Movie (exam): GATE 2011.
Produced by: Indian Institute of Technology.
Directed by: Chairman (GATE 2011), IIT Madras.
Music: Pounding heartbeat.
Cast: ‘Who-knows’ number of Mtech aspirants and beyond.
Finally the much talked about exam got over. A sensational buzz in all the engineering colleges through out the country.
The plot of the story starts with a scary venue with freakishly nerd students with ‘what-if –i-dont-get-into-the-IIT’ look on their face carrying digest question banks probably heavier than their body weight. The students came to take GATE were full on nerds and there were hardly anybody to check out unlike the other B-school xams like CAT,XAT, etc where you cant even.....nevermind.
The opening scene in the examination hall remains silent. Everyone so absorbed into themselves. The bell rings and the drama begins. The faces around, scans for the kick start question. Whereas few students still remain busy checking the sharpness of the pencil lead. However the movie catches its momentum and students around despite of making faces, seen jotting down the formulas’ and quite efficiently used their CAL-Cs.
Though initially the big bold circuit diagrams (as i took the EC paper) with all those notations seemed to be alien and out of the world which on later part turned out to be somewhat understandable and worth giving a shot. IIT M played quite well with the questions and some were beyond the reach of the students (for me at least). Though they end the paper with a happy climax putting few sweet General Aptitudes and vocabulary.
They made sure that the audience (students) get to enjoy the movie(exam) to the fullest as they have timed it to 180 minutes, which towards the end turns quite boring and tiresome with no interval at all. The lines of Hotel California came into my mind which was “You can checkout any time you like,But you can never leave!” until you are done with your 180 minutes.
The movie(exam) is only worthful (as u wont get pirated copy of the whole ‘GATE-feel’ thing) if you have got all the luxuries in your life and don’t know where to put your dad’s money or you dream of running codes or supervising hi-tech machines in some big and hefty company. For me i don’t fit to either of the conditions as I have a long list of luxury items to fulfill and i don’t want to be the next Zukerberg. No. Then why i took GATE? Well i got an adrenaline rush which drove me to register myself for online GATE .May be i was high on Red-Bull.
Jokes apart i would like to compliment IIT M for organizing such a big hyped exam in a nice and decent way and also for putting few questions which were ACTUALLY answerable.
I would rate GATE 2011 3/5 and recommend the aspirants to take this exam next year with a caution that this exam is not for the weak hearted!
--SHUBHADEEP SENGUPTA.
u should thank them..u got spare time to write this ... :) :P
ReplyDeleteI cant really express how much I agree with you and that this ain't just a passing remark.I was actually more interested in observing people on 'GATE' day than on my paper.Almost everyone tried for at least an hour.In the next half an hour the fact dawned on them that it was indeed hopeless.Still a few ingenious did try for another hour.And for the rest of the time they were thinking how to kill it.As for me I was busy thinking about what creative I could do with a pen,pencil,eraser and a calc at my disposal.I guess,unless some of the biggest fools were handpicked to sit in my hall,this was what happened in most places.I once even saw the CSE guy next to me peeking over my paper.Felt like saying 'no use buddy'.And yeah finally when the time was up and we had successfully endured the three dreadful hours I can swear I heard a distinct sigh of relief rising from all corners of the room.
ReplyDelete@ Abhijit...i can understand wat u have gone thru bro...trust me we are in the same boat. Was relieved after long 180 tedious minutes.
ReplyDelete@preeti...dont u think that 850 buks is too much for this page?!!! :\
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