Gururaj was one of the first aesi members who as far as my knowledge goes took up the cause of uniting the aesi students and creading a community for the present and past students of AMAeSI. He bagan the group in rediff. You can still see the pages in rediff. Then when OURAeSi was formed, this group was merged with it and from then onward gururaj emailed his suggestions and remarks to the OURAeSI club.He was source of constant help and inspiration to me while in my days of aesi. His relevant advice and remarks that he emailed occasionally on ouraesi had many positive effect on me. Here i am listing out one of my favorite email that gururaj wrote covering fresher interview tips.
Dear all,
Along with visiting the site and reading articles kindly keep in mind that in almost all the interviews they see that how through the candidate is in Basics of the subject. Especially for freshers, its very important that they should be very strong in Basics. If you are an aerodynamist and you are asked something from propulsion side or structure side, then at least try to answer the basic concept behind the topic in which its asked and you don't have complete knowledge.
Seeing from the point of view of basics and AMAeSI syllabus, I suggest that the Principles of Flight paper should be revised thoroughly by everyone who is preparing for interview in aerospace field. This paper gives basic concept and also it has a very good introduction part for all the Section B Streams. Most of them study only performance part, stability, airfoils etc. But along with this it has lot of things from propulsion, structure, avionics, instruments, etc, so kindly revise this paper thoroughly.
Also revise the fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, workshop technology, aerodynamics-1, proppulsion-1 papers. It may be difficult to revise all these papers, so the best way is to take objective questions from any competitive exam books like GATE or any other papers. This will really make you good in basics.
Remember that the person conducting will test your patience, communication skills and also aptitude along with your basics.
I have only this from my side, Wish all those candidates best of luck who are attending the interviews.
I also request the candidates who got selected last year in DRDO to share their experience with the group at this moment.
Best of Luck,
Gururaj.
