 My friends, welcome to my channel, I am Arpita Karva and this is a very special video. In this video I am going to address one of the commonly asked questions in the Ask Arpita Doubt series. If you are not aware of the same, let me tell you that every Saturday there is a doubt form that opens on our portal and anybody who has any questions related to UGC Net or English Literature, they can put their doubts there and I am going to address them in my YouTube videos. So if you look at your net score in the past few years, I am pretty sure that those of you who are not able to clear net will find that every year they are getting the same score. Maybe it's a percentage higher or a percentage lower but almost the score remains the same. There were a lot of students who asked me in the last week's doubt form that ma'am when we look at our net score, we find that we are stuck on one particular number. For example, we are getting 105 out of 300 and from past two, three attempts we are getting similar score. On the other hand, there is another set of students who have completed their course during the COVID-19 lockdown and now are giving regular mock test and even in that mock test they find that they are getting the same score and they are not sure about what mistakes are they making or how they can improve the score. So if you've fallen either of these two categories then you are at the right place because this is a video specifically for you where I am going to tell you the secret behind not getting the desired score or the reason behind why you are stuck at a particular score, why you are not able to clear net from past two, three or four attempts just because you are not able to get that desired score which is more than the cutoff. At the same time I am also going to throw some light upon how this problem can be tackled by you in this period where the exam dates are not yet clear and you still have some time to improve your score. So I am going to give you a strategy using which this time you will definitely crack your net exam. Let me tell you a very common phenomena that happens with a lot of net aspirants. So I have seen a lot of students getting a score of 100 out of 300 in their first mock test then they sit for the second mock test and they decide that this mock test they are going to get a score of 250 out of 300 and what happens they get a score of 110 out of 300 and they are extremely frustrated. They feel like they have not done justice to their preparation or at the time they feel that they have fallen short of their own expectation. Now if you look at it objectively you will find that they have outperformed their previous score earlier they got 100 now they are getting 110 but at the same time when they look at their desired aim which was 250 they find that they have not achieved it they are not even near it and this is really really frustrating at the same time it hits your confidence. So let me tell you friends that the main mistake that you would be making if in case you are stuck in this phenomena is that next time when you sit for your mock test your score will be below 100 because your confidence level has dropped down as you have fallen short of your expectation in the second phase of your mock test and therefore understand this very very clearly that the main mistake that a student makes in this particular scene is that he kinds of targets an unreasonable score yes guys it's an unreasonable score a person who has never walked inside the kitchen and turned off the turned on the gas stove he decides one fine day that I'm going to become the winner of Do you think it's reasonable no it's not similarly a person who is getting 100 marks if one fine day he decides that in the next mock test which is like two days later he's going to get 250 marks that's really really unreasonable so make sure that you don't try to jump too far this is a very very prominent Hindi saying which simply means that if you complete your milestones by doing that then you will be able to reach your goal very quickly and if you try to jump very fast then you will fall down very quickly so I'm going to now talk about this strategy the strategy guys is very simple let us take an example where you sat for a mock test on Monday and you got a score of 80 out of 300 marks you were really really unhappy because you know that the cut off is 200 out of 300 marks and you did not know how you're going to bridge this gap so what you decided is that you're only going to focus on getting 10 more questions right in the next mock test and this is going to set a target where you need to only get 20 more marks in the next mock test so what you did was that on Monday you sat for a mock test where you got a score of 80 out of 300 and then you decided that next week you are going to again sit for another mock test where your target should be to get 100 out of 300 marks in the mock test and what you did in the entire week you looked at your past mock test and you saw where you were getting the most questions wrong so suppose you are sitting for a mock test of paper to English literature and you found that you are getting most questions wrong in the category of literary theory and you decided that you are going to focus on literary theory so that you can get maximum questions right in the next mock test so what you did you set up a target that was 100 out of 300 marks at the same time you evaluated your previous mock test to see which are the areas from where you can get those 10 questions right and you found that it was literary theory so for the entire week you revise you re revised and you focused on all the aspects of literary theory next Monday when you sat for the mock test your target in your brain was 100 out of 300 marks and you scored 105 out of 300 marks don't you think that in this scenario your confidence is going to really take a hike yes it would because you have this confidence on your ability now that you have outperformed your own target that you can fix your problem and you can get a score of 25 more marks in just one mock test so this is the strategy that you should follow if you are constantly getting failure in UGC net exam or you are not able to reach the cutoff or if you are sitting for mock test your score is not improving because by applying this strategy it is a going to boost your confidence and b it is going to take you to that target of 200 or 250 very very gradually so in the first mock test you got 80 second you got 100 third you got 120 fourth you got 140 and fifth you got 180 that means just after five mock test you have doubled your score and it is really easy to achieve because your target is very streamlined you know that 80 marks have already come I used to get this much paper now the 20 marks that I have to get that I have to read this particular topic in your next mock test 100 marks have come now you know that now I will see what was the thing that I could not attempt or could not do you target those things and then you get a score of 120 and gradually you are moving near to your desired target that was 200 or 250 marks so make sure you apply this strategy to prepare for the upcoming net exam because of COVID-19 we know that the next net exam has been delayed and you have enough time to sit for multiple mock test maybe two or three mock test every week and practice so that the next time when the exam happens you get the net certificate in your hand you are so confident about the paper that irrespective of how difficult the paper is you're able to get the desired marks guys if you remember the movie manji the mountain man where this man manji was able to cut down the entire mountain just by hammering it every single day and it was such an impossible task for all of us to see that a mountain can be cut down can be broken by a single man who even not had any machines and he was able to just hammer the mountain and cut it down into pieces this is the power of consistency so if you attempt mock test regularly and you keep this target these short reasonable targets in your mind I'm telling you that cutting this huge syllabus or covering this huge syllabus of UGC net will be possible if you know how to do it and if you're consistent about it the similar case is when a student decides that he wants to become an international chess champion he first have to become the champion of his school then he plays at the state level he even masters that then he starts playing for the national level and finally after winning at the national level he starts playing for the international level so there's this path that he has to follow one fine day he wake up from his D man he cannot think that okay I'm going to become the international chess player no there's a long way to go and you can only cover this entire milestone by looking at the individual goals rose what do I have to do or this week what do I have to do just think about it slowly you will cross them so you won't even know when you will be able to cross your goal like in one of my videos last month I talked about a scenario where you are going on a drive and you are going from a place A to place B let us suppose that it is from Delhi to Agra now in the night you cannot see the entire path when you start from your home in Delhi you cannot just go to Agra and you cannot see the Taj Mahal then and there no you cannot so what you do you switch on the headlight and the headlight shows you only one feet distance and by covering that one feet distance very soon you find that you are in front of Agra how did that happen that happened because you only focused on the next one feet that you have to cover similarly in every mock test don't think of your ultimate score just think of getting those extra ten questions right and by doing that I'm pretty sure that you're going to nail the exam so that's it from my side for this lecture I'll meet you very soon in the next lecture till the time I meet next happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpathakarwa.com