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IIT MADRAS MS Written and Interview

I applied for MS program at IIT Madras and got shortlisted based on Gate and undergraduate score. Cutoff for Gate was 650 score and undergraduate was 75% for general category. The written exam was scheduled on 2nd May and interview on 4th May, 2017. Around 190 students were called for written exam out of which 17 will be selected for various specialisation in MS and 8 will be selected for Information Security specialisation. So in total 25 seats were there. I booked my flight tickets for 1st May and unfortunately I booked returning flight ticket of 5th June instead of 5th May  😬 😬 . So I lost 4K money and again booked new ticket for 5th May. I reached IIT Madras campus on 1st May and paid the accommodation fee of Rs 400 per day at the campus. The only thing I didn't liked about the campus was that it's too big. In such hot and humid temperature it's very difficult to move inside the campus. Before the written exam started, HOD of CS department Krishna Sir gave the int
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IIT Ropar MTECH and MS Written/Interview

I applied for both MTech and MS Research program at IIT Ropar. MTech program for CSE was started for first time while MS program was started 1.5 years before. I got written test and interview call through mail on 12April. The written test and interview was scheduled on 26April,2017 and reporting time was 9am.  As usual I was late and reached IIT Ropar at 10:15 and fortunately written test started at 10:30 am 😀   Written test was a subjective, yes you heard right it was subjective and not objective. Test constituted 23 questions and 60 marks and 2hours were given to complete it. It mainly constituted Gate level questions. Around 30% of the paper constituted programming and algorithm questions while rest covered all the Gate subjects. One biggest mistake most of the candidates including me did was that after Gate exam we got too relaxed and did not revised Gate Subjects properly. I advice you to revise Gate subjects properly before coming for written test.  After the written tes
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