 Everyone, a very good morning to all of you who are going to be joining today's live so in today's live as you can see on screen, we are going to be talking about last minute strategies that you should keep in mind if you're preparing for UGC at December 2023. The admit cards are not yet out for the exam that is going to happen tomorrow, but our team is continuously checking the website and getting in touch with the right people. So as soon as we get an information, we will get back to you. So in today's video, we are going to be talking about some really, really important tips and tricks that you should keep in mind when you are going to give the exam. How do you solve MCQs to get utmost accuracy is what we are going to focus on in today's live. So before I go ahead just a quick check if you guys can hear me and can see my screen clearly also just wanted to tell you that I am live. This is not a recorded video today is 5th of December 2023 Tuesday 1141 a.m. Okay, so I would really request if you guys can put in the comment section below if my screen is visible to you so that I can go ahead and talk about all the topics that we are going to be covering in today's live. Saeed is asking ma'am which paper to solve first it totally depends Saeed. I would really recommend you to solve a paper which you are more confident in because what happens is that the moment you start solving questions and if you are getting the answers right it gives you that boost of confidence which helps you to solve even more difficult questions. So I would never suggest you to directly dive into a section where you are not very not very sure about for example for me practical portions like DI and mathematical reasoning and logical reasoning was something where I used to struggle. So I always kept it for the end I wanted to first solve all the theoretical questions so that I know that okay I am I have done my job well and now I can dive into questions. Okay, so I received a few replies Anshika Pradeepa, Mini, Sureshri, Pooja, Rani, good morning to all of you and I hope you guys are well prepared for the exam. So without any further delay let's jump right into the topic. So in today's live we are going to be covering all these questions. We are going to be talking about the category of questions how to solve easy questions complex questions questions which you have no idea about like something that you have not studied at all you don't know the question. Then we are going to be talking about the net exam interface and we are going to be talking about some essential tips and how to have a winning mindset. Okay, so these are a few important topics that we are going to be covering in today's live. So the very first thing that I want to talk about is a mnemonic that I have framed which is track time. So in track time, all the things are highlighted in a very important aspect which you should keep in mind. So if you guys are not having a pen and paper I would really request you to quickly grab a pen and paper and keep noting down what I am going to share. So track time mnemonic T stands for track time since beginning. What a lot of students do is that they kind of have a very laid back approach when the exam starts. So half an hour they are just solving slowly and suddenly after an hour or so they kind of realize that oh my god there are so many questions left and I have so limited time. So then they kind of get in a panic mode and they are not able to give their 100%. So it is very important that you don't waste time in the initial period. Okay, so we all know that 50 questions are asked from paper one and 100 questions are asked from paper two. So in total we have 150 questions and how many minutes do we have? So with the paper is of three hours. So 60 minutes into three is 180 minutes. So approximately if we keep that 30 minutes kind of buffer time. So per question you have one minute. So your mind when you will be solving paper you should think that within one minute I have to solve a question. That does not mean that you compromise on accuracy by focusing on speed. That is the reason why towards the end of this live I am going to focus on the idea that you have to be very, very vigilant and you have to give a few mocks before you sit for the main exam so that you know how is your mind behaving and what are the mistakes that you are doing. Okay, so the very first step from my side would be to track time since beginning. Please don't waste the initial 30-40 minutes by just doing 5-7 questions or putting a lot of effort in solving questions that you are not solving. Understand that you will get two marks in each question. So if you are putting 20 minutes in a question then you are kind of you know not giving yourself the opportunity to get 40 marks, 20 questions right. You are just focusing on one question. We don't have to use any questions to solve this question. If it is not solved in 1-1.5 minutes then leave it and move ahead. Okay, next is R which is Read Instructions Carefully. So you all get extra time to read the instructions. So there are two types of instructions. One is when you open the portal of NT, you get general instructions. I will show you what types of instructions are. So we have a very similar interface on our platform, It is exactly similar as how do you find the instructions on the day of the exam. So these types of instructions come. I would really request you that you are reaching the exam early. You get extra 10-15 minutes when the paper does not start. Suppose your paper starts at 9. If you are in the 8-45 exam hall then sit and read these questions for 15 minutes. So please read all the topics. Now not just these instructions but also the instructions that you get when you solve a question. So when you solve questions then there are instructions on the top. I would request all of you to at least read the question twice. You have to focus on every word. Sometimes they have these tactics to check whether you are concentrating on the question perfectly or not. So they are going to kind of put a few keywords here and there which you will neglect. And the meaning of the sentence changes from those keywords. Now another important thing which is attempt order. What is attempt order? You don't have to solve questions in sequence right when I went live. One student asked me which paper I have to attempt first. It is important to attempt the paper first. Which questions have to be attempted in each paper. So always have this tendency that I will solve the easiest questions first. There is no point in putting a lot of effort on a question. You have to solve it right there. If it doesn't come then it is difficult. Skip it and move on. So attempt order is nothing like that. You have to do the first, second, third questions. First you have to keep track of which questions you have to solve. After that you have to focus on questions that you find difficult. I am going to come to this section and talk about it in more detail towards the second half of the life. But for now please remember that you don't have to solve questions in sequence. Solve the easy questions first. You get a confidence boost from this. Plus there are not many students who are solving the difficult questions. They took so much time that towards the end of the paper there were 5-7 such questions which were very easy. But they couldn't reach there. Time up. That is the most horrible mistake that a student can do. That some marks are lost in front of you and you can't see them. That's why solve all the easy questions first. So that you don't have to face time crunch later on. So it's not like you can solve some easy marks yourself. Now see. When I was talking about read instructions carefully I just talked about one more thing. You don't have to read general instructions. You have to read the question carefully. So that is what this C point is saying. Check questions twice. Words like not always can change the entire meaning of the question. So always look at the question. Read one thing carefully. And then move ahead. I would always want to keep telling this to my students. NTA UGC net exam is not a test of speed. It is test of accuracy. You don't have enough time. You don't have time. Accurately you have to focus on how many questions you are solving. Also when you read the question and you immediately see that this is the option. So directly don't take the option. It is very important to evaluate the other options as well. And the last thing is keep your belongings handy. So I have seen this happening with a lot of students. They reach the exam hall one hour before. And all their luggage is scattered. So always when you go to the exam hall. And this happens with me too. Most of these exams happen in colleges and universities which are not well maintained. So always check when you are sitting on your desk. Your chair, table, mouse, keyboard. Everything is working properly. Most of the time students don't think anything. The mouse is not working. Let's go. Because the mouse is not working. It is possible that you put a tick on wrong questions. Your mouse is not working. And you are getting irritated. Or maybe your mouse is not working. And while giving the exam. Your extra time is getting wasted. Take the mouse to the right location. The pointer to the right location. So always when you reach the exam hall. So check all these things. Your chair, table, everything is comfortable. The chair is not moving. Sometimes I asked the students. Their chair keeps moving. And they make that creaking sound. Because of which they are not able to take the paper stress-free. And if there is any problem with them. So please don't hesitate in asking the invigilator to change the chair, table, keyboard, mouse. Whatever if it is not comfortable. The job of the invigilator is to ensure that everything is up to the mark. So that the student can focus only on the paper. So please, it is very important that you have all your belongings. Your admit card, everything has to be in a particular place. If you are carrying a water bottle. Just check if everything is working fine or not. So this was track. Now we will talk about time. So you have to take good care of these 5 things. Track time since the beginning. Read instructions carefully. Attempt order. Check questions twice and keep your belongings handy. Now we move on to time. So time is the first step. It is tackle every question. Now, I hope you all know this fact that UGC net has no negative marking. So if you don't know anything about the question then you have to make a calculative guess. So if you leave a question, you get 0 marks. But if you attempt the question 25% probability that you have marked is correct. So why do you want to miss out on that 25% probability of getting those 2 marks? Because there is no negative marking. So you have nothing to lose. You only have something to gain. So whenever you read the question, if you don't have options, just do a calculative guesswork. I am going to come back to that topic very quickly. But for now, please remember you have to tackle every question. There are 10 questions at the end. You haven't even read the question. If you have a random A, B, C, D and 10 questions left at the end, then you have to answer any question. So please don't make this mistake. Number 7 is ignore surrounding. Now what is ignore surrounding? Your college may be located somewhere. It may be the traffic noise, or the sound of a puncture, or the students talking. Whatever is happening today, you have to train yourself that when I am in the exam room the computer screen in front of me or my computer screen, only I am going to focus on that particular thing. I am going to ignore everything that is happening around me. So focus is saying yes to one and no to other 99 things. Very, very important. If you want to focus, you have to tell yourself that you have to concentrate only on one thing. That is the screen in front of me and I have to ignore all the other 99 things that is happening around me. It may be in your mind too. You may be thinking how will I go home? How will I work? Your parents are in your mind. Your friends are in your mind. You have to self-talk to yourself in which you have to tell yourself that next three hours I will not think anything else except what is there in front of you. M is minimize bio breaks. Many students make this mistake and this is a very silly point that I am sharing but I know that sometimes we lose some important marks because of silly things. So always before you sit in the exam room just go to the washroom. If you don't feel like going to the washroom even if you don't go to the washroom still just use the loo once before the exam starts and then don't drink excessive water in the exam. It is always better that you keep your water drinking amount to 1 or 2 sips. That's it. Don't over drink because you have to take bio breaks again and again. E is energize yourself. I had said this in the life of a person where I had said that when you do deep breathing your anxiety automatically reduces. So water as you all know is made up of H2O that is Hydrogen and Oxygen. So when you intake water your brain gets oxygen. And when oxygen reaches your brain your brain gets energize and can give it 100%. So whenever you feel that your energy is low your anxiety is getting hit your fear is getting hit so always either start breathing deeply for 10-15 seconds if you do deep breathing you will see that your heartbeat is automatically normalizing. Or you can sip water which will fill your brain with oxygen supply and then you can give it 100%. So these were so these were track time. Track time since beginning read instructions carefully attempt order check questions twice keeps your belonging handy then we talked about tackle every question ignore surrounding man minimize bio breaks and energize yourself. So these are 9 tips which I want to give you which is very very important. Now we will talk about different types of questions that you are going to see in the UGC net exam. So the first thing that you need to understand is that paper is designed in a certain way. 50% questions easy now easy again is something which is very subjective because it totally depends upon your level of preparation if you are not reading anything then your whole paper will be hard but for a person who has done sufficient preparation who has covered 70-80% syllabus twice or twice twice or twice for that 50% paper will be filled with easy questions 30% paper will be complex questions and 20% paper is absolutely going to come from an area which you feel unknown like in paper 1 I remember once they asked Charlie Chaplin a question now Charlie Chaplin is something why we will read paper 1 which topic he is coming in but he has asked so you have to prepare yourself when you look at those 150 questions 50% questions easy 20% will be complex and 20% will be like that which you don't know in which you have to guess work right now why am I telling you this because when you prepare so you think that I will get 100 out of 100 questions and I will be a great paper when you get a reality check exam when you get questions which you don't know then your morale will be down which kind of affects your performance in the later phase of the exam because if you see a question which you don't know then you feel that I was not well prepared where did it come from and all those thoughts start roaming in your head which is why you can't answer the next question so my suggestion to you would be that you believe in yourself that you have prepared 50% questions easy 30% will be like that where you have to think about elimination technique or some other techniques and 20% questions like that where you can't solve even today if I go and sit for the paper so out of 100 questions in paper 2 10-12 questions like that which I don't know and I accepted why because the paper is designed in a way that you can't score 0% marks UPSC's toppers which are the main exam of UPSC there are many papers so the total of papers is somewhere around 2000 marks the topper who is all India rank 1 he or she is not able to score more than 950,000 marks so think about it a topper who has given 3-4 attempts and is extremely well prepared and that is the highest marks 1000-950 score out of 2000 he is able to secure all India rank 1 so UPSC may be some other exam another thing if you have thought that I have decided that I should get all questions right so please please throw this thought out of your brain you cannot get all questions right it should be to get 60-70% questions right just maybe 50% you will think I have done my best but I don't know whether the answer is right which is fine that is how the paper is designed another interesting thing don't panic if you get 5 questions wrong in a row many times they jumble many times they jumble in this way you don't get 5 questions and all of a sudden you start thinking oh my god I have I have done terrible in this paper I cannot clear it so if you are wrong in 5-7 questions then always remind yourself that I only have to get 50% questions right I can do guesswork I can do elimination I can try my level best to have a calculated guess but I cannot be 100% sure so if you have 100 questions you will get 50 questions right there will be 50 questions where you will have confusion you have to accept it it is as similar to a situation where suppose you want to you want to go to mount Everest and you have to trek there now you have to be prepared to go to mount Everest no matter the health level it will have a problem in palpitation it will have a problem in breathing it may get a little bluish it may get stuck in its hand all these physical things that happen with everyone it can happen with everyone but it will happen recently recently I went to Switzerland in Switzerland there is a very amazing mountain peak which is one of the top peaks so when we were going there we were like 40 people in a group and the tour guide who were there they did not give us a clue that no matter your health condition you are very fit you are unhealthy these are some things that you expect to happen with you it may happen to you your ears may be closed your blood pressure may be low you are tired you are going at a height of 3200 feet I don't remember exactly how much you are going at that height so when you speak you may not feel energy your blood pressure may be low you may not feel like walking you may start black out so they gave a list of symptoms when it can happen with whom we do not know because everybody reacts differently you should be well prepared to see how the question paper will look you should not be in your world that I have prepared so much that I will get all the questions if you are thinking then you are lying you will have to tell yourself that no matter how well I have prepared I will correct 50% questions the rest 50% questions will be where I will struggle where I will not know where the exam is going to go you don't have to give yourself false hopes now another interesting thing that you should remember is that UGC net syllabus is like an ocean what you know is just a drop of water hence it is okay to not know 100% of the things so you should know that the syllabus is very huge you know that it is just a drop of water and it is okay to not know 100% of the things so if you are solving some questions here 5 questions from one line which are unknown then you should know that this is how it is going to be the syllabus is so vast that I cannot know everything I should know that I do the best with what I know okay so this was about the kind of questions that you are going to see in the exam hall and few disclaimers about what you should think when you enter the exam hall and when you face the screen now we move on to how to solve easy questions now we will talk about three types of questions how to solve easy questions how to solve complex questions and how to solve unknown questions what is the difference between all three it is easy that you have read the MCQ options and you know how to solve them the complex is where you are reading the questions but when you look at the options you get confused you have to put your mind and still you are not sure that the answer will be this the unknown question is that I do not know okay for example Faber Castle I just see the exam board here so I am asking which year we started and which country this is an unknown question for most of the people because we do not know where Faber Castle started what is the complex question suppose Samuel Beckett has a question sorry Samuel Beckett has a question but there is a difficult question that you have studied waiting for Godot but still you are not sure what will be the answer and the easy question is that you have a symbol of Samuel Beckett if you have read the story then you will understand what is and what is not now one more thing that I wanted to talk about here is that I would really request all of you to know how to make notes I was speaking to a couple of students yesterday and all of them were struggling with this thinking how to do revision we have made a demo of premium videos and PDFs which is free of cost anybody can accept it by going to courses.arpatakarwa.com here I have given you 6 sample PDFs so that you know that if you are making notes about the saucer then what type of notes to make and this is the course students so we talk in this way that in biography you should know French period, Italian period, English period the entire time frame of the saucer is divided into 3 periods then what he contributed in the language what the themes are used what was the criticism in biography you should know he is the first poet who was buried in poet's corner of best minister those of you who don't know this thing just want to tell you what he contributed so this video you can see all the graves of all the great writers so this video you can see then you get to know what kind of kings supported him and then we get to know what were the things in the French period he was a part of the 100 year war that happened then in the Italian period he went in the automatic he married whom then in the English period he became a member of parliament then what is the contribution of the saucer in the language, what were the themes and what all the writers said about the saucer so from this type you have to make notes this is very very important because a lot of students say that before exams how to remember so all the video lectures that we give to you to each student but if you are not interested in buying the video course and if you want to make your own notes then also we would really suggest you that please go through these demo videos and pdfs and check which way you have to study because the videos we are making that is a kind of lighthouse for you to understand how to read a blueprint which way you have to approach a writer what you have to read and what you have to skip so this we have done now we will talk about how to solve easy questions but before I come to this point just want to know from you guys, if you guys have understood so far what I have explained if yes please put that in the comment section below, I would just give you like a minute or so to just recall what we have read few students are asking that we don't remember this mnemonic so this is track time so just if anybody wants to like write this down please put that in your notebook and then we are going to start with how to solve easy questions okay so I am just going to you know go for a couple of seconds and I am coming back till the time I would want you to just note this down in your copy okay great okay so I hope you guys have written this now let's move forward just want to know from you guys if you have understood so far Richika and Alka says yes great okay so let's move ahead and talk about how to solve easy questions so the very first thing how to solve easy questions is don't solve the papers in sequence attempt all easy questions first so first of all we have to solve paper 1 and paper 2 of both so you have this option you can shift from paper 1 to paper 2 it's not like you have to submit paper 1 and then you have to do paper 2 of both you can do any of the papers I mean you can do both the papers so first of all you have to solve all the easy questions of paper 1 and paper 2 and number 1 it helps to boost your confidence feeling of completion you feel relaxed when 50% questions are completed if you have done 75 or 60 questions if you have done it correctly and if you have done it confidently now you know that I have to focus only on 70 or 80 questions the rest of the papers are done feeling of completion plus when you solve so many questions there is this boost of confidence which is really helpful because as soon as you feel good about yourself your mind can deliver 10 times better results think about it the day you feel good about yourself the day you have done so many things which you can't do normally so feeling good is very very important between the papers when you feel good the medium or difficult questions you can tackle them very easily and the most important thing when you give a paper and you have solved any question there is a save and next option so I will tell you what are the options but for now just let me quickly tell you so if you want you can also give mock test on our platform which is free of cost so when you have a paper in front of you you have an option here suppose you have done that here there is a save and next option when you click on save and next the answer which you have given it becomes save this answer becomes save it is going to be considered for evaluation so just don't do next because when you click on next what happens is your answer is not recorded so whenever you solve easy questions and you are sure that this answer will be there then click on save and next now the second category of questions is complex questions there is a very famous line which is very dear to my heart and I always tell students that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth when you eliminate the impossible so whatever remains no matter how unlikely you feel that is the truth suppose you have to solve a murder mystery there are 4 people in front of you one of them has murdered you get to know that one of them was not in that murder city you got to know that he was in some other city so he can't murder so you got to know that the second person was sleeping at that time this is confirmed you have seen his video recording where he is sleeping the third person who was at that time in some party and you have confirmed it from the bartender that he was in that party the fourth person who was murdered is his mother I will think why did a mother murder her child but in the end the same murderer comes out I am just giving you a very fictional example why am I saying this because you have to understand that all the complex murder mysteries or any complex life problems are solved in this way that you have to first eliminate the impossible when you have eliminated the impossible you can't do this because it was not there at that time if you find it very strange that will be the truth now if you have a question that let's say the name of 4 rivers and I said which river flows from Delhi one of them is Seine river one of them is Thames one of them is Himalaya and one of them is Chambal now you know Seine is in Paris it flows in Thames, London it is not a river it is a mountain Chambal is the fourth river even if you have no clue about which river flows what is the pattern it will be the truth because nothing else can happen so if you have to solve any complex question then always use the elimination technique what does elimination mean you read the question, there are 4 options you removed 2 of them 50-50 now you have to see who will you choose basically you have to play KBC if you have seen the KBC of 50-50 remove 2 of them now you have to see who can be one of them sometimes you can remove 3 but this can't be you have a question on a writer which writer wrote this book and you got the book E.R suppose 1900 William Shakespeare, Jane Austen let's say Chaucer and then there is one other writer which you don't know now you know these 3 writers Jane Austen, Shakespeare and Chaucer they were not in 1900s even if you don't know the fourth one you have to use the elimination so option 1, 2, 3, 4 keep on striking this can't be, this can't be whatever is left in the last this can't be if you don't use the elimination to solve complex questions let's say you have a question which is 4 options you didn't use the elimination you saw that this question is difficult I don't know I hit anyone so when you hit anyone what is your probability 25% because 4 options 1 option is correct 25% probability which can't be 100% so the 2 options which you hit on your probability increases to 50% so this is the benefit of using elimination method that your probability increases 100% accurately then you won't be able to solve all the questions because that is the reason why it is called a complex question and not an easy question but at least 25% probability your probability increases to 50% now let's talk about how to solve unknown questions okay just a second let me just drink okay so how to solve unknown questions a very amazing book Mind for Numbers which is written by Barbara Oakley in this book she has told 3-4 things which I think would be very relevant in case of solving unknown questions so the very first thing is if your face is a difficult option it keeps looking for answers subconsciously in the background basically so think about it I'll give you a very simple example suppose a friend of yours asked you a question he had watched a movie in 2018 in which he had a murder and in the end I don't know which actor he was he was shot in very good locations he told you a lot of random things now you may remember which movie it is but you don't remember the name of the movie now when you face this type of challenging things you are working day by day normal routine work you are working day by day suddenly in the evening when you come home and you are taking a shower you remember that movie was Omkara when is this in your mind day by day subconscious and conscious mind conscious mind is what we normally use in our day to day activity like I am using my conscious mind and I am speaking and I am thinking what I have to say and all of this is happening subconscious mind is a very big part of your mind which is very powerful and it processes many things in itself so as soon as you face a difficult problem which you don't know then your subconscious mind processes all the things and collects the data to find the answer and then in the evening all of a sudden it processes and gives you the answer that movie was Omkara so what is basically happening is that you are not consciously thinking but your subconscious mind is looking for the answer read that question think about the options and then skip and move to the next question and let your subconscious mind in the background think about the possible solution for that question like I have just given an example that you were talking to a friend and that friend mentioned the name of a TV show but you couldn't recall in the evening while driving back you suddenly remembered that you were doing your normal routine but your subconscious mind continuously opens up the drives and files of your mind that what is the name of that TV show and then suddenly it gave the answer so we have to use the formula of the same subconscious mind in order to solve unknown questions because there may be some unknown questions which you read randomly but you still don't remember so when you face a question read the question think about that question for 30 seconds and then move to the next question and let your subconscious mind take over and find the answer you will be able to find it in many cases but you won't be able to find it in many cases suppose you haven't seen a movie and there is a question on it so your subconscious mind won't be able to find the answer but if you have seen something you will be able to find it anywhere so don't focus on lengthy questions too much don't devote more than 1 minute per question it is very important any unknown question may be very lengthy don't understand skip and move to the next question when you have done all the easy questions all the complex questions now you have 30 minutes put your mind in those 10-12 questions which you won't be able to find more than 1-1.5 minutes you won't be able to find a question another interesting thing don't get attached to a question remember all questions carry equal weight if you solve a difficult question then you won't get 15 marks solve a difficult question solve an easy question you will get 2 numbers in both the cases so it is always better to solve the first easy question now we move on to the next thing which is some basics I hope you all know I am quickly taking you through all these basic things so that in case you don't know you don't make a mistake conducted by NTA which is National Testing Agency paper 1 and paper 2 are on the same date they are in 3 hours many students are preparing for it they don't know till the end that paper 1 and paper 2 are together if there is no negative marking then rest assured how many questions come in paper 2 I get 100 questions and the last thing is each question contains 2 marks okay and one is it is a computer based test many people were asking whether this is CBT that is OMR or computer based test now before I move ahead just want to know from you if you guys have understood whatever I have shared so far so if you guys have understood just mention we have understood all done yes ma'am anything of this sort and then we will move ahead okay now we will talk about UGC net exam portal before that I am just waiting for you guys to like revert if you guys can you know if you guys have understood everything so far so let me just wait for a couple of responses and then we will move ahead to the UGC net exam portal great Ruchika Ani says yes okay perfect so we can move ahead now how does exam portal look like I will show you how it looks everything you need is in front of your screen there is a right panel which has name, details, question panel and symbols let me show you so this is the right panel these are the numbers these are the right panel then what do you have you have name and details on top here your name and your role number is shown here this is the question panel where you will have questions and options and there is a symbol which showcases which green questions which red questions which purple questions okay let's talk about symbols and meanings when you have buttons save and next mark for review now basically save and next suppose I have let's say this is question number 4 I have clicked option B and save and next so question number 4 becomes green so whenever you click save and next then it becomes green and then you have given the answer that answer is recorded that when you click on submit that answer will be considered for evaluation one option is save and mark for review here also you will see in exam interface mark for review is fifth question I am not sure if this is correct answer but I am assuming when you solve complex questions then it will help you to solve easy questions when you have question number 4 then always save and next so that it becomes green at the end you will see how many questions I have answered the question you might have given mark for review when you do mark for review answer and mark for review that means purple color with a green dot that means if you are not sure if you have clicked on submit then it will be considered one option is mark for review and next only if you have not given the answer then it will be purple mark for review means you have not given the answer you are not sure and this answer will not be considered for evaluation I would always suggest you either you do save and next for whom you are sure or you do save and mark for review and next red is where you did not attempt I have read the question and I just clicked on skip I have read the question 13 and I clicked on skip if I have not given the answer then it becomes red that means I visited the question but I did not give an answer if I am not reading the question then it remains white so your attention should always be if you have done the green then you have given the answer and you have done the green it can be easy for you it can be easy for anyone the questions you have read you feel that you have given the answer then you will give the answer and mark for review purple with green dot so that in case you do not have time then the answer will be submitted and the questions you do not know which you have to do later you have to read them and you can just move skip so that it becomes red so once you have completed the paper by doing easy questions then you have to go to all the purple questions on which you have put your mind but till now you are not sure so you will do that and lastly you will go to all the red questions where you know that I do not know so you will answer all the red questions so first you have to attempt all the green questions whatever you feel is complex then you will purple and whatever you feel is hard unknown whatever you do not want to attempt then you will do red so you have done green then when you will go through the whole paper then you will mark all the purple questions then you will mark the final as soon as I went to a purple question I put my mind back on it and the answer is to lock it I do not want to come to the question again so now I will save the purple so that it will do unmarked review whatever option I have not done I will save and next so that it becomes green so my purpose should be that after solving the whole paper I will turn all the questions into green so this is how you have to solve the paper one very important thing I would really want before giving an exam at least 3 mock tests you can give them on the NTA site or if you want then the site of us courses.arpitaakarva.com the free mock test available which I have just shown you so when you go here demo premium it is a free course there are 2 mock tests plus if you have time then you have UGC net paper 1 & 2 of our mock test course in which we have given unit wise mock tests full length mock tests 84 mock test paper 2 & 70 mock test paper 1 you can also give this you will get age wise mock tests like civil war, jacobian age romantic age, modern age unit wise you will get american literature, post-colonial, indian and then you will get full length mock tests which is exactly like the UGC net interface so I would really request you before giving an exam at least 3 mock tests so that you can do the mistakes in the exam and you don't have to bear the cost all the general instructions you have to read and the benefit that you get is that when you have given mock test paper then you don't have anxiety on the day of the exam because if you have never given mock test on computer or you have never done UGC net exam then you may have anxiety that if I accidentally pressed the wrong button then what will happen so to get out of that anxiety it is very important that you give 2-3 mock tests so that in the exam you are very sure you know how the interface looks like what will happen if I press this button UGC net exam interface this is the question panel this is the question panel this is the right hand side panel these are the buttons and here all these buttons are there so you can click submit here and move ahead now let us look at some essential tips number one, do use rough paper match the following questions that come it is very important that you do those things do it manually if you want to do elimination if you have given 4 options don't think that I have raised the question and I will look at it verbally that A and C cannot be done always it is better to write question number 19 A, B, C, D, 4, A, B, C, D and then strike A or C I will just show it and I will show how it is done I don't want you to write the question or the options in the rough paper so let's say question number 20 is A, B, C, D there are 4 options if you can see here question 20 is A, B, C, D now I have struck it off that A cannot be done and C cannot be done according to me B is the right answer I have ticked it you will do elimination so that in your rough paper you have to go back to question 20 you want to again think about it I didn't write it and I was right match the following 4 options always match them 1, 2, 3, 4, A, B, C, D try to match them rather than verbally because sometimes we make minor mistakes another interesting thing focus on accuracy rather than speed very crucial we don't have to finish the paper we have to attempt every question always ensure that you have saved the answer please don't do this that you have solved this question and you will click on next save and next read every question twice another very interesting thing please do not miss out never always this whole meaning changes if you have been asked which book is not written by Virginia Wool you haven't seen the word out of these which book is written by Virginia Wool and you can see the light house and you tick it and go ahead which of this is not written by Virginia Wool neither you read the question nor you have read 4 options which you can understand that there are also missiles in it so that means I am reading the wrong question please don't make these mistakes if you are solving match the following then 1, 2, 3, 4, A, B, C, D and then you will solve your screen because of these small mistakes you will lose out on those 4, 5 important marks now the last topic of today's life is to have a winning mindset first thing, the chances of succeeding are directly proportional to your ability to handle failure so if you feel that in exams you will think that I have to pass exams otherwise in my life it will be very bad my parents will get me married how will I face my friends how will my financial crunch end and all of that you will not be able to give your 100% because your brain is processing that fear so it is very important that you tell yourself that whatever it is whether I can clear the exam or not I will still do something significant with my life this is just an exam it does not have to be very attached what Krishna has said in Mahabharat and Gita that do your duty, do not want the result that is exactly what this quote is saying do your duty, we have to give our best in 3 hours, if I pass or fail I do not have any meaning in your control, in your control you have to give the exam if the exam is good or bad it is not in your control so if you can handle failure if you can make yourself believe it does not matter, I will still do something good with my life, if you can give yourself confidence then the chances of your success will be multiplied how will I face my parents all these thoughts please side that it does not matter if I could not do this then my life has written something better for me, if you remember there was this beautiful movie where the child jumps from the building Shraddha Gopurin Shashant's child jumps from the building just because he did not clear Jai and then his parents tell him the stories of his college that all the failures in his college, those who were not good in studies their personality was not good they are still doing so good so if we understand that if we did not clear the exam there are so many opportunities waiting for us if we can make ourselves believe then we will prepare very well we have equipped ourselves from dealing with failures if we can do this, then our chances of success will increase and always remember you have to love the journey and not the destination, exam clearing is the destination, if you love the journey of preparing for the exam to love the journey of gaining more knowledge, it is extremely beautiful and nothing more beautiful nothing more so with that note, I come to the end of today's life I really really hope that from my life you will know something important which will help you to avoid those silly mistakes that you might have done in tomorrow's exam so I really wish you all the very best I am going to pray for you tomorrow for each one of you and I really want that you guys give your 100% and don't worry about how the result is going to go I am very sure that you all are very talented prepared well so just go with the mindset that I am going to go and give my best in the exam hall and leave everything to the universe so with that note, I would like to take your leave, that's it from my side for this lecture I will meet you very soon in the next lecture till the time we meet next, happy learning keep loving literature and stay tuned to our