Finally, 3 Self Study Tips You Can Begin Applying Starting Today that a Topper Always Uses to Crack Toughest Competitive Exams & Achieve Top Rank Edge

 

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Finally, 3 Self Study Tips:

 You Can Begin Applying Starting Today that a Topper Always Uses to Crack Toughest Competitive Exams & Achieve Top Rank Edge

 

IIT JEE and NEET are some of the toughest exams conducted in India for entrance into prestigious colleges to study Computer Science, Engineering, and Medicine. 

 

When a topper shares his or her experience on a platform about how he was able to crack the tough exam and score top rank, other aspiring students want to know their secret and apply it to their own studies. But most of the time the advice given is very generic like, being self-motivated, studying smart, believing in yourself, and many more such statements. These statements though very important do not provide any actionable for an aspiring student to follow. As a result, he does what he understands and is not able to achieve the kind of success he desired. 

 

I have been listening to a lot of recent toppers of NEET and IIT JEE exams. As I heard them talk about their way of studying, their daily mode of operations, I read in between the lines and tried to come out with definite actionable that they must have followed to achieve number one or number two All India Rank (AIR).

 

In this blog, I am going to share eleven such powerful tips, the daily actionable that you or anyone can apply to score high marks in not only competitive exams but also in their school or college exams.

 

So let’s get started.

 

TIP No. 1:

COMPLETE THE TOPIC 100% BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO STUDY THE NEXT TOPIC HOW MUCH EVER TIME IT TAKES

 

Moving on to the next topic thinking that you have understood the topic is very tempting. This happens because we are fully focused on completing the syllabus. Remember, the objective is not to complete the syllabus as you prepare for your competitive exams. The idea is to master the topic that you are studying. And mastery comes from diving deep into the topic.

 

So how do you dive deep into the topic and master it?

 

Here are a few steps that will guide you:

 

First of all understand that any subject is not understood just by giving it a reading, especially physics and maths. If you need to develop a deep understanding you need to visualize the concept, draw diagrams on the paper or solve the question or write the concept in your own words.

 

Study the concept from your regular textbook and then refer to other textbooks or videos on the same topic

Whichever textbook you are following for the subject, study the topic from that textbook. Your textbook gives one perspective of looking at the topic. This may not be enough. You may want to look at the topic from another angle. Sometimes the textbook has explained the concept in such a manner that you don’t understand it. This is the time to seek out other textbooks that explain the same topic.

 

Watch a couple of youtube videos on the topic and see if you can get the feel of the topic.

 

Write the concept that you have studied or watched a video on, in your own words

 

This step may sound overwhelming or boring or tiring. But this is the step that will cement the topic in your mind.

 

Get over the temptation to move ahead in the syllabus and stop the video or close the textbook and take put your notebook. Write down the heading of the concept that you have gone through just now. Below that start writing what you have understood about the topic. 

 

Write using your own vocabulary and sentences. Write as if you are writing notes for someone else to read. Don’t assume things and don’t use shortcuts. Explain each and every step on paper.

 

Writing in your own words doesn’t mean that you will write anything or any way you feel. If you are practicing physics, use the vocabulary of physics to explain your answer. Likewise, do it for other subjects too.

 

Remember, learning takes more time than studying. And when you are preparing for a competitive exam, you need to learn the concepts and not study them.

 

Now is the time to test your learning on the topic

How do you know whether you actually know the subject or not?

 

One way is to try to answer questions based on what you have studied.

 

This is what you have to do in the next step. For this, you will have to make use of a few books on the competitive exams you are preparing for that offer chapter-wise questions asked in previous years or provide sample questions to test your knowledge.

 

You can buy these books from online shopping websites.

 

Solve those questions and check your score. If you scored full marks, good, you can tell yourself that your study pattern and understanding of the concept are good. Keep on doing the same thing until you hit a roadblock and stop scoring high marks. 

 

But if you scored less than full marks or scored really poor marks then it is better. Now you know the kind of questions that is asked in the competitive exams. You now understand the way a simple question is twisted not to confuse the candidate but to make him think deeply before answering the question.

 

The reality of life is that not always you will get to answer three plus three equals six, sometimes you will also have to find a different way to arrive at 6.

 

Here you have to change your tactics of studying. Instead of studying and hoping that you are able to answer the questions, you should learn to anticipate the questions that can be asked and then start preparing the answers according to it.

 

This leads to the next tip.

 

TIP No. 2:

DON’T MAKE NOTES, INSTEAD, PREPARE QUESTIONS

 

Let me explain this. When you prepare notes you may not know what kind of questions can be asked from that small paragraph. 

 

But when you prepare questions based on the paragraph you start to think like an examiner, you become curious and you start thinking about how can the answer be twisted to make the question difficult.

 

Let us take an example to understand this better. Suppose you are studying rectilinear motion and you prepare a short note on the rectilinear motion. Your note might look something like this:

 

“Motion of object along a straight line is known as rectilinear motion.”

 

Now, it is very easy to remember this one sentence. But the limitation here is that you are only looking at rectilinear motion in one way.

 

If you prepare objective-type questions on this one single line, you can prepare three different questions whose answer is related to rectilinear motion. Here, I have prepared the three questions for you:

 

Q1. The study of the motion of objects along a straight line is known as ________. 

(a)             Uniform motion           (b) rectilinear motion       (c) accelerated motion    

(d) non-uniform motion

Answer: rectilinear motion. 

Q2. Rectilinear motion is motion of objects along a ___________ line.

(a)             curved                 (b) sloping                (c) straight               (d) zig zag kine

Answer: straight

Q3. When a body moves along a straight line, it is said to be in ____________.

(a)             Uniform motion     (b) rectilinear motion       (c) accelerated motion    

(d) non-uniform motion

Answer: rectilinear motion

 

This is just a very simple, easy, and basic question and answer. But if you go into complicated topics that have paragraphs of content then chances are the questions asked in the competitive exam can stump you.

 

Asking questions can also develop a deep understanding of the topic that we are studying because in this case when we ask questions and seek answers, we dive deep into the topic. It also stays with us for a long time in our memory.

 

After you have created and answered all the questions that you anticipated, now you can once again go to the books that offer you sample question papers and previous year’s question papers. Take the test and see how you score. 

 

Answer questions on each topic at three levels: Easy, Moderate, and Difficult.

 

Following tip 2 will surely improve your score.

 

Remember, whatever you do on a daily basis, Ultimately everything adds up to give a compounding effect!

 

This compounding effect will fetch you the result. 

 

TIP No. 3:

ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM OTHER COMPETITIVE EXAMS TOO

 

This one tactic can take your understanding of the topic to a totally different level. Here you are not studying something that is out of the syllabus of your competitive exam.

 

You can seek out a few competitive exams that have a similar syllabus as yours and start solving their sample test papers or previous year’s test papers. 

 

The benefit of this is that even though the syllabus is the same, the way of asking questions can differ. By solving questions from different competitive exams, you are seeking to find out from what all angles can a particular topic be looked at?

 

Let’s take an example question to understand:

One way of asking a question from the chapter on optics can be:

 

What is hypermetropia?

(a) Bad vision due to age

(b) Short-sightedness

(c) Long-sightedness

(d) Formation of a layer on the eye

 

Answer: (c) Long-sightedness

 

Another competitive exam can ask a totally different question on the same topic of hypermetropia:

 

What describes the eye's inability to focus on nearby objects?

(a) presbyopia

(b) Myopia

(c) hypermetropia

(d) Presbyopia

 

As you can see, even though the topic of the question is the same, hypermetropia, the way of asking the question can sometimes stump the student taking the competitive exam.

 

Therefore, it is important to understand how the same sentence can be interpreted in a variety of ways to ask different types of questions.

 

 

 

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