 Hi everyone, a very, very good evening to all of you and in today's live, we are going to be talking about 10 things that you should remember before you are sitting for UGC Net exam. So as you guys already know that UGC Net December exam dates are out and the English paper is scheduled to be on 6th of December, which is like three days from now. So this is a video which is very, very crucial for anybody who is planning to sit for the exam because in this particular live, I'm going to discuss some very small minute points that students most of the time forget when they have to sit for the exam. I'm going to come live tomorrow as well when I'm going to discuss how you can secure maximum marks in MCQ. So what should be the ideal way to solve MCQs in the exam paper? That's going to be the topic for tomorrow's life, but before I move ahead and talk about today's topic, just a quick check. Right now I'm doing the live which is happening on 3rd of December, that is Sunday and time is 6.10pm. I would also want to do a quick check if you guys can see me clearly and can also see my screen. So if yes, if you can just put that in the comment section below so that I know that everything is visible to you properly and we can go ahead with today's topic. So if everything is visible, please drop a message in the comment section. I can see a lot of students who are joining us live. Right, Professor Natsi says yes. Okay, great. So now that people can clearly see the screen, let's move on to the today's topic. So in today's lecture, I'm going to be talking about a few things. These are few topics that I'm going to be talking about. I'm not going to take you through these topics one by one. So very first thing, so there are 10 key things that we are going to be discussing today. The first key thing that we are going to discuss is the point that please do not panic if you don't remember your notes. Most of the time, students have this thing that when they see the question paper in front of them, they kind of get into a panic mode because they feel that, oh, I have read this somewhere but I cannot recall it. I just wrote it in the back side of my notes but I don't remember what exactly was the name of the character or name of the novel or who was the critic who said these lines to somebody. So the very first thing that you should keep in mind is that please do not panic if you don't remember because when you panic, you kind of over-pressurize your brain. So you kind of put a lot of pressure in your brain and your brain gets into an anxious mode. So it's just like, let's say robbers come into your house and now you are in a panic zone. You don't know what to do to safeguard yourself and your family members. So at that time, there might be things that you can do in order to safeguard yourself. You might have your phone handy. You can call the police or you might have a stick with which you can hit the robber but you won't see all of this because you are in a panic mode. So your brain is so busy processing anxiety that it can't get the best possible solutions. So this happens with a lot of students also. When they get into panic mode and that is the reason why if you are solving a numerical question which if you are not in the exam hall, you could have solved easily, you won't be able to solve that easily in the exam hall. So the very first thing is that if you come across a question which you are not able to solve which you don't know the answer to, then please sit there peacefully without getting into panic mode. Try to look for a solution. Don't over pressurize your brain. Secondly, whenever you are in panic, remind yourself that your aim should not be to score 100% marks but to score more marks than your competitors. Okay, we don't need 100% accuracy out of 100 questions that you get in paper 2. You don't have to solve every question properly. So if you are seeing a question which you don't know and you are going in panic mode, so just tell yourself that I have to just be better than my competitors. So my cutoff somewhere ranges between 60-65%. I still have a margin of 35-40% where I can make mistakes, where I can guess work, where I can go wrong. Okay, because whenever we are seeing a question, we feel that we should come and that is when we go into the panic mode. Also, tell yourself that it is okay to not know 100% of the paper. Even if I sit in the exam hall today, the UGC net paper is designed in a manner that I will also have 5-7 questions which will not come. In spite of the fact that I have taught more than 20-25,000 students, I have been in this industry from past 5-6 years. Still, there would be 5-7 questions which will not come to me because deliberately they make a paper like this so that you cannot hit 100% marks. And also remember that human brain can only remember a fraction of what you feed into it. So whatever information you have put in your mind, you will not remember everything. Even if in the last 2-3 days when you will be revising, you will feel as if you are not remembering all that you have written in your notes. Tell yourself that when we read a lot, we remember a few percentages in our mind. And that is not something that just happens with you. That happens with every aspirant out there. So the very first thing that you have to keep in mind is that you do not have to panic. You have to tell yourself that I have a scope that I can solve some questions wrong. I do not have to over pressurize my brain because in that case, I will not be able to think of the best solutions because my brain is in anxious panic mode and it cannot process a lot of information. Now, second very important thing. Please do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam. Most of the time students have seen that when they are revising they feel that we do not remember anything or that our preparation has not been done well. So most of the time students are like I do not sit in the paper this time. I will sit in the paper next time and I will be more prepared than that. I remember one very close friend of mine doing the same mistake. So there is this friend of mine who studied with me and he wanted to get into law. So he gave the paper of Klatt and he wanted to get into NLU which is National Law University. So first year when he gave the paper he scored 92-93% and he got like one of the top 5-7 rank NLU. But he thought that I have potential that I can get better ranking than this. So I am going to give one year drop and then I am going to be sitting for the next NLU next class exam. And next year when he sat he got 85%. So where the percentage increase was there instead of increasing it decreased. Why so? Because second time the paper was a little tough he could not study as much as he thought he would have studied in that one year and he had to compromise on the NLU ranking. So where the top 5-7 NLU were getting he did not have an option but to take a private university because his ranking was not that good. So what message that I want to send across is this that if you feel that you are not well prepared then believe me I have come across a lot of aspirants who say that they feel that they are not well prepared even if the topper of this UGC net exam would be sitting in her home or in his home right now and would be having the same thought. So if you have filled your form no matter how bad preparation you have you still have to sit for the exam. So please do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam. Always remember it is just an exam don't feel as if the world is going to end if you have given an exam this year and you have got really less percentage let me say 10% marks are also yours then it is fine. You have given at least one attempt because you would have counted the attempts in the net so you are still on a very safe zone. If you give paper then you will be able to clear it if you do not give it then chances are zero to be cleared. Number two, one thing is very important to remember Steve Jobs who has given a lot of things to the tech world he has a very famous quotation that all I ask is that today you do the best work of your entire life. And this is like my very favorite quotation which I always had in front of me when I was studying in the exam. So when you go to give paper and you get panicked so this is what you can remind yourself that I will not think I will clear it I will not clear it I will not think what will my parents think what will my friends think what will happen if my friend would clear and I would not If you process all of this back of the mind you will not be able to give 100% paper. So what you have to instead do is that you just have to focus on that one question that you see in front of you. So always remember this line by Steve Jobs that all I ask is today you do the best work of your entire life. I do not want to think about what will happen I will do the right thing I will go home what will I tell my friends, parents nothing like that. I just want to think this question in front of me can I give it my best according to my best of the ability to solve it. And number three please this is the time when you should not be talking to a lot of people. From a lot of people I mean friends, acquaintances relatives, any person who can demotivate you or demoralize you. It is possible that you call your friend who is thinking to sit in the exam and suddenly he says that I am not preparing or I am not planning to sit. From there somewhere your mind will get a boost and he will say that he is not sitting and I am not sitting either. So please refrain yourself from talking to a lot of people. Just ensure that you are with your books. You are in a good company that you are with your friends or relatives or family members who are positive who have a positive approach towards life which you should not demotivate. If you do not have such people then it would be better if you spend time only with yourself. So the very important thing that I wanted to mention was the second point that please do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam. I remember a lot of students who called me and told me two days ago that ma'am I am not confident I am not sitting for the paper. Some of my team of counsellors helped them and they were able to get out of that anxiety and they decided to sit for the exam. And those are the people who got JRF, not just net, they got JRF. And it is so wonderful to see that with just one call their decision changed and they are where they are today in the same thing for all of you. I would like to say that we have a website www.arpatakarwa.com We have just recreated the entire website and here when you go in the more section you will find free counselling where you can put your name and whatsapp number and you can get free online counselling from the team of counsellors that we have in our office. It is absolutely free of cost and full of confidentiality. There is no anxiety or stress even if you are not a part of our online course you are still more than welcome to avail the service we really want to help you give your 100% in this exam paper and that is the reason why we have this online counselling platform. It is absolutely free for anybody you just have to put your name and mobile number and our team of counsellors are going to get in touch with you. Once you fill to see your mobile number of our counsellor which is displayed right here on the screen after you fill the form I would request you to save that number because our counsellors call from that number and most of the time students feel this is an unknown number so they don't pick the call and that is the reason why they miss out the counselling session. So please save the number once you fill this form the number would be displayed in front of your screen. Moving ahead to the third point which is to get your basics right some basic topics that you should keep in your mind. Number one last 2-3 days before your exam please avoid eating junk food I really want that because of your bodily discomfort somewhere in your paper don't worry about 2-3 questions this is a very very silly point that I am mentioning you might be thinking but let me tell you that I have seen there have been students whose stomach upset because of being upset they could not give their 100% if they grab in spite of the fact that they prepared so well for the 6 months so I would really want you guys to keep this in mind also have at least 10 glasses of water starting from today so from today till 2-3 days please drink enough water so that everything in your body stay healthy and you don't face any bodily discomfort on the day of the exam. Number 3 please get enough sleep today is 3rd of December exam is on 6th December I want that 3rd, 4th, 5th 3 days you get enough sleep enough means at least 8 hours of sleep you should get why am I saying this because you know you take the best machine of this entire world in the exam hall and that is your brain your brain is that superpower which can function to the best of its ability if it is well rested and if you are thinking that I don't sleep for 8 hours I sleep for 3 hours and the rest I will study for 5 hours let me tell you that your brain will not able to consolidate the information that you are giving and mathematical reasoning logical reasoning these questions where you need 100% brain capacity you won't be able to solve them so it is important that if you revise at least 2 hours and think please next time when you sit for the exam hall you go to the exam hall and sit for the paper please go with a fresh mind in your mind don't get stressed don't go to sleep sleep for at least 10 hours on 5th of December if you have your exam on 6th December ok as I already told you that our brain needs to be super alert to solve DILR mathematical reasoning questions and for that you need your brain to function at its optimal capacity and when will that happen when you give the machine rest ok now another important thing which a lot of students would find very very funny is to wear comfortable clothes when you go to the exam centre I have seen that a lot of students who come after a long time they are like all dolled up I would really want to you know you guys to understand that the more comfortable clothes you wear even if you are wearing a pajama in a very loose t-shirt I don't know about which part of India you all guys from so depending upon the weather if you wear your proper comfortable clothes you will be able to concentrate better ok remember it's not a fashion show but an exam hall you are not going on a date there so please keep your fashion sense aside just focus on being very very comfortable there shouldn't be any discomfort in your body don't wear anything which irritates you in your mind there is a possibility of distraction ok value comfort more than fashion so please if you haven't thought about what you will wear keep your comfortable clothes and that is what you are going to wear on the day of the exam another very important thing exam day please ensure that you take bath and breakfast both do not skip on any one of it I have seen a lot of students who didn't tell me that we were reading the whole night we could not get time to take bath and breakfast we directly went to the exam hall where we suddenly got BP low and there were students who felt that we were very hungry so we were unable to read the questions there were people who felt that we felt very very lazy very sleepy and because of all of them their 6 months of hard work got spoiled that is the reason why I am telling you these very simple kindergarten level things because I know that you all worked hard for this exam paper you might fall short of a few marks so our body feels more energetic after bathing that is the reason why I would really want that on the day of the exam please take a quick shower because when your body water falls at that time all your pores get activated and your brain gets more alert so it is very important to get your brain to that alert position that it starts running in a relay race breakfast is a fuel for your brain we all know the importance of breakfast why I am telling you to have breakfast is because your brain needs energy to work all of our food the most energy the machine we need in our body that is our brain so if you are not eating there is no energy to give its best so even if you are living in a PG your exam centre is far away please ensure that you carry snacks, proper breakfast you have whatever you like have that and please don't go into the exam hall empty stomach next important thing some exam essentials exam centre has to reach an hour before if we don't want to close the gate we are taking 8-5 hours we don't know how the weather is going to be what is going to be the status of the traffic I would really request you if you can carry your book 1 hour before read it for half an hour and then you submit your bag and then go into the exam hall I would really want the exam centre to reach don't panic because of which you won't be able to see your 100% number 2, admit card you have to carry the credit card please ensure that you put the alarm on a mobile phone on 6th of December suppose you are planning to leave your house at 7.30 7.20, 7.10, 7.00 put 3 alarm on 6th in which you put a reminder that you have taken the credit card I have seen a few students last year who made this mistake they were running late in the morning they quickly went to the exam centre and realized that they forgot to bring their credit card and because of that they had to go back to their home and could not sit for the exam so please don't make this mistake try to take important stuff if you don't want to take books I would really want to go to the water bottle if you want to go with it please don't carry important stuff important documents important notes because there are centres where you don't have a proper library or a storage unit where you can keep your luggage please money, credit card debit cards, expensive items I have seen a lot of people wear rings or chains and they kind of at times in the exam hall they have to submit all of this so please at least take things you will do you will not take debit card you can keep some money you are not going to carry anything that is of gold, silver or any precious stones and please before entering the exam hall don't have any discussion with your friend you have to be at the best mental state that you can be it has to be a very very good day for you where you are fully prepared and you are just sitting for the exam and your focus is to just give your best your focus is not to clear the exam but to give your best so that is why it is very very essential to take care of these small things moving ahead to the next thing if in case you see a question which you are not able to answer what should you be doing very simple two tricks I am telling you, number one is deep breathing now a lot of people say what happens with deep breathing and why Arpata emphasizes on this so many times let me tell you that when you breathe very deeply the flow of oxygen fills in your brain so the oxygen in your brain is able to think of all the possible solutions to a scenario most of the time what happens if you have an accident medical emergency, doctors always say breathe deeply try to breathe deeply why do they say this it is not said that breathing deeply is something which will make you feel good it doesn't feel good the oxygen supply fills in your brain because of these problems your body is an excellent healer who can heal himself if you are focusing on breathing your anxiety will automatically work your body if you breathe deeply so if you are getting anxiety at any point just take 2-3 long deep breaths and I am telling you, you will feel a little better than what you were feeling another interesting thing breathing is very important because again if you know it is H2O, it has a molecule of oxygen so when you drink water you are doing the same thing when oxygen supply fills in your body your brain gets more activated so as soon as you activate your brain starts thinking of possible scenarios so what happens is if we have read anything in our brain our subconscious brain is very very powerful I will show you something on google let me show you something so this is this is how our mind looks like what we see is 10% which is our conscious mind and our subconscious mind forms 90% so the most powerful tool which can achieve anything is our subconscious mind everyone's mind is similar Einstein Anil Ambani Mukesh Ambani, Narendra Modi all of you have unlimited potential just the cases that those who have got a lot of success they have tapped into their subconscious mind they have started to derive their subconscious mind with power what happens in most of the scenario is that whenever you are trying to recall and you are not able to do it it is already in your subconscious mind but it is coming into your conscious mind when you tell your brain to calm down a little bit and to be more relaxed sometimes your subconscious brain activates and then the subconscious brain is able to give you right answers another interesting thing that I want to tell you is to activate the subconscious brain so I have been telling this a lot of times so when you type this on youtube arpathakarva meditation this is the video that you are going to see it is a 10 minute video and this is basically a meditation where I am telling you to visualize exam setup where you are very calm and relaxed and you are giving the paper and you can absolutely get things right it is a beautiful meditation that boosts your confidence and help you streamline your stress and anxiety so if you have not done this before so my very humble request please download this video you can download it in your youtube application in your mobile phone download this video and start practicing this every morning and every night before sleeping till the time you have your exam I am telling you this is the least I am saying is going to increase your confidence to 20-25% more so please do that another interesting thing when it comes to confidence is that when you are giving the exam paper and you have a question in front of them in front of you so before that if you are thinking that you have to give me an exam so always operate out of desire to gain and not out of fear of loss if I did not pass the exam then what will be wrong instead of thinking your mind should go if I passed the exam so what all new opportunities will I have how good it will be so can I gain I will think from there not that can I lose if I did not perform well in the exam most of the time when we are thinking in our mind I am reading and if I forget what if I forget everything what if I am not able to complete the exam on time what if whatever I have studied doesn't come in the exam yes our negative talk you have to hold back it is for this meditation that I have just recommended on youtube is going to be really really helpful because your beliefs your expectations your negative self talk will help you to change have confidence in your ability believe that you will surpass your own expectation you will perform better than what you have studied if you can just have that confidence in your ability now one interesting thing and one major mistake that students do is that they start calculating their marks after completing paper one so you completed paper one after that you come first that I will take a quick look at how many percent questions you are doing and then I will go to paper two this is the biggest error that you can do I would really really not recommend you that you do not have to do paper one or paper two exam when you are giving paper you don't have to look at how many percent questions you have yet to attempt because that can be really demotivating at times you will feel a lot of pressure you will feel that my paper one is not that good I will do paper one, two I will perform so well I will not be able to do the exam clearly what I have told you about Steve Jobs you have to focus on if I am doing question number 5 then I have to solve question 5 with my best of the ability I am not going to focus on what is happening in question number 4 I don't care about question number 6, just question 5 is going to be my focus point for now, in this way you have to focus on one question at a time whatever you have done in paper one, draw a line to your past, if you have attempted question number 4 draw a line to the past we don't have to look at it question 5, question 4 how good you have done or how bad you have attempted maybe you have made a mistake maybe you don't remember maybe that question is out of the syllabus maybe that question you didn't understand maybe when you were solving your value you are not matching the value of MCQ whatever happened, you solved this question forget about that question just focus on the next question your performance in paper one will mentally affect you and can also affect your paper two that is why most of the time people don't score well in paper one 100% in paper two and that is the reason why they are able to you know clear net many times you are confused in paper one that you make paper two bad and your net doesn't work so whatever you have done in paper one or paper two, please don't let that mentally affect you don't demotivate yourself by saying I could have done that because when we are studying in exam we think questions are too much I wish that day I didn't go to my aunt's daughter's wedding and I covered this topic that day I wish that day I didn't scroll on Instagram and if in your subconscious mind these topics are going on you have to speak your mind whatever has happened I draw a line to my path my focus is I have to give my best I could have done this no, I don't want to think because whatever happened there is no point thinking about it okay don't let what you cannot do come in the line of what you can do now you have 3 hours in which you can clear your paper by giving your 100% 6 months I wish I had prepared like this I wish I had done this I wish I had done that you can do whatever you can you can't do that that's why it is important don't let what you cannot do come in front of what you can do let it be what can I do in 3 hours okay don't let performance of one paper affect another paper another interesting paper now last but not the least I have this very very you know small request to each one of you I know that all my students come from various different religious background some of you might also be atheists you might not be believing in God and then there are people who are like who love worshipping and who worshiped different gods be it Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Si, Muslim anybody we all kind of agree unanimously that there is a force beyond you and me who is taking care of the entire world and something is happening there is a force behind you and me you can call him by any name that you want now when you sit for the paper I would really request you to just ask that universal force to carry you through the paper to just guide you wherever you feel stuck you can just have this surrender because they came 100% hard work still there are times when some divine blessings can help us get to that 120% so why not evoke that divine presence on the day of the exam and tell that divine presence to be with us and carry us through the exam paper we have a prayer section on the website and this is a universal prayer that I really really like and I also suggest my students to do it so you can go to arpathakara.com here is the prayer section and this is an infinite prayer which is a one minute prayer and here in this prayer you will see that continuously a dai word rai, dai here stands for any god or any force that you want to call him god, Allah, Jesus, Ram, Krishna anyone that you believe in or any universal power also you don't have to give him a name just do this prayer for like 2-3 days and just evoke that divine presence that you know that's going to be there with you on the day of the exam and I'm telling you that it's going to add that extra effect and it's going to give you that faith so pray to you know whichever god you believe in just before you start the paper okay so with that note we come to the end of this presentation so these are the topics that we covered today number one that do not panic if you do not remember your notes secondly do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam I don't want a single student who has filled the exam form not going in appearing for the paper no matter how bad you have prepared it's okay just go and sit for the paper there's nothing that you can lose there is a possibility very possibility but there is a possibility that you might clear net this time if you don't sit then there is zero possibility if you sit then that possibility can be anything between 1% to 100% okay number three get your basics right I have told you to take care of food, water sleep complete wear comfortable clothes take bath and breakfast on the day of the exam carry all the exam essentials like admit card you have to take everything ensure you reach atleast one hour before the exam mantra for calming anxiety to mantras I told you be breathing and in taking water and then I told you the importance of confidence is the key you have to understand that I have to give my best that's it don't go in negative mind I wish I had done this I wish I had studied this what would have happened what can I do in 3 hours which I can give my best that should be your mantra don't start calculating your marks after completing your paper one you just have to focus on the question in front of your screen and evoke the divine presence so with that note I come to the end of today's live I hope that this live is going to prove beneficial on the day of the exam and please ensure that you do not make any of the mistakes that I have mentioned here because I have seen a lot of students making these silly mistakes because of which they lose valuable marks and I don't want that to happen with you so with that note I am going to take your leave and if you have any questions or any doubts feel free to put that in the comment section below and my team is going to help you you have the option to do free counseling sessions and I would really recommend you to do meditation every day which is there on youtube channel so that's it from my side for this video lecture I will meet you very soon in the next video lecture till the time we meet next happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarva.com