This blog is dedicated to my story of preparing for GATE. So let me tell you my current situation. I graduated from Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior. I graduated with 6.5 CGPA in Computer Science & Engineering. In my college days, I did web-development and solved competitive programming problems. I never prepared for GATE. Neither did I studied my subjects in college properly. I used question banks like Shivani publications at last time to just get passing marks in the exam. In campus placements, I got placed in three multinational companies. Accenture, Infosys & Capgemini. Salary of all three companies is in the range of 20k to 30k. After not getting into any good start-up with a good salary I realized that skills(in my case web-development) have no value if you don't have the platform(like IIT). Though I got placed in a startup in Indore, I had to work 12 hours there and all those 12 hours I did web-development. I realized this is slavery. I left...