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Friday, July 8, 2016

Prepare but don't stress!!

Hello All,

This post is for NET aspirants who are appearing in exam on July 10, 2016. Here I am giving some tips to those candidates who are running against time to prepare their best for this Sunday exam.

Tip #1.
Now you have less than 2 days to prepare, focus on only revision of already prepared topics. For this, solve only MCQs from various resources. Don't start reading any new topic. It is better to revise to the heart the concepts you can understand and can devote some more minutes to feel confident. Staring anything new will not help and on the contrary, will make you nervous if you find the topic difficult to understand. What will be the result? You will feel less confident. Staying confident plays a vital role in your final day performance. If you are confident you may even make a good guess for a question you didn't understand well. However, if you are nervous, you are bound to make silly mistakes like shading the wrong oval of the question you knew the answer (this is my personal experience :-)) or thinking too hard on a simple question.

Tip #2.
If you feel you are not well prepared, don't get any stress. Just do as told in first tip, revise only. Getting stress never helps. It drains your energy and affects your concentration levels. Stay relaxed. If you are lucky, you may get most of the questions from your prepared topics. If not, then give yourself 6 more months to prepare and prepare better. There is no limit on no. of attempts.

Tip #3.
Don't lose your sleep because you could not study well in last few days or weeks due to some personal or family problems (or due to any other reason). If you think you can cover up for the lost time by sleeping less or by studying more than your body allows you then sorry. Studying more than you can will actually exhaust you. NET preparation is not a one-day wonder. It takes planning and patience (I have talked a lot about it my previous posts). Give yourself another shot (Come next exam!)

In this post, I do not mean to underestimate the value of hard work and never want you to postpone your success. I simply want to stress on the fact that getting stressed will not help. It is human tendency to go slow in the beginning and going haste in the last hours. Get out of this habit and make a schedule and plan for clearing the NET exam and devote good time daily for 5-6 months to study.
Daily watering of plants in moderate amount is better than throwing bucketful water once a week. Similarly, relaxed daily study is better than overly stretched study for a few days only.

Best of luck!!

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