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The GATE DA Study Checklist for Data Science & AI outlines essential topics across various domains including Engineering Mathematics, Programming, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, NLP, and Miscellaneous subjects. Each section specifies key areas of focus such as theory, numerical methods, and coding practices. This comprehensive guide serves as a roadmap for students preparing for the GATE exam in Data Science and AI.

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GATE DA Study Checklist 2025-04-15 Fixed

The GATE DA Study Checklist for Data Science & AI outlines essential topics across various domains including Engineering Mathematics, Programming, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, NLP, and Miscellaneous subjects. Each section specifies key areas of focus such as theory, numerical methods, and coding practices. This comprehensive guide serves as a roadmap for students preparing for the GATE exam in Data Science and AI.

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GATE DA Study Checklist (Data Science & AI)

1. **Engineering Mathematics**

- **Linear Algebra**:

- Vectors, Matrices, Rank, Determinants (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Matrix Factorization (LU, QR, SVD) (Focus: Theory, Code)

- Vector Spaces, Orthogonality, Projections (Focus: Theory)

- **Probability & Statistics**:

- Random Variables (Discrete & Continuous) (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Expectation, Variance, Covariance (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Bayes' Theorem (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Distributions (Bernoulli, Binomial, Normal, Poisson, Exponential) (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Sampling, Hypothesis Testing, p-values (Focus: Theory)

- Confidence Intervals, Central Limit Theorem (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- **Optimization**:

- Convex Sets and Functions (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Gradient Descent, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) (Focus: Theory, Code)

- Lagrange Multipliers (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Constrained & Unconstrained Optimization (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

- Newton's Method, KKT Conditions (Focus: Theory, Numerical)

2. **Programming & Data Structures**


- **Programming in Python**:

- Data Types, Control Structures, Functions (Focus: Code)

- Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries (Focus: Code)

- NumPy & Pandas Basics (Focus: Code)

- File I/O, Exception Handling (Focus: Code)

- Basic plotting with matplotlib/seaborn (Focus: Code)

- **Data Structures**:

- Arrays, Linked Lists, Stacks, Queues (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Trees, Graphs (BFS, DFS) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Hashing, Heaps, Priority Queues (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Time and Space Complexity (Big-O Notation) (Focus: Theory)

3. **Algorithms**

- Searching & Sorting (Binary Search, Merge/Quick Sort) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Recursion and Divide & Conquer (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Dynamic Programming (Knapsack, LCS, etc.) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Greedy Algorithms (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Graph Algorithms (Dijkstra, Kruskal, Prim) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Complexity Analysis (P, NP, NP-Hard, NP-Complete basics) (Focus: Theory)

4. **Machine Learning**

- **Supervised Learning**:

- Linear & Logistic Regression (Focus: Code, Theory)

- SVM (kernel trick, margin theory) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Decision Trees, Random Forests (Focus: Code, Theory)

- k-NN, Naive Bayes (Focus: Code, Theory)


- Evaluation: Precision, Recall, F1, ROC-AUC (Focus: Code, Theory)

- **Unsupervised Learning**:

- Clustering (K-Means, Hierarchical) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, t-SNE) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- **Model Selection & Tuning**:

- Cross-Validation, Bias-Variance Tradeoff (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Hyperparameter Tuning (Grid/Random Search) (Focus: Code)

- Overfitting/Underfitting, Regularization (L1/L2) (Focus: Code, Theory)

5. **Deep Learning**

- Perceptrons, MLPs (Focus: Theory)

- Backpropagation, Gradient Descent in NN (Focus: Theory, Code)

- Activation Functions (ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- CNNs (basic structure, convolutions, pooling) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- RNNs (basic architecture, vanishing gradient) (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Optimization techniques: Adam, RMSProp, Dropout (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Transfer Learning, Fine-tuning (Focus: Code, Theory)

6. **Artificial Intelligence**

- Search Algorithms: DFS, BFS, A*, Hill Climbing (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Game Theory (Minimax, Alpha-Beta Pruning) (Focus: Theory)

- Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Logic & Inference (Propositional & Predicate) (Focus: Theory)

- Planning, Utility Theory (Focus: Theory)

- Basics of Reinforcement Learning (Focus: Code, Theory)


7. **Databases (Basic Level)**

- Relational Model, ER Diagrams (Focus: Theory)

- SQL: SELECT, JOINs, Aggregates, Subqueries (Focus: Code)

- Normalization (1NF, 2NF, 3NF) (Focus: Theory)

- Transactions, ACID Properties (Focus: Theory)

8. **NLP & Language Models**

- Text Preprocessing: Tokenization, Stopwords, Stemming, Lemmatization (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Bag of Words, TF-IDF (Focus: Code, Theory)

- Word Embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe (Focus: Code, Theory)

- N-gram Language Models (Focus: Code, Theory)

- RNNs for NLP, Attention, Transformers (basic) (Focus: Code, Theory)

9. **Miscellaneous**

- Ethics in AI (Focus: Theory)

- Fairness, Interpretability, and Bias in ML (Focus: Theory)

- Recent trends (AutoML, Explainable AI) (Focus: Awareness)

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