Mission IIT/IISC part 1

I have started this blog as i know how much difficulty one has to face while getting into IIT/IISC. We do not get proper books to study as many of us had not studied engineering from good and standard books. So they face problems while preparing for GATE. 

First of all let me introduce about GATE. GATE stands for "Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering". This exam is an entrance examination for post graduation in engineering and have been opted by almost all engineering colleges in India for recruiting students. I will not give all the details about the exam. One can get all these details at http://www.iitb.co.in/ or can get from any IIT website.

I am now going to concentrate on preparation of GATE for Electronics and communication stream as i am from the same. I kicked off the study in November end. Believe me, two months of sincere study is more than enough to crack GATE. It may vary from person to person. You choose according to comfortability. Remember be comfortable. Unless you are comfortable, you can not be able to concentrate on your study.

So i started in November end (2008). Actually i had given GATE once in my pre-final year, but just as an experience. It is better to start with the Mathematics, as it has huge syllabus and you need maths in each and every field of other subjects. At a time go with 2-3 subjects parallaly and don not concentrate on only one.

I am giving the books i referred for the preparation of GATE. Generally all people use them only. These books are quite good,conceptual and standard.



Mathematics: 

1)Higher Engineering Mathematics-Grewal
This book is sufficient for the prepararion of the whole subject.Stick to the syllabus.

2) GATE Mathematics by R.K.Kanodia (Only objective questions)

Check out GATE syllabus and stick to it only.Nothing is asked outside of syllabus. Search for the points from Grewal and do them. Once a topic is over, solve objective questions from R.K.Kanodia. It has given a very good set of examples with solutions.A great book for practice! 

Electronic devices and circuits:
1)Electronic devices and circuit-Millman & Halkias
This book is good for semiconductors,BJT,power and feedback amplifiers,power supplies.
2) Electronic devices-Boylstead
This is a very good book which i preferred.Very simple and basic explanation about all types of transistors and their biasing is given.
3)Microelectronics-Smith & Sedra
A very good book for MOSFETs
4) GATE-R.K.Kanodia
Once a topic is over, solve objective questions from R.K.Kanodia. It has given a very good set of examples with solutions.A great book for practice!Use this book for all remaining subjects.

Digital Electronics and microprocessor:
1)Digital electronics-R.P.Jain
This book has covered all fundamentals,but time consuming and difficult to understand counter concepts.
2)Digital electronics-J.S.Katre
You might surprise on hearing this name.Actually he is a local author and this is the only book written by local author i admire.He has given sufficient examples with the theory in a very simple language.

3)Microprocessor-Ramesh Gaonkar

This is the only book you need to refer.The best book!

4) GATE-R.K.Kanodia
Once a topic is over, solve objective questions from R.K.Kanodia. It has given a very good set of examples with solutions.A great book for practice!Use this book for all remaining subjects.
Control system:

1) Control system- Nagrath & Gopal 
Go in deep.Read it carefully as a lot difficult,tricky and indirect questions can be asked on this subject. In this subject almost all the topics are related to each other. You may be asked to find a quantity of a topic, giving reference of the quantity of the other topic. This book covers almost all the syllabus.

2) Control system - Godse & Bakshi (Another good local book) 

This book is good for the revision.To be used at the last time only.

3) Control system - Ogata (Only some specific topics)

This book is quite good for polar plots and PI,PD and PID controllers. Also some part of Time Domain Analysis can be done from this book. Very simple language and shortcut methods.

4) GATE-R.K.Kanodia
Once a topic is over, solve objective questions from R.K.Kanodia. It has given a very good set of examples with solutions.A great book for practice!Use this book for all remaining subjects.
Electrical networks:

1) An introduction to electrical networks-Hayt and Kimmerly

A very great book with extremely simple language which covers all the topics except graph theory.

2)Any electrical network book covering Graph theory

Electromagnetics:

1) Electromagnetics-Hayt

Very good book, but somewhat difficult language and derivations

2)Electromagnetics-Sadiku

Very simple language, but better to refer Hayt for the wave theory.

3) GATE-R.K.Kanodia
Once a topic is over, solve objective questions from R.K.Kanodia. It has given a very good set of examples with solutions.A great book for practice!Use this book for all remaining subjects.

Tip: Don't stress a lot on initial topics like electric and magnetic field theory. Concentrate on topics Maxwell's equations,wave theory and wave propagation. But concepts all the chapters should be clear. Go for this subject if you have enough time, but questions on this subjects are quite simple and formula based.

Siganl & Systems:

1) Signal and systems-Oppenheim

Conceptual book.

2) Signal and systems-Hsu

Very good book for the revision and to save time.

3)Digital siganl processing-Proakis

This book should be used for the preparation of DFT and FFT.

4) GATE-R.K.Kanodia
Once a topic is over, solve objective questions from R.K.Kanodia. It has given a very good set of examples with solutions.A great book for practice!Use this book for all remaining subjects.
Tip:This subject is quite mathematical,but very important subject. Practice the problems a lot.

Communication:

1) Analog and digital communication- B.P.Lathi

This is the best book to study. It covers almost all the topics as the subject is quite vast.

2) Any digital communication book

For digital modulation

3) GATE-R.K.Kanodia
Once a topic is over, solve objective questions from R.K.Kanodia. It has given a very good set of examples with solutions.A great book for practice!Use this book for all remaining subjects.
Tip: This subject is quite vast as both analog and digital communication are involved. Do not go in deep. Stress on basic concepts. A large variety of questions can be asked. So see the previous years question papers.It will give you a broad idea.