GATE XL Topper AIR 5 - Ali Aktara Interview With Biotecnika
Voice Of Biotecnika - Episode No 33
Welcome to by Biotecnika, India'sNo.1 Bioscience web portal. It is our vision to reach every bioscience professional in our country and help them build a strong career. Today in our 33rd podcast - Voice of Biotecnika, we stand proud of our student Miss, Ali Aktara from Bangalore, GATE XL Topper with AIR 5. Miss Ali Aktara has completed her post graduation in botany and wishes to pursue a career in life science research. Today, she has stepped forward to voice her journey with Biotecnika and share her experience and strategies for the competitive examination. Let us all welcome Ali Aktara and lend an ear to the toppers approach.
In conversation with Ali Aktara GATE XL Topper AIR 5.
Q. Tell us something about yourself. What is your ambition in life? Why did you choose this field?
So I'm Ali Aktara, I have completed my MSc in botany from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. And after that, I joined Biotecnika for competitive examinations like GATE and in 2019, GATE XL paper I secured an AIR 5 and right now, I'm preparing for different Ph.D. interviews.
Q. When did you begin your preparations for the GATE Exam?
I started Preparing for GATE Exam after my MSC. Then I came across Biotecnika, that it is providing very nice coaching for this GATE examination and eventually I got enrolled for the classes.
Q. How many hours daily you were spending on studies?
So, I started preparing in March 2018. I started self-study first and in the month of July, I started coaching at Biotecnika. So, basically I took the online coaching, so classes used to be from 10 am to 1 pm, and those classes I used to attend very sincerely. But when it comes to the hours, how many hours I studied, I never kept a count. I used to study when I felt I need to study. But during the exam time, I tried to give most of my time for the exam. GATE Coaching classes from Biotecnika helped me a lot.
Q. What are the exams you are applying for?
Yeah, yeah, there are lots of other exams I have applied for like DBT JRF BET examinations ICMR, CSIR NET also I am appearing again.
Q. What is your style of preparations? How do you remember the facts?
Okay. So, my basic plan was to understand the concept very well. Whatever is the topic I used to go thoroughly with it like to understand the whole idea about it, then I would write down the facts in form of charts, tables, diagrams, and I used to revise them very frequently. I will revise it time to time and so, automatically it gets absorbed to the mind.
Q. How was the GATE 2019 Exam - Was it Difficult?
I didn't feel it was that difficult. I felt it was easy, as whatever was taught to us in the class at Biotecnika the questions were of the same level.
Q. Any notes making tips you would like to share?
Whenever the class was being conducted online, I simultaneously used to take the notes. Whatever important points our teachers used to tell us and if diagrams any figure anything was required I used to note down all of those and after all the classes got over I used to go through the notes again. I used to read from those notes that I prepare myself and also referred to other standard books. But during the exam, whatever notes I've already made, I used to again make short notes from it for topics which I have the tendency to forget so that I will write again and I will go through only those points before the exam.
Q. GATE cut-off seems to have increased this year, how was the paper according to you?
I think the paper was okay. It was moderate - of standard level but the thing is, according to me, I think, more students are appearing GATE Exam now, the competition is increasing day by day. So if you compare the number of students that appear GATE Exam in 2017 and the number of students that attempted GATE 2019 Exam - there's a drastic change - a huge increase in the number. So I think if more students are appearing obviously there be more competition and the cut-off has to increase.
Q. In GATE XL - there are subject choices in the exam. How did you make your selection?
GATE Exam is a 100 Marks Paper, out of which 50 Marks is for aptitude, 25 Marks is for chemistry and the rest you have to choose, like, we have botany, zoology, microbiology, food technology, and biochemistry out of this five, we have to choose two of the sections. So what I did, I was a botany student so my first choice was the botany section, the second choice was Zoology. Why I chose Zoology is because I studied it in my UG and there are lots of common topics like you can say genetics, biochemistry, immunology, all these things also come under Zoology. So it's not like that I did not see other questions.
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