About the Book

With GATE Mentor, Cengage Learning Exam Crack Series™ brings a suite of products to cater to the needs of students appearing for the GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering). Currently, GATE Mentor is available for Computer Science and Information Technology, Electronics and Communication, Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering branches. Each book in this series is divided into three sections, namely, General Aptitude, Engineering Mathematics, and the technical section. Each section is further divided into chapters comprising theory, solved examples, practice questions, and previous years’ questions with solutions. Each book also includes three solved model papers at the end. Understanding the need of current-day students, additional practice questions are made available on an Android App downloadable from Google Play. GATE Mentor books are authored by academicians from premier engineering colleges. While the technical section in GATE Mentor 2016: Electronics and Communication Engineering has been authored by Mr Sandeep Joshi and Dr G Naveen Babu, previously of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, respectively, at Shiv Nadar University, the section on Engineering Mathematics has been contributed by Dr Santosh Kumar Sengar of Department of Mathematics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the section on General Aptitude by Mr V Anand of JNTU Hyderabad.
With adequate content to hone theoretical skills and ample solved questions for practice, the aspirants will be able to achieve success in the upcoming GATE exam.

About the Author

Sandeep Joshi Sandeep Joshi has done B.Tech. in Electronics and Communica¬tion Engineering and M.E. in Communication Engineering. He has broad range of interests in Wireless communications and has mixed exposure of teaching and industry. He has attended vari¬ous short-term courses and workshops and is actively involved in teaching and research. He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Shiv Nadar University. He has taught various courses at undergraduate and post graduate levels and was the founding faculty of Shiv Nadar University. Prior to this he was faculty in Electronics and Communication Engineering department at Jaypee Institute of Information and Technology University and has more than five years of experience in academics and research. He has worked in Evalueserve private limited in IP group and in Qualcomm India private limited in CDMA testing and automation division. He is also UGC NET qualified in Electronic Science. G Naveen Babu G Naveen Babu has done B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.E. in Applied Electronics and holds Ph.D. in area of Microwave Tubes. He has a broad range of interests and activities in design of microwave tubes and VLSI interconnects. He has attended number of national and international workshops and conferences. He has also been a convener of workshop titled Microwave Tubes. He has published number of papers in national and international conferences and in reputed journals. He worked as Assistant Professor in Shiv Nadar University in Electrical Engineering department. He has served as coordinator of Electri¬cal engineering department and was the founding faculty of Shiv Nadar University. Prior to this he was faculty in Electronics and Communication Engineering department at Jaypee Institute of Information and Technology University and has more than 10 years of experience in academics and research. Santosh Kumar Sengar Santosh Kumar Sengar has done M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University. He is presently working as an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the College of Natural and Applied Sciences in the University of Dar es salaam (UDSM), Tanzania. Before joining UDSM, he worked as an Associate Professor in the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, University of Dodoma, Tanzania, from 2009 to 2013. He worked at various levels at the Inderprastha Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India. He has been actively teaching undergraduates and postgraduates for more than a decade now. He has published several research papers in international journals in the area of fixed point theory. He has to his credit seven textbooks published on different topics of mathematics. V Anand V Anand is a postgraduate in Computer Applications. He is presently working as an Associate Professor at a reputed engineering college in Hyderabad. He has a vast teaching experience with excellence in training students for campus recruitment. His teaching expertise is in English, Aptitude, and Verbal Reasoning. His proficiency and dexterity in using English are commendable.

Table of Contents:
Section A: Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning Chapter 1: English Grammar Chapter 2: Sentence Completion Chapter 3: Synonyms Chapter 4: Antonyms Chapter 5: Comprehension Chapter 6: Reasoning Ability Chapter 7: Archives Section B: Numerical Ability Chapter 1: Numbers Chapter 2: Problems on Numbers Chapter 3: Percentage Chapter 4: Time and Work Chapter 5: Ratio and Proportion Chapter 6: Alligation and Mixture Chapter 7: Permutation and Combination Chapter 8: Probability Chapter 9: Archives Section C: Engineering Mathematics Chapter 1: Linear Algebra Chapter 2: Calculus Chapter 3: Differential Equations Chapter 4: Complex Variables Chapter 5: Probability and Statistics Chapter 6: Numerical Methods Chapter 7: Transform Theory Section D: Electronics and Communication Engineering Chapter 1: Networks Chapter 2: Electronic Devices and Analog Circuits Chapter 3: Digital Circuits Chapter 4: Signals and Systems Chapter 5: Control Systems Chapter 6: Communications Chapter 7: Electromagnetic Theory Section E: Model Question Papers Section F: Solved GATE 2014 and 2015 Papers