Live GATE and ESE Coaching Classes from Home
Coaching classes for GATE and ESE examination have been helpful for quite a lot of time now. Aspirants have been relying on these coaching classes for reliable course structures, a trustable faculty pool, a sense of competition with like-minded aspirants, and many other factors.
In this blog, we discuss various pros and cons of live GATE and ESE coaching classes from home. How they have affected the process of learning for aspirants and how students can sustain themselves.
Pros of Live GATE and ESE coaching classes:
- Accessibility increases: This is the main reason why Online Courses have been popular among aspirants, ever since their existence. The liberty to study anytime anywhere has been the USP of E-Learning. College-Going Students and even working aspirants find it easy to enroll in online courses, even though if they can’t seek support from conventional coaching classes.
Financially also, online courses have proven to be more effective. The living and fooding expenses, which are otherwise procured by aspirants living away from their homes, can also be outrightly saved. Many aspirants who have health issues, financial issues, or family problems also get an equal chance at competing for GATE and ESE Exams with the aid of online courses. Moreover, it saves a lot of time as compared to Offline Classes. - Time-saving: When aspirants choose an online course over conventional classroom coaching, they can save themselves a lot of time. The time which would otherwise be required for commuting, in between the classes and a lot of other things. Fixed timing of classes sometimes also leads to missing of important concepts, due to other engagements. This is where online courses prove advantageous since they can be taken up at ease of one’s own timing.
The hustle and tiredness that commuting and attending classes add to an aspirant’s schedule are also avoided when you opt for a live class online from home. The same energy can now be utilized for another activity. Sometimes, your pace of learning is different from others and you might save some time if you can control the speed of your learning.
- More controllability: For both fast and slow learners, control over the speed of lectures and how fast they want to move with their preparation is an advantage. If you are good with the basics of a certain subject, you might just skip to the advanced part of the subject and save yourself some time. On the other hand, someone who needs more help with basics can manage their time accordingly.
Even the amount of help or role of an educator is different for different aspirants. Some students only want help with problems and numerical, while some students look for a complete guide to a subject, right from the basics. This level of controllability is possible only in online courses.
- Liberty to choose teachers: Some platforms even provide an option to take demo lessons for different faculty and then choose from for your final course. Though you have this liberty even in offline coaching class sometimes becomes tough to manage. If you are enrolling for a Live Class Online, even if two of your chosen faculty’s classes clash, you can record either and watch later.
Now that even the best of the coaching class are providing their lectures through live classes online, it is a good opportunity for the aspirants to avail themselves of the online courses. You can even choose courses according to where you currently stand and the type of help you need. - Different courses cater to different aspirants: Aspirants at different levels of their preparation seek different kinds of help. A beginner or college-going student needs a course starting from basics and even guidance along with lectures. A repeater or aspirant aiming for rank improvement needs more of a practice course to assess and improve their exam skills. Though there are different courses designed to cater to these needs by coaching classes as well it becomes easier to choose in an e-learning module.
On the other hand, courses like “Concepts through questions”, an initiative by MADE EASY for GATE 2024 have gained wide popularity from aspirants of all levels. The explanation of tough concepts by applying them to problems of good levels helps aspirants get the basic knowledge about the subject while enhancing the problem-solving skills and application, at the same time.
Cons of live GATE and ESE coaching classes:
- Lack of competition: For aspirants of the ESE Examination, as well as GATE, competition is as important as the coaching itself. The environment of the classroom, the company of like-minded aspirants, and the feeling of competition keep the spirit of a healthy preparation environment. A major disadvantage of coaching from home is that aspirants get no such exposure. Preparing alone from their homes deprives them of any feeling of competition and the environment of preparation.
Also, fellow aspirants are helpful in more ways than that. While preparing, students come across a number of doubts and dilemmas, where teachers and even guardians could be less helpful than a fellow aspirant. - No support system: Fellow aspirants are, at large a part of a strong support system for aspirants. Preparing without interaction with the faculty, away from fellow aspirants, and from the guides can be affecting on results of the ESE Examination and GATE.
There are a number of points in ESE Examination, say, to cross-check and compare answer writing for the subjective examination of ESE, where fellow aspirants fill in to be the most helpful. Similarly, in GATE, with the little help of your friends, you can identify the silly mistakes you are making or discover together alternate shorter methods to complete the same question. Though doubt clearance is available in e-learning as well but is not much effective.
- Doubt Clearance: The need to clear technical doubts, unsolved questions, etc. is a must when it comes to technical exams like the GATE 2024 or the ESE 2024. Though, nowadays all the online courses and e-learning platforms provide for the provision of doubt clearance it still is far from effective in actually clearing students’ doubts.
Although in an online session, you might get the educator to solve a question that you could not, you can’t ask them to check why your solution is wrong. Also, since these doubt-clearing sessions are not one on one, often students hesitate to ask questions that they think might be a little too easy for the others attending the class. Very few educators connect with the aspirants on a personal level after the class and the majority just makes do with their doubts. This too much independence while taking an online course is harmful to the aspirants.
- No track; no check: With no compulsory tests conducted at regular intervals, or the freedom to take them at your own comfortable time; makes it tuff for aspirants to track their preparation. In classroom coaching, on the other hand, aspirants do appear for these tests, preparing hard and on time, in order to assess their preparation with respect to that of their fellow students.
Even when a faculty starts a new subject, they brush up on the basics of the old subject with similar concepts and thus, revision continues to become a regular practice. In live classes online, the educator might just ask you to rewatch the other subject and that might just never happen. As good it is to have all the material to study from all the time, the access to all the lectures all the time, it is equally disadvantageous for the basic human nature to procrastinate. - Lack of Discipline: When you know that you have a single chance at doing something or learning something, there are more chances that you will do it. The same happens when you take classes. With aspirants given the option to watch live classes or watch recorded lectures later, they would just procrastinate most of the time.
The discipline that is required to follow thoroughly an online course is practically not possible for an aspirant. Classes of 6-8 hours per day are required to prepare seriously for the ESE Examination and the GATE 2024. This much screen time is not feasible for human eyes, whereas it can be easily sat through in-classroom coaching.
Though, apart from all these pros and cons, the current times have made it inevitable for all of us to study online and let the current scenario affect our preparation the least possible. E-Learning might be tough to switch to and has its own disadvantages, but we can focus on only the advantages for now.
Here are some tips that you can follow to study effectively for even an Online Course:
- Maintain your discipline even when you prepare from home. Stick to your schedule and stay honest about the timings of your study. Don’t keep your study hours flexible or even the timings that you have decided to study in.
- Set your own time-based targets and work hard to achieve them. Since there is no limit now to complete a subject, try to complete it along with the educator online or in the time that you have set for yourself. Also, use the reward and punish mechanism to achieve your targets on time.
- Do not waste time on social media and other alike platforms, in the name of discussions and doubt clearance. Social media and e-learning are not synonymous and there must be a clear line and time division between the two.
- Stay in touch with your educators, seniors, and fellow aspirants. Keep track of your performance with respect to theirs and work accordingly.
Engineering Exam Preparation Books
MADE EASY has launched various LIVE/Online courses. Refer to the list below for more details.
Times might be tough, but it would not be so easy to get through if we maintain our discipline, hope, and honesty. All the best for GATE 2024 and ESE examination.
