5 Vital Study Tips To Be a Topper from a Dropper-JEE Repeaters

Dropping a year to prepare for JEE exam is an option quite a number of students go for. It could be due to dissatisfaction with the preparation or the poor strategy to crack the exam. Whatever may be the reason to drop, the goal is the same: getting enrolled in good engineering college. Since NTA has begun conducting JEE Main exam twice in a year from 2019, JEE candidates have now twice the opportunity to sit for the exam. In a way it is good that now candidates can be little relaxed to be more focused on their preparation. The syllabus and exam pattern remain unchanged.

But, if you couldn't get the rank or make it to the institute you wish you could have, even after availing both the chances, then don’t worry, we are here to help you! Don’t lose hope, there are many ways to bounce back from failure . We will be discussing everything a dropper should know about JEE Main Preparation, from study habits to overcome demotivation to JEE study plan.

Do you wish to know the success journey of droppers to become doctors? Read our article- NEET Repeaters Succes Stories-From Droppers to Doctors 

Given the fact that NTA conducted January Slot nearly coincides with the Class 12 Board exams, a lot many 2019 students must have settled for a drop year to achieve their ambition of making it through the most prestigious engineering institutes in upcoming JEE Main exams 2020. Read on to know how to prepare well through your drop year and stay close to success!

Don’t Let the Social Anxiety Get on You

Don’t bother about what others may think about your decision. Everyone, right from your parents to friends, distant relatives and teachers must have bombarded you with questions and shown apprehension about your decision to take a year off for your JEE preparation. Now is the time to shut out the negativity and focus on your goal. Feed your mind with positive thoughts and belief that you will make it through JEE Entrance exam with flying colours.

Divide Drop Year in 3 Phases-Study Plan for Droppers

Droppers have a lot of extra time as compared to regular class 12th students and so managing time is of utmost importance in the drop year. Moreover, for a JEE Main dropper, the January exam is the best preferred one to attempt as compared to April, which can be kept as a backup. Considering this and your own strong and weak areas, allocate the time of your drop year in 3 phases:

• Phase 1-This time should be devoted to studying and covering JEE Syllabus. The initial months are crucial for every student, since the start lays down the foundation. A dropper must start with the basics and should remember that he/she has to do everything from scratch. The first phase is the longest, will last till October 2019.
• Phase 2- This time should be dedicated for a revision of the concepts covered in Phase 1. It should ideally involve solving any doubts or misconceptions you might have. Phase 2 should end a good 20–25 days before the actual exam.
• Phase 3-In the last phase, you must solve as many test series and mock tests as possible. Ensure that you attempt these tests regularly and that they replicate the actual JEE Main exam in terms of exam pattern and difficulty.

Related Article: Tips to Create the best JEE Preparation Time-Table

Practise Productive Study Habits

One productive hour counts more than five hours of distracted studying. With an exam like JEE Main, any amount of time can seem to be insufficient, but now is the time when the paucity of time becomes a pressing concern. Follow the given productive study habits and see what major difference they can bring in your JEE Main preparation:

• JEE Exam Study Habits should be made in such a way that every chapter is started from scratch and then a lot of JEE Main level questions are practiced. Once the concept is strong, its application should be learned by practicing a good number of questions. After this, you should focus on advanced-level problems. Give time to each question and don’t stick to time limits in the first round of problem-solving.
• Throughout the preparation time, it is important that you mark the difficult questions that either took you awhile to solve or the ones that you couldn’t solve. By doing this, you will always know where to start when revising and you will avoid solving questions that you already know over and over again.
• The daily schedule should be such that each sitting of 2 hours will be followed with a break of at least 15 minutes. Also, try doing at least two subjects daily so that you don’t get bored.
• Every week, keep one day for revision or back log completion.
• Increase the frequency of the tests that you give from the month of November.
• It could prove beneficial if you could study in a group where all are like minded. Since you are dropping a year, you should highly think about hanging out with people who have dropped as well so that you can stay motivated and find company to discuss your preparation strategies.
• Maintain a healthy lifestyle and take a balanced diet to stay productive. A healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Physical health is imperative for mental health.

Read More: How to Solve Difficult Problems in JEE

Practice Previous Years Papers and Mock Tests

As a dropper, you may have already attempted one or may be both the JEE Main exams for the sake of experience, so you already have an idea about the nature of the examination. If not, then referring to JEE previous years’ question papers from MTG’s Explorers will definitely help in this process. In addition to this, you must take MTG’s online test series and mock tests to analyse your exam preparedness.

After attempting these tests, it is absolutely essential for you to analyze the test and go back to both – the questions you have missed and the questions that you scored negatively in. Based on these questions, all you will need to do is to relook at the concepts and take requisite remedial actions.

Besides this, the benefits of solving online mock tests and JEE Explorer can also help in revising the entire syllabus within a fortnight, simply by approaching the topics related to the questions posed in these papers and test series. This means you can fine tune the topics or subjects that you may find yourself lacking before the exam.

Read More: 5 Reasons Why Mock Test Papers are Important

Practise from the right resources

If you think you will make it without getting the right JEE Main resources, don’t even consider it! It is important that this one year of preparation is spent clearing your concepts through the right set of books. MTG gives you the most authentic, well-explained and accurate JEE main Resources.

Apart from the right books, read and re-read from NCERT Textbooks, because many questions in NTA conducted JEE Main exams were directly framed from NCERT books. So, to score good marks in JEE Main you must learn NCERT by heart, for which you must revise from MTG’s NCERT at your Fingertips series  .

You can also read MTG Monthly magazine to keep yourself well aware of the need-of-the-time! Read out blog to know What Wonders can MTG Monthly Magazine Do in JEE Preparation.

A candidate can appear in the JEE Exam for 3 consecutive years and hence, it is important that they make each of their attempt count and go through all the important JEE topics thoroughly. Taking a year off to focus on JEE preparation is not unusual. Your conviction for decision and the right approach as discussed here will give fruitful results.

Suggested Read: Do’s and Don’ts of JEE Preparation for Droppers.

How to Study and Crack Competitive Exams: 15 Study Hacks You Need to Know

India has an extremely competitive environment. Numerous competitive exams are conducted every year for entrance into undergraduate and postgraduate professional courses as well as for securing services in the government. And they are not easy to crack, especially when it comes to a government job or admission to top engineering or medical colleges in the country. Every year lakhs of students appeared for these exams but the only a handful of them have cleared it. Despite good preparation and putting rigorous efforts, students fail in their first, second and even several attempts. As the competition is very tough there is no space for mistakes and a candidate has to be thoroughly prepared for the exams. Therefore, we’ve rounded up 15 tips to study effectively before exams & during exam to help you get the most out of your studying hours. Use these tips while preparing for NEET, JIPMER, AIIMS, JEE Main, SBI PO/Clerk, IBPS PO/Clerk to tap into your true potential and emerge victoriously!

1.      Devise a Routine

Before you start preparing for any competitive exam, you must design a timetable. And set yourself with the clear daily, weekly and monthly targets. These targets will make your scheduled routine possible before your exams. Ensure your plan is not aggressive that you feel overburdened. Make short study sessions, they are most effective.

2.     Create a Good Study Environment

Make sure your study place is pleasant. It is the key element for effective study. A good study environment allows you to maintain your concentration and maximize your learning efficiency. Everyone has his/her study environment preferences, so choose your preferences and make yourself free from all distractions. As much as possible you should try to designate a pleasant and tidy study space with good illumination and proper ventilation. This will help you in reducing distractions and increase your concentration.

Does thinking about studies worries you too much? Or there are times you feel demotivated when you sit for studies? Must Read our blog- 5 Reasons Why You Feel Demotivated to Study and How to Overcome It.

3.     Avoid Rote Learning and Focus on Basic Concepts

Focus on understanding the concepts throughout your preparation. Do not adopt rote learning techniques. Because exams like JEE, NEET, IBPS PO/Clerk are extremely complex and check your analytical skills. You cannot crack these simply by isolating various concepts and memorising them. You need to understand them and know how they are interlinked. Understanding helps you to remember the concepts for a very long period of time and you can comfortably handle questions related to those concepts.

4.     Summarise Theories

Encapsulate the theories and information in your own words and make well-defined notes. This is an excellent and helpful tip to study effectively before exam time.

5.     Get colourful and creative

Draw a clear diagram or layout of what you need to learn as per your understanding. Make it visually creative and colourful by highlighting or underlining with different colours. List the dates, formulas, mnemonics and tit-bits of important information that you find difficult to learn. Stick them somewhere in the wall. Seeing them in front of your eyes all-time helps to feed into the memory very easily.

6.     Organize study groups with friends

Study groups can help you get the answers you need and finish tasks faster. Each group member has different qualities/ideas to offer to the study group. So, by doing group study, you will share your ideas and concepts and vice-versa. In this way, you will learn whatever you missed.

Still confused whether group study will benefit you or not? Read the positive and enjoyable experiences of group study. 

7.      Past papers – Do a lot!

Previous years papers really make a lot of difference in your preparation. If you are preparing for exams be it academic or concerned with government jobs, solving previous years’ question papers definitely helps you. Previous years past paper tops the essential exam and study strategies for successful exam practice. The best tips to boost your exam preparation is to take a look at the past papers before revising any particular subject. Then initiate your revision of that subject. Once you are done thoroughly, start attempting the question papers.

Are you struggling to get a good score in results? Are your efforts not getting reflected in the result? Then you are probably not making good use of Mock Test Papers. 

Read our blog: 5 Reasons Why Mock Test Papers are Important? and see your result in improving.

8.     Rest, Eat, Exercise

As we discussed above, regular breaks are very necessary throughout your study session. You need to take proper rest and have a healthy diet. And don’t feel guilty about spending spare time for some recreational activities. This will help you to boost back with full energy.

A positive and healthy mind lives in a healthy body! Must Read our BLOG– healthy lifestyle tips to attain a better state of mind, for a better future.

9.     Treat Yourself

It’s absolutely fine to reward yourself even before the exam. But only if you have reached your daily targets as per your timetable prepared. Appreciate yourself in many ways like going for a short ride, cooking the best food for you, Listening to your favourite music, etc.

10. Boost your short-term memory

When your exam date is too close then learning new theories from the start is absolutely not preferable. Rather strengthen your short-term memory by solving previous years papers. This is one of the best tips to boost your exam performance. Solve as many papers you can till a day before the exam.

If you have followed the above tips, now the time has come when you have to give your best shot. By the time you reach 1 hour before your exam, you must be confident with your preparation. Your focus may switch within a physical and mental state while exam. To be fully confident in what you have learnt. And start your exam with these below tips:

11.  Start with Easiest

Get the exam rhythm, read all the questions carefully. Divide your time for each question. Then start with the easiest question. Easy questions won’t take much time. And you will get enough time to solve complex questions.

12. Don’t go out of the box while answering

Don’t write an irrelevant answer. This will drive away your time and may take power out of your answer. So, make sure you stick with the question.

13. If stuck, Move on

Just calm down if you stuck on any question and leave it aside for last hour. Answer the next question and regain confidence. Once done with all known questions come back to the stuck ones with a different perspective and you will definitely solve it.

14. Stay hydrated always

Keep drinking plenty of water, to avoid drowsiness and headaches. And also, at times you get nervous.

15.  Never leave early

It feels great when you finish your answer sheets well before time. But don’t leave the hall till the final bell rings. Take the opportunity to recheck and revise the entire answer sheet again and again. At this point, some students make the mistake of leaving the exam room. Once you leave it, it’s too late – you can’t go back in for marking unmarked questions. So, even if you finish early, use that extra time to read your answers in OMR sheet and make sure that you’ve answered all the questions to the best of your abilities.

“Always keep in mind that a disturbed and a non-planned study can lead to loss of marks in the examination.” Therefore, by following these 15 tips listed above, we hope that your next exam will be an enjoyable experience with a successful outcome!

Are you struggling to stay focused while studying? Check out our blog – 10 Super Tips To Attain 100% Concentration on Studies

5 Vital Study Tips to Be a Topper from a Dropper JEE Repeaters

Dropping a year to prepare for JEE exam is an option quite a number of students go for. It could be due to dissatisfaction with the preparation or the poor strategy to crack the exam. Whatever may be the reason to drop, the goal is the same: getting enrolled in good engineering college. Since NTA has begun conducting JEE Main exam twice in a year from 2019, JEE candidates have now twice the opportunity to sit for the exam. In a way it is good that now candidates can be little relaxed to be more focused on their preparation. The syllabus and exam pattern remain unchanged.

But, if you couldn’t get the rank or make it to the institute you wish you could have, even after availing both the chances, then don’t worry, we are here to help you! Don’t lose hope, there are many ways to bounce back from failure . We will be discussing everything a dropper should know about JEE Main Preparation, from study habits to overcome demotivation to JEE study plan.

Given the fact that NTA conducted January Slot nearly coincides with the Class 12 Board exams, a lot many 2019 students must have settled for a drop year to achieve their ambition of making it through the most prestigious engineering institutes in upcoming JEE Main exams 2020. Read on to know how to prepare well through your drop year and stay close to success!

Don’t bother about what others may think about your decision. Everyone, right from your parents to friends, distant relatives and teachers must have bombarded you with questions and shown apprehension about your decision to take a year off for your JEE preparation. Now is the time to shut out the negativity and focus on your goal. Feed your mind with positive thoughts and belief that you will make it through JEE Entrance exam with flying colours.

Droppers have a lot of extra time as compared to regular class 12th students and so managing time is of utmost importance in the drop year. Moreover, for a JEE Main dropper, the January exam is the best preferred one to attempt as compared to April, which can be kept as a backup. Considering this and your own strong and weak areas, allocate the time of your drop year in 3 phases:

·         Phase 1-This time should be devoted to studying and covering JEE Syllabus. The initial months are crucial for every student, since the start lays down the foundation. A dropper must start with the basics and should remember that he/she has to do everything from scratch. The first phase is the longest, will last till October 2019.

·         Phase 2- This time should be dedicated for a revision of the concepts covered in Phase 1. It should ideally involve solving any doubts or misconceptions you might have. Phase 2 should end a good 20–25 days before the actual exam.

·         Phase 3-In the last phase, you must solve as many test series and mock tests as possible. Ensure that you attempt these tests regularly and that they replicate the actual JEE Main exam in terms of exam pattern and difficulty.

One productive hour counts more than five hours of distracted studying. With an exam like JEE Main, any amount of time can seem to be insufficient, but now is the time when the paucity of time becomes a pressing concern. Follow the given productive study habits and see what major difference they can bring in your JEE Main preparation:

·         JEE Exam Study Habits should be made in such a way that every chapter is started from scratch and then a lot of JEE Main level questions are practiced. Once the concept is strong, its application should be learned by practicing a good number of questions. After this, you should focus on advanced-level problems. Give time to each question and don’t stick to time limits in the first round of problem-solving.

·         Throughout the preparation time, it is important that you mark the difficult questions that either took you awhile to solve or the ones that you couldn’t solve. By doing this, you will always know where to start when revising and you will avoid solving questions that you already know over and over again.

·         The daily schedule should be such that each sitting of 2 hours will be followed with a break of at least 15 minutes. Also, try doing at least two subjects daily so that you don’t get bored.

·         Every week, keep one day for revision or back log completion.

·         Increase the frequency of the tests that you give from the month of November.

·         It could prove beneficial if you could study in a group where all are like minded. Since you are dropping a year, you should highly think about hanging out with people who have dropped as well so that you can stay motivated and find company to discuss your preparation strategies.

·         Maintain a healthy lifestyle and take a balanced diet to stay productive. A healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Physical health is imperative for mental health.

As a dropper, you may have already attempted one or may be both the JEE Main exams for the sake of experience, so you already have an idea about the nature of the examination. If not, then referring to JEE previous years’ question papers from MTG’s Explorers will definitely help in this process. In addition to this, you must take MTG’s online test series and mock tests to analyse your exam preparedness.

After attempting these tests, it is absolutely essential for you to analyze the test and go back to both – the questions you have missed and the questions that you scored negatively in. Based on these questions, all you will need to do is to relook at the concepts and take requisite remedial actions.

Besides this, the benefits of solving online mock tests and JEE Explorer can also help in revising the entire syllabus within a fortnight, simply by approaching the topics related to the questions posed in these papers and test series. This means you can fine tune the topics or subjects that you may find yourself lacking before the exam.

If you think you will make it without getting the right JEE Main resources, don’t even consider it! It is important that this one year of preparation is spent clearing your concepts through the right set of books. MTG gives you the most authentic, well-explained and accurate JEE main Resources.

Apart from the right books, read and re-read from NCERT Textbooks, because many questions in NTA conducted JEE Main exams were directly framed from NCERT books. So, to score good marks in JEE Main you must learn NCERT by heart, for which you must revise from MTG’s NCERT at your Fingertips series  .

You can also read MTG Monthly magazine to keep yourself well aware of the need-of-the-time! Read out blog to know What Wonders can MTG Monthly Magazine Do in JEE Preparation.

A candidate can appear in the JEE Exam for 3 consecutive years and hence, it is important that they make each of their attempt count and go through all the important JEE topics thoroughly. Taking a year off to focus on JEE preparation is not unusual. Your conviction for decision and the right approach as discussed here will give fruitful results.

How Toppers Make the Most Out of NEET Monthly Magazines – NEET Fundamentals

Are you a NEET 2020 aspirant? Are you preparing from the best NEET study resources ? Well, making an effective preparation strategy and study time table, and referring to the best books are must to do requirements for any NEET aspirant. NEET is a very tough medical entrance examination that requires in-depth conceptual understanding and good analytical thinking skills. An adequate preparation and practice are very essential to score high in NEET and having the right resources for NEET makes it a lot easier.

Apart from NEET resources, candidates must also refer MTG’s NEET Monthly Magazines. Subscribing to monthly magazines for NEET has countless benefits over books like,  1) you can get monthly updates which you cannot get from annually published Books, 2) you get exam-targeted features which in books is not there, 3) you get important topics for exams which in books are covered equally whether of high or low weightage. Let us understand what wonders can monthly magazines do in your NEET preparation.

Read what the toppers have to say about the benefits of the magazines: “I am happy to share that I have scored Rank 1 in JIPMER, Rank 6 in AIIMS and AIR 19 in NEET. Along with the coaching notes, I use to read MTG monthly magazines. I have been a regular subscriber of mtg magazines of physics, chemistry and biology since class 9th. Though at that time, most of the concepts were alien to me still the lucid language in the magazines stimulated my interest in the subject and played vital role in refining my preparation strategy in the last two years”, Arunangshu Bhattacharyya, JIPMER Topper 2019. “I have used MTG AIIMS Explorer and NCERT Fingertips. Also I used to solve questions from CBSE Drill and NEET Ready from MTG Magazines. (Physics – Chemistry – Biology – Maths)”, Bhavik Bansal AIIMS TOPPER 2019 “I have followed MTG NCERT At Your  Fingertips,  Assertion  and Reason books and Magazines:Physics For You, Biology Today and Chemistry Today for my NEET preparation”- NEET 2018 Topper Kalpana Kumari.

Also Read: MTG Magazines-Transforming aspirants into Doctors and Engineers from past 40 years 

Besides the above-mentioned benefits, there are more to add to the list. Here we have listed out the benefits of referring monthly magazines for NEET during your preparation. –

·         Access to heavy-weightage topics: MTG Monthly Magazines cover all important topics r.t NEET. This helps in focusing on a few topics at a time which prevents any study load on a candidate. Students get stressed out studying too many chapters and topics at a time and hence, MTG’s monthly magazines are very beneficial for easing their preparation by segregating the various topics in the syllabus into small chunks of information in each month. Each month new topics of NEET from both class 11 & 12 are provided in these magazines. Candidates can earn knowledge about new topics in every successive month.

·         Quick grasp on important topics: Some NEET monthly magazines give crisp summary of the chapters covered in that month which prove to be of great help during the revision. Candidates usually make short notes on important topics which are easy to revise before the actual exam. A crisp summary of the entire chapter is easier to recapitulate during exam. Other helpful features such as brain maps or concept maps are also provided in some monthly magazines which help in a quick revision.

·         Easy learning with attractive tools: Important diagrams, flow charts, definitions and formulas in Biology, Chemistry and Biology for NEET preparation are also incorporated in some of these magazines. So, candidates need not have to search for them out of the vast syllabus given in the NEET preparation books. Also, most of the NEET Biology questions are based on diagrams. Monthly magazines offer effortless access to these diagrams for stress less preparation. Mnemonics and acronyms are also there in MTG’s NEET Magazines for easy memorization of complex orders and sequences.

·         Familiarizes with NEET exam pattern: MTG’s NEET magazines include questions from past years’ NEET paper. Solving these questions helps students to understand the trend in NEET question pattern and the level of preparation required to solve them. NEET magazines also provide some high yield facts about recent research, discoveries and much other information regarding NEET examination which are otherwise not easily accessible.

·         Binds interest in studying: Apart from all these MTG’s monthly magazines have distinctive features – ‘You ask we answer’, spellathon, crossword, etc., where students take participate to ask questions, solve puzzles and word search. This breaks the monotony of long hours of studying form NEET Resources and learn something interesting, besides from bookish knowledge.

·         Easily accessible: Monthly magazines are very handy and come in small booklets of 90 Page. They can be carried and read anywhere and anytime. This helps in easy access and motivates to open it for studying. MTG’s magazines are also available in DIGITAL form which makes it very handy and easily accessible while on the move.

How to make most out of NEET Biology Books

MTG monthly magazines are specially formulated by academic professionals considering the needs of NEET exam. The benefits of reading monthly magazines are many and considerable. Subscribe India’s no.1 ranked MTG’s Monthly magazines and study anywhere and anytime.

All NEET 2020 aspirants are recommended to subscribe MTG’s monthly magazines to make their NEET preparation a success story. Subscribe today and stay close to your dreams.

We wish you good luck in your NEET 2020 preparation!