 friends Amarpata Karwa and in this video lecture I'm going to talk about how you can score highest marks on the day of the UGC Net exam. There are a lot of students who have been talking to me in the past few days and all these students are saying that ma'am we've prepared really well for this exam but now we are anxious, we are nervous, we don't know what we are going to do on the day of the exam. And I'm making this video for all those students who have prepared really well for the exam and now they want some last-minute tips which can boost their net score. I know that you all must be aware of the fact that preparation is important it's the key but with preparation how you perform on the day of the exam is equally important. So preparation you have already done now your job is to perform really well on the day of the exam. So in this video I'm going to talk about a really really powerful technique which you can use on the day of UGC Net exam and I'm pretty sure that using that technique you are going to get best results and I'm pretty sure that if you use this technique you're going to outshine on the day of the UGC Net exam. So let's go. So the technique that I would like to talk about in this video is skim and mark technique. Now skim means padke aage nikal jana okay mark means answers mark karna. So skim and mark technique is a very scientific technique which tells you how to solve a question paper that means by using this technique you can develop a pattern of solving the question paper. I've seen a lot of students making this mistake that they start solving paper from question number one. Now what happens is that suppose question number one is easy. So you solved it within 10 seconds. You move to question two which is really difficult or which requires a lot of calculation. Now that question is going to take about three to four minutes of yours. Now you move on to question three which is again a very very tricky question. Now you'll invest your time in that question two and this is how you start moving. Once you reach question number 10 or 15 you'll find that oh my God I've lost so much time and now I have only few minutes left. Now what happens is that if you are solving easy questions you tend to make mistakes because of anxiety because of panic. So skim and mark technique is extremely beneficial for students who would like to plan their exam time and who want to achieve maximum score in the exam. So let's understand what this technique says. Skim and mark technique says that a pattern you should follow while solving paper. It's never necessary to solve the paper sequentially and that too in an online MCQ exam it's never important because online the examiner doesn't know which question you solved first and which one you solved later. You'll just get the results that's it. Okay so don't ever solve a question in a sequence. Because if you follow a sequence then it's possible that you will waste a lot of time in those questions from which you won't get output. Always remember that every question is of equal marks. So please solve the easiest questions first so that you easily get passed or you get the maximum score very easily. So let's understand the pattern of skim and mark technique. Now skim and mark technique says that in any question paper you are going to get four kinds of question. The first type of questions are the extremely easy ones. Very easy questions. These are questions you are extremely confident about and you know the answer. For example if I ask you that who is the current Prime Minister of India as on 2018 I think that you don't even need the options. You know the correct option right. That's type A questions extremely easy. So skim and mark technique says that when you start solving the question paper first attempt the questions which are extremely easy. Okay now after attempting the questions which are easy you move on to the second questions type which is type B. Type B questions are the ones which are easy. Easy questions are the one in which you can get the answer by eliminating a few options. Okay so suppose you have four options out of the four options you know that this question is going to be either having option A or B. It cannot have option C or D. So that's what we call as an easy question because you have already eliminated two options and now you just need to choose between the first two options. So type A questions after solving type B questions it's time for you to solve type C questions. Now what are type C questions? Type C questions are questions which are medium difficulty level or which involves a lot of calculation. That means which are solvable you can solve it but you need to invest a lot of time and energy. Okay so all these mathematical reasoning questions or DI questions are going to come under type C questions. Type C questions means starting with the mark there is no point in solving them because in these questions many times you can take five to seven minutes to solve each question and you don't have so much time to waste on these questions. Because of these questions it's possible that you make easy questions wrong because time crunch will happen to you and you might get anxious. So it's always important that after solving type A and type B you move to type C questions. You solve type C questions and after that you move to type D questions. Now what are type D questions? Type D questions are extremely difficult questions and you don't know the answers to these questions. So these are the questions where you have to guess work. So it's important that type D questions when you do a mark for review by clicking on any answer maybe you are not sure about the question or the option so you can tick B and then you do a mark for review and move ahead. In case if you are not able to put your mind to these questions then it's possible that the question becomes correct because of the problem. So in online setup first solve type A questions which are extremely easy. After solving type A questions you will see the right side panel of questions where you will already see green which you have solved correctly. After that you will solve the questions which are medium difficulty level. That means which are easy but you can use elimination to reach the answer. Third setup is where you have to do practical calculations or where you have to put a lot of thought, reading comprehension, time demand you will solve those questions again and finally you will solve extremely difficult questions where you just have to put a lot of thought and you are not sure about what can be the possible answer. So if you follow this pattern then you will see that you will be able to give very good paper and the chances of silly mistakes will be there. There are many advantages of skim and mark technique so let's talk about some advantages which you will get if you use skim and mark technique in the next exam. First important advantage of skim and mark technique is that it is going to give an instant boost to your confidence. It happens friends that when we solve easy questions quickly then our brain automatically gets a signal that we can do it and our instant motivation will help us to face difficult challenges. You will remember that in your childhood whenever your parents or your friends used to motivate you positively you would be able to do very difficult work. If you are criticised or demotivated or you are unable to solve some questions correctly then you feel so bad about yourself that you are not able to solve easy questions. You make mistakes there as well. So if you use skim and mark technique and first of all solve easy questions then you will be able to find answers to difficult questions. The second good thing about this technique is that it is going to act as a warm up. If you are a gym freak or if you go and exercise daily I am pretty sure that you must be aware of the regime. First you need to do a warm up session and then start the cardio or the strength training. You don't start running fast. You initially warm up so that your body gets to know that now you need to get on that mode. Similarly our brain needs to warm up. When you face exam papers in the morning then your brain is not in that mode that you are able to put your mind to it. When you do easy questions then your brain gets used to now what next and your brain comes to that mode that now it can handle difficult questions. So easy to go into difficulty your brain will perform very well. And you are actually understanding the science behind the functioning of the brain and accordingly making your plan. The third important thing about this skim and mark technique is that it uses the powerful theory of the power of subconscious mind. We all know that our brain is divided in two parts Conscious and Subconscious. Now our subconscious brain is extremely powerful. Whatever you've read so far whatever you've experienced so far everything is stored in our subconscious mind. Now when you go through these questions when you skim through these questions and you don't answer them in the first go your brain is searching for the answers to old questions and gradually your brain can reach that answer with the help of subconscious mind through which you can handle difficult questions too. Many times these type of questions that you feel that you've never read before you can remember the time before the exam. Suddenly maybe three months ago I read this thing in a book in one corner. How does it remember? It only remembers when your brain is looking for the answers subconsciously. So it's very important that you expose yourself to different questions again and again so that your subconscious brain constantly signals that you need to find the answer. And you don't have to do anything. If you have a question in your mind then your subconscious brain which is the fastest machine in the world will find the answer to that question and bring it to you. The biggest benefit of skim and mark technique is that it is going to give you accuracy. The chances of silly mistakes become zero if you use this technique. You can give accurate answers because the easy and very easy questions that you've given them in the first go when you were at zero anxiety level then you didn't do anything wrong in their answers. If the difficult questions were done before and the easy questions were done later then because the time is running out and the timer is running in front of you that's why you make the easy questions wrong. Accuracy is very high if you use skim and mark technique. And it's always said that you know solve easy questions and get selected easily. So always remember that focus more on easy questions. Put your mind on difficult questions later and solve the easy questions accurately first. And the most important benefit is that when you skim through the question paper many times you get answers to some questions in some other question. Examiner paper sets that if you read a particular writer or topic then the answer may be hidden in some other question. So when you skim through the paper you can find answers by connecting the questions. So that's an additional benefit you get if you go through the technique of skim and mark. So this was a short video in which I talked about the great skim and mark technique which you can follow in order to get optimal results on the day of the UGC net exam. All the best for the upcoming net exam. I'm pretty sure that all of you are going to do extremely well and are going to make the country proud. So I'll meet you very soon in the next video till the time we meet next. Happy learning. Keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitaakarva.com