 UGC net preparation is really intense. It takes almost one year to prepare for this exam and in this entire preparation journey of one year do you know what is the most important time and that is the last one week before the exam. Yes guys that's a very tricky period because there is so much running in your head so many questions bubbling up then there is so much pressure so much to revise and managing all of this is a big challenge. If you know how to prepare and use this last one week in a right way you can yield excellent results. On the other hand if you don't plan properly and with those half hazard revisions you can actually score really badly on the day of the exam. So here I am with some tips and tricks that will help you to streamline your preparation in the last one week. Also I am going to share some really really important tips that you must keep in your head so that you don't make some common silly mistakes. I'm going to share that towards the end of the video so stay tuned watch the entire video and make sure you jot down the pointers and start applying them right away. The first important tip I would like to give to all of you out there is to avoid any new information at this stage of your preparation. I know you are going to come across a lot of new and unfamiliar material but that unfamiliar material is only going to confuse you. You have to understand the fact that this is too late to pick up anything new and start studying and understanding it. That is only going to prove decremental to your otherwise good preparation. So you need to focus and stick to the material that you have studied so far. You might get a lot of booklets, a lot of pdf notes from your friends, from other sources, from internet that are going to be marked as important and people are going to claim that questions are definitely going to come from this particular sheet. You should read it once before the exam but guys just think about the situation once. Can you remember the data that is mentioned on the sheet by just reading it once? Don't you think you need multiple revisions in order to remember something and do you have that much time to revise the new material at least thrice or four times before the exam? I don't think so. So why waste energy reading something and not remembering it on the day of the exam? Rather your entire focus in the last few days should be to excellently revise the material that you have studied in the entire year and that is the material that is going to give you marks on the day of the exam. The next tip coming up your way is one of my favorites from my study routine and that is visualize the material. Guys whenever we are preparing for any competitive exam we refer to so many sources. We read from internet sources, we refer to books then we also subscribe to videos of different educators and we study from them but all of this proves to be futile if we don't recollect the material on the day of the exam. So what should we do about it? That is where visualization comes into the game. Visualization is a very simple technique whenever you are reading anything ensure that you have a highlighter and a pencil handy. Keep highlighting the keywords and only focus on remembering the keywords. So from today onwards whenever you are doing your revision cycles please ensure that you just don't read the material once you keep highlighting the keywords and you try to recollect those keywords. So once you have read a page of your notes just keep that aside and try to recollect the keywords from that particular page. Those keywords is what is going to help you to retrieve the information on the day of the exam. So use your visual memory from today to score high on the day of net exam. The next important advice that I would like to give to all of you out there is to be mentally well prepared for the exam. Now I'm sure that you all are doing a lot of physical hard work to succeed in this examination ranging from reading books to revising your notes to solving mock test papers to analyzing those mock test papers but my question to you is are you doing enough mental work? Because mental and physical hard work both contributes equally to the success of an examination. So it is very important for you to take good care of your mental health in the last few days. I know this is a time when it is very easy for anxiety to get hold of you. It is very easy for you to feel low whenever you score not so good marks in the mock test but what is equally important for you is to brush yourself dust yourself always whenever you fall and start with the same enthusiasm. Always remember the bigger goal in your head and the most important tip is to meditate regularly. Guys you might feel that this is some Zen advice that I'm trying to give you but meditation is extremely important. Meditation will help you calm your anxiety down to give you confidence from within so that even if the paper seems hard you will be able to give your 100% best shot. So there's a very beautiful visualization meditation that I tell all my online course students to do regularly. I'm sharing the link of the same in the description below and I would be extremely happy to know if you guys start doing it on a daily basis till the date of the exam. I'm telling you that after each meditation session you're going to feel more and more confident because with confidence your answer writing ability your ability to answer correctly will improve and definitely go up. If you are in a calm state of mind and you are in a positive mindset you will definitely get good marks in spite of the loopholes in your preparation because you are going to know how to play with your strengths. On the other hand if you are somebody who is in a state of anxiety when they enter in the examination room no matter how much ever you have prepared you might get blank you might not remember anything and you might feel as if you will never be able to succeed in this exam. So just with a changed mental attitude your answering ability changes drastically. So start doing visualization meditation from today itself and I would love to know in the comments below how you feel after the meditation session. The last tip that I would like to put across the table before leaving the video is to cement the gaps by practicing mock test. This is something that I have seen happening in my house recently. So my younger brother was preparing for a competitive exam called IPMAT and during the last few days of his preparation he was really reluctant to give the mock exams because he was you know demotivated every time his mock score wasn't good. So he went to his mentor and his mentor gave him an advice that I think is something that every aspirant should know because he told him something that even I believe is very very crucial for every aspirant to keep in mind. So I am going to just talk about what his mentor said and I am going to really emphasize on the fact that you should all attempt mock test in the last few days of your preparation. So the very simple thing that he suggested is that we feel demoralized or demotivated after giving mock whenever we sit for the mock with a mindset that we need to get 300 out of 300 in the mock. The mock paper or the main exam paper does not want you to score 300 out of 300 because if you look at the past cutoffs it is very clear from there that the paper is set in a manner that any person who is well prepared cannot score above 50 to 60 percent. So your aim should always be to see whether you lie in that bracket of 50 to 60 percent. You will get 40 percent questions wrong and there's nothing wrong about it. There's nothing to be disheartened about. Every time you give a mock paper don't feel this pressure that you have to get every question right because that is never going to happen. That has not happened with aspirants in the past and that is not going to happen with you as well. So your aim should be to give the mock, see what are the questions where you have made silly mistakes, what are the questions where you need to work a little more hard and use the analysis of mock to fix those issues. That is what your approach should be. Also mock is a very very good way to understand how you are going to manage time on the day of the exam, how you are going to you know get into the zone of elimination where you are going to eliminate the options which are not right and then that is how you're going to slowly move towards the right answer. So the elimination game you will figure out when you will give multiple mocks. With every mock you will get better at the elimination. This is something very personal to every individual. So you need to understand what works for you and what doesn't. At the same time, intelligent guessing is a very very important tool that will give you those extra marks because in UGG Net exam we don't have negative mocking. So intelligent guessing is something that every student should do for the questions where he is clueless. So intelligent guessing is another tool that you can practice in the mocks and then you can master it on the day of the exam. So with all these things said I would like to take your leave. I'm hoping to see you coming smiling from the examination hall after giving the exam and I'm very very sure that you are going to give your best on the day of the exam. Put in the comment section below if you have any doubts, any confusions. I am definitely going to help you out to resolve those doubts. With that note I would like to take your leave. That's it from my side. I'll meet you very soon in the next video lecture. Till the time we meet next, happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarwa.com.