Gate CS 2019-175 rank

Before you make a decision to repeat or not I would like to make two things clear: (1) If you are getting a 3 digit or 4 digit rank this year does NOT imply next year you will definitely get a 2 digit or single digit. You need to earn it. Let’s assume 500 aspirants(much less than actual number) are repeating with this year’s rank within 5000, all of them cannot get within TOP 200. And final year students are also there to give tough competition apart from repeaters. You need to give your best. (2) Set Target : The competition is increasing with every year. Here’s the proof Gate Year Marks to get into TOP 100(approx) Topper’s Marks 2010 60 - 2015 66.59 85.85 2016 70 85.95 2017 70.16 86.26 2018 67 83.33 2019 75.33 88.67 Source :  https://gatecse.in You can see the increasing marks year wise. Note: The topper’s marks is 80+  every year irrespective of the toughness of paper. We can safely say that next year one should target...

Ask anyone in any in any marks range they will say that they could get few more marks if they did not do silly mistake. So if we could minimize it then our marks and ranks could be slightly better. Giving GATE for the 3rd time I knew I had done lot of silly mistakes in my previous attempts so I thought let’s analyze them and make sure I don’t repeat them in 2019. Few stats 2017 set 2 1 mark 2 mark Attempt 25 28 Incorrect 6 12 Silly Mistake 3 6 Silly/Incorrect % age 50% 50% Silly/Attempt % age 12% 21% 2018 1 mark 2 mark Attempt 22 28 Incorrect 6 12 Silly Mistake 3 6 Silly/Incorrect % age 50% 50% Silly/Attempt % age 13% 21% So my 50% of my mistakes were silly and could be corrected in examination hall, and is clear that in 2018 I did not learn from mistakes made in 2017, but this analysis is available only after exam is over. Inside the examination hall I have knowledge about attempt only and I need to figure out those silly mistake from t...

One often thinks how much attempt will be good enough to get me a good rank. The answer can be found by doing a small analysis. You need to give around 15  STANDARD  mock test, nothing can be better than previous years to know the answer and it needs to done before the END OF DECEMBER.  Extract data from it. Here’s how ​ Make an excel sheet similar to this . You will get all the previous year mocks from   here The following can be extracted from the excel. Your average number of attempts. How much you are scoring in 2 marks(35 questions) How much marks you lost in negative. What is your accuracy. Add more columns if you need, delete few columns if you think are redundant. This gives you the answer of how much is enough. Now ask yourself Are you satisfied with the marks you got ? Is our accuracy bad? Do you need to increase your attempt ? Do you need to strengthen your concepts? Are you facing difficulty in context sw...