How To Manage Time For GATE

Preparation
2010 SEPTEMBER 11
tags: Advises, Non-GATE
by Zahid

Time management is a real trick for achieving any goal in life. GATE is
no exception. Recently, I have been receiving many emails and
questions regarding time management for GATE exam. The
questioners are either having full time job or students of final or pre
final year.
The answer is not easy, and every great thing is not easy in life. If
someone has a full job or college to attend they need a give an extra
effort by managing their time tightly. For managing time first one need
to find where is the time that they can use. I have few points to share
with you all regarding time management.
 Check daily routine and write down these activities on a paper
with hours. Don’t need to be very hard and strict about timing, don’t
need to mention exact hour and minutes of the activity.
 Once we have a list of activities we do in a day we also have a
good idea of what we are doing in a day.
 Figure out activities we are doing for fun and can be
compromised for certain time.
 Make use of this time for GATE preparations.
When I was student I noticed that usually I spend time in traveling
and with friends without doing any productive work. My college was 13
KM away from home and used to take about 30 minutes to reach
there.
The first thing I did was started using public transportation. And
second thing was to go little early. By which I can get a seat in bus to
go to college and I spend that travel time either for reading, revising
or taking rest in bus.
I was a student so I used that early hours to sit in library and prepared
GATE and other exams. And another thing I did was to leave college
very late may be at library closing time. I tried to make best use of
library. When I finished my B.Tech, everyone knows where I am, if I
am not in class. To make it great we need to sacrifice and need cut
some of the thing which we love. Every time we make a hard decision
by knowing what are we are doing, it will benefit us in long run. The
hard work always pays us, one or the other day, in one or the other
day.
The common distracters for students are
1. Travel long distance driving our own vehicles on regular basis.
2. TV serials
3. Too much unproductive time wasting friends
4. Too much sleeping
5. Spending too much in markets
6. Watching movies almost every weekend, watching them from bed
till return to bed.
These are few common time consumers in life. If we manage them
properly we can do many things miraculously on time.
The last point is to be very consistent in our preparation. It’s not a one
day job it’s a consistent effort achieve big result.
GATE is big opportunity for student who didn’t have a chance to prove,
because of image issue with lectures in B.Tech. They have a golden
opportunity to prove. GATE is totally an open competition and you may
beat the best student of your college with consistent efforts.
Your friends may tease for your change, please don’t worry about
them much. They will also cherish your great achievements in future
and feel great to associate themselves with you. Hard work with
consistency will take you there.
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Wish you a wonderful luck ahead. Don’t stop keep going you are there
at destination.