How to crack entrance exams

1. How to crack entrance exams: Tips & Tricks

2. The admission and entrance season is right around the corner. Students from all regions of the country, with a lot of aspirations, thoughts, dreams and plans are now moving to the next phase of their academic journey in order to establish a stronger foot in the career aspect. Expert career counselling during this period becomes highly essential in order to ensure that the right procedure is being followed, essential decisions are made and students are well- informed about their choices and scope in any field that they might be opting for. After all, any decision at this point will be a driving force for any student’s career for a large part of their lives. M B Patil Education takes considerable pride in this domain due to its experience and result-yielding expertise that has helped over 10000 students in the last 17 years to get into their dream college. With the entrance season nearing, managing time, resources and energy increasingly become an odious task with a plethora of thoughts and anxieties running through a student’s mind. Offline and online education consultants can prove to be extremely helpful and confiding during this period in order to evaluate and re-evaluate the student’s position.

3. We at M B Patil Education have curated a list of tips and tricks that can be religiously followed to ensure that you, as a student, don’t lose your cool and focus during this crucial period of your life. Make sure you know your exam thoroughly. Yes, the advice is generic and obvious. However, quite often, students are too focused on the academics and syllabus part of the preparation that they actually forget to cover the technical aspects of the paper. For example, the duration,

4. the dates, the pattern of the paper, how much time should be devoted to every question you are attempting and so on. Make sure you don’t forget to include these while planning your strategy for the examination. Are you practising effective time management? This isn’t just applicable for your study hours but also for your strategy of time allocation in the examination hall. By now, we are sure that you are managing your time effectively with regard to the study hours. Make sure you divide your time according to the portions of study you are covering/completing, instead of counting the number of hours you have invested. Take mock

5. tests by yourself and time yourself on these tests to understand the amount of time you are spending on each section of the syllabus. Do not forget to spare some time for revision. Every expert exam guide or counsellor suggests this. You never know what you might forget! Don’t be a rote learner. Yes, at times this can be an effective learning method but this should not be your strategy of learning. You need to ensure conceptual clarity of all the subjects that you are studying. If the core concepts are clear, learning becomes easier. This helps you keep command of what you choose to learn and what you choose to leave since you will then have a solid basis for your choice.

6. Those notes and the constant scribbling in your notebook will save you. Your personal notes that you make while studying and during any lecture will save your soul not only while preparing but while revising too. Make notes in pointers, use small flashcards, make flow charts in your notebook, etc to make sure that your material is organized and ready to be absorbed by you while studying. The quality of notes should be such that it becomes your Magna Carta for any subject or topic preparation.

7. Set smart goals and daily goals for studying. Make sure you don’t abandon the habit of daily studying to keep the rhythm going. Losing even a single day can put you out of practice and difficult for you to get back on track. If daily focus is posing problems, set short-term goals that can be easily met and increase the magnitude of those goals steadily and slowly. Expert career counseling suggests that this is a sure-shot way of cracking any exam and instilling discipline.

8. Identify your weaknesses and strengths. Offline and online education consultants are great helpers when it comes to this. They help you recognize and analyze your strong subjects and weak subjects. Aspects of your academic record that can make it or break it for you. Recognize these and strategize your preparations accordingly. Divide your time and resources based on this. If easy distractions or long study hours are a weakness, you can set goals for the day for yourself accordingly. Make sure you identify these first to act on them.

9. M B Patil Education is a big supporter of motivating thoughts and deems them extremely necessary to land the college of your dreams. Losing faith becomes easy, quitting seems like a viable option, and laziness can easily creep up. But you need to remind yourself of your dream and your purpose. During such times, it is important to practise the activities that make you calm and happy. A nice beverage, a long walk, listening to music, watching a fun flick and then applying yourself back again with more effort. Recuperate, motivate and achieve. Stay physically fit. We cannot stress enough about the importance of physical fitness during your preparation. Yoga or exercise helps you compose yourself and restore physical balance, which in turn refreshes your mind and helps you focus better and keep you active. Good diet and good sleep should be your constant companions. After all, you can appear for any exam if you are physically fit. M B Patil Education believes in expert and holistic growth of every student to achieve their dream college and dream career. This is why it is deemed to be as one of the best organizations for career guidance in Pune. The list we have curated for you is just an example of our immense knowledge in expert career counseling.