u/Euphoric_Process2445

How relevant are the questions in PClub Test Series Archive?? Are they relevant for the SDE OAs??

Hi everyone, so I am a y24 from mechanical department with cpi of 8.3 preparing for intern season this year. I know there were too many posts on this topic but pls pls pls someone reading this take this seriously as I am really overthinking at this point and can't focus on my prep properly. So I am targeting sde roles and my current situation is that I am doing striver A2Z sheet(completed the important topics like graphs, dp, binary search etc). Most of the questions I am able to do myself or with minimal hints and hardly I need to watch full solution (few very hard ones) and solving problems on codeforces as well for the important topics. I have good enough projects in ML(research project with a prof) and graph theory related and doing probability/puzzles when I get time after all this. My major concern is my cpi which is not 8.5+ and secondly I don't think I am very good with cheating which of course will happen this year as well. It's not that I don't want to cheat but I am not very good at it also cpi is a major concern for me. Another thing is i really don't know the resources I am following will be enough or not to get an sde intern before my classes start so all these are constantly going on in my mind. I feel if I can't do well in OAs then I won't get shortlisted because of not having 8.5+ and what if I get blank out during OA or interviews.What if I can't cheat and hence don't get a shortlist etc etc.....too many things are going in my mind right now. At this time each and every day is important and I can't focus on my prep properly, I am not able to sleep and nor I am able to talk to my parent with free mind....I am not getting that confidence with my prep and due to this overthinking I forget what I learn....seniors who got through this phase and got an intern pls help me out...will I be able to get a good intern?? I can't control this overthinking dilemma pls pls help me