 Friends, welcome to my channel. I am Arpita Karwa. Last week I was really very busy. I've been speaking and meeting a lot of toppers of UGCnet who have qualified in the last two years and I was actually asking them a lot of questions. I was curious to know what they do which others don't do because of which they are able to qualify and others never make to the list of the toppers of UGCnet. And you will be really surprised to look at what I have found out. There are a lot of research which shows that we average human beings, we think that these toppers who are either in our universities or in our schools or who qualify any important government or competitive exam have certain different sets of skills altogether. Some of us believe that they have higher IQ than we have. Others believe that they are extremely hard working and they have self discipline in them. There are a lot of myths which are there in the society in regards to what a topper needs to do in order to be a topper. And now that I have spoken to and met several toppers of UGCnet, I have some proofs with me which will be ground shaking for you. So in this video I am going to tell you specific skills which these toppers have and which you can in build in yourself and can achieve really nice marks and even can make to the list of toppers in the next net exam. And don't worry if the exam is coming near. Even if you start applying these tips from today itself, I am telling you you will be surprised to see the kind of result you will be producing. Also a bonus tip is waiting at the end of this video for all of you. I am pretty sure that all of you must be worried about how to prepare a timetable, a revision timetable which can help you in the last few days of the exam. If you are facing the problem in making a timetable which never works, you most of the time design a timetable and next day you throw it in the dustbin. I can actually empathize with you because I have been a kind of person for whom the timetable was a disaster. I could never live up to the expectations of my timetable. And when I had a word with all these toppers, I figured out that there is a very different method in which they make the timetable. So in this video towards the end, I am going to share that very method of making a timetable so that you can stick to it for a longer period of time. So let's get started. The first myth that I would like you to break before you start your preparation for the next net exam is that we all tend to somewhere or the other feel in our mind that toppers are above average IQ people. We always try to overestimate the importance of IQ. When I was speaking to all these toppers, I found out that almost all of them reported that they are average IQ people. But what made them toppers is not their IQ, their self-discipline, their self-motivated and their resilience. These three factors actually helped them to top the exam. So always understand the fact that people who are low on IQ can also make it to the toppers list if they have in themselves self-discipline, they are self-motivated and they have resilience. So there was a very nice study that happened in University of Pennsylvania where the researchers said that self-discipline triumphs IQ almost all the times. So if you keep on thinking that you are a below average person, below IQ person and you want to clear a particular exam, you will keep on telling yourself that I can never make it because I'm low on IQ, I'm not so brilliant. And you keep on feeding yourself these beliefs because of which you never feel like working up hard for it because you think that that's a non-achievable thing for you. So make sure that you tell yourself today itself that we should not overestimate the importance of IQ. The second important tip that I would like to give all of you who want to become a topper in the net exam is that don't just aim to work hard. I know you must be surprised, you know, Arpita is the one who always keep on telling us to work hard and today she's saying don't just aim to work hard. Let me clear this doubt. I've been speaking this line in a few of my motivational seminars and these leadership workshops that I take up and whenever I say this I find that all the people who are in the audience, they have their eyes wide open and they have this small smile on their face. I feel as if they're only listening to don't work hard. They're not listening to the entire phase that is don't just aim to work hard. That's the entire phrase. Don't just aim to work hard. Now what I meant by this is that have you seen this in your life that there are people who work equally hard as you work but you always end up getting bad scores. I have seen it in my life. There were a few students who are in my class who were working as hard as I was working. Yet they always complained that they got worse grades. I was always surprised to figure out that what is the reason behind getting worse grade and then one day I came across a very powerful line by Michael Jordan, one of my favorite athlete. And he said that if you have got 10,000 balls and you've got one bad technique all you're going to do is to become good at shooting badly. It's a very powerful line. What he meant in this line is that if you have a wrong technique and you're working again and again with the same technique then you'll get into that technique. But you have to understand that the technique is wrong. So don't just aim to work hard actually means that you have to see that the hard work you're doing is it actually in the right direction? Are you actually doing the right things? Because I have been a follower of Jaggi Sadguru and he says it very beautifully that if you want right things to happen in your life you have to do the right things. Do the right things only then the right things are going to happen to you. If you're doing wrong things, if you're not applying right techniques you can't expect right results. So you check that if you work very hard and still you're not able to get good marks, where is the wrong technique? There's a video that I've shared on YouTube about how to score maximum marks in your BA and MA exams. And in that video I've actually given you a strategy, a technique to rightly present your answers. Most of the students write a 6 or 7 page answer and still they get like 6 or 8 out of 20 and there are students who write 6 or 7 page answers and get 18 or 17 marks out of 20. What's the difference? Both of them are working hard but the difference isn't the right strategy. Today I'm going to showcase in front of you a very very important statistical data when it comes to doing right things and what toppers do which we fail to look at and we fail to apply in our study routine. Now if you look at the graph which is given right next to me you will figure out that there are different kind of activities that students do just a week before their exams. If you look at the graph you will figure out that there are few people who are actually reading the text or reading the notes over and over again and it's a very big percentage. 56% students keep on reading and re-reading the data before the exam or a week before the exam. There are others who are actually trying to rewrite the notes so that they can learn better. So some people learn when they write it again and again. There are people who are trying to cram the notes. So if you look at different different people you will figure out that there is a very small percentage 11% people who are actually doing practice test, who are actually doing mock test. Rest everybody if you look at in the table you will find out that all of them are actually trying to remember the information in some or the other manner. 76% of the people are directly engaged in memorizing or trying to tell themselves that I should not forget. So they are keep on revising it again and again. Let me tell you very, very strictly here that why do we do that? Why do we mug up things? Why do we cram before the day of the exam? You must have seen that while you were going for your board exam a lot of students would be mugging up just before the exam bell goes on. It is because the biggest fear that we have when we sit for an exam is that what if I forget something? So in order to calm that down we try to revise and revise and revise before the exam. But then these are not the people who are going to top the exam, who are going to become the toppers. Exam we must understand is not a test of memory. They are not trying to see how much we can recall. They can actually they are there to tell us or to check that what do we do with what we remember? What do we do with what we remember? And that is where mock test come into play because when you do mock test before the exam you will find out that how are you applying the concept and getting the results. There are people who would mug up books but still they are not able to solve very simple MCQs. That is because they've never practiced that. So what I meant by the statement don't just aim to work hard is that work hard in the right direction. Don't keep on cramming things. Try to test yourself. Do a lot of practice test. In our Crash Course series that we run on our website we have 3,000 mock test questions so that students get enough of practice before they sit and give the actual exam and that is what is going to help them in long run. So remember that practice exams mock test are going to be the separating factor. They are going to actually take you to that level and rest of the people are going to be here. So if you want to actually bridge this gap between you and the performance of other students start with mock test. The third most crucial aspect which toppers have in themselves and which we lack as human beings or as fellow students is self discipline. Now self discipline can have a lot of aspects but one of the most crucial aspect of self discipline is a timetable. So a timetable is something which actually tells you what you have to do today. What are the tasks that you have to accomplish and only by sticking to a timetable you can see that you are becoming more and more self disciplined day by day. A lot of students today are struggling with the problem of making a good revision timetable since the net exam is very nearby. I get a lot of calls. People ask me that what should I study? What should be a timetable? Please tell me. Let me tell you that there's a very slight difference between the timetable that we make and the timetable that toppers make. Have you ever seen yourself making a timetable? You put all the dates there and then you put all the things you have to accomplish that day. I'll be completing five units. I'll be completing two mock tests. I'll also be doing my college assignment and the timetable is filled with the tasks that you have to do. And if you look at the timetable, there's this thing missing because of which you feel like throwing that timetable and that timetable never works even if you have made a very, very fashionable timetable with all those colors and it is there in front of your study table. On the other hand, have you ever observed the topper making a timetable? Because I have done so. If I look at the toppers, I find that their timetable has an element which our timetable doesn't. And what is that element? When they write all the things that they have to accomplish, they also write the things that they would be doing just because they want to feel good about themselves. So we all have our hobbies, interests. We all love to do something. We fail to put that in our timetable and because that happiness is missing from our timetable, we don't feel like working on that timetable. When I was talking to all these great toppers, they told me that even if they have a very hectic schedule, they would deliberately put a one hour entertainment slot in their timetable where if a person likes music, he'll be listening to music. If a person loves shopping, he might put that, I'll be visiting this particular showroom today and I'm going to just go for some simple window shopping or if there's a person who has this sports keda inside him, he's going to watch his favorite match tonight after he completes his daily task. A person who loves to watch TV shows and movies, he might put a slot where he's going to give himself a one hour TV break. So if you look at the timetable of a topper, he actually puts in things which he loves and when you do things you love, you feel so good, so happy, so motivated that that energy even radiates in your work, in what you do, in what you study. So don't make a schedule which is extremely boring because if it is boring, it is not going to last long. Also if it is boring, you're not going to retain a lot of information. If you're happy, you can memorize a 20 page answer in half an hour. If you are bored, you might take ages to learn that answer. So make sure you're happy, motivated, you give yourself small, small study breaks where you do what you love and that is how you're going to get good marks in your net exam. So I wish you all the best for the upcoming net exam. I hope that the three tips that I've given in this video are going to be game changers in your preparation. Also make sure that you go to my website and check out the crash course that we are giving to our students. You also get to see all the previous year papers on my website. Don't forget to subscribe this channel so that you get notified about all the new videos that I post. I'll be posting a lot of videos in the upcoming weeks because the exam is very near. 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