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I'm currently moving to the second year of my M.Tech studies (ECE). It's entirely dissertation. I'm planning on preparing for ESE 2027, however with 2028 focus in mind. I wanted to opt for ACE 2028 one which costs 70k approx which has 2 hrs classes everyday.
Any suggestions for which coaching I can opt for?
I have already cleared GATE with an alright-ish score.
I was hoping to give a second shot for both GATE and ESE.

Please provide any other tips. I was hoping to get study material, regular tests and coaching from a single place to avoid multiple sources.

Does anyone have the CPQ or workbook pdfs of Made easy?

Edit: forgot to mention, I need CPQs of civil engineering. Also, it would be great if someone can share other study material pdfs.

I have made easy ese/gate course if somebody wants it.

I tried recording Made Easy lectures using OBS (Macbook M1, Chrome Browser). The site probably detected this and a black screen was streaming while OBS was capturing the screen. Is there a way to bypass this? (I don't have any pirate-ish intentions with recording - I just don't like the 1.5X thingy, and want the freedom to come back to my lectures any number of times). Let me know if there are alternate applications that I can use to handle this. I'm sure OBS is able to record everything it is seeing (tried recording YouTube on incognito, worked well), but Made Easy guys are smart and are somehow detecting the screen getting captured.

Hi everyone,

I’m preparing for UPSC ESE Civil 2027 and I’m completely stuck in Steel Design. I’ve finished Plastic Analysis, but I’ve been on Bolted Connections for a long time and I’m still not able to solve many PYQs confidently.

Did anyone else face this? How did you study Steel for ESE? Should I keep pushing through Bolted Connections or move on and revisit it later during revision?

Any advice, resources, or strategy specifically for ESE would be greatly appreciated.

I will probably join mnnit civil. was thinking of preparing for gate and secure a psu.
then prepare for ese.
is my plan good ??
don't tell me to prepare for upsc cse (not interested)

I'm appearing for the upcoming DCIO (Tech) exam (I don't know when) and, to be honest, I know very little about how this exam actually plays out.

Based on the syllabus and the available PYQ (Test Booklet 0008741 – GAT DCIO), it looks like the technical section is roughly 85 questions (CS + ECE) along with 15 Quantitative Reasoning questions.

For the CS portion, I'm following multiple resources (NPTEL, GFG articles, standard textbooks, etc.), so I'm fairly confident about covering that. My bigger concern is the ECE portion, which seems to account for 43–48 questions—too significant to ignore.

NPTEL has excellent lectures for almost every ECE topic, but the content is extensive. Since I also want to prepare CS thoroughly (to keep my preparation aligned with exams like **IBPS SO (IT Officer)-**29 Aug and SEBI Grade A IT), I'm not sure how deep I should go into ECE.

For those who've appeared for the exam:

• Which ECE topics deserve the highest priority?
• Are there any good, concise resources for theory + MCQ practice?
• Is there any book, notes, or question bank that closely matches the actual level of the exam?
• If you had to prepare the ECE part in a month or two, how would you approach it?

Any guidance or resource recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

My 1st year of college is over and now I will enter 2nd year. I am planning to start my prep early for ESE and GATE.

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This is what we have covered in 1st year and what we will be going to cover in 2nd year(wrt to the syllabus).
I have decent grip on all the subjects covered so far except Environmental.
I contacted a coaching institute for an online course but all of the available courses were for the year 27 and 28.
So, pls help me out how do I prepare for GATE & ESE parallelly with college and what books/modules should I refer to.

Also I have one more doubt, I read that you have to be minimum of 21 years as of 1st Jan. in the appearing year to be eligible for ESE. But my age will be only 20 on 1/1/29 and will turn 21 in March, will I still be able to give ESE or do I have to take a gap year after my college ends(July 2029) to appear in ESE'30 for the first attempt.

How was it guys? How much were you people able to attempt

Wanted to know whats the overall timeline of the exam throughout the year. I did see the upsc calendar about the date of pre and mains but when is the interview stage and by when are the results declared generally? Just a newbie going to 2nd year, discovering this exam and thinking of preparing for it. Also, can we write the paper in our 3rd-4th year of our college?

I have all videos on terabox.. Worth 1500 with all the study materials workbook and solution(shuffled) too. Batch of 23-24

Absolute beginner , kindly share some advice on how to prepare for UPSC-ESE for EE/ENTC as I'm currently preparing for GATE-EC as well

i am preparing for upsc ese.and i am confident that if i put hardwork i will get through prelims and mains but i dont think the interview round,it will be very challenging for me,because my background is very diverse,with long gaps,and failures in different competitive exams that i have been writing and a job not even related to my field.and that too 2year only.this makes me question whether i should keep going or drop it.