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 I am currently pursuing my M.Tech in CSE department as a RA(Research Assistant) from IIT Bombay. So, today i am going to share my interview experience and my journey to IITB. I passed my B.Tech in 2016 from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh). I gave GATE 2016 and got AIR 482 with a gate score of 737/1000. I got an interview call from IIT Bombay for RA (i.e. a 3-year Programme) on 19th April 2016 and the interview dates being 18th May 2016 and 19th May 2016. So, i was informed one month earlier about the interviews. What is RA? In IIT Bombay, there are two M.Tech programmes, Teaching Assistant (TA) (2 -year Programme) (Selection Criteria : Gate Rank only ) (Cut-off : AIR 80 -90 for General) Research Assistant (RA) (3-year Programme) (Selection Criteria: Gate Rank and Interview) (Cut-off : Interview calls till AIR 650 approx for General ) The only difference between RA and TA is that RA get to spend one extra year in this beautiful and livel

I am a hacker! yeah,u read it right! " Hacker ". Scared! wait i am not going to do anything like hacking your bank accounts. Its been like that because the first thing that comes into our mind with this word " hacker " is cyber crime. But, to increase your knowledge, the dictionary meaning of hacker is HACKER = "Computer enthusiast" So, everyone in your acquaintance who is having an interest in computers is a hacker. Now, what we misunderstood is the word cracker with hacker. CRACKER = "a person who breaks into a computer system, typically for an illegal purpose" Let's say someone from your neighborhood helped you in setting up or installing software in your system. That person is a " hacker ". But if someone tries to compromise with your privacy lets say by cracking password of your system, this person is referred to as " cracker ". Basically, hacker uses his computer skills in a positiv