IIT Roorkee Simplified

The best aspect is of course the IIT campus life, quality of education, exposure while the bad aspects includes high study pressure of exams, assignments, Admission procedure is simple for any PG M.Tech course and is through GATE exam. The course starts from July and ends in June of the academic year.

Course Curriculum is excellent with a mix of industry exposure and theory. A lot of practicals are presents in the course which a student can do in his own time. Lab access is 24 hours, no bar on that. Faculties are highly qualified (must have PhDs) and have rich experiences and most of the assignments they provide incorporates problems on practical aspects, or problem related to reality. There is mainly two exams; Mid Semester Exams (Mid terms) and End Semester exams (End Terms). Mid terms are fairly easier compare to End terms which comprises the hardest questions. Questions come from assignments and other unknown (to students) sources and requires unique answers. Plagiarised answers are highly penalised.

Students are eligible for internship from their 2nd, 3rd year in Btech. For PG, they are eligible from 2nd semester end. For Btech, highest salaries is around 70 lpa and can go into crores. Companies such as Microsoft, Google provides such salaries. The number of companies that visits the campus is large and provides opportunity for everyone to try for placements. For PG Cources, companies offer anything from 3.5 lpa to 55 lpa .

The total fee structure is around 1,60,000 INR. The first semester costs around 52000, the second and third semester is around 40000 each, while the last semester is around 38000. This is for a general category or UR student. Further, stipend from MHRD (if GATE qualified) is given to all students for 24 months of 12400 INR each month. Further, the institutes also provides financial assistance in the form of fee wavers. For reserved category, fees are even lesser.

Life at campus is excellent. People here are some of the best in the country. Social life is great and a lot of freedom is present. Students can indulge is all sorts of games, extracurricular and cultural events and activities. We have two annual events; THOMSO (cultural festival) which is held around October, and COGNIZANCE (technical event) is around March. A lot of social groups, clubs are present (technical robotics club, nature club, gyms, dance, nukkad natak, etc. ). All websites can be found by simple google search. The Mahatma Gandhi Central Library is resplendent with a wide varieties of books, journals and reading rooms. Each department also has their own library. Special books can also be made available based on the student's request

IIT ROORKEE

GATE 2019, Score 661, AIR 2933

Interview is based on the basics of the subjects. Test pattern mostly comprises of quantitative aptitudes and reasoning and programming (based on suitable languages). GD is optional and I did not face any GD rounds. Mostly all companies have a screening test of aptitudes and core question (if applicable) and programming, followed by interview rounds. Sometimes, direct interviews are there and group task is also there. Preparation is mostly done online for this. A lot of books and websites exists for questions and programming platforms like GFG, HackerEarth is necessary for practicing programming questions