Dear All,
Based on student test experiences in the streams of IN, CE and CH on 2nd February, 2014, I
have few updates on GATE 14 paper to share with you
Please pass on this message to all GATE 14 aspirants in your friend circle
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Based on student test experiences in the streams of IN, CE and CH on 2nd February, 2014, I
have few updates on GATE 14 paper to share with you
Please pass on this message to all GATE 14 aspirants in your friend circle
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1.
Questions with numerical answers accounted for 40-50 % of the paper. Hence you
cannot
guess your
way through the paper. General Ability section also has such questions. With
the high occurrence of “numerical answer” type questions, one has to be
thorough and
careful
with unit conversions so as to type in the correct answer. Earlier, the four
options
more or
less served as guidelines
As
I told number of times in the class, prepare the numerical problems with
calculator. This is red flag for the students who were light on my words. As
EEE students will have one more month, at least, now onwards, practice all
problems with calculator. I observed most of the students were not serious
about this point in my class. Be serious about this
2 There
were no “Common Data” and “Linked Answer” questions in the papers we analyzed.
The
consequence of this is analyzed as follows (this is my analysis):
As
“Common Data” and “Linked Answer” questions together consists of 4 pairs, you
will get 8 questions from 4 topics. Now, as these are not present, you will get
8 questions from 8 different topics which will increase the scope of topics and
more untapped areas can cover. Paper setter will have some more freedom to
touch more topics or different subjects
4. Among
general ability questions, probability accounted for around 3-4 marks with one
question
each from Data Interpretation, logical reasoning and critical reasoning.
5.
Engineering Mathematics questions were tough compared to the previous year.
There were
no direct
questions.
6. There
were direct questions from few of topics. And some of questions needed concept
of
two topics
to solve them. Such were tough to solve.
7. The
sequence of questions was different for each candidate i.e. no two candidates
will have
same
sequence of questions.
8. In the
papers of the past, there used to be some questions which could be solved by eliminating
the wrong options. But with an increase in the “numerical answer” typequestions,
this method of problem solving takes a backseat.
9. Some
papers wrongly mentioned a penalty for a wrong answer to a “numerical type” question.
This was later corrected through an announcement by the invigilators.
According
to the latest info from IIT Kharagpur, the marks of candidates appearing in EC,
CS, EE, ME andCE will be
normalized across the multiple sessions. This means that whether the paper in a
particularsession is
easy or tough will not matter in the overall scheme of things. The following
formula will beused for the normalization
For normalization calculation,
visit IITKGP official website
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