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Dear Engineering Students,
I am Shankar, did my M.Tech in Power and Control from IIT Kanpur, B.Tech from JNTU Kakinada Campus and Diploma from Andhra Polytechnic Kakinada.
I worked in General Electric, Hyderabad for 6 years in the field of renewable energy sources. At present, delivering number of lectures in the field of power electronics (since 2007) and delivered lectures in Control systems as well (in the past) especially for GATE/ESE/PSUs. This blog is to explore the various opportunities for electrical engineering students especially preparing for competitive exams. I would like to utilize this blog as platform to share information as much as I can and requesting the continuous feed back for the improvement. I am maintaining this blog after my busy schedule as part of social service and giving back something to the society. If you like it, you can also be part of it

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BNSS Shankar

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

PostGATE - FAQs

Dear All,
I took post GATE guidance seminars only in Bhubaneswar and Kolkata this year.
I did some homework and prepared some list of frequently asked questions in these seminars and in previous years as well for the benefit of the people who were not attended my seminars.
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Student:         
How IITs are different from NITs?
Shankar:        
Research opportunities, lab facilities, professors brand value. Students will have     flexibility to choose their interested subjects across the departments, better placements. IITs will have more funding from Govt of India so that they will have laboratories with cut in edge technologies. Opportunity to get some foreign university scholarships like DAAD programmes.

Student:
Why IITs will conduct written test again and what will be the syllabus for it?
Shankar:
In GATE paper there are 55 questions from a given engineering discipline. Even if the candidate not prepared a particular subject, then he/she may get decent rank. But, for MTech, if they apply for that particular specialization, then IITs will test candidate’s minimum basic knowledge in that specialization by conducting written test.
Coming to syllabus, there will not specific syllabus. But, we can expect the topics related to the specialization where candidate is applied for. Sometime, written test may have mathematics also.
Most of IITs/IISc will conduct written test in descriptive as objective testing was over through GATE. Sometime they may discuss about the content what you have written in answer paper in the interview room.

Student:
How to prepare for PSU interviews?
Shankar:
In general, any interview will start with a popular question “Tell me about your self”. From your answers interviewer may frame different questions.
So, here the suggestion is make a small story in few minutes to highlight about yourself  and it should be quite natural.
Then, coming to technical subjects, prepare 2 or 3 subjects before the interview. Questions will be from your basic engineering background and in related to the job and company profile.
Here, the suggestion is, one or two days before the interview, go through company profile and get some idea so that you can answer comfortably.
Any organization will see that whether candidate is interested in a particular job or just for survival they came for interview. After given the job, whether candidate will work or not. Because, retaining talent is somewhat is challenging task for companies also.
In conclusion, interviews are not to eliminate the candidates but it is to know candidates interests which are in line with organization expectations so that both can grow. It is win – win situation between employee and employer.

Student:
Several questions to know about particular rank/branch/institute.
Shankar:
In this seminar, it very difficult to explain for all the people. Hence, I collected lot of information through RTI act on behalf of ACE engineering Academy and prepared a booklet to help the students to know about various cut offs. If you provide your name and email address to ACE, then we are happy to send that booklet in softcopy format.

Student:
I have seen G1, G2….in CCMT cut off report. Can you please explain about them.
Shankar:
They are group IDs and their definitions are given below:
Group–I: Registered candidates who did not get any seat allotment in Round 1.
Group-II: Registered candidates who were allotted seats in Round 1 and reported at the RC, but their allotted seats were cancelled due to non-fulfillment of eligibility criteria.
Group–III: Registered candidates, who were allotted seats in Round 1, reported at the RC and specified the ‘willingness’ for the subsequent rounds of counseling.
Group–IV: Candidates who were allotted seats in Round 1, reported at the RC and specified willingness as Freezing. Their allotted seat will be retained in the same category or moved to the up-graded category.

Student:
What are the most important points we need to consider during CCMT process
Shankar:
There will 4 rounds in this process. Even if you do not get seat in first round, you can participate in the next round. I will suggest you to apply till last round so that you can maximize your chances to get better NIT with better specialization.
Remember the following terminology:
During reporting period, candidate is given the provision of specifying his willingness, viz. Floating, Sliding and Freezing.
Floating: implies the candidate’s willingness to be considered for all the higher preferred choices across the Institutes for further rounds of seat allotment.
Sliding: implies the candidate’s willingness to be considered for all higher preferred choices within the Institute allotted to her/him during further rounds of seat allotment.
Freezing: implies the candidate’s willingness to accept and remain with the programme and the Institute allotted to her/him.

Student:
How to get bank loans in IITs
Shankar:
In every IIT campus, there will be one bank. After you got the seat allotment, if you approach to concerned bank, then they will sanction bank loan. But, if you try from the bank which is in your home place, then it will be some what delayed process. Suggestion is apply in your IIT campus itself. But, after the course completion please repay the loan but do not escape like Vijay Malya & Nirav Modi

Student:
Several questions from stipend
Shankar:
Consolidated answers for all these questions:
1.      Teaching Assistantship of Rs. 12,400/- per month for 4 semesters from MHRD in all IITs/NITs/Universities if admission is based on GATE. For this, candidate should work 8 hours per week in the campus.
2.      In IITB, there is Research Assistantship of Rs. 13,400/- per month for 4 semesters. candidate should work 20 hours per week
3.      In IITD, there is High Value Assistantship of Rs. 22,000/- per month for 6 semesters. candidate should work 20 hours per week
4.      Under the M.Tech (TA) programme, a fixed number of scholarships are allocated to the institute. They would be paid scholarship of Rs. 25,000/- per month for 4 semesters. This scheme is available in IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee.

Student:
Whether non GATE candidates in universities get the above stipend?
Shankar:
NO

Student:
If I join in any least preferred NITs this year, and prepare for next GATE then what are the consequences?
Shankar:
In your question, the intention to join in NIT is just to get MHRD stipend but not to complete the programme. It is not ethical. I cannot discuss in open forum.
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Always in the service of students,
With best wishes,
BNSS Shankar,
M.Tech (IITK), MIE
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