How to Prepare Entrance Exam?
Overview
Mr. Paritosh Sharma, Chief Learning Officer (CLO), Bada Business Pvt. Ltd., shares 11 tips for those who are preparing for the entrance exam.
Learnings
You might be in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or final year of your college or school and your aim is very clear that:
- You want to prepare for IAS
- You want to prepare for AIMS
- You want to prepare for NEET
- You want to prepare for IIT
There are many entrance exams for government services in our country and you want to prepare for those exams.
Following are the 11 important well-researched tips that will help you to prepare and crack the entrance exams:
1. Create A Practical Study Plan
- When you start preparing for your entrance exam you should make a study plan for yourself.
- You should know if the exam is after 1, 2, or 3 years what would be your study plan.
- You should plan about which subjects you will cover first and which subjects to cover after it.
- First, you should cover the subjects of your interest in your study plan.
For example:
Mr. Paritosh Sharma for preparing for exams, used to cover subjects of his interests first because he was fast at them. After that, he used to pick hard subjects in which he needed the support of others. This helped him to lessen the pressure of overall preparation.
2. Know Your Strength & Weaknesses
- Mr. Paritosh Sharma shares his own experience that he had clarity about his strength and weaknesses. This is also known as SWOT analysis.
- You also need to know your strength & weaknesses.
- You have to understand “Who am I” and this happens when you properly know your strength and weaknesses.
- List your strengths & weaknesses with full honesty on a laptop or notebook only for you.
3. Use Fewer Books for Theory
- Generally, entrance exams cover these two types of questions:
- Objective type questions
- Subjective type questions
- There are a few entrance exams that give you practice questions that stump you. They want to check how fast your mind can think.
- Now you have to think if you can understand the theory or practical solutions with the help of Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ).
- The most critical point here is that you should read minimum books for theory.
- Most people learn theory to the extent that they only learn theoretical formulas while they fail to learn their practical implementation.
4. Read the Questions Cautiously
- When you see a question paper, read the question very carefully given in your question paper.
- Sometimes the teacher is so smart to confuse you they hide answers in the question itself. So, you need to read the questions carefully.
- Sometimes you feel the question is out of the syllabus. But the question is not out of the syllabus.
- Your focus is not strong because you have not strong your EQ and IQ.
5. Plan Your Exam Strategy
- You have to plan your exam strategy about:
- Before entering the exam hall
- Inside the exam hall
- How would you approach your question paper?
- It should not be there that when you see your paper, you start attempting from questions 1-100 in the same line.
- Pick the section in which you are strong for example if your maths is strong, then pick the math section first. If your geography is strong, then pick the geography section first.
- When you solve the questions you are strong at then you will feel confident that you can solve the paper.
- Your brain will be tuned to it psychologically.
6. Train Your Mind For the exam
- Train your mind before appearing for the exam.
- Meditate daily for at least 15 minutes a day.
- Your emotional quotient will be very high when you build focus and have peace of mind.
- If you know the answer you will solve the questions. , If you don’t know the answer you will get panic and think that you will be failing the exam.
- It’s perfect to be ok if you don’t know any answer. Move ahead of it.
7. Practice Previous Papers
Golden statement
Every human On Earth Has A Pattern
- Every human on earth has a pattern including most intelligent persons.
- Everyone has patterns and the teacher who is setting your exam also has a pattern.
- If you observe the last 10-15 years pattern, you will see a clear pattern and you will notice that the same pattern is used every year.
- Learn to predict patterns.
8. Use Method of Elimination
- Sometimes during your exam, you feel like you don’t know the answer and you have to wild guess. The wild guess technique is “method of elimination”
- Suppose there are four options a, b, c, and d for one question. Start by eliminating two options that you think have the least possibility of being correct according to your knowledge.
- By the virtue of the method of elimination, you will already eliminate the wrong answers and you will solve the rest options based on your wild guess or intuition.
- Mr. Paritosh Sharma shares the experience of his friends working in IIT Delhi tells that method of elimination is being taught there.
9. Learn All the Shortcuts
- Many shortcuts help you to learn:
- Mathematical formulae in a fast way
- Solving equations in a fast way
- You can learn these shortcuts with the help of videos, coaching centres, YouTube, and teachers.
10. Stay Physically & Mentally balanced
- It is very important to stay physically and mentally balanced.
- There are many students who while preparing for entrance exams forget themselves, their hair grows long, eat unhealthy food, lock themselves in a room, isolate themselves for many days. This is not just right.
- Take exams like an exam only and if you are not physically and mentally fit you will never grow in your life.
- For example, when someone graduates from NDA (National Defence Academy) and joins as an officer. His physical and mental balance is very strong. They are trained like this only.
- You can remain physically balanced by the following:
- Running
- Walking
- Jogging
- Exercise
- You can remain mentally balanced by accepting challenges. You can take a challenge to calculate the following through a smartphone or smartwatch:
- How many steps you have covered?
- How much fat you have burned?
- Ensure that you give your exam in a fit position and you will perform better than those who are giving the exam in exhaustion.
11. Practice, Practice, & Practice
- The more you practice and build the right patterns.
- If you do these two things no one can beat you and you will crack entrance exams.
These 11 points help you in all entrance exams and make you incredibly solid.
Some of you might feel that you want to become an entrepreneur and it is not important for you.
Even if you want to become an entrepreneur these points are very critical for you because:
- They will fit into the culture of your company
- You will hire physically and mentally strong people
- You will also hire people who know the method of elimination
All these points are your competencies and competencies are not only for entrance exam you have to build them for your life.
If your competency is strong, then you will hire the right kind of people. Therefore, if you are an entrepreneur or you want to become an entrepreneur, from a student to an entrepreneur, then you have to build these competencies in you.
Key Learnings
- Understand the importance of staying physically and mentally fit for an exam
- Develop the habit of practice for your entrance exam.