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Study hours
Your hours against the 8h daily goal
Today's plan
Plus 75 min maths and 45 min aptitude.
Weak areas
From PYQ accuracy and mistakes. Fix these first.
This week
Study activity
Every day of the plan, shaded by hours
Subject progress
Topics checked off in each subject
Finished focus time goes straight into today's daily log.
Timer settings
Set your own lengths, in minutes
Today's sessions
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Open a week to see each day's focus. This week is highlighted. Maths and aptitude run alongside every day.
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84-day calendar
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Log a PYQ session
Solve topic-wise on GATE Overflow, then record it here
Accuracy by subject
Subjects under 50% are highlighted
History
Add a mistake
It comes back after 2, 7 and 21 days. Solve it 3 times to master it.
Due today
Coming up
Record a mock
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Score trend
Raw marks out of 100
Review
Nothing due
Keyboard: Space flips Β· 1 = Again Β· 2 = Got it
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Week 1
Day by day
Plan topics
Reflection
Two minutes. Be honest, be kind.
Focus next week
Weak areas right now
Eight hours a day.
Earn the rank.
Starting from zero? This is an aggressive 672-hour plan (84 days Γ 8h) built around the GO Classes course targeting 60β80 raw marks. Eight focused hours daily is the recommended commitment, not a guarantee of any score or rank. Learn β solve β review β repeat.
Eight focused hours
Build intuition, worked examples, concise notes. Avoid passive binge watching.
Attempt independently; classify mistakes and reattempt later.
Rotate discrete maths, linear algebra, probability and calculus.
Quantitative + verbal + spatial/analytical practice.
Active recall, formula sheet, and redoing wrong questions.
Mixed problem set or speed/accuracy practice.
Total: 8 hours. On mock days replace concept/PYQ blocks with a 3-hour paper and 2β3 hours of analysis.
How to actually improve
Priority order
Programming β Data Structures β Algorithms β DBMS β OS β CN β TOC β Digital Logic β COA β Compiler, with Maths and Aptitude running every day. The final month is for mixed revision and tests.
Weekly audit
Ask: What can I solve without notes? Which mistakes repeat? Did my accuracy rise? What topic gives the most improvement per study hour?
What does AIR < 1,000 take?
| Target | Approximate historical band | Safer mock goal |
|---|---|---|
| AIR <1,000 | ~59β64+ | 65β70+ |
| AIR <500 | ~65β72+ | 72β75+ |
| AIR <200 | Year-dependent | 75β80+ |
These are rough historical ranges, not precise year-specific rank cutoffs. 2024: 921 candidates scored β₯60; 2025: 1,851; 2026: 1,170. Difficulty, shift normalization and the score distribution affect ranks. GATE raw marks and the normalized GATE score out of 1,000 are different measures.
Sources: 2023β2026 official-report-based distributions Β· Historic CS marks-versus-rank comparisons.
Build your 60β80
15 marks: General Aptitude is fixed in the official pattern. 13 marks: Engineering Mathematics has historically been the CS allocation. The remaining 72 marks are core CS; verify the revised 2027 syllabus and paper instructions.
Do not chase difficult questions at the expense of easier marks. Accuracy and question selection matter. MCQs have negative marking; MSQ/NAT marking differs, so check official instructions.
What to copy
Your main course is GO Classes. Reddit GATE preparation discussions repeatedly recommend GO Classes for maths, GATE Overflow for PYQs, and one main lecturer per subject. One post lists Knowledge Gate for DSA, GO Classes for asymptotics, and Gajendra Purohit for maths. These are community recommendations, not independently verified rankings of teaching quality.
Candidate's subject-wise resource post
2026 resource discussion
Community free-resource list
2027 specifics
The official GATE 2027 site says the syllabi have been revised. Registration is currently closed. Exam dates announced by IIT Madras are February 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21, 2027; confirm the CS session from the official schedule.
After this 84-day sprint ends February 1, use the remaining days until your exam for light mocks, formula revision, sleep and logistics. Do not learn entire new courses in the final week.