 my friends welcome to my channel and this is a video not just for students who are preparing for UGC net paper one and would like to know how to study from a single guidebook and crack this exam but this video is for anybody out there who is preparing for any competitive exam and has a guidebook with himself but doesn't know how to start and how to prepare from that particular book because this video is going to be a life-changing video for anybody who wants to know how to absorb a book like a sponge how to read information from a book that you never forget ever in your life. So I have got a lot of questions from people in past few months saying that you know which book should we buy for UGC net paper one or for this exam or for PGT or TGT and at times they say that you know one of my friend has bought this book so should I go and buy that and even though they go and buy that book both that person and his friend sits for the exam the friend gets an all India rank whereas that student flanks and then he questions himself that even though we studied from the same book why did not we both clear the exam why did I flunk and that person great marks so what is important for you to understand here is that though it is important to know which book should you refer to for a particular exam it is equally important for you to know how to read that book because even though you get the right book if you don't know how to read it then that book is nothing but a piece of blank paper for you it is not going to help you achieve your dream career so in this video I am going to take you through a very very crucial journey on how to approach a guidebook for any competitive exam specifically we are going to talk about UGC net paper one and I'm going to tell you exactly how you should read from a book so that whenever you are beginning your preparation you know the right method to approach a book let me begin by asking you a question generally how do you start studying a textbook do you study a textbook on your desk sitting in that proper table chair setup or do you read it lying down on your bed just like you read a novel or you scroll through your Instagram think about it right now even the video that you're watching are you watching it sitting on your study table and chair and jotting down the pointers that I'm saying or are you listening to it while lying down on your you know chair or maybe on your bed so how are you listening to this video I'm pretty sure that most of you would come in the category where they start reading a textbook like a novel guys what you need to understand here is that novels we read for leisure for fun we scroll Instagram for fun for entertainment and that is the reason we don't remember the first post we saw this morning on Instagram but when it comes to a textbook that is going to define your career so you need to pay a little more attention there so next time when you sit with the textbook please tell your brain that you should know how to discriminate or differentiate between a textbook and a novel it is the textbook and therefore please sit on your study chair with a table in front of you and a pen and paper handy and make sure you give a signal to your brain saying that this is something important and therefore I need to concentrate and I need to make an effort to remember each and everything that I'm going to read in the next 60 minutes this convincing is very very important attention plays a very crucial role in absorbing information so even though you are not in that mood to study if you just make a little effort and sit on a chair with a table in front of you and a book in front of you you will automatically get a signal from your mind that it's time to study and you will finally find that small motivation from within you saying that let's start and study and let's at least complete a paragraph now let us begin by looking at the steps that you must follow whenever you are approaching a guidebook for a competitive exam let us take the example of UGC net now if you pick any guidebook of UGC net from market you will find that the guidebook is divided into 10 units or 10 chapters these chapters are nothing but the individual units of UGC net paper one you must be aware that UGC net paper one is divided into 10 units like teaching aptitude communication research data interpretation all of these are different units which are referred to as a chapter in the guidebook so always begin by picking any one particular unit for a particular exam don't think of reading the entire guidebook in one go nothing is going to go inside your head you might finish reading the book but if I ask you a single question you will not be able to answer it because you're reading it like a novel just flipping the pages and trying to read that's not going to get inside your brain and you know stay in the long-term memory so always begin with any one chapter of a guidebook the next step is to flip through the pages to get a telescopic view of that particular chapter suppose you begin with a chapter called research aptitude so go through the pages of the chapter one by one don't read anything just skim through the page which means that you only look at the major headings you look at the diagrams or any charts or maybe if there is a bubble out right around the corner you look at that you look at the subheadings and you just try to have an overview of the chapter this will help you to understand what you are getting yourself into you will exactly know that okay what are the concepts that you might find in the chapter when you begin reading it so the first step is to skim through the chapter now let us move at the second step so in the second step we would be looking at the questions which are given at the end of the chapter you might wonder that we haven't read the chapter as of yet and now arpita is saying to read the questions first how is that going to be helpful let me give you a very simple example let's consider two scenarios in scenario one i ask you to go inside a room and just look and observe the things which are lying in the room okay in the second scenario i ask you to enter the same room and i tell you that go and tell me where is the red rose in the room in which of these scenarios do you think you will be able to spot the red rose easily i'm pretty sure it would be scenario number two why because there you have the end in mind when you are entering the room you exactly know what you are looking for so you are going to glance very quickly through the entire room and your subconscious brain is constantly going to search for that red rose and you will be very very vigilant you will be very very attentive in the case one where you don't have anything in mind you might find the red rose but you will not look at it you might not even notice it even though it's lying in front of you because you don't have it in your mind just like that when you go through the questions which are there at the end of the chapter and after that you start reading the chapter you will exactly know what you are looking for so it is very important for you to understand the importance of going through the questions first and then going back and reading the entire chapter it's just like how you solve reading comprehensions in my video on reading comprehension i have discussed this strategy that whenever in an exam you are solving a reading comprehension never read the passage first first read the questions and then read the passage because when you have questions in mind you will exactly know what you are looking for in the passage you are not only going to read faster but you will also get those answers very quickly why because when you are reading your mind is constantly searching for those keywords which you have seen in the question so that is how reading the questions first will help you to understand the text better as well as faster now comes the third step this is where you're gonna read the entire chapter so now once you have skimmed through the chapter you have seen the past papers which are written at the back side of the chapter now you're going to actually start reading the chapter line by line and while you're reading make sure you have a highlighter or a pencil already you keep on marking the important pointers or better way would be to jot down the main pointers so we are running a online video course for UGC net paper one and all the units are a part of it so in each of those units when i am talking about a concept i ask my students to jot down the major points while they are watching that video lecture of mine because that is how they are going to retain the information that i'm giving for a longer period of time so make sure you use the same strategy when you are using textbooks to study whenever you're reading highlight or even write down the main pointers while you are reading the chapter and finally we come on to the fourth point which is use active recall now what is this active recall active recall is nothing but just putting your textbook aside after reading a page or so and just trying to recall the information whatever you have read in the last page so suppose you have read two pages you put the textbook aside and you try to recall what all things have you read so far this is called active recall here your brain becomes active in the learning process if i just keep on reading my brain might sleep and i might not even know but if i'm using active recall my brain is going to be very very active my brain is going to pay attention to every word i'm reading because brain knows that right after 10 minutes the brain will have to tell me whatever i have read so far that is the reason why it is said that repetition is the mother of learning so if you want to learn anything repetition is the key you read it then you revise you read it then you revise that is how you're going to learn anything let me tell you a success formula my friends so success is said to have a very definitive formula which is sm into r here sm stands for smart work and r stands for repetition so anybody who achieves success in this world follows this formula and you know why only one percent people are successful in the world because the rest 99 percent people either do hard work and keep on repeating it or they do smart work and don't repeat it either ways they are not following the formula properly so it is very important very crucial for you to follow the formula properly which is smart work multiplied by repetition so smart work is knowing how to study a textbook and repetition means revising whatever you've studied again and again till the time it is not inched in the brain so this is my take on how to read a textbook in such a manner that you are able to retain as much information as you can and you can clearly qualify an exam in just one attempt so that's it for this video lecture if you have any questions any queries related to UGCnet make sure you give us a call or whatsapp us on the number displayed there otherwise you can also follow us on social media platforms like facebook instagram telegram we are available on all of these platforms and we are having a very very special quiz running on these platforms so you can participate in this quiz free of cost you can also visit our website courses.arpitakarwa.com and find out the video courses for each unit of UGCnet paper one we also have a learning app which is available on android right now you can type arpitakarwa learning app on 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