Competitive exams have become a strict norm for selection to various professional courses in India. Competitive entrance exams are taken because the number of students applying for admissions is much more as compared to the number of seats. Thus, students have to face tough competition in order to get admission into reputed educational institution.
Success in Competitive exams brings immense glory and confidence to the individuals, besides giving them a clear cut break into the career line of their choice. Preparing for competitive exam is completely different from your regular exams. The entrance exams mode requires a drastic change in strategy and orientation for students compared to the board exams. Most of them are objective type. This needs a little bit of reorientation in the test taking approach. Cracking entrance exams is all about dedicated practice on test types that are relevant, followed by revision tests and feedback.
Competitive Exam preparation tips:
1. The candidate preparing for Competitive exam should always have positive attitude, determination and motivation. The preparation without a high level of aim or motivation can not be succeed. Once you think of appearing for Competitive exams, you must be ready to put your complete effort to make the thing best. While preparing you should be very confident, with the help of confidence in yourself you can move mountains. Thus Confidence matters a lot.
2. Having strong determination leads to get success. More you are determined for your target, you will be near to it to achieve. So your motivation level must be high.
3. You should make a balance between your study and playing time. Whatever hours you are devoting to your studies that must be sufficient if your concentration level in these hours are very high.
4. Selection of right study material is key to success in Competitive exam. One should not go for shortcuts. Instead, try to understand the chapters / concepts in detail and practice sufficient number of questions. Therefore go for standard textbooks, study materials provided, as various correspondence courses and other coaching institutions serve as supplementary and complementary material to the textbook material.
5. Your concepts must be clear. You should make more and more practice for the previous year papers.
6. Students preparing for competitive examinations are recommended to read the appropriate chapters from the text books and then to asses themselves using the Multiple Choice Questions. Try to record your reasoning before checking the correct answer. Lack of familiarity with multiple choice questions may result in unexpected failure but at the same time adequate reading, understanding and systemic study of subject is highly essential.
7. Self assessment is an important part in the preparation. Practice as many Mock Tests as possible in close to examination environment as possible. Because time management is very important. Don’t try to read the entire question paper first. Try to answer easy questions first with care.
8. Spend more time on the subjects in which you are weak. This is the key to success. You have to identify which subjects made you suffer during your profs or during your previous attempt(s). It’s always a good idea to finish them first. You can follow any order in doing subjects as you like.
9. Time to spend on each subject depends upon how strong or weak you are in a particular subject. You have to spend less time on subjects from which less questions area asked. It’s very important not to get stuck at one subject for too long.
10. To get clear competitive exams one has to prepare at least 5 hours daily.
11. The strategy of taking an objective test with time constraints is very different from appearing in the board exams. You need to play to your strengths. You need to learn to skip questions. You have to identify the areas you are not so comfortable with. It is advisable to experiment in your practice tests.
12. To prepare and success competitive exams you must update your knowledge. You should be clear that you have adequate and correct knowledge about the particular concepts you prepare for exam. Solving sample question papers as much as possible can help a lot.
13. Many of the students will prepare thoroughly before the exam, but in the night before the exam, they avoid sleep and try to revise the whole topic. This will definitely decrease their mental alertness and they are unable to grasp the questions. So go to bed early in the night before exam.
14. Avoid heavy oily food just before exam – your brain will concentrate on digestion not on your question paper. Take more vegetables and fresh water like green leaves, carrots etc. which will decrease your eyestrain and sharpen your memory.
15. It is very important that your mind should be sharp to face competitive exams. If you go through the things with sharp mind you can understand the concepts clearly. You can get your normal mind to sharpen, by giving excise to your brain regularly by solving crossword puzzles, Maths puzzles, reasoning aptitudes etc.
16. While practicing and also during the exam, a student must always pay attention to his speed i.e. how fast and accurately he can solve the questions. It is advisable not to spend too much time on a single question. If he is not able to solve that question in a particular time limit, he should leave the question and move ahead.
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