Examination tips

The preparation mode jotted down here is only a friendly advice of how to begin and end preparation neatly. This is only ONE of the ways to give students a better clarity about the systematic preparation and to gear up their confidence. It may be followed depending upon the time the students are left with for their preparation.

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1. Try to rate every question as ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’.
   1. ‘A’ Category represents those questions/problems which require much concentration from you or which you may forget or get confused very often.
   2. ‘B’ Category questions are those which require concentration much more than ‘C’ Category but lesser than ‘A’ Category questions.
   3. ‘C’ Category represents those questions which don’t/require least attention from you and which you can write an answer by reading once or by listening in class / solve the problem by yourself even without seeing your solutions book. These are those topics which you can even skip preparing before examination. Doing so will save your time and you can allot that saved portion of time for ‘A’ and ‘B’ Category questions.
2. Start giving ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ Analysis from first preparation itself.
3. When you start your second preparation, ensure yourself that ‘B’ Category questions should become ‘C’ and ‘A’ Category should become ‘B’.
4. Your main target should be on making every question to fall mainly into the category of ‘C’, then to ‘B’ Category.
5. The more C’s and B’s rated questions you are left with for your final preparation, the more confident you will be. However, students need not fear even if more number of ‘A’ Category questions is also there.
6. Scratch off all those questions in your material (with pencil) which have fallen into the category of ‘C’. It gives you immense pleasure to go through the book for your next preparation. You will feel comfortable and confident that you have only few questions to read/work out. You can just write down or underline main/imp point near to that question with red color pen. For your subsequent revisions; you can just see that highlighted point and move on.
7. Since you will be remembering only to the extent of 80% of whatever you read on the previous day; daily try to memorize the topics immediately the next day what you have read on the previous day at least for 15min. Doing regular revisions like this will make you feel that you remember whatever you read on the previous day. New topics should be revised for 4-5 days continuously for 15 min so that it will get imprinted in your mind. Next time when you open the same topic; you will feel as if you remember everything. If such kind of revisions demand extra time from you, like you have to sit and study for long hours, don’t hesitate to do that. Sitting for one hour or two hours extra is not at all wrong. Try to imagine the confidence it gives you once you follow that rule.
8. Give flowcharts for those questions which mostly confuse you.
9. Try to follow only one material (whatever you feel comfortable with) as Base Material. Along with it follow:
   1. Practice Manuals
   2. Institute Material (Those who are following this material as Base Material, keep yourself updated with the amendments that are not reflected in the Institute Material. But those who are not following this as Base Material and following other books as Base Material, at least ensure yourself that all (or most imp) topics as specified in the Institute Material have been covered in your Base Material (so that you didn’t miss reading any topic which is there in the syllabus)                                                                                                                           
   3. Revision Test Papers (RTP’S)
10. Don’t compare yourself with others. Instead compare yourself with yesterday and today. You are unique. Know your strengths and sharpen it much more and more.
11. FIRST REVISION:
    1. Begin your preparation with important chapters.
    2. After reading 1st chapter, revise whole chapter once again. Then move on to 2nd chapter. Again read 1st chapter, and then move on to 3rd chapter. After reading 3rd chapter, revise once again 2nd chapter and 1st chapter, then move on to 4th chapter. Now after reading 4th chapter, revise once again 1st, 2nd, 3rd chapters. By doing revision in this way, you can remember very well.
    3. By this time you have done your 1st chapter revision for 3 times. For all these 3 revisions, you can either read it fully (i.e long way-sitting for hours and reading normally from A to Z but by ensuring that it takes lesser time definitely than time allotted for a particular topic when reading for first time) or you can at least memorize the whole chapter in 15min ( i.e short cut way-by looking at flow charts).
    4. If you follow this method, you will be revising old chapters many times by the time you complete reading all your chapters for first time.
    5. If you have rated 1st chapter as ‘A’ in your initial preparation; now you make it as ‘B’ (if you are able to recall most of the answers to the extent of 80%/solved the problem to the extent of 80% on your own) or if you have rated as ‘B’ initially, you can rate it now as ‘C’ (if you are able to recall 100% of answer for the question) for your 2nd revision.
    6. The above said kind of preparation comes under 1st Revision and it should be practiced only if you have sufficient time for your revision i.e if your exams are nearing, still you can follow this method by just memorizing old chapters in short cut way ( i.e going through the flow charts) and by not reading fully (i.e long way-sitting and reading for hours).
    7. You should do 2-3 revisions before appearing for your final exam.
    8. Instead of sitting with one subject the whole day, daily apportion your day with different subjects so that you don’t get bored. Those who are writing both groups-try to study them on alternate days i.e allot Monday, Wednesday, Friday for Group-1 and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for Group-2. Make Sunday as a Grace Day.
    9. Decide about the Time + Number of days that may take for you for each and every chapter and subject for your 2nd revision.

      SECOND REVISION:

1. Start your second revision with imp chapters as per the time and number of days estimated by you during your 1st revision.
2. 2nd Revision should be done differently. You need to complete all the subjects by sitting for 3-4 days in one stretch for each subject. After completion of one subject, move on to next subject.
3. Make ‘A’ category questions as ‘B’ (If you are able to recall 90% of answer for the question) and ‘B’ as ‘C’ (If you are able to recall 100% of answer for the question). Some questions may still remain as ‘A’/’B’ also.
4. While doing this revision; those questions which you have rated as ‘C’ in your 2nd revision- still go through the highlight point/Just look at the flowchart and skip these questions completely for your final preparation.
5. Now along with analysis, again estimate Time and Number of days that may take for you for each and every chapter and subject for your final exam preparation.

THIRD/FINAL REVISION:

• Start reading important chapters first.
• Go as per your analysis and the time allotted by you during your 2nd revision for each and every chapter in every subject.
• Concentrate much on ‘A’ rated questions, and then ‘B’ rated questions.
• Totally skip all those ‘C’ rated questions which you are pretty much sure that you can handle those questions even without going through it during this revision.
• If time still permits you, you can even go through ‘C’ rated questions (just highlighted point in it) also if you feel that it gives you satisfaction.

1. The above rules can be applied for problems in Practical papers also. You can rate either full chapter as ‘A’/‘B’/‘C’ Category or you can at least rate few problems/questions/topics in particular chapter as ‘A’/’B’/’C’. There are no hard or fast rules for that analysis. This analysis is only to save your time and encourage you to do hard work smartly.
2. As the number of revision increases, the time allocation for such particular chapter should decrease. For example, if it takes 2 hours to read one chapter for first time; for next revision- it should definitely take time lesser than 2 hours.
3. Make one subject as PET subject. It means the subject you like the most/which you feel you are good at or you can write/answer that paper in whatever way the question will be asked.
4. Likewise, if you fear for any subject, try to read/do problems in that subject daily in addition to the normal time allotted to it.
5. Allot grace time/days for every revision which may demand from you in those situations which you don’t have control.
6. Suppose if you are unable to complete revising few topics for your final exam, you can at least go through the flow charts. However, if you follow revision tips as stated above, you can no way face the problem of insufficient time for preparation.