In order to secure admissions in post-graduation programmes in reputed engineering colleges and institutes in India like IITs, Indian Institute of Science and NITs, you will have to prepare well and ace the GATE 2011. The first step is to know what the syllabus is and see how much emphasis is given to each and every subject.
You should remember the questions of GATE are usually the derivation of fundamentals and preparation of GATE is a continuing process and is supposed to take place in varied stages.