Yash Gupta’s GATE Success Story: From Tezpur University to IIT Roorkee and AAI With PW

Yash Gupta began his engineering journey at a tier-3 college in Assam, where limited exposure and fewer company visits made him realise that Electronics and Communication, had very few opportunities within his own college.

This realization pushed him to start preparing for GATE from his second year itself, hoping the exam would open doors that his college placements simply couldn't.

Yash Gupta's Journey: From a Tier-3 College to Choosing GATE

Yash Gupta started his engineering at Tezpur University, Assam, a college he himself calls a tier-3 institute. Before talking about his GATE preparation, he shared a quick introduction about his background and where his career eventually landed him.

"So mera naam Yash Gupta hai aur main rehne wala Jaipur, Rajasthan ka hoon. Maine B.Tech Tezpur University, Assam se kiya hai jo ki three-tier university hai. Uske baad maine M.Tech kiya hai IIT Roorkee se, in 2024 maine join kiya tha. Uske baad main abhi serve kar raha hoon Airport Authority of India."

This introduction sets up the entire arc of his story - a tier-3 college, followed by an IIT, followed by a PSU job. But the real reason behind choosing GATE came from what he noticed during his B.Tech years, especially the limited scope his branch offered at his college.

"Sir, main cheez toh wahan par yeh hoti hai ki tier-three colleges mein aapko zyada subject ke regarding exposure nahi mil pata hai. ... Toh actually wahan pe mushkil se bahut kam companies aati hain jo ki EC domain mein hire karti hain. ... Toh isliye opportunities bahut limit ho jaati hain."

Yash realised that if he wanted to work in his own core branch - Electronics and Communication - his tier-3 college simply wasn't attracting the right companies. This gap in opportunity became the reason he decided to prepare for GATE, seeing it as the only route to explore better options in his own field.

The Struggles Yash Gupta Faced Before Finding the Right Resources

Once Yash decided to pursue GATE, the next challenge was arranging the right study material. In 2022, when he began exploring resources, good quality paid courses were simply out of budget.

"Sir, paid courses mehnge the."

This one line captures a struggle many aspirants from smaller colleges go through - wanting structured guidance but not being able to afford it. So Yash turned to free resources instead, only to run into a different kind of problem.

"Toh us time pe saare jo resources the jo free wale the woh bahut scattered the, matlab aapko khud se research karke khud hi padhna padta, toh har cheez ek platform pe milna wahan pe bahut mushkil tha."

Free content was available, but it wasn't organised. Yash had to spend extra effort just hunting for the right material before he could even start studying it. This scattered, expensive landscape of resources is exactly what pushed him to look for something more structured - which is where PW entered his preparation.

How PW's GATE Crash Course Helped Yash Gupta Prepare on Time

With only three to four months left before his first GATE attempt in 2023, Yash needed a resource that could cover the entire syllabus quickly and in a focused manner. That's when PW launched its GATE platform.

"Us time pe hi PW ne apna GATE ka platform launch kiya tha. So us time pe PW ka crash course aaya tha. Toh maine socha ki crash course hai, start bhi usi time pe ho raha hai October ke aas-paas, toh unko syllabus bhi poora cover karana padega, 23 ke GATE ke liye prepare kara rahe hain. Toh I was like ki isko full-fledgedly mujhe follow karna hai aur uske baad GATE dena hai. Maine ek-ek cheez follow ki thi, question solving se lekar theory classes tak, aur it helped me a lot."

He followed the PW ECE crash course closely, from theory classes to question-solving sessions, and credits it for helping him cover the syllabus in a short window. Later, when asked to summarise his overall preparation strategy, he pointed back to the same course as his main resource.

"Sir, ek toh hai ki resources ke mamle mein maine jo follow kiya tha, woh PW ka crash course hi kiya tha."

For Yash, the crash course solved both his earlier problems at once, it was structured, and it was affordable. This gave him the base to attempt GATE for the first time in 2023, where he scored a rank of 1500, entirely through self-study built on that foundation.

The Turnaround in Yash Gupta's GATE Result and Career Choice

After joining M.Tech at IIT Roorkee in 2024, Yash decided to attempt GATE once more in 2025, mainly as a backup option in case his campus placement didn't work out. This time, his approach to preparation was different, built around one clear, realistic goal.

"Sabse pehle maine ek first step maine yeh kiya tha ki maine ek realistic goal set kiya tha. Maine apna goal set kiya tha, 47 marks ka goal set kiya tha maine jab main pehli baar GATE de raha tha. ... And jab mera result aaya GATE ka toh exactly mere 47 marks the GATE mein."

Setting a realistic, achievable target instead of an unrealistic one gave him clarity and confidence going into the exam, and his result matched the exact number he had set as his wallpaper reminder months earlier. This mindset carried into his second attempt too, which he gave with a relaxed, low-pressure approach since he already had an M.Tech seat secured - and it turned out to be his best-scoring attempt.

"Sir, meri rank thi almost close to 1000. ... Toh sabse pehle toh mere paas abhi jo 25 mein aaya tha, Airport Authority of India uska call aaya tha. Secondly mere paas NTPC ka call aaya tha. And thirdly mera campus placement bhi ho gaya tha... Toh mere paas total three offers the at the end of my M.Tech."

With three offers on the table, Yash chose Airport Authority of India, largely because it offered a posting in his native town - a preference that mattered more to him than a purely corporate path. Looking back, he calls it the right call, describing the work culture there as one of the strongest parts of his decision.

Yash Gupta’s GATE journey began with his search for better opportunities in Electronics and Communication during his B.Tech. After finding paid courses expensive and free resources scattered, he followed PW’s GATE crash course for theory and question practice. 

His first GATE attempt resulted in a rank of 1500, followed by M.Tech at IIT Roorkee and another GATE attempt during his postgraduate studies. By the end of his M.Tech, he had multiple career opportunities, including an offer from the Airport Authority of India.