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May 20, 202239 Insightful Publication
Shreyash Srivastava gives you the answer!
Cracking the GATE exam doesn’t require a specific book set. You have options as to which book to choose. My advice is to go with the one that you find interesting, but yes, it should be of some value.
The courses that we take for GATE are like a complete story. You can read topics from different books as long as the story in your mind about the subject does not miss a few characters. But there is a certain drawback. Who prepares the GATE question papers? It is the IIT professors, and they have their own set of books that they are comfortable with. The questions and notations that would be used in the GATE exam are more likely to be from these books.
About how GATE is different from JEE: In JEE, you need to be a hard nut to crack the exam. You need to know how to solve a particular type of question (that is if you are not intuitive enough to find the solution on your own, and that is what is taught at all the coaching centres). In GATE, you need to have in-depth knowledge about your specific field. The syllabus is vast, and you cannot help but study.
Here are some books that I used while preparing for GATE 2012.
This is what I meant when I said that the syllabus for GATE is vast. Reading only a few selected topics from each subject could sometimes do the trick (if you are lucky). But it won’t create any interest in the subject, and you might find it very hard to solve deep questions.
Try solving previous 10 year question papers. There is a book from G K Publications that includes previous year question papers. But don’t use it for cross-checking your solutions. You would find a lot of wrong answers in there. DO NOT trust it for solutions.
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About using learning material from coaching centres: You could find material from Made Easy to be good enough, but nothing beats a thoroughly written book. I did not personally prefer using the coaching material, and there are a lot of discrepancies in the questions as well as the answers.
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