Physics after Engineering

Greetings to fellow Physics Aspirants ,              I am Chintan Patel from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University and I would like to share my experience of interviews at one of the best research institutes in India i.e. ICTS-TIFR and TIFR Mumbai. This is my first blog post, so forgive me for any formatting errors.      So, I was aware of this institutes from the 2nd year of my B.Tech(yes, I am a Mechanical Engineering student). I came to know that there is an exam called TIFR GS, which is conducted by TIFR all over India to shortlist candidates for Integrated Ph.D. (IPhd) and Ph.D. programme at TIFR and its sister institutes like ICTS, NCRA, and TIFR Hyderabad. Preparation               So, I started preparing for this exam when I was in 3rd year of my B.Tech. The only difficulty in preparation was that the syllabus of the exam is completely unknown. So I started solving previous year pape...

Hi guys, I'm Bala Kumar. This is a short and to the point description of how I went about preparing for JAM and JEST. [Check out the elaborate posts here if that's what you are looking for] IIT JAM Preparation -Vaibhav Sharma  (AIR - 5) On preparing for IIT-JAM Physics  -Niket Shah  (AIR - 6) I started preparing 7-8 months before JAM and I’d say that’s more than enough time to easily crack the exam. I took coaching from Career Endeavor but I’d say it’s not worth it because they go slowly and in a haphazard manner. I’d highly recommend their books though. Sources First things first, if recommend starting off with Khan Academy videos on vector calculus : To get a good intuition for curl, divergence, and gradient. This will help you a lot with EMT and vector calculus.  R Shankar’s lectures on YouTube . His lectures will help build a great foundation.  Career endeavor material to read up on Kinetic theory of gases, Maxwell equations(thermodynamics), stati...