Greetings Readers
All of you are in the middle of your preparation phase,right?Those in Class 11 must be doing Rotational Mechanics and Center of Mass in Physics and those in Class 12 must be busy with revising the complete course efficiently and repairing their somewhat broken concepts.
In my last post,I highlighted some issues that you all must be facing in some form or the other due to lack of time for preparation.This post aims to help you with those problems, as suggested by own experiences with these problems.This ain't gonna be any normal do or don'ts post.This will be in a way that's completely relatable to all of you as normal students.
First of all,the problem was "Time" and "Time Management".See,you don't need to do any course in Time Management to manage time.It's something that you have to build in you,yourself.
Firstly,this post is for regular school going students(as students in coaching institutes like Allen Kota have a different schedule,so will address their issues in a separate post).
Yours is a hectic schedule,robbing you of a lot of precious time needed for study and practice for NEET/AIIMS. Plus,these school people take a lot of assignments,practicals,file work,half-yearlies,term exams and the most hyped "Preboards"!
Those people just try to steer you away from NEET/AIIMS preparation to getting 90+ % in Board Exams(bitter truth).Yes,the only goal of majority of schools is making more and more students to get more than 90% marks in Boards,so that they can put up your picture in ads to attract more students. I and my batch mates witnessed it with almost all big schools in our city.Also, Boards marks will not get you anywhere except like B.Sc admissions in some State/National Universities,and those are places you don't want to go(definitely I think!).So first break the hype that Board marks matter.
For NEET(as off 2016) you need 50% in PCB and individually passing all the three PCB subjects along with only passing marks in English.For AIIMS, you need aggregate percent more than 60% of PCB and English combined.See you need barely 60% for even AIIMS,leave alone NEET. Although if you study conceptually for NEET/AIIMS and just work hard with derivations and presentation style in last 2 months of Boards, 85%+ is automatically assured.
So my first message to you is,"Stop worrying about Boards,rather lay stress on making each and every concept of your NEET/AIIMS syllabus strong,don't leave out on anything."
Next,avoid extra-curricular activities in these 2 years at school,which though may be good, waste a lot of your time. Avoid becoming prefects or monitors of class,as unnecessary burden is to be avoided in these 2 years. Do DPPs and coaching modules in school when free,even if teachers scold you or catch you sometimes. Don't be scared at all. A friend of mine did DPPs and modules only in school and also slept in the school bus rather than at home,to get rest along with saving time to study at home.See the determination! Today that guy is in SMS Medical College,Jaipur.
Also,I think minimum attendance required is 75% or 80% in most of the schools in the country.Try to take holidays on days you expect go useless in schools. Make a notebook and keep a track of your own attendance,yourself.Take holidays on days which come in between other holidays like yesterday,where Monday came in between Sunday and Dussehra-Moharram holidays.It will give you long stretches for undisturbed studies.Delay school written work till the last moment,don't become the "First to Submit the File" person, otherwise teachers will expect you to give the file first,each time.The main point is that you need to extract time from school to make your career,fulfill your dream and avoid wasting one more precious year of your life dropping for entrance exams.Those 'school wallas' will not remember you once you are gone after giving them a board percentage and a photo,when you drop for your preparation.
If you can get a "setting"(you know what I mean) done for attendance in school,atleast in Class 11 if not in Class 12,please go for it and study as best as you can in Class 11.The reason behind this is that if you make strong concepts in Class 11 itself,you will not carry the stress of it in Class 12 and revising topics will be way easier.I have seen fellow students spoiling their Class 12 time in learning Class 11 again and also those who completely forgot Class 11 in Class 12.So be very particular in Class 11 to improve your learning skill,solving skills and speed so that your Class 12 sails smoothly.
Next thing is that don't get depressed if you don't understand some complicated topics in one shot.Telling about me,I took at least 6 tries and revisions to make Diversity in Living World strong as a topic,learnt Plant Morphology properly only 1 month before NEET(AIPMT),did Rotational motion some 8-9 times to be able to solve all the type of questions and topics like Waves were something I completed properly only 2-3 weeks before AIPMT. So you understand some things just at the time you need them!
That's it for this post.Will update this post,if I get more "jugaadu" ideas or hear some more problems from you all.
You are FREE to comment your problems in the comments section. ThePMTBlog is for you,I will definitely reply(not just try) to your comments,provided I have the resources and experience to help you.
All of you are in the middle of your preparation phase,right?Those in Class 11 must be doing Rotational Mechanics and Center of Mass in Physics and those in Class 12 must be busy with revising the complete course efficiently and repairing their somewhat broken concepts.
In my last post,I highlighted some issues that you all must be facing in some form or the other due to lack of time for preparation.This post aims to help you with those problems, as suggested by own experiences with these problems.This ain't gonna be any normal do or don'ts post.This will be in a way that's completely relatable to all of you as normal students.
First of all,the problem was "Time" and "Time Management".See,you don't need to do any course in Time Management to manage time.It's something that you have to build in you,yourself.
Firstly,this post is for regular school going students(as students in coaching institutes like Allen Kota have a different schedule,so will address their issues in a separate post).
Yours is a hectic schedule,robbing you of a lot of precious time needed for study and practice for NEET/AIIMS. Plus,these school people take a lot of assignments,practicals,file work,half-yearlies,term exams and the most hyped "Preboards"!
Those people just try to steer you away from NEET/AIIMS preparation to getting 90+ % in Board Exams(bitter truth).Yes,the only goal of majority of schools is making more and more students to get more than 90% marks in Boards,so that they can put up your picture in ads to attract more students. I and my batch mates witnessed it with almost all big schools in our city.Also, Boards marks will not get you anywhere except like B.Sc admissions in some State/National Universities,and those are places you don't want to go(definitely I think!).So first break the hype that Board marks matter.
For NEET(as off 2016) you need 50% in PCB and individually passing all the three PCB subjects along with only passing marks in English.For AIIMS, you need aggregate percent more than 60% of PCB and English combined.See you need barely 60% for even AIIMS,leave alone NEET. Although if you study conceptually for NEET/AIIMS and just work hard with derivations and presentation style in last 2 months of Boards, 85%+ is automatically assured.
So my first message to you is,"Stop worrying about Boards,rather lay stress on making each and every concept of your NEET/AIIMS syllabus strong,don't leave out on anything."
Next,avoid extra-curricular activities in these 2 years at school,which though may be good, waste a lot of your time. Avoid becoming prefects or monitors of class,as unnecessary burden is to be avoided in these 2 years. Do DPPs and coaching modules in school when free,even if teachers scold you or catch you sometimes. Don't be scared at all. A friend of mine did DPPs and modules only in school and also slept in the school bus rather than at home,to get rest along with saving time to study at home.See the determination! Today that guy is in SMS Medical College,Jaipur.
Also,I think minimum attendance required is 75% or 80% in most of the schools in the country.Try to take holidays on days you expect go useless in schools. Make a notebook and keep a track of your own attendance,yourself.Take holidays on days which come in between other holidays like yesterday,where Monday came in between Sunday and Dussehra-Moharram holidays.It will give you long stretches for undisturbed studies.Delay school written work till the last moment,don't become the "First to Submit the File" person, otherwise teachers will expect you to give the file first,each time.The main point is that you need to extract time from school to make your career,fulfill your dream and avoid wasting one more precious year of your life dropping for entrance exams.Those 'school wallas' will not remember you once you are gone after giving them a board percentage and a photo,when you drop for your preparation.
If you can get a "setting"(you know what I mean) done for attendance in school,atleast in Class 11 if not in Class 12,please go for it and study as best as you can in Class 11.The reason behind this is that if you make strong concepts in Class 11 itself,you will not carry the stress of it in Class 12 and revising topics will be way easier.I have seen fellow students spoiling their Class 12 time in learning Class 11 again and also those who completely forgot Class 11 in Class 12.So be very particular in Class 11 to improve your learning skill,solving skills and speed so that your Class 12 sails smoothly.
Next thing is that don't get depressed if you don't understand some complicated topics in one shot.Telling about me,I took at least 6 tries and revisions to make Diversity in Living World strong as a topic,learnt Plant Morphology properly only 1 month before NEET(AIPMT),did Rotational motion some 8-9 times to be able to solve all the type of questions and topics like Waves were something I completed properly only 2-3 weeks before AIPMT. So you understand some things just at the time you need them!
That's it for this post.Will update this post,if I get more "jugaadu" ideas or hear some more problems from you all.
You are FREE to comment your problems in the comments section. ThePMTBlog is for you,I will definitely reply(not just try) to your comments,provided I have the resources and experience to help you.
UPDATE(NEW) : I had deleted my Quora account about 18 days back,but with some efforts, things have worked out with Quora finally and I am back on Quora. Although I am still a bit angry on Quora banning me earlier but still a larger audience of the blog was from Quora and I had to get back to them, in case they couldn't visit the blog.I wish they don't ban me again(for useless reasons), but the risk has to be taken to reach out a larger number of students.
Anyways the blog, which is the main platform,will be remaining at the forefront.I will continue to post and write blog posts on various issue and topics exclusively here @ ThePMTBlog. Quora will remain more as an interaction and communication platform rather than a content platform,because no one knows when those Admins get freaked out again.
Till next time
Bye!
HEY can you help the students who are not able to get coaching due to some problems? like can you tell what u were taught in coaching which u felt u didnt have got if u didnt take it? tips and tricks provided by them? or the chapterwise schedule by them..how many chapters they covered in one month or how was the weekly plan? also topics from where questions are predictable and that are not n ncerts?
ReplyDeleteThrough this blog,actually I actually aimed to help such students even more who don't go or can't go to coaching institutes and need genuine opinion and help.Will aim my next posts on all the points you have mentioned(which are quite important ones) and also on some individual topics and revision methods.So stay tuned to the blog for more posts.
ReplyDeletethank u so much
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