Verbal Ability:

Syllabus - English grammar, sentence completion, verbal analogies, word groups, instructions, critical reasoning and
verbal deduction.

Types of Problems came in Previous Years :

1. Antonym, Synonym [ English grammar part ],

2. Given a sentence and i have to fill in with appropriate word [Sentence completion part ]

3. Same or different pairs of words [ Verbal Analogy part ] ,

4. Analogy of words , Ordering of words/ ordering of sentences , Odd one out from a group of words [ Word groups
part ] ,

5. Summary or Logical meaning from a passage /sentence, Given a problem sequence you have to satisfy a condition [
instructions , critical reasoning part ]

6. A sentence is given in english and you have to select the logical meaning of this sentence in a single word [ Verbal
deduction part ]

Now it is better to practice Problems on these Types from previous Year Gate papers starting from 2010 ( this year Apti
is introduced) .
GRE Barron book ( lots of examples are there in this book for each of these types ) .

Numerical Ability
Syllabus : Numerical computation, numerical estimation, numerical reasoning and data interpretation.

Types of problems needs to practice :

Problems on time and work, distance, Data Interpretation ( imp) , Number system, percentages, clocks, coding and
decoding, Venn Diagram, cubes, blood relation, Directions, Number odd man out, Boats and pipes etc.

Book:
1. Quantitative Reasoning –By R.S. Agarwal
C Programming Language :

Syllabus : ( As per old syllabus)

Programming in C; Functions, Recursion, Parameter passing, Scope, Binding .

1 What Books To Read :

Book Name :

1 K N King : 2nd edition

Chapter - 1 to 14 , chapter 17 and 18
chapter 8, 9 , 10, 11, 12 are very important for gate exam purpose .

2 Dennis M Ritchie : 2nd edition

Chapter 1 to 6

Video: NPTEL MOOC IITK CS 101- programming in C

2. Important Topics for that subject to read along with Chapter
Subparts :

Function K N King Chapter - 9 : 9.1, 9.2 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 - 4.1, 4.2

Recursion K N King Chapter - 9.6 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 -4.10

Parameter Passing K N King Chapter - 9.3 , 9.4, 9.5 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 1- 1.8

Scope K N King Chapter - 10: 10.1 to 10.4 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 -4.3 to 4.7

Binding K N King Chapter - 10.5 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 4 - 4.8 , 4.9

Pointer K N King Chapter - 11: 11.1 to 11.5 , Chapter 17 : 17.1 to 17.8 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 5 - 5.1 to 5.5

Array - 1D array chapter 8 - 8.1 , 2 D Array 8.2 , 8.3

Pointers and Arrays K N King Chapter - 12: 12.1 to 12.5 / Dennis Ritchie : chapter 5 - 5.6 to 5.9

3 . Types of problems from where questions came in previous years

:

C programming Questions are logical and mostly based on finding outputs which contain some pointers, static
variables, arrays, strings, functions etc.

Important Topics are:

Pointer
Array- 1D and 2D Array
Array- row and column major order
memory location sums
1D, 2D array location sums
moving no of memory locations based on given program
pointers and arrays
switch statement
pass-by-value, pass-by-pointer/ reference
global initialization
typecasting
short circuit rule
array to pointer conversion on function call
Register variable
String literals
Loop inveriant

scope : - static and dynamic scoping,

Binding,
Function ,
Recursion,
parameter passing .

A small NOTE for GATE Exam purpose ---> "C" is included in GATE syllabus as one language for checking
programming compatibility- not to see if a student is master in C. For the same reason, GATE COMMITTEE don't ask
questions related to C library functions or anything too specific to C. So, GATE C portions are always from a small
subset of C.

The best way to practice C programming question is take questions from previous year Gate papers and try to solve
them and try to do programming on Compiler.
It will increase your skills and accuracy.