 Welcome to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to share with you some really important tips. If you use these tips while you're studying for UDCnet exam, I'm pretty sure that you'll be able to learn faster and you'll be having more fun when you're learning. So let's start. The first important tip that I would like to give you is that you all must know your personality type before you sit down to study. Guys, as you all must be aware that we all are designed very differently. Like even two siblings coming from the same mother have completely different set of ideology, have different style of working. Similarly, every student is designed in a different way. Their brain functions in a different way. We succeed in our life. We succeed in any exam when we do things which are according to our nature, which is according to our personality. For example, there are people who can study best when it is morning. There are people like me who can study best when it is night. So you must be aware that what is your peak hours? Peak hours are a set of period in every day, in every person's life when their mind functions at its best. For example, I have certain friends who study in the morning. They get up at 4 o'clock and then till 8-9 o'clock they study the most important and the most difficult topic and they are able to retain it very fastly. Whereas there are people like me, if I want to study a very difficult topic or I want to work upon something which I am not interested in, my brain functions best when it is night. Like I sit down at 10 and then probably till 3 or 4 in the morning I will be working and that is the time when I am energised, when ideas come to me, when I am in a state of flow. If you guys are aware, I would like to tell you that this flow is very important. There are times in our day when there is this rush of energy coming from our brain and we feel like studying. We feel like touching the most difficult and the most annoying topics and that is what your peak hours is. How to identify your peak hours? Take a schedule like for the next 7 days, make a point that whenever you are sitting down to study or whenever you are doing any stuff of the day, you keep on marking the time when you are doing it. After 7 days just go back to that diary and see what is that particular time when you are working in the most efficient manner or when ideas come to you or when you don't feel lazy, when you feel energised. That is the peak hours. Every person has a peak hour of 3-4 hours every day. So it's common to all human beings. So don't even think that you know I never get a peak hour. We all have a peak hour. But the problem is that the successful people use their peak hour in making their career in working upon ideas whereas people who are not so successful use the peak hour watching matches, gossiping with friends, chatting on social media. So all these stuff should be done when you are not in the peak hours zone because those 4 hour period every day is the golden period of your day. That is the period which if invested in the proper pocket will take you to certain heights. So it's a request from my side to all the net aspirants that please start identifying your peak hours and then gradually make sure that every day you study the most difficult topics during your peak hour. The second important topic that I would like to touch in this video is the forgetting curve. I've already mentioned about this forgetting curve in my previous videos as well. If you have not watched the video 5 mistakes students make when they are preparing for UDC net English then do go and watch that video on my YouTube channel because that video will help you with certain ideas will prevent you from making certain mistakes which are commonly made by different students. Also there is a video in which I've talked about the study routine. The title of the video is study timetable for UDC net aspirants. You must go and watch that video as well because it will help you prepare a proper study timetable for your upcoming UDC net exam. So I was talking about forgetting curve. Now what is important to understand that this forgetting curve is very scientific. It is designed by a very prominent psychologist whose name was Herman Ebingor. The Herman Ebingor designed this forgetting curve wherein he said that our brain functions in a particular manner. When we read something or when we are studying something after one hour of that study session our brain forgets 25% of the information if not revised. After one day you would see that your brain will forget 40% of the information. After one week if you don't revise the topic that you have studied before a week you will see that 60% of the information has vanished somewhere. And the most annoying part is after one month if you come back to that topic and you have not revised it during the period of one month you will see that 80% information is deleted from your brain. This psychologist has to say about and this is called forgetting curve that how our brain forgets the thing. Now how to use forgetting curve and help take the help from this curve and then prepare for the exam. You must be aware of the stuff that whenever you are studying timely repetitions or revisions are very essential. So make use of this forgetting curve whenever you study please make sure that after one hour you do make a revision or whatever you have studied in the past one hour. For example follow a 50 by 10 rule. 50 by 10 rule says that 50 minutes of study then 5 minutes of break and then 5 minutes of revision of what you have studied in the 50 minute period. This is called the rule of 50-10 and this will help you to register information faster. See guys there is no point putting so much information in our brain bombarding our brain with like dozens of information dozens of writer, dozens of work and then not actually remembering anything when it comes to the exam day. So a perfect student or a student who are actually enthusiastic about performing perfectly would definitely do timed revision and that is where forgetting curve comes into the role. So what you need to do is that whenever you are studying anything make sure that you study that thing and then revise it after one hour. So next day never start a new topic unless and until you have gone through the notes that you have made previous day and every Saturday or Sunday please make sure that you devote one complete day to revise all the information that you have collected in your memory in the past seven days or past six days and this is how you will channelize your preparation because I have seen students who keep on reading books keep on making notes and doing stuff which seems to be a very very long in a very very hard working journey but when it comes to the exam day they don't remember anything and that is where stress comes in because before two days of your exam when you open your notebook and you will see that you are not able to recall information your energy your entire hard work will go into vain your brain will start functioning in such a manner that the entire hormonal system of your brain will stop for a time being or all the hormones will somewhere down the line so it is important that whenever you are studying and whenever you are preparing for any competitive exam do make sure that you revise at a certain point of time or you revise after a certain interval so that will help you to retain maximum information on your exam day and you will feel confident when you are going to sit for that particular exam now guys let's move on to the third important tip the third important tip is that whenever you are studying try to associate the information that is there in the book or on the website with information that you already know see our brain works best with connections with links if you have ever seen a web or you have seen how the body functions you will see that everything is connected to every other thing and that is how the proper working or proper functioning of body happens similarly our brain works best when we actually connect any new information with already known information for example just think of a song that you recently heard or think of a song which is very dear to your heart and when you close your eyes and think about the song you will try it and recall all the information or all the memories that is associated with that song for example if I hear a song which was played on the farewell day in my school I will recall all the dance performances I will recall all the memories that I made on the farewell day so you can see how one particular song or one particular incident can link to so many other information and you can recall everything in a proper manner for example this is a term which is very very common in psychology and it is called schemas schemas say that if you go to a restaurant you can automatically imagine all the things which are there in a restaurant or when you sit it down in a restaurant you can automatically condition yourself to behave in a particular way when you last sat in a restaurant so similarly when you try and link completely new information with already known information your mind will be able to retain things faster and it will be much easier for your mind and probably that thing would be remembered for a longer duration of time so what you can do is that always try and relate writers and their works to certain Bollywood movies to certain characters for example when I am studying about angry young man movement I somewhere connected to the movies of Amitabh Bachchan during that period when he was portrayed as angry young man and I can completely take out the references I can see how the angry young man or the protagonist of the plays of the angry young man theater would be like so my mind doesn't need to actually learn things or you need not go into the rote learning method because you already can link it to the previously known information similarly there is a friend of mine who is very very similar to Daisy from Great Gatsby so whenever I am reading Great Gatsby somewhere I can just recall my friend I can see the traits and I can totally make a connection with Daisy and I am able to retain things faster I am pretty sure that all of you must have related things related characters to people you know in your life or you must have related certain concepts to your life when you were studying during high school or in the secondary school but somewhere down the line when we prepare for competitive exams we forget all the important techniques that we were using during our high school days so it is very important that you recall all these techniques and then make use of them so that your study time becomes a very very interesting journey the last and final advice that I would like to give all the net aspirants is that please don't neglect the role played by sleep by meditation and by diet now these things will seem very superficial because people will think ok diet and meditation say where net will be cleared it has no link with clearing net but I am telling you guys it helps a lot I have seen that in my preparation when I was preparing for net I made sure that my mother gave me food items which had greater amount of protein content because protein somewhere helps your brain to remember better and that is why you were always advised during your childhood days because almonds have protein content in the maximum capacity also at the same time protein will make your brain efficient will energize your brain so that you don't feel like sleeping when you are studying that is very important see your body should aid your study schedule and only then you can achieve the results because body and mind together will work towards your success if you are using your mind but you are not taking your body along somewhere your health will suffer and if the most role of stress comes in something or the most effect comes in something that is our body whenever you are stressed out you see that the entire hormonal system the entire emotional system of your body hampers so it is important that you take enough amount of proteins milk products then if you are a non-vegetarian you have so many other supplements of protein that you can take then there are times when you can take sprouts you can take pulses you can take nuts so all these things try to incorporate them during your day every 2 or 3 hours take something which has certain protein in it so that for the next 2 hours your brain is energized meditation will definitely work wonders because when we are studying we are trying to accommodate so much information in our brain that our brain actually gets really tired so meditation whenever after 1 hour you will meditate for at least 2 minutes or 1 minute you will see that you can again get all the power of your brain and your brain will be in a mode to perform in the best manner for meditation you can download an app which is called Headspace I have been using that app since like 5 years and I have seen wonders happening in my life all the kind of work that I am producing the results that I am doing all that is very much connected to the meditation routine that I follow so meditation will help you after every 1 hour make sure that you just meditate for 1 minute meditation is very easy if you download that app it will guide you I would not be able to guide you in this video about meditation but then definitely Headspace will do wonders in your life also make sure that you have enough sleep guys people think that we go to the exam and we hardly sleep for like 2 hours 3 hours but I am telling you guys it never works why it never works let me tell you our mind consolidates information that you have taken throughout the day when you sleep because while you are sleeping the conscious mind is not at work so now all the energy that is there in your body is working on all the residual things for example if there is any wear and tear in your body your body is working on that if your body wants to consolidate information it can only consolidate when you sleep because when you are awake your body is functioning you are working so your body has to work for you but when you are asleep your body your mind actually works on consolidating the information when you wake up you will see that you remember things quite easily the things that you have learned in the past day when you wake up next day you see that they are more properly consolidated you are able to recall them better that is because your brain has helped you with that process while you were asleep so these things will definitely aid your UGC Net preparation and you will see that somewhere when you follow all these strategies you will be able to learn better revise more efficiently and perform extremely well in the next UGC Net exam so before you leave do subscribe to my channel because I post videos on every weekend to help UGC Net aspirants also if you have not gone to my website do go and visit arpitakarva.com you will find a list of all the important writers that you must study if you are preparing for Net exam so just make sure that you have that list on your tips and 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