 this video lecture I'm going to talk about few quick tips that can help you in your last minute exam preparation if you are preparing for July's net exam and you are struggling with preparation with the endless course then don't worry these quick tips and study strategy will help you in your preparation so let's start and make a note of all these tips and strategy that I am the first tip that I would like to give you is that do not get influenced by your friends preparation guys this might seem to be a very very simple suggestion that I'm offering but I'm telling you the effect that it has on the mind of a student is way too large what happens is that we all have this tendency that if there are other friends of ours who are giving the same exam we tend to call them and ask them how much you have covered till now what all topics are left what all topics you have covered what books are you referring all these questions keep on popping up in our head and we try to ask as many of them to our friends what happens is that somewhere everybody is very different and everybody follows a different strategy because no one strategy can be or successful in all cases everybody needs to take up a different strategy which suits best for his own study schedule now what happens is that when you ask your friend how much you have covered and if suppose your friend says that he has covered a lot more than what you have done in that case you will get tensed you will try to skip through topics you will try to revise at a very very high speed so that you can match to his speed you can also cover the same amount of data that he has covered but this will not give you any good results this will only create tension in your head on the other hand I have seen people who get so relaxed when they call their friends and their friends tell them that they have not studied anything now that person thinks that he has studied a lot more and that confidence turns into over confidence and that person stops studying further so in both the cases in the case when friend has not studied anything and in the case when friend has studied a lot more than what you have studied in both the cases you will get affected and you will get affected negatively so it's always better that you should be very clear about your own strategy stick to the strategy that you find best for yourself and don't get influenced by what other people are doing when I was preparing for my next exam there were a lot of friends of mine who went to Delhi to attend coaching classes some of them went to other places and some of them were taking some online coaching so we used to have a chit chat on and off and whenever I used to you know ask them how much I have studied every time they used to tell me something which I have not studied or I might not have given enough time and then that somewhere you know demoralized me that somewhere made me question my own ability then after a period of time I decided that every time I'll call them I will not be discussing whatever they have studied I made it very clear to them that let's not discuss what you have studied because somewhere I feel depressed I feel helpless after talking to you because I feel that you have prepared a lot more and that somewhere gives me a sense of guilt on the other hand the same thing happened with them also that whenever they used to ask me what I have studied I would have also studied certain things that they might not have studied till then so the same thing happened with them so it's always good that you don't focus your energy into knowing what is going in other person's life so dedicate yourself in your study routine and don't get influenced by what your friend tells the second advice that I would like to give you is that please say no to new resources now I have seen this thing in almost all students that whenever the last month of exam is approaching they all tend to get overwhelmed with new set of information that they are getting from different sources so some people will tell you that these writers are very important some people might give you a book and tell you that this book must be read if you want to be your net some people might give you a set of you or pages of their notes and tell you that these notes so you have to learn so all these things will keep on happening around you and that is a part of life what you need to do is that please don't focus on all such things because if you look at your exam preparation you have devoted about four to six months and in that period of four to six months you have already covered a lot of things if you look at the piles of notes that you have made in this period of four to six months you will find it enough okay and you would not be able to revise those notes if you enter into a realm of new resources realm of new resources is endless net syllabus is so vast that even if you study for next five years you will never be able to complete everything even after five years you will see that there would be writers there would be texts there would be books that you will have to study further so you need to restrict yourself to limited set of data whatever you have made just focus on that revise that it will be more beneficial than learning new material because if you already know 20 postmodern writers and if you revise them thoroughly that would be of a lot more benefit than starting 10 new postmodern writers today because these 10 new postmodern writers will not be registered so easily in your brain you will forget it okay you might study 100 new writers in this month and you don't revise them you will not remember any of them on the exam day and that will be foolishness so it's always important that whatever you have studied till now just focus on that data revise them and look at the areas which need your attention for example if you have read 20 postmodern writers out of that there are eight writers which you think are not on your tips then go and read them again go and revise them again so that all these 20 writers will be on your tips that is how you need to channelize your last one one the third important tip is that make quick pointers now what are quick pointers i'm telling you but then you must remember that these quick pointers is the thing that will give you that winning edge okay what happens is guys that when i was preparing for net exam i made about 12 13 notebooks of hundred and notes apart from those notes i also made notes on evernote so there were like these two sets of notes that i had to refer in the period of one month now i kept on revising from these notebooks but what i found while i was revising was that whenever i revise about five pages there will be two or three points which i still don't remember okay what i used to do was that while i was revising each and every notebook i made sure that i wrote those two three points which i forget repeatedly on a separate copy and this is the copy that i made during my last one what i did was that i just wrote roughly all the points which i kept on forgetting and if you look at the kind of notes that i've made they are messy but then it's all fine because when i was revising my hand written notes i was revising my evernote i found that there were few points which i kept on forgetting and it was important that i revise them again and again it was no point revising those 12 copies for 10 times it is more beneficial if i revise each copy once and then those copies of the points which i was revising again and again i revise them again so if you collect all the data that i revise out of that data there were these 1200 points which i kept on forgetting and i wrote this you know separate copy and what i did every day before going to night for the next one month i read each and every point and these points was so easy for me to remember on the day of exam because i kept on revising these points again what people do is that they keep on revising thing but whatever they are forgetting they will not make a note of it you will revise the entire sheet of paper you might forget two things and you'll skip that thing you will not focus your energy on revising those two things because if a page contains 12 points you remember the end points that is fine but in the exam paper if out of those 12 two points come which you don't remember what will you do so in that case it is important that you make a separate copy of the things that you're forgetting repeatedly and which need more revision than normal things so this is how you can make quick pointers apart from this notebook you will also write all these points on whiteboard sticky notes and paste them on the wall you can if you're making notes on desktop then make that your wallpaper so that every time you open your laptop or your desktop you have those points in front of you like i did that i also pasted all these points and keynotes and i pasted it on the walls of my room as well as i also wrote some of these points on whiteboard so everywhere i kept on exposing myself to the points which i am forgetting again and again and you won't believe guys out of these 1200 points 10 questions were asked in the exam and i felt myself so fortunate that if these 1200 points were not on my tips i would have lost those 20 important marks the next important advice that i would like to give you is that please make sure that you solve as many previous year papers and mock test as you can see now it is high time that you just need not solve the previous year paper you now need to sit for a duration of two hours and solve the paper and feel as if you are solving the exam paper why this is important you might find that you know i can solve a paper in 30 minutes why should i sit for next two hours and then solve the paper just feeling as if i am sitting in exam hall because that will help you in knowing your own weaknesses there are times when student makes silly mistake in the exam hall if you do the same mistake during your mock test you will remember that mistake and you will not commit the same error on the exam day also it might expose you to areas where you need to devote your time because somewhere when you solve a mock test paper you might come across certain topics which according to you were fully prepared but when you saw the previous year paper or you saw that particular set of questions you got confused that means that that is your weakness you need to work more on it so whenever you time yourself and you sit like you are sitting on the exam day and you give a mock test you will get benefited out of it don't ever think that you will waste two hours you will not those two hours will save a lot of your time in future will help you to not do those errors which you did in the mock test and that is why we have the system of pre-boards that the same kind of paper the same kind of environment is created in the pre-board setting so that the student will not make the same mistakes in the board exam it is a kind of pre-board exam because it will tell you your weaknesses so that you can work on it and on the day of board exam you can give your best you can learn from your mistakes and not repeat them on the exam day the same thing you need to do while you are preparing for net exam so before I end this video I would like to give you two quick tips the first tip is that please don't cry over spilled milk now what happens is that I've seen this in so many students that they keep on regretting what all wrong things they didn't pass they might think that we didn't study earlier they might think why did they waste their time and all these questions keep on popping up in their head now understand this fact guys that thinking about such things will never help you draw a line to your past whatever happened let it be don't crib over what went wrong just focus on what all you can do now even if you have wasted a lot of time if you devote yourself completely I'm telling you net is not a very tough exam there are people who are preparing for more tough exams who are preparing for like ages for IS problems IS mains and they never get fatigued they never regret their decision just they just keep on working hard the same strategy you need to build in yourself just keep on working hard whatever you have done don't look at the mistakes that you make just focus on what you can do right now the second advice that I would like to give you before I end this video is that please please don't study the same topic continuously I have been telling this to my students every time that I move from module one till module 10 and gradually I cover the course first I take up British literature then I take up American and then gradually we'll move towards the other modules but that is when I am making you understand things I cannot take up restoration and directly jump to Victorian period the student will not be able to understand what was the political situation which led from restoration to Victorian directly but when you have already learned things when you have already understood concept it is important that you keep on shifting between things because that will create interest okay otherwise you might feel monotonous if you're reading Victorian and you're revising Victorian from last four days you might not feel like opening that book or opening that notebook in that case keep on shifting between topics so create a kind of platter for yourself so that you feel good okay it should have desserts also it should have things that you don't like also it should have a set of main course also so all these things should be there in your plate every day before you start studying so this is how you can prepare for next one month I'm wishing you all the best for your revision and I really hope that you are able to bring laurels to your family and to yourself also with this I end my video don't forget to subscribe to this channel 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