Last Week Tips to crack GATE 2020 Exam

By Vineet Vijay|Updated : January 27th, 2020

GATE 2020 exam is just one/two weeks away and you are on the verge of achieving success for the consistent hard work and time devoted throughout a year. The combined effect of anxiety and pressure can hinder your performance at last time. But this can be avoided if you follow some basic tips for the last few days. Your last week strategy should be different from the whole year you have prepared and here BYJU'S Exam Prep shares very important last week tips which will help you to crack GATE 2020 Exam.

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Emphasize on Revision
- Do not try to prepare new topics, it might demotivate you and you could forget what you have learned till now.
- Revise your short notes and formula notes to recall the concepts quicker which can help you to switch between the topics easily.

Acquiring Mental Peace in last week
- It's important to get rid of the pressure and calm down your mind by managing your time properly.
- Manage your time well, and keep the clock at the back of your mind when attempting questions. If you find that you have devoted extra time to a section, do not panic. Just calm down, modify your earlier plan of solving the paper, and follow that.
- Negative marking during the exam. Analyze your accuracy percent in your previous mocks to get an idea of whether your current plan is working.
- Get enough sleep. And by enough, we mean 8-10 hours of sleep each night, especially in the week before the exam.

Diary of Short Notes and Formulae
- Engineering subjects have a lot of formulae and noting down all formulas and when you finish each topic or referring to a collection of formulae will help you get familiar while practicing the mock exams.

Focus on General Aptitude & Engineering Mathematics
- General Aptitude and Engineering Mathematics carry 30 percent of the total marks and hence these are the most important sections in GATE Syllabus.
- So prepare these sections to perform well on the GATE Exam.

Adapting Environment of Online pattern
- Taking mock test will help you adapt to the online pattern and how to use a virtual calculator enabled in their test logins.
- 80 percent of GATE questions may not require the virtual calculator, so use the virtual calculator whenever it is really required for complex calculations.

Smart Work and Confidence
- Read each question carefully and decide whether you can answer.
- If any question is difficult to solve, please postpone for the next scan.
- During the first scan, identify the questions which you can answer and answer all such questions without any mistakes.
- During the second scan, try all unanswered questions which you have decided to answer them in the next scan.
- It will help you to crack the GATE Exam. Attempt GATE exam with the full positive environment and give maximum try to perform the best.

All the Best!!

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