GATE 2015 Topper Interview _ Ravi Shankar Mishra
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GATE 2015 Topper Interview – Ravi Shankar Mishra scored All India Rank 1 in Computer Science in GATE 2015. He is an Mechanical engineer of batch 2014 from IIT Kanpur. Following his interest in Computer Science he decided to appear in GATE 2015 for Computer Science other then his bachelor field. With full dedication approach, Ravi Shankar Mishra scored All India Rank 1 in GATE 2015. Come lets hear from Ravi Shankar Mishra how he was able to achieve his goal in short period of time, preparation techniques, the time table that he followed, books that were useful to study and more… XamAdda: Tell us something about yourself; where have you done your engineering from and in which branch? Ravi Shankar Mishra: My name is Ravi Shankar Mishra. I belong to a middle class family from Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand. My father is an Ex-Airman, my mother a housewife and my elder sister is an employee of Konylabs Software Company, Hyderabad. I have completed my B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in the year 2014. XamAdda: what was the GATE Paper you appeared in? What rank did you get in GATE 2015? What is your GATE score and how many marks did you secure out of 100 in GATE paper? Ravi Shankar Mishra: I appeared for Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) paper and secured AIR-1 in GATE 2015 (http://www.xamadda.com/gate-2016-brochure/). My score is 1000, normalized mark is 85.85 and actual mark is 79.00. XamAdda: What was the reason you appeared for GATE 2015? PSU or further studies? Please elaborate Ravi Shankar Mishra: I wanted to make a career in Computer Science but my Bachelor’s degree is in Mechanical Engineering, so I appeared for GATE 2015 with an intention of doing M.Tech in CSE from a reputed Indian college. XamAdda: Have you also applied to any PSUs and which ones? Ravi Shankar Mishra: Right now, I have no intention to join a PSU. I am passionate about pursuing my Masters in Computer Science now that I have scored well. XamAdda: When did you start your preparation? How did you prepare? How many hours did you put in per day as per the stage of preparation? Ravi Shankar Mishra: My preparation started 150 days before the GATE exam. I planned my preparation in three major phases and followed it to a tee, I am elaborating the plan in details phase wise: http://www.xamadda.com/gate2015topperinterviewravishankarmishra/
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1. Phase 1 (15 days, 5 hours/day) – Understanding the GATE Syllabus, Preparation Plan, Books This phase started when I decided to appear for the GATE 2015 examination in CSE. The first thing I did was to go through the blogs written by previous year GATE toppers. I tried to gauge a pattern in their preparation and to understand the bare minimum preparation techniques they did correctly to be successful. I found a repetitive theme in their preparation -most of them followed standard books, solved previous year GATE papers, planned their study well, did proper revision in last months and enrolled in some good online Test Series. After this my quest for good standard books started. Some criteria I followed here are: The book should be simple enough so that a Mechanical graduate can understand them It must be broad enough to cover the entire GATE syllabus. Fortunately, I did get some good books which I have listed below. Next, I planned the order in which I should study the given topics and the time I needed to devote for each topic. 2. Phase 2 (105 days, 12 hours/day) – Studying Books & Solving previous year papers: I listed the chapters covered in GATE Syllabus and allotted time to each accordingly. Important Topics with heavy weightage like Data Structures and Algorithm got around 14 days for preparation while lesser important topics like Digital Logic got 6 days. My focus was to study all the relevant topics from all the books I had chosen such that no question could escape me. I also did the relevant exercises from each chapter for better practice. My study schedule went like – study a particular topic and attempt the past 10 years question papers for that topic only. Here I must say that I used the question bank from MadeEasy but trust me, there is no book in the market which doesn’t have some errors and therefore, the internet is your only friend. I found solutions at the GATEOverflow website to be very good. Most important – I didn’t leave any topic untouched in the prescribed GATE syllabus. I even studied for Software Engineering, Web Technology and Verbal ability. 3. Phase 3 (30 days, 14 hours/day) – Revision & Test Series:
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This is a crucial phase which I used to recall what I had learnt in the last four months and to push my score further by 5-10 marks. But I found myself in big trouble. The reason was that I did not make any notes during my self-study. That was because of two reasons. First, I don’t know the art of making good notes and second, if I had made notes, I would have required 2 more months to study the book chapters. Three things came to my rescue here and they not only gave me revision but also introduced me to some sub-topics that I unintentionally skipped – Made Easy study material, Ankur Gupta Notes and Standard book power point slides. I hurried through all of them. Next was the turn of Test Series and I appeared for four full length tests by MadeEasy. XamAdda: Have you taken any coaching? If yes- From where? How did it help? Ravi Shankar Mishra: No, I have not taken any formal coaching but I took the correspondence course of MadeEasy. The study material that they provided helped me to filter out unnecessary book chapters and it was also useful for revision in the final stage of my preparation as I hadn’t made any notes of my own during my self-study. XamAdda: GATE 2015 saw a substantial amount of numerical questions asked when compared to previous years. Were you prepared for this eventuality? How did you prepare for the numerical questions considering that they require speed in calculating the solutions? Ravi Shankar Mishra: I feel the reason for introducing large number of numerical questions in GATE is to discourage the guessing tendency of students. One bad thing about this question type is that it requires very high accuracy. One small calculation mistake and you lose your marks as well as precious time in the exam. The good thing is that these questions come with no negative marks, so you can answer them no matter what. There was no special preparation for numerical questions. The only thing that I made sure was not to commit any silly mistake while attempting them. XamAdda: Can you share any preparation strategies with our readers? How to schedule study time and make timetables? Ravi Shankar Mishra: I kept my preparation strategy as simple as possible. It was just five steps: (1) Plan (2) Study Books
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(3) Solve previous year papers (4) Revise (5) Give Mock Test. I feel that the major stress comes during step-2 and that required quite a lot of planning and time on my end. I am sharing my 105 days timetable with the future GATE aspirants. I would advise them to scale it according to the time that is available to them. XamAdda: Can you share any preparation strategies with our readers? How to schedule study time and make timetables? Ravi Shankar Mishra: I kept my preparation strategy as simple as possible. It was just five steps: (1) Plan (2) Study Books (3) Solve previous year papers (4) Revise (5) Give Mock Test. I feel that the major stress comes during step-2 and that required quite a lot of planning and time on my end. I am sharing my 105 days timetable with the future GATE aspirants. I would advise them to scale it according to the time that is available to them. The order in which I covered GATE topics was inspired by two factors- one was the weightage of the topics and other was the pre-requisite subject to be studied before the advanced subject part. I have given the order in which I studied the topics along with average weightage (from years 2010-2015) and days devoted in the table. XamAdda: Which books did you follow for GATE preparation?
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Ravi Shankar Mishra: I have listed below the book name, author name, edition and relevant chapters of the books that I followed. The edition of books are the latest ones (updated till Dec. 2014) and freely downloadable on the internet. I would recommend all the future GATE aspirants to read only the latest edition of the books. GATE Syllabus
Book Name
Author Name
Edition
Relevant Chapters
Engineering
Discrete Mathematics and Its
Kenneth
7
1,2,6-11
Mathematics
Applications
Rosen
Digital Logic
Digital Design
Morris Mano
5
1-6
Programming
The C Programming language
Dennis Richie
2
1-6
Data Structures
Introduction to Algorithms
Cormen
3
1-4,6-8,10-
and Algorithms
Theory of
An Introduction to Formal
Computation
Languages and Automata
Computer
Computer Networking: A
Networks
Top-Down Approach
Computer Organization and Architecture
12,15,16,22-
24,34 Peter Linz
3
1-12
Kurose & Ross
6
1-5,8
Computer Organization and
Carl
6
1-3,5,6,8,9
Embedded systems
Hamacher
Operating System
Operating System Concepts
Galvin
9
1-15
Databases
Database System Concepts
Korth
6
1-4,68,10,11,14,15
Compiler Design
Compilers: Principles,
Aho& Ullman
2
1-9
Pressman
7
Read slides only
Techniques and Tools Software
Software Engineering: A
Engineering
Practitioner’s Approach
Web technologies
w3schools (html/xml tutorial)
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XamAdda: Any advice for the future aspirants? Ravi Shankar Mishra: Believe in yourself. Don’t let anyone tell you what you can achieve and what you can’t. Nobody thought that I could even get a rank in the Top 500 in the GATE 2015 CS paper as I was a Mechanical Engineering graduate but I backed myself. Just think that if a guy with zero knowledge of computer science with just 5 months of dedicated study and determination could bring his knowledge up to the level of the GATE exam and go on to score the First Rank, why can’t you? All of you who will appear for GATE 2016 will have even more time than what I had. Forget about everything and just dedicate quality time over your preparation. Don’t worry about what the others think about you; you are not doing this for them. You are doing this for yourself and your family. It is your dream, go get it! Nobody is stopping you except yourself.
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