who prepares for any given exam has his/her own individual strategy
because we ourselves are aware of our strengths and weaknesses. And when it comes
to GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) which is considered as one of the
toughest and the trickiest examinations for engineering graduates, it becomes quite
important that we have a well-prepared strategy to reach our ultimate goal.

In the GATE exam what matters the most is your approach towards each question i.e.
how you analyze or interpret the question. Because if you look at the syllabus it is as
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