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GATE CS & IT: The Core Papers

Discrete maths to compilers — the reasoning GATE rewards, then the question shapes, then the traps.

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7 modules 61 lessons 7 enrolled ~30h of material

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GATE CS & IT: The Core Papers

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 61 lessons

  1. 01

    Discrete Mathematics & Engineering Maths

    10 lessons
    • Welcome to GATE CS & IT
    • The Concept Spine of Discrete Mathematics and Engineering Maths
    • The Harder Half: Techniques That Separate Top Scripts
    • Checkpoint: Logic, Relations, Matrices, Probability and Recurrencesquiz
    • Traps That Feel Right: Twelve Ways This Module Costs Marks
    • + 5 more lessons
  2. 02

    Data Structures & Algorithms

    9 lessons
    • The Spine: What This Section Actually Asks You To Do
    • The Harder Half: Recurrences, Amortization and Proof
    • Checkpoint: Five Questions in Exam Formquiz
    • The Traps: Mistakes That Feel Correct
    • Rapid Recall: Costs, Counts and Formulaefill blank
    • + 4 more lessons
  3. 03

    Operating Systems & Concurrency

    9 lessons
    • The Spine: Four Illusions and What They Cost
    • The Harder Half: Where the Marks Are Actually Decided
    • Checkpoint: Scheduling, Deadlock, Paging and Semaphoresquiz
    • Traps: The Answers That Feel Right and Are Not
    • Rapid Recall: Numbers You Should Not Have to Derivefill blank
    • + 4 more lessons
  4. 04

    Databases & Transactions

    9 lessons
    • The Concept Spine: Relations, Keys, Storage and Transactions
    • The Harder Half: Canonical Covers, BCNF Limits and Serializability Tests
    • Checkpoint: Five Exam-Style Questionsquiz
    • The Traps: Nine Mistakes That Feel Like Insight
    • Rapid Recall: Keys, Indexes and Schedulesfill blank
    • + 4 more lessons
  5. 05

    Computer Networks

    9 lessons
    • The Concept Spine: Layers, Delays, Addresses and Windows
    • The Harder Half: Window Algebra, CIDR and TCP Dynamics
    • Checkpoint: Five Exam-Style Questionsquiz
    • The Traps: Nine Mistakes That Feel Like Insight
    • Rapid Recall: Frames, Prefixes and Pipesfill blank
    • + 4 more lessons
  6. 06

    Computer Organisation, Theory of Computation & Compilers

    9 lessons
    • The Concept Spine: Machines, Translation and Cost
    • The Harder Half: Exact Cycles, Exact Boundaries, Exact Conflicts
    • Checkpoint: Five Exam-Style Questionsquiz
    • The Traps: Nine Mistakes That Feel Like Insight
    • Rapid Recall: Caches, Pipelines, Closure and Conflictsfill blank
    • + 4 more lessons
  7. 07

    Past Papers: Real GATE CS Questions

    6 lessons
    • How to use these past papers
    • GATE 2020 — Computer Science: real questions from the paperquiz
    • GATE 2021 — Computer Science: real questions from the paperquiz
    • GATE 2022 — Computer Science: real questions from the paperquiz
    • GATE 2023 — Computer Science: real questions from the paperquiz
    • + 1 more lesson

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

61 lessons across 7 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.

Practice as you go

Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.

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