Career openings with GATE scores

I am a Mechanical engineer and I want to apply for the BHEL engineer trainee position. We have to write GATE for this can you help me with all the details regarding this? How to crack GATE, the books for reference, the role of a trainee engineer, etc? Other career openings with GATE scores? Aamir Ali, Secunderabad

Gate is considered as one of the toughest competitive exams in our country, The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) aims at testing the students’ capability in engineering concepts along with managerial skills.

The GATE scores are used as a screening tool by around 217 public-sectors (undertakings including BHEL) for recruiting engineers at entry level positions; a good GATE rank assures a good job.

The exam is conducted jointly by IISc and seven IIT's namely Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Roorkee, Madras, Kharagpur, Guwahati and is expected to take place on January 30th 2016, continuing till February 7th.

The score secured is valid for 3 years; the syllabus for GATE 2016 is revised from that of GATE 2015. You will have to check what is added or removed in the respective papers before you start your preparation because the text books would have been published earlier to this announcement.

To get an in depth change regarding in each of GATE 2016 paper, refer the link: http://www.engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-2016-changes-in-mechanical-engineering-me-syllabus

The PDF for the same is available here: http://www.engineering.careers360.com/sites/default/files/GATE-2016-Mechanical-Engineering.pdf

To crack GATE, you will need to prepare a study strategy and remain focused and determined.

Few tips:

Understand the pattern and syllabus of the exam

Identify your weak areas

Practice is the key to any success and therefore you need to practice a lot by solving previous year’s papers. You can download them for free available. GATE Mechanical Engineering old paper and answers.

Start with a subject you are weak in, read fundamentals from a good book and take down the formulae for each subject chapter wise. There would be around 2000-2500 formulae by the end of the collection. Revise the formulae everyday

Study all the chapters, understand the concept and once you finish a chapter try to solve the numerical. Once a subject is completed go to the next and apply the above strategy

It is said a study time of daily 6-7hours is required to get a good GATE score and hence managing time becomes an essential need

Prepare a daily schedule by properly distributing the subjects

The schedule should also include some quality time with friends and family, some time for your hobbies, or playing a sport or listening to music, etc

There are various sites that offer video tutorials for GATE exams and one such is https://student.epracto.com/#/register

Refer site: https://testbook.com/blog/ category/tb-recommends/gate-exam/ for a free mock test. Join in for test series such as Made easy, GATE Forum or Ace Hyderabad

GATE is an extension of the engineering syllabus and therefore practice as many questions from your B Tech books.

The other books you can refer are:

Engineering Mechanics, by R. K. Rajput

Put in a simple and lucid language, this book contains large number of numerical problems.

Engineering Mechanics by Beer & Johnston

This book provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage of topics along with a significant variety in exercise sets.

Thermodynamics -- P K Nag

Fluid mechanics -- Bansal/ modi & seth /SOM

Heat and mass transfer -- Sachdeva/Holman

Material science -- Narula & Narula / Callister / IP Singh

Machine Design -- Bhandari/ Shigley.

Mathematics --BS Grewal/Erwin Kreyszig

Aptitude -- Agarwal book..

Refer site: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/gate-2016/1/491748.html to get in detail information regarding the best books for GATE preparation

The Gate Mechanical engineering by WILEY publications (Tanarakar and Harursampath)is a brilliant book. It includes the concepts in details as well as the questions that have been asked in previous exams.

With your GATE scores you can:

Do your MTech at IITs and IISc and you can look at a salary package ranging from Rs 7 lakh to 30 lakh per annum, depending upon specialisation and performance

You can apply for various fellowships awarded by many government organisations

You would be eligible to study at NSU (National University of Singapore) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and some technical universities in Germany.

BHEL Recruitment for Engineering Trainee:

BHEL has notified recruitment for 200 engineer trainee jobs through GATE 2016. The application is a two stage process:

Applying for GATE 2016 (1st Oct to 8th Oct 2015)

Applying for BHEL: application starts on 4th January 2016 The BHEL recruitment website, http://careers.bhel.in/ will be live from date 4th Jan to 1st Feb 2016. On the application form you will have to provide your GATE – 2016 registration number.

Refer to site http://www.gate.iitsc.ac.in/gate2016/ for further details regarding the above stages of admission.

Based on your GATE score you will be shortlisted for an interview. The final selection is based on 75 per cent of the GATE score and 25 per cent of the interview result.

The training would be for one year with a remuneration of Rs 20600-46500/- after which you will be absorbed by the company as engineers with a pay scale of Rs 24900-50500/-

Regarding the job profile, a trainee engineer generally has to follow instructions given by his mentor. It could be:

Drafting work

Managing the data and the entire information which relates to the task/project he is assigned to

Vigilantly performing the task/project assigned,

keeping the mentor updated with the progress and completing it within the given deadline He also has to prepare a report on how the training has helped him understand the working culture and the methodology of the sector he is placed in, i.e. a comprehensive illustration of his experience This should give you hands on knowledge on whatever you have learnt academically

The tasks assigned to you are ultimately for your own learning and equips you with the basic skills Once completed you would be absorbed by the company and given a regular designation such as a junior engineer or technical staff, etc

Your journey begins henceforth and based on your performance you can expect promotions & better compensations. Your goal should be to acquire varied skills and focus on becoming a better engineer and that will definitely take you to greater heights. All the best!

By:Shehre Banu Kagalwala Bsc, MA, PGDPC, psychologist and career counselling for ADHD and learning disabilities; e-mail queries to [email protected])