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Hey everyone,

I’m currently a drop-year student preparing for a competitive exam, which is going to be held in the first week of June. I took this year off after completing college, so my main focus right now is exam preparation.

I’m also going to turn 21 in the next 14 days, and there’s something about my health that I’ve been increasingly concerned about.

My weight has increased a lot. I’m around 5'5–5'6" (not completely sure about the exact height), and my weight is now close to 100 kg. I know this is something I need to work on because it’s starting to affect me physically and mentally as well.

I’ve done some research about weight loss on my own, but honestly, I’m getting confused by all the different information online. So I wanted to ask people who have actually gone through something similar.

What my current routine looks like

I usually wake up by around 8:30 AM at the latest.

I have tuition around 10 AM, so I leave for that after having a basic breakfast, which is usually chai and bread.

I come back around 12:30 PM. Until around 2 PM, I usually relax a bit, watch TV/YouTube or a series, and have something to eat. Sometimes I have fruits like an apple or pomegranate, and sometimes I drink juice that my mother makes.

From around 2 PM, I start studying.

I usually study in a 3–4 hour block without really checking the time because, as a drop-year student preparing for a competitive exam, I feel like there is always pressure to study more.

After that, I usually make myself some evening tea and have something like bhujia or another small snack.

Then I go for a walk for around 1–1.25 hours.

After coming back, I either attend my evening class or continue studying. This usually goes on until around 11–11:30 PM.

Then I have dinner, which is generally normal Indian home food — dal, rice, sabzi, roti, etc. Most of the time I eat dal and rice.

If I continue studying late at night, I sometimes get hungry again and might make Maggi or eat some of the dinner that was prepared at home.

And then the cycle repeats the next day.

My main problem

I do want to lose weight, but I also don’t want to make some extreme diet or exercise plan that takes so much time or energy that it starts affecting my preparation.

I’m already walking for around an hour every day, but I’m not sure whether my diet, meal timings, snacks, late-night eating, and overall routine are working against me.

So I wanted to ask:

If you were in my situation, what would you change first?

- What should I realistically change in my diet?

- Should I continue with the 1-hour daily walk?

- How should I handle late-night hunger while studying?

- Is it possible to lose a significant amount of weight during a drop year without compromising studies?

- And for someone who has been mostly inactive and has gained this much weight, what would be a realistic approach?

I’m not looking for a crash diet or some “lose 20 kg in 3 months” plan. I want something sustainable that I can follow while preparing seriously for my exam.

If anyone here has been through a similar situation — competitive exam preparation + weight gain + long study hours — I’d genuinely appreciate your experience and advice.

Thanks!

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Hi everyone,

I'm a BCA graduate who graduated recently, and my CGPA makes me eligible for NIMCET. I've decided to take a one-year drop and prepare seriously for NIMCET 2027 because my goal is to get into a good NIT for MCA.

I recently joined a coaching institute that prepares students specifically for NIMCET, and I trust both the institute and my own hard work. I'm not here to rant or make excuses. I genuinely want advice from people who have already been through this journey.

My background

The biggest challenge for me is Maths.

I left Mathematics after Class 9, so I basically have no foundation from Classes 9–12. Because of that, I have to spend much more time than an average aspirant just to understand the basics. I'm not using this as an excuse—I know it's my responsibility to cover the gap, and I'm ready to work for it.

My coaching is teaching both the basic foundation and the NIMCET syllabus side by side, but sometimes I feel overwhelmed.

For example, I recently completed Permutation & Combination through coaching and YouTube. When I started solving questions, I realized I'm still struggling because my overall maths foundation is weak.

So I wanted to ask seniors a few questions:

1. How did you build your maths foundation while preparing for NIMCET?

If your basics were weak, how did you manage both foundation topics and the actual NIMCET syllabus together? What strategy worked for you?

2. How did you stay consistent for an entire year?

What kept you motivated on days when you didn't feel like studying? How did you avoid losing momentum?

3. What did your daily routine look like?

I'm not asking because I want to copy someone's timetable. I just want to understand how successful aspirants structured their day:

- How many hours did you study?

- How did you divide Maths, Reasoning, English and Computer?

- How much revision did you do?

4. How many hours should someone with a weak maths background realistically study every day?

Since I'm starting from almost zero in Maths, I'd like to know what experienced aspirants think is realistic.

5. Are MCA placements good across all NITs, or mainly in the top ones?

I often hear people talk about NIT Trichy, NIT Warangal, NIT Surathkal, etc. Are placements significantly better only in those institutes, or are other NITs also worth targeting for MCA?

Finally, if you were in a similar situation—weak maths background, took a drop, and still managed to crack NIMCET—I would really appreciate hearing your story and any advice you wish someone had given you at the beginning.

Thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time to reply.

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I'm not trying to complain about my parents or blame them. I just want to know if anyone else has experienced something similar and how you deal with it.

I took a one-year drop to prepare for NIMCET because my maths foundation is almost zero. I left maths after 9th, so I have to spend much more time than the average student just to understand the basics. Every uninterrupted hour matters for me.

The problem is that I get interrupted quite often at home.

For example:

- Sometimes I'm attending an online class with earphones on, and someone comes into my room to adjust the cooler or do some other work. I've requested that if it's not urgent, they could do it an hour or two later, but the response is usually, "Bas chupchaap padh, kaam bhi to karna hai."

- Another issue is lunch. I ask my mom in advance to prepare my food and keep it aside so I can eat quickly and get back to studying. But many times, when I finally take a break because I'm hungry, the food hasn't been made yet. Then I have to wait, and during that time I'm often asked to do other household work. What was supposed to be a 30-minute break becomes 2 hours, and after that it's very difficult for me to get back into study mode.

I understand that my parents are busy and they do a lot for the family. I'm not saying they're bad parents. I know household work is important too.

I'm just struggling to balance my preparation with these interruptions.

Has anyone else gone through this during JEE, NEET, GATE, CAT, NIMCET, UPSC, or any other competitive exam preparation?

If yes:

- How did you handle it without creating fights at home?

- Did talking to your parents help?

- Did joining a library solve the problem?

- Or did you find some other solution?

I'm genuinely looking for advice from people who've been in a similar situation.

Hey everyone,

Just finished my BCA last month, and I've decided to take a drop year to prepare for NIMCET/CUET. Problem is, I have zero clarity on what resources to actually use — there's so much conflicting advice online that I've just been stuck in analysis paralysis.

To make it worse, my parents have made it clear this is my only drop year. No second chances after this. So the pressure is real and I can't afford to waste time on the wrong material.

If you've cleared NIMCET or CUET (or both), please guide me:

• Which books/resources actually helped you
• Any specific YouTube channels or online courses worth following
• How you structured your daily/weekly study plan
• Mistakes you made that I should avoid
• How much time before the exam you started feeling "ready"

I know I have to figure this out myself eventually, but right now I just need a starting point so I'm not shooting in the dark. Any help — even a few lines — would genuinely mean a lot right now.

Thanks in advance 🙏

I want to be completely honest and get some opinions from people who may have been in a similar situation.

I'm a 2026 BCA graduate. I gave my last exam on 25th May, and after completing BCA, I decided to take a drop year to prepare for NIMCET 2027, along with DSA and improving my technical skills.

The thing is, my parents are supportive, but they keep telling me that I still have time to take admission in a local MCA college like Amity or somewhere nearby. Some people around me also keep saying things like, "General category ke liye top colleges mein seat hi nahi milti."

The reason I want to target only the top MCA colleges is placements. During my BCA, only around 10–15 companies visited our college, and about 90% of them were sales, customer support, or communication-related roles.

I got selected for a Wipro HR/Customer Care role, but I didn't accept it because I felt that if I entered that field, I would move away from the tech career I actually want.

There were only 2 tech companies that came for placements. One wasn't for my domain, and for the other, 1000+ students applied, making the chances extremely low. By the end of placements, I was one of the very few students in my BCA program with an offer, but honestly, I wasn't happy with it.

Now I'm confused.

My plan was to:

• Take a drop year
• Prepare seriously for NIMCET 2027
• Work on DSA
• Target a top MCA college for better opportunities

But recently I've started feeling anxious about the decision.

One reason is my academics. Till the end of the 5th semester, my CGPA was only 6.19. In the 6th semester, I put in a lot of effort to improve it, and I'm hoping it increases, although I don't know by how much.

My internal marks this semester were decent or not that good (I think):

• Minimum: 51/70
• Highest in core subjects: 61/70
• Highest in labs: 64/70

I'm not very sure about my external exams because the results aren't out yet, but I followed a strategy of practicing PYQs topics and not leaving any part of the paper blank.

Even then, I keep worrying about whether my CGPA and this drop year decision will affect my future. Sometimes it feels like taking a drop year could turn out to be a huge mistake.

Has anyone here taken a drop for NIMCET or MCA preparation?

• Was it worth it?
• Am I overthinking?
• Is there something important I should consider before committing to this path?

Any honest advice would be appreciated.

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I need to get this out somewhere because I genuinely don’t know how to process what happened today.

I’m a final year BCA (AI/ML) student in India. Six months ago I picked two teammates for my final year project. Not because they were skilled — just because I was comfortable with them and assumed after 3 years of a CS degree, they’d at least know the basics.

First day we sat down to work, I found out neither of them had VS Code installed.

Not “hadn’t used recently.”

Never installed.

In three years of computer science.

So I did what any stubborn person does.

I carried the entire thing myself.

What I actually built:

A real-time GitHub analytics dashboard for evaluating student project performance.

Under the hood:

- Async API integration using "httpx + asyncio"

- Concurrent fetching with "asyncio.gather()"

- Retry logic with exponential backoff

- Multi-level fallback architecture

- Gini coefficient calculation for contribution fairness

- Weighted scoring engine

- Full PDF reporting engine with charts and KPI cards

- Streamlit frontend

- Pytest suite

1,288 lines of actual Python.

Not templates.

Not copied notebooks.

Not ChatGPT-generated spaghetti pasted from YouTube tutorials.

Real architecture.

Real debugging.

Real engineering.

Meanwhile I was teaching my teammates what an API even was.

My real explanation:

“Imagine we’re brothers and I ask you to bring something from the kitchen — that request and response is basically an API call.”

That’s the level we started from.

I explained the same concepts hundreds of different ways.

I fixed 15+ errors in their 10-page synopsis report myself.

I wrote the logic.

I built the system.

I stayed awake nights fixing edge cases nobody else even understood.

The first examiner watched the entire demo carefully.

At the end she said:

“Ye jo beech wala ladka hai na — isne dil jeet liya mera.”

She said she didn’t even need to ask questions because everything was explained so clearly.

Other teachers in the room literally said if I were from their batch, they’d give me full marks.

For the first time in months, I walked out feeling seen.

Then came the second examiner.

She looked at the dashboard for maybe two minutes.

“Ye toh pehle se systems hote hain. Tumne bas graphs bana diye.”

That sentence genuinely broke something inside me.

I tried explaining:

- the async architecture

- the fallback chain

- retry handling

- the fairness metrics

- the PDF engine

- the testing suite

She didn’t care.

She had already decided.

4–5 marks out of 10.

My teammates — who had never even opened VS Code before this project — got significantly more marks than me.

I came outside and cried.

Not “felt bad.”

Actually cried.

Because six months of sleepless nights, learning, building, debugging, testing, documenting and carrying people on my back got reduced to:

“Bas graphs bana diye.”

And what hurts the most is not even the marks.

It’s the feeling that none of it mattered.

The architecture didn’t matter.

The engineering didn’t matter.

The effort didn’t matter.

The nights didn’t matter.

One person spent two minutes looking at something I gave half a year of my life to and decided it was worthless.

Final score: 130/300.

I’m not posting this for sympathy.

I genuinely want to ask people who actually build software in the real world:

Does work like this matter outside college?

Or was she right?

Because honestly, right now I can’t tell anymore.

Hey everyone, is there anyone here from Amity University pursuing MBA or who has completed it recently?

I’m considering MBA and wanted some honest guidance about Amity. How is the overall experience there in terms of:

• Placements
• Faculty
• Internship opportunities
• Crowd and competition
• ROI considering the fees

Would really appreciate real opinions — both positive and negative.

Thanks in advance!
#Career Advice

Hey everyone, is there anyone here from Amity University pursuing MCA or who has completed it recently?

I’m considering MCA and wanted some honest guidance about Amity. How is the overall experience there in terms of:

• Placements
• Faculty
• Coding/tech environment
• Internship opportunities
• Crowd and competition
• ROI considering the fees

Would really appreciate real opinions — both positive and negative. Especially from students in tech fields.

Thanks in advance!