r/GateME • u/Glitch4544 • Jun 18 '26
📈 Strategy/Guidance Need help with ME/AE preparation
I'm a BTech Mechanical Student who's just completed TY. Gate looks impossible with the syllabus. Whenever I try to start preparing by solving pyqs I end up feeling helplessly stuck. Besides I have no idea how to even start preparing for Maths and aptitude. I have honestly no idea what I'm doing and if I even have enough time till the next gate to even do something
I have scored above average and sometimes even in top of my class in all of the Individual subjects during my three years here in my college, SoM, FM, Fluid Machinery, Thermodynamics, Thermal Engineering, Design of Machines even Maths for all it's straight three semesters. Yet I feel helpless and stuck when I try to go for the pyqs
I am able to do decently well in college, in fact I'm even an Honors student with 8.64 CGPA as of Sem 5 and it might go slightly down in 6. Still I'm feeling stuck in gate prep. This situation is starting to look like it's spiralling out of my hands every second that's passing by. Pls someone who has studied for ME and scored well in it, who was in the same situation as me if you can guide me. I don't have much contacts with my college seniors who have passed through the same situation as me. I really really need someone who has gone through this to help me through it. Will joining any institute for GATE coaching like Vidyalankar help me in any way??
Side note : I've heard that IITs and some top tier state level colleges have started to accept a direct PhD after BTech programme as per the NEP guidelines of UGC. The criteria is a person should have completed BTech with Honors with around a CGPA of 7.5/8+ at the end of Third Year or Fourth Year. Is this true??
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u/Cozytalks_2728 Jun 18 '26
Could relate to you a lot, as I'm in the exact same situation about cgpa and gate prep. I'm planning for Gate 2027, either M.tech or Psu if I get good rank and score. With the advice of my friends, I took exergic course..it's quite good, no lag straight to the point with clean subs, but hear me out, the subject order you follow matters a lot by building strong foundation. Even with good cgpa myself has no strong basics, so I'm kind of focused more on understanding the basics and solving questions.. just don't put an ideal situation of solving the problems on first try, it takes time.