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The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering GATE is an All-India examination administered and conducted in eight zones across the country by the GATE Committee comprising of Faculty members from IISc, Bangalore and other seven IITs on behalf of the National Coordinating Board, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development. The GATE score/rank is used for admissions to Post Graduate Programmes ME/M.Tech MS, Direct Ph.D in institutes like IITs and IISc, etc. With financial assistance offered by MHRD. PSUs too use the GATE scores for recruiting candidates for various prestigious jobs with attractive remuneration. In GATE examination, candidates can apply for only one of the 23 papers listed in the table given below. Candidates are expected to appear in a paper appropriate to the discipline of their qualifying degree. However, candidates are free to choose any paper according to their admission plan, keeping in mind the eligibility criteria of the institutions in which they wish to seek admission. For more details regarding the admission criteria in any particular institute, candidates are advised to refer to the websites of that particular institute. GATE exam is important because of below-mentioned factors:
M.Tech - Campus placements in National and International private or public companies
Several reputed PSUs and research organizations recruit on basis of GATE Score. I. e. IOCL, NTPC, BHEL, PGCIL, BARC, etc. Teaching: Professor, Asst. Professor at IITs, NITs, reputed educational institutes etc. Junior Research Fellow: ISRO, DRDO, BARC, CSIR, IITs etc. Senior Research Fellow: ISRO, DRDO, BARC, CSIR, IITs etc. Junior Research Associates/ Senior Project Associates
Scientists C grade jobs
Career in Research & Development
Technical value addition
Expertise in subject/domain specialisation.

There should not be any degree of squint or any morbid condition of eyes or of the eyelids that is liable to aggravate or recur, the pressure of trachoma and iris complication sequela. Candidates must possess good binocular vision (fusion faculty and a full field of vision in both eyes). Movement of the eyeballs must be full in all directions and the pupils should react normally to light and accommodation.
Below mentioned vision standards must be met by the applicant:
Deck Department: Vision should be 6/6 in better eye and 6/9 in the other eye;
Engine and Electrical Department: Vision should be 6/12 in each eye or 6/9 in better eye and 6/18 in the other eye;
The vision should be 6/6 (normal) in each eye separately.

1) Try to get access to the IEEE magazine-Spectrum. Become an IEEE member (http://spectrum.ieee.org/).
2) If you want to build something cool (http://www.instructables.com). It is one of the best websites.
3) Once you actually start doing something, http://stackoverflow.com
will become your best friend.
4) You can find some interesting stuff here as well.
http://makezine.com/
5) https://hackaday.io/ (again for some cool projects).
6) https://www.edx.org/
https://www.coursera.org/
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/
You can learn something new depending on your interest and gain a certificate in case of a university course.
7) http://www.engineersgarage.com/ has a lot of electronics embedded projects
8) http://spectrum.ieee.org/0 and http://spectrum.ieee.org/1 This helps you with projects, components and a help forum.
9) http://spectrum.ieee.org/2
10) http://spectrum.ieee.org/3 This will be of great help once you start working on MATLAB. The help forum is also quite good. It also has many libraries and code examples.