How I prepared for my Placements

ChotaNarad is really achieving its targets in some sense that now users themselves provide us with valuable information which helps the students at large. Here I'm posting a few posts from one of the users. It really is a useful document to strategize the preparation for the placements. Here it goes..

" I just happened to see this site and found it a really nice initiative. Going through the entire phase and working in the corporate world today I understand the challenges which one has to face during our placement preparation. Although there are many sites to help you fetch placement papers, a concept like this is unique.
The site will not only provide paper pattern and company information but also help you in making your career choice. So I would like to congratulate the founders of Chotanarad. Good job yaar! Having said that even I have a story to share. No, no it is no fairy tale. It is my story. It is about how I made to a got a placement.
I am a B.E. from NSIT. I have pursued my engineering in Computer Science. I started my preparation for placements from my sixth semester.
In the sixth semester When I was in my sixth semester I had started preparing for my placements. I was not very clear about how to go about it. I was a hosteller. My roomie(room mate) was in the fourth year and I studied from her books.
I started with the MCQ book of Yashwant Kanetkar. The one on C. Simultaneously I started reading C by Ritchie. This book proved to be really helpful. It helped me not only in clearing my concepts but also in my interviews. Many questions were asked directly from it.
Since we used to go to college in the morning and come back by afternoon we only had evenings to prepare. Then we had to do one or the other college assignment. Though there were days when I used to bunk some classes, most of the time I was left with only evenings and nights to study.
There were many distractions in hostel and so it was difficult to utilize the time very efficiently. But whatever little time I had I gave it to my preparations. Also I had set some targets for myself. I started my preparations in January, completed two MCQ books on C by February mid. So you can imagine how leisurely I was doing it.
Then I started with Ritchie and MCQs on pointers. As I mentioned before also I found Ritchie very helpful especially the chapter on Pointers.
I know some people find Ritchie a difficult book. But my concepts of C were pretty clear and so I did not find it a difficult book. You can use any other book to work on your basics and then do this book if you find it difficult to start with. I had finished the two books by mid April. In the meantime I was also working on building my aptitude. For this I referred to Shakuntla Devi’s puzzles.
We used to build our word power in groups. Things are always easy and interesting when one mixes fun with learning. Also we made it a point to read newspapers daily. I got busy with my end semesters and my practicals in May so I could not devote anytime to my placement preparation... "

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