GATE

How to prepare for PSUs Entrance Examination:
Question Paper mainly consists of two major sections:
Technical Section: Subject specialisation of related stream
Non-Technical Section: General Awareness, Current Affairs, English Language, Reasoning & Aptitude. Hence to crack PSUs competitive exam, candidate should prepare for both technical and non-technical sections, where 50% to 70% questions are from technical and remaining questions from non-technical sections. Be aware of exam pattern of different PSUs like number of technical questions, number of non-technical questions, negative marking, exam duration, marks per question etc. Always make it a habit of referring to previous year question papers. Prefer Reference books for derivations, equations, conceptual thought process, theory etc. Use shortcut techniques for numerical solving instead of traditional methods to save time.
Practice previous year question papers and analyze the weak topics and concentrate more on those topics. Always try to solve question papers in a given time frame to obtain an idea as how many questions you are able to solve in given limits.
Group Discussion Round: Group Discussion is a crucial round conducted for shortlisted candidates. Good communication skills, topic knowledge, team spirit, leadership qualities, patience level and presence of mind are the major parameters to be considered.
Personal Interview: The personal interview is conducted to judge the personality of a candidate. Sound technical knowledge, positive attitude, body language, good communication skills play an important role to clear personal interviews. Candidates should be prepared with questions about their strengths and weaknesses and answer all questions confidently.

4-5 hours a day, starting from the 5th sem is sufficiently good amount of time and should enable you to crack get with an excellent score (provided that you continue your preparations with dedication and interest). A good strategical starting point would be to make the best use of this vacation period (May-July). This is not to mean that you need to cancel all your family trips and other fun plans, rather you just need to slowly start getting into the rhythm of the preparation phase during this vacation.
1. Thermodynamics (P. K. Nag)
2. Machine Elemnts (V. B. Bhandari)
3. Fluid Mechanics
4. Material Science (O. P. Khanna)
5. Automobile (Kripal Singh)
6. Strength of Material (R. K. Rajput)
7. Dynamics of Machine
8. IC Engine (V. Ganeshan)
9. Engineering Mathematics\
10. Quantitative Aptitude (R. S. Aggrawal). .