Importance of fundamentals

Courtesy : http://electrical-mentor.blogspot.in/p/blog-page_6.html

(it is a blog written by one of the faculties of ACE academy who did M. Tech. in power and control from IIT Kanpur)

Dear Students,
The intention in writing this article is, so many students are asking me in the following way:

“Is it compulsory to read standard text books for every subject to get <100 GATE rank? Otherwise these ACE material and online tests are enough to get that rank”

One thing I would like to say that fundamentals in any subject are like foundation for any building. I can consider these types of questions like “Is it strong foundation required to construct nice building”. Answer is obviously yes. If you construct your building without strong foundation, you cannot celebrate house warming ceremony and you cannot stay in that building.

Getting good rank without fundamentals is exactly similar situation. Getting good rank should not be goal, whatever the education you are having during your student life, it should give confidence to face all the challenges in your life. It can be professional life or personal life. You may feel boring these types of lectures when you are in student, but this is the fact. You will realize this as you are getting old from the student stage

Even in our power electronics also, out of all the components everyone is interested in fundamental component only as it is useful component. There will be no more counter argument for this statement

Until you prepare objective books and mugging up the formulas & bits, you cannot answer new questions and challenges, Always try to learn the procedure, concepts and the approach

For the corporate companies, what you are solving is not an important matter but how you are solving is important. What is the approach you are demonstrating is important and how differently you are reaching the solution will really make differentiation from others

Love the subject, Learn fundamentals and enjoy the life.