Nowadays, education institutes take students on the basis of
their abilities such as understanding of concepts, sharpness of mind and
knowledge; therefore, they launch common exams for all students. These common
exams are specially designed to test special characteristics of student and are
often called Competitive
exams or Entrance Exams because they create lots of competition among
students. Through competition exams, institutes are able to choose cream of
students. So, they find competitive exams as best method to find best students
among all.
Now question arises, how to prepare for such type of exams? You
may hear about students which study whole year but still not selected and many
such instants. Actually, what happens is these students do not have a proper
strategy to prepare for competitive exams. Competitive exams are completely
different from school or university exams. Competitive exams are different from
other exams because with such type of exams, institutes want to test not only
your knowledge but also your concepts, common sense for subject and sharp mind;
therefore, students which dependent on knowledge only, cannot be selected for
competitive exams .
I have
read somewhere that your mind should be God Gifted to clear Competitive Exams.
Yes, it is true that God Gifted people such as Newton, Einstein are superior to us but everybody,
selected in entrance exams, is not Newton or Einstein. A normal human mind can
easily clear competitive exams but you have to modify some basic strategies
regarding preparation for exams. These strategies are listed below:
1. Self Belief: You should believe in
yourself and your abilities. You should believe that you belongs to the
competitive arena and you can clear these competitive exams if you can perform
to best of your abilities. Belief is everything and everything can be achieved
through belief. There is a famous quote: “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and
the belief in a thing makes it happen”.
2. Knowledge: Knowledge is a necessary
element to clear competitive exams. You should have proper knowledge about your
concepts. We don’t have to acquire extra knowledge as conceptual knowledge is
needed for competitive exams. We can prefect our conceptual knowledge by
practicing questions based on these concepts.
3. Time Management and Data: We have to
study minimum of 4 hours a day for competitive exams. We can manage this time
by preparing time table for each day. We also have to record weekly data which
ultimately helps in representing our performance graphically. We can take
inputs such as time for each subject, part of syllabus completed, time for
revision, questions attempted and so on to record data.
4. Sharpness: Sharpness of mind is
mandatory for competitive exams. A sharp mind has many advantages such as
concept understanding, quick response to a tricky question and speed. Main
purpose of these competitive exams is to differentiate sharp minded students
from others. The best method to sharpen your mind is to do as many questions as
you can. Try to do questions in as minimum time as possible. I used to took challenge of doing 100 questions in one hour or so. Challenge yourself as its
all about improving yourself and sharpen the skills. I have also noticed that
fast reading with proper understanding sharpens your mind immensely.
5. Sample Papers: Here comes my last and
most important trick.The best way to perform in any exam would be to do so many
similar types of such exams or Sample Papers. With
the help of these sample papers, our mind is able to build so many stragies and
tricks about particular type of questions which ultimately helps us during
Entrance exams.They have huge advantage as you can feel the mental atmosphere
similar to that in competitive exams through these sample papers.Attempting so
many sample papers helps in mental coherence during main exams.Sample Papers
also helps in achieving a hard, stable concentration during competitive exams.
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