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          Who knows? Life has an ever-changing path with scads of options open at every possible instant. One needs to have a lot of courage and confidence to leave one and follow the other. “Every path is paved with gold” is the marketing mantra and you just need to find the essence of the holiness in the path you choose to kiss the summit in this highly competitive world. Keeping aside reaching the summit, finding the essence is in itself a mammoth task to achieve. Though I was lucky enough (that’s what I think) to get into the MTech program, I did have a lot of choices to make other than Mtech. To be a doctor was my first dream and I tried a bit to achieve it.   But the huge syllabus in my intermediate deprived me to attain such a lovely goal and I had to detour this path with no other option other than the very common BTech. “BTech used to be a very prestigious degree in our times”, is what my father kept on saying all t...

         I wrote a blog about M.Tech curriculum in IIITB to help the aspirants getting into the course and it did solve my purpose. But I also started getting a lot of queries about the MS course offered in the same institute. As I am into the M.Tech course, it became very difficult to answer all those queries. So finally thought to come up with a FAQ list about the MS course. All the questions were answered by an MS student as per his experiences and views. So here goes the question-answer session :   Special Thanks : Priyankar Talukdar (for creating such a nice and compact FAQ) Q: How important is it to have a knowledge on programming languages like C ? Communication skill is not an issue here. Merely mentioning C is considered weak stance. I feel concept and depth of knowledge about a field like database, networking, computer architecture, control system is more preferred than a language such as C ,java ,python or...

Congratulations if you cleared the Written Exam. Just one more step and you are through. Interview is the most important part in any selection process. It is here that you get the chance to prove yourself in front of the professionals. So if you are confident of your knowledge and presentability then there is no need to worry. Interview is conducted for three days in a row for all the MTech students(There are around 1000 students called for interview). You will be allotted a day and will be asked to report to the college on the specified day. The process will basically cover the whole day with many events like Document clarifications, Biometric Scans, Interview etc. The Interview is a one-to-one process where you will be interviewed by a Professor of the college. The interview will last for around 20 minutes where you will be asked several questions which you need to answer precisely. The questions will be all typical interview questions like:       ...

Now here you are, at the most important part-The Preparation. Well there's nothing to be feared or getting tensed. These exams are all about testing your capabilities. If you are pretty sure about what you can do, then you are there. I will be dividing the article in two parts i.e, Online Exam and Interview (Follow the link provided) and I will be short. Online Exam : The first hurdle, and you need to be fast and smart at the same time. If you have not appeared any competitive exams before then take this as a must suggestion. You ought to be fast and value each second in a minute. The exam will be for some odd 2 hours and you will have 3 sections, viz, APTITUDE, MATHS and PROGRAMMING.           Aptitude:  This section consists of some basic English questions(Articles, Prepositions, Sentence Completion, Antonyms, Synonyms etc), Logical questions and some tricky questions. They are easy but needs some practice. As you have limited time for each section...

Hope you people are preparing well for the exams. As the topic suggests I will be talking about how to get into IIITB right from the collection of the form to the date of the joining. These articles are all from my personal experience which I would share with you. But as time passes there may be certain changes as selection procedures do not remain the same way for years. So let's start with the procedures. Firstly, the forms are made available around February which you need to check constantly in this LINK . As soon as the forms are made available, you need to get a copy of it or apply online in the same link. You will be charged accordingly for the form and moreover you are likely to get all the detailed information in the same site.  There are three ways to get into this college i.e., IIITB Online Exam, GATE or GRE . You will get enough time for your GATE results to get announced before the last date for form submission gets past. So decide well that which way you want...

      You must be having many favourite videos in famous sites like Youtube. But at times you are unable to download the videos or want to have the mp3 version of it but cannot get hold of it. Then here is a top solution for it. Just you need to go to the site http://www.vidtomp3.com/ and type in the URL of your favourite song in the space provided and follow the steps. Within few moments you are done and then just download the mp3 to your PC and enjoy.

        How many times do you switch between Windows and Linux just to get the benefit of your favourite compiler?? Now that was the main headache I always had because no other compiler seemed to satisfy me. So  I searched and finally got a solution which I would readily share with you all. There are few simple steps which you need to follow and then you are done. No more switching unnecessarily between the OS. So here goes the steps : Step 1 : Goto the site  www.mingw.org   and at the left side menu Navigation-->Downloads. In the directed page click on  Download  mingw-get-setup.exe . Download the file and run. Step 2 : While installing mingw just follow the steps and finally you will see the command prompt popping up downloading the respected files. This will take some time. Finally click on finish. Step 3: This finishes your job. Only one more step and you are done. Goto Control Panel-->System-->Advanc...