What should I know before joining NIT Silchar?

These are some things you should know before joining NIT Silchar-

1. Your CGPA is what matters the most over here. Everything else is secondary.
2. All your past achievements and ranks will be of no use over here. Everything will start from scratch at NIT Silchar.
3. Irrespective of your branch, you will have to work really hard.
4. You will have mid-sem within a month of joining and the 6 subjects will be winded up in six days.
5. You might have been a topper at school, but you can end up becoming an average student at NITS.
6. You can rediscover your lost interests and passions at NITS through extracurricular activities.
7. Civil/ Electrical and other branch students pick up coding/developing and gain expertise in the domain for better career prospects. Sometimes a student from another branch is a better coder/ developer than someone from CSE.
8. You can’t be overly involved in extracurricular activities unless you want an attendance backlog in some course.
9. While at NITs hostel, you will develop the habit of sleeping very late at night.
10. Most students at NIT Silchar, except those in CSE or ECE, don’t like their chosen branch.
11.  Getting above 8 CGPA requires hard work and effort from your side.
12. There are some unhealthy politics on the campus.

NIT Silchar is an underrated college. However, these points were meant to inform you of the good and bad of this institution.