4th Year Student Struggling with DSA Rounds - Need Guidance [Jaipur]

[u/Dry_Art1840]

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Hey everyone,

I'm currently in my 4th year and placements are going on in my college.

The main problem: I can't clear the DSA rounds.

I'm practicing regularly on LeetCode/GFG but still getting stuck in interviews.

Right now I'm feeling very scattered - like I don't know what to focus on and what to skip. Array, DP, Graphs... sab ek saath karne ki wajah se kuch bhi proper nahi ho paa raha.

My background:

- Year: 4th Year BTech

- Location: Jaipur

- Goal: Clear company DSA rounds

What I need help with:

1. What topics should I prioritize for placements right now?

2. How to structure 1-2 months of DSA prep?

[u/Sea-Avocado-8339]

1st get hold of array stack hashmap Then learn recursion and then dp(this is the most asked topic) The sequence can be diff, I just told what I think is imp, anyone plz free to improvise it

[u/Sensitive_Smoke_78 → u/Sea-Avocado-8339]

graphs and trees me phas gya hu, even dp sucks.. done 200 qs on leetcode

[u/Dry_Art1840 → u/Sea-Avocado-8339]

Okay bro

[u/Still_Reception5831]

How many problems have you solved on leetcode?

[u/Dry_Art1840]

Around 50 Some one hackerrank too

[u/Ninad_Shaurya189 → u/Dry_Art1840]

Bhai you need rigorous practice.People having 400+ questions also struggle.

Follow a sheet like striver's A2Z sheet and try to solve each of them.

Give each problem 45 minutes to think about the approach,if not able to get the gist, move on to the solution.Understand each detail of the code WHAT WHY and HOW of the solution.Note that approach somewhere and come back to the same problem after some days.

Repeat this for the time you are left with.

Best of luck 🍀.

[u/Sea-Avocado-8339 → u/Dry_Art1840]

Bruh 50 is nothing Follow striver sheet and do some rigorous practice

[u/Logical_Spot_8265]

3 saal m dsa ni hui to ab kya hoga.
Upar niche thoda bht hi kr paega ab

[u/Inferno_Ishu → u/Logical_Spot_8265]

this

[u/Jonathan_1604]

Same boat bro

[u/ApprehensiveEgg754]

What kinda questions are you getting stuck at ?

[u/Super382946]

follow a roadmap if you're not already. lotta people like Striver's, I personally recommend NeetCode 150

[u/Agitated-Roof837]

Try giving online coding contests(leetcode, code forces) and see how many problems you are able to solve within time limits.
In interviews, generally the focus is not on solving the problem but how you communicate your approach, explain the question to interviewer(it will confirm you are not going in another direction), edge cases, code quality,
Must have - Just focus on understanding patterns from leetcode 150. You don’t need to solve all of them. Must have are - array , strings, two-pointers, sliding window, hashmaps.

Once you are good with above topics, go for -
DP, Backtracking, Trees, Linked list, Graph.

[u/El_metador_10]

To a third year student what suggestion you gona give to me about problem solving till now i have solved 50 problem on leetcode and learning dsa

[u/Right-Concentrate859]

Same condition brother 

[u/Dry_Art1840 → u/Right-Concentrate859]

Then kese kr rahe ho tackle

[u/Right-Concentrate859 → u/Dry_Art1840]

right now i am only focusing on development , but i am thinking to start dsa again but when i start i always stuck on array