 friends welcome to my channel. We all know that gate exam is right around the corner and I'm receiving tons of messages every day where students are showcasing their worry about the last-minute exam prep. So here I am with a video in which I'm going to talk about the best possible way in which you can utilize the last one week before the gate exam. Also don't forget to watch this video till the end because towards the end I'm going to share three bonus tips on how you can effectively give the exam. So I'm going to talk about certain important tips that you must remember while giving the gate exam and I'm also going to talk about a very very important strategy on how to fluke the right answers. We all know that in a competitive exam as difficult as gate it is very very important to guess the answers in a smart manner. You might not know the answer but you can still guess it in such a manner that you get it right. You get that answer right. So I'm going to talk about that strategy towards the end of this video. The very first lesson that I would like you to learn from this video is that don't wait for course completion. Directly jump into revision. What I mean by this is very simple. You don't need to learn anything new in this last week. You just need to focus on revising whatever you have studied so far. Even if you've studied just for 15 days stop studying anything new right now and take the notes of those 15 days and start revising them one by one. Why am I saying this? I'll give you a very simple example from my life. So I have a little brother who is currently preparing for SAT exam SAT exam and he gave a mock test a few days back. In that mock test he got some really really simple questions wrong and when I was sitting with him and analyzing the paper I could actually see the reason why he was getting those questions wrong. He has studied mean median mode concepts five months back but just before the mock he did not go through the formula sheet. He did not revise the information which he has been studying from past five months. What happens? When the question comes you are sure about how to solve it but you don't recall the formula or you might not recall a very simple step just because you've not revised it. Because revision is the key guys. Revision helps to consolidate the information. We keep on learning so many new information it all gets stored in the brain but it has to get consolidated. A particular information has to fit to the chain of other information which are related to it and that will not happen unless and until you start revising. And this is the reason why I am telling you to stop whatever you are doing right now and start revising whatever you have studied so far. Let's now jump to the second lesson. The second lesson simply states that please stay away from the rumours. Now there's a fair possibility that one of your friend what saps you a list of writers saying that five or six questions are definitely going to come from this particular list in the GATE exam. Whatever you were doing you keep that aside and you start focusing on that list day in and day out right before the exam. Now have you ever given a thought that since this exam is happening for the first time how did your friend know that this kind of writers or these topics are going to pop up in the exam? No we don't put in our brain we just do what the other people are doing specifically our good friends. I still remember guys that when I was preparing for my net exam I kept my cell phone off switched off for six months before the exam because I did not want to get in touch with any of my friends. Friends at times have a very bad influence in your life they are either going to call you and tell you how much they have studied and if you have not studied that much that is going to put you in an anxious state or else there are friends who are going to call you and tell that they have not studied anything and they are just going to chit chat because they know they are not going to clear the exam so they are going to pass their time in the last one week but you don't belong to any of these categories so kindly keep yourself away from friends, acquaintances who are going to put you morally down in the last one week. It is important for you to only focus on your preparation and nothing else. It's not advisable to become selfish in life but in areas like these make sure that you take that selfishness inside you and you make sure that you do something exclusively for your own benefit. Don't think about what other people are going to say whatever they have studied, what they are doing, what are their strategies just make your own strategy and stick to it. It is not going to help you to keep shifting from one strategy to the other. It is important that you follow your own strategy for a sufficient amount of time so that the results can be visible. There are a lot of people who are enrolled in my online course from where they are preparing not just for GATE 2021 but also for UGC net June 2021. A lot of people call me and ask me that for GATE 2021 they just have one week left if studied almost all the modules that were there in my course ranging from British literature, American, post-colonial, theory and criticism and they are struggling with the idea that what should be their primary focus during revision. So let me tell you guys that IIT Bombay released a mock test for GATE 2021 in which there were 40 questions from English literature portion and out of these 40 questions there were questions from different different topics. The list of those questions and their division is displayed on the screen. Now you can see very clearly from this list that the primary focus in the mock was on British literature as always be it any examination related to English literature British literature would be the primary focus always remember this is a thumb rule that you should never forget if you are a literature student preparing for any sort of competitive exam and the next important area was Indian literature. So from the mock test we can definitely conclude that British and Indian literature should be your primary focus during revision but since the GATE exam is conducted for the first time and you're not sure how and by what means are they going to set the paper we can still not predict a lot of stuff but looking at the mock test these are the two things that I think you should be focusing in the last one week. So now it's the time where I'm going to share the three bonus tips that will help you in your GATE 2021 exam. We all know that GATE exam has negative marking this time and whenever any exam has negative marking students are really confused on how to mark the answers should they attempt the questions they are not sure of should they attempt the questions for which they are confused or should they totally or altogether leave those questions which are giving them goosebumps. So I have a very simple strategy here the first important thing that you need to understand and apply on the day of the exam is the elimination technique. Now what is elimination technique in a normal scenario where you have a question with four options what is the probability of getting one option right 25 percent right that simple maths but suppose you want to increase your probability to get the question right in that case what you do is you use the elimination technique that was used by the master brain Sherlock Holmes. So whenever Sherlock Holmes had to find a murderer in a mystery what he would do is that he was going to eliminate all the options or all the people who were not the murderer according to him. So whatever left however improbable would be the correct option that was what Sherlock Holmes always said the same technique even you have to apply. So suppose you get a question where you have four options now the first intention of yours should be to eliminate at least two options which according to you will never be the right answer. So suppose you eliminate option A and B now what is left with you and C and D. Now the answer is going to be either C or D so what is the probability that you're going to get it right 50 percent right in case you would not have eliminated then the probability of getting any one option right out of the four would be 25 percent. So you have increased your chances of getting to the right answer. So always make sure whenever you have a question don't look for the right option try to look for the wrong option and cross it so that whatever remains at the last is going to be the right answer. So this is the first bonus tip the second bonus tip is that don't get stuck on a particular question this is a very very silly thing that we all do since childhood like I remember when I was going to school my mom used to always tell me before the exam don't get stuck to a question if you don't know move on don't try to put your brain your energy into just solving one question you're not going to get extra marks for getting that question right. So your intention should be spend 10 to 15 seconds on a question if you don't get it right in the first place leave it and move ahead. Another important benefit when you use this technique is that you're not just save time but you also help your subconscious brain. What happens is whenever we read something which is tricky our subconscious brain automatically starts looking for answers. We have all the information stored in our brain but it takes time to retrieve that information. So when you're not focusing too much on a question and you're moving to the next question behind the activities of your conscious brain your subconscious brain is going to slowly and gradually try and look for the right answer of that question which you left or which you skipped. So next time when you're going to read that question in your revision period of your examination automatically the right answer might you know strike you why would that happen because your brain was subconsciously working to find the right answer. But if you try to put in a lot of pressure in your brain your brain will get anxious your brain will get into a zone where fear is operating and in that case he will not be able to look for the right answer. So just let your brain work on its own speed meanwhile you can go and solve the simpler questions. The difficult questions can be left to your subconscious brain and even if the subconscious brain is not able to come up with an answer we always have the elimination technique in place. So finally we land on to the third bonus tip now this tip is very common and I know that all of you would have done this kind of error in any of your previous exams and the tip is avoid silly mistakes. I know you know that right but have you ever wondered that how many times you've lost some really really important marks in the exam because of your silly mistake and yet you commit it every time in your next exam. So this time let us pledge that in Gate 2021 paper we are going to make sure that we are not going to lose a single mark because of a silly mistake. It's okay to lose marks when you don't know the question you don't know the options but it is really disheartening and not at all acceptable if you lose marks because of silly mistakes. Right? So make sure that you give five extra seconds to a question just to avoid the silly mistake. There can be n number of silly mistakes that we all commit. There are times when we don't read the question properly. Suppose the question says that who amongst the following has not been the prime minister of India. Now while reading the question and by getting excited that you are going to know the answer for this question you don't read the word not and what you end up marking is Manmohan saying because according to you he has been the prime minister of India but you did not check the question twice that the question was actually saying that who amongst the following have not been the prime minister. The second kind of silly mistake we all do is when we are looking at the numeric questions. So we are going to look at the question and we are going to jot down the digits in the rough sheet of paper to solve it and while jotting down the digits we jot it down wrongly. Now you end up solving the entire question but you don't get to the right option why because the digits were wrong. Sometimes we do the other way around where we have solved the question the digits we have noted in the rough sheet is right but while marking the answer from rough sheet to the computer screen we mark the wrong answer unknowingly and we don't even check it later. So make sure that this time you skim through the question paper in such a way that you don't commit any single silly mistake. I would also like to know in the comments below that what kind of silly mistakes have you done in your previous exam. I would be the first person commenting below because I have done a lot of them and I've learned from each of them right. So let's meet in the comment section below and let's see what kind of silly mistakes we've done in our past lives. So that's it for this video lecture. I wish you all the best for the upcoming GATE 21 exam and I hope that you bring laurels to your family. That's it for this video. We'll meet very soon in the next video lecture till the time we meet next. Happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpathakarva.com