 Hello students! There are a few questions bubbling in the head of every net aspirant who is trying to prepare and give their best in the last few days of net exam. A lot of students are worried and they are really tensed about how they should prepare. Is it the right way in which they are preparing? What were the mistakes that they did last time due to which they were not able to qualify this exam and how should they channelize their last few days so that they can prepare even if they have not made any previous preparation? If all these questions are going in your head as well then you are at the right video because in this video I'm going to line up all the dos and don'ts that you should follow if you are preparing for UGC net and the tips that I'm going to give is going to be relevant for paper one and paper two both. Now it is important here for you to note that all these tips I'm giving they are actually tested. I have applied them during my net preparation and I qualified net in first attempt. In this video I'm going to show you my notes and how I prepared my notes in last few days which helped me clear net. So if you are really looking forward to follow a strategy or right path which can actually help you qualify net then this is the video for you and do watch it till the end. If you're ready to do the incredible then take a pen and paper and start jotting down the most important points I'm going to mention right here. I have seen a lot of students who are always looking forward for good books. They are always asking people which book they should buy which can help them qualify net. Guys I can tell you very clearly here there's no one book which can make you qualify net. If that would have been the case then everyone would have got that book and have cleared net. Why net is so difficult to achieve because you need to use your mind along with good books. Every book is good and bad at the same time. If you don't use your brain then that book can be a bad book for you because that book will not help you achieve net. Don't go after books. Go after what your brain says. Go after smart work. This is the time when you don't need to refer to any one book. This is the time when you need to make handy notes like one page notes for each topic. I'm going to show you my notes for paper one. These are my notes for paper one and if you look very clearly you will find that for each topic I just made one page notes. I refer to a few books and then I just made one page notes and if you go through this entire copy you will find out that my notes have a proper format. I keep on highlighting the mistakes that I was making. I kept on highlighting the most important point which I saw in the previous year papers. So this is the right way to make notes. It's not just going through the books again and again. Your brain would not be able to absorb the facts so easily. You need to give him little material and that little material should be very clear. So don't go after books. Go after a smart strategy which can actually help you qualify in it and that smart strategy is to make handy reference notes. A note paper should not exceed more than one page per topic. So for example suppose you're making notes on tools of research which is a paper one topic. If you look at my notes I have clearly mentioned few important things and that's it. I did not go beyond it. I did not like write paragraphs. I just write quick pointers which can help me remember the correct fact on the day of the net exam. A lot of students question me how many hours should we study in last 20 days to clear a net. Now this is a really really bad question because see there's no particular hours that I can tell you which can help you qualify in it. It's not how many hours. It's about what you do in those hours that can determine whether you've cleared net or you do not clear net. I have seen a lot of students who sit for like 16 hours and then don't clear net and I've seen those smart students who sit for not more than six hours and they clear and achieve their targets. How is this possible? It is possible because the students who are sitting for six hours they know how to manage time. They know how our brain works. Okay if you want to bake a cake you need to know the procedure right. If you don't know the procedure you cannot bake a cake in a right manner. Similarly if you want to qualify in it if you want to feed data in your brain you need to know what is the mechanism of the brain and it's very simple. Our brain's attention span is 50 minutes. So only for 50 minutes our brain can concentrate on the work and then beyond that time if you keep on working if you keep on studying our brain does not retain anything. So after every 50 minutes make it a point that you give yourself a five minute break. Be it going to washroom just stretching or talking to a friend on phone for five minutes just distract yourself so that you can come back and again attract your brain to study that topic. So managing time is very important. It's not how much hours you are studying it's about what you're doing in those hours and that is how you can qualify in it. So if you are ready to give your best in this exam then I'm telling you best is going to come back to you. Only the thing that you need to remember is that the time that you are studying make sure that is the time when you're concentrating. It's not just that you're sitting with a book and nothing is going inside you. After every 50 minutes check how much you've retained is it that you were wasting time you've read so many pages and you still don't remember anything or have you worked smartly you've highlighted thing you have marked pointers you've remembered those pointers and now after 50 minutes you exactly know what you've done in 50 minutes. Don't waste time work smartly even with six hours of preparation you can qualify in it only when you know the right way to work. The third and the most important thing that is going to help you in the next few days of your preparation is solving previous year papers. Me de se aaj bhi jab students phone kar ke pujhtayin ki naam paper one ke liy kya kare is last time me. I always tell them the same thing. Sir, previous year papers ko refer karo, unni solve karo, apni galtiyo ko evaluate karo aur un mistakes ko correct karo because if you see all the previous year papers of paper one specifically you will see that concept is repeating year after year. Questions are not going to repeat but at least the concept is repeating and if you have understood the concept you know the method to solve that question then I can give you any question in the same concept and you will solve it. So it's as simple as that. Previous year papers ko solve karne se you become familiar to the paper pattern you become familiar to those mistakes that you're making. There are times when students make silly mistakes on the day of the exam because they've not solved previous year papers. Agar bahi galtiyo wo previous year papers ko solve karte wa kar dethe tab wo galtiyo ko wo correct kar sakte ther aur baad mein wo exam mein wo galtiyo wapis nahi doharate. Also, there are questions students ask me that abto paper pattern change oge hai, syllabus change oge hai, abhi kya previous year papers relevant hai? Yes, of course, 110% relevant hai because if you look at paper one, paper one ka purana syllabus bahin ka wahi hai, 10% new topics logical reasoning aur mathematical reasoning mein add hui hai. That's it, purane topics delete nahi hui hai. So, previous year papers ko agar aap refer karte to at least 90% topics ki preparation aapki arraam se hosate without using any book. And also understand the fact, sirf solve nahi karna hai, evaluate karna hai, dekhna hai ki galtiyo kaha huri hai, you have to study your mistakes. I have seen students jo sirf solve kar dethe hai apni galtiyo ko nahi dekhne. Solve karne se kya hoga? Agar aapne 50 mé se 30 marks le aaye to hoga kya ye jo 20 marks aapki loos hoi hai, in galtiyo ko wapis anko seekhi hai, dekhhi kaha galtiyo ho rahe hai jissi next time aapki 50 mé se 50 aaye, 50 mé se 30 na aaye. Also understand the fact, ki agar aap previous year papers solve kar rahe hai aur her paper solve karne ke baat evaluate kar rahe hai to un corrected cheezo ko apne dhyaan me rakhe aur unko apply kar ye next paper me. So that you know that ok, I am making progress. If you follow the same study pattern, you are going to get the same result. Aapne ek topic padha, question solve kare, galat hui. Aap aap bhaapise baise hi ho topic padhe hai phir question solve karte phir galat hota hai. Ye to ek endless chain hai jo hoti rahe hi. What is important is that you see the pattern, then you see the result. If the result is not appropriate, then change your pattern to change the result. Same pattern, same result. Change pattern, new result. It's very simple. So don't grip when you get low score in your previous year papers in your mock test because it's okay to get low score. Low score karna galti nahi hai. Galti tabh karte hai aap jab low score karne ke baavjut aap mahinat dehi karte. If you don't work on your mistakes so that you can get a better score next time, that is where you are lacking behind. And always remember, if winter comes, can spring be far behind, agar aaj apna low score raha hai aur aap mahinat karne hai, to kya kail bhi wahi low score raha? Bilkul nahi. Kail aapka bohda chha score banega. So I wish you all the very best for the next 10 days. And most of all, I wish you a very, very peaceful state of mind. I wish you a state of mind jis main aap bohot aapsis appreparation kar pahe aap apne aapko ek stable environment mein rakh pahe. And I wish you that this time you will qualify in that exam. Give your best shot and I'm pretty sure success is going to be on your side. Also don't forget to subscribe to this channel because we are posting some amazing videos on paper one preparation on this channel. And we are going to continue to post these videos for the next few weeks. 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