Author: garima

About Me

I am Dr Garima Khandelwal, MDS Pediatric Dentist, From Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai (2010-2013)

I secured 42nd rank in my second attempt in AIPG 2010. I have written a book on AIPG 2010.

(You can email me for a copy of my book  – drgarima@yahoo.com)

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I  Stood First in Maharashtra University Pediatric Dental Exam in 2013.

I am currently practicing exclusive Pediatric Dentistry in Dubai.

I chose to write this niche site to help all the aspiring young graduates who want to pursue specialization and are baffled by the amount of information provided to them. I hope this article helps to clear a lot of misguidance that you might have been exposed to and helps you in devising a smooth plan for your success.

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After Exam is Over, What to do next!

exam over

Phew!! Finally its over. You have a feeling it went nice. Now what to do?

Well, go out, celebrate, chill!!

Don’t overthink about what more you could have done. Whats done is done. Enjoy yourself, believe in yourself. Have faith and daily remind yourself you will get in your rank and the seat you desire.

I did that, and I got what I wanted and I believe you too will get what you want.

Preparing for MDS and succeeding in it as a Life time Experience.

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Do message me about your study updates and I would be very very happy If in anyway you could succeed by reading my methods to prepare.

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How much to attempt?

That’s the million dollar question and this will be your 6th key to success.

This factor alone will decide your ranking, if there is negative marking . As mentioned earlier, If you have studied properly you will easily attempt 170 questions. But so will others. So how will you come in the ranks?

Every question paper has around 15 questions, the answers to which no one knows. So the wise thing is to just leave them.

DO NOT GAMBLE WITH THESE UNKNOWN QUESTIONS. This will be your 7th key to success.

The remaining questions will be such that you will be stuck with 2 options in answer. Only take a gamble if you are sure you will be 50 percent right. As for every 4 questions that you attempt, which you think can be correct, you can afford 1 wrong answer.

Learn tips to prepare from How to Prepare

I had attempted 185 questions, of which I was sure 170 were correct. I took gamble of 15 questions of which I thought I was correct in 10 of them. AIPG key is different than what we think should be correct answers. So keep margin of that too. Don’t be worried once you come out of exam hall and hear people saying they attempted 195-198 questions. Definitely these people will never get in the ranks!

Always be sure to revise Important Topics before exam.

Make sure you have gone through the important books that I mentioned in earlier posts.

List Of books For Neet,MDS , AIPG/ AIIMS Pg exam

More Dental Books MDS / AIPG Preparation

Don’t be tempted to attempt more if you don’t know it.

Be calm, double check what you are marking. 3 hours is a long duration and if you know your paper, you will finish it in 2 hours. So you have plenty of time. Do not hurry.

Do not be frustrated if you encounter question after question that you cannot attempt. Its okay. You can always get back to these questions later.

Read how to combat Frustration and exhaustion from studies!!

Last 15 days of MDS preparation

A special time table has to be prepared for last 15 days.

You should study for like 9-10 hours and revise and revise past question papers. By now you should not make a single mistake in repeated questions. I had revised past 5 years all entrance exam papers 8 times. Try to make that your target.

  • Last 3 hours

So it’s the D- Day. You have prayed, took blessings of family and are about to travel to reach your exam center. You see everyone at the exam center buried in one or the other book and you take out one of your books to do the same!! Never do that. What will you mug up at the last moment? All you will be doing is stressing your brain even before the exam has started.

Read how to combat Frustration and exhaustion from studies!!

You should just relax. Listen to a music, meditate or eat your favorite chocolate and talk about absolutely non-related stuff. Ease your mind. The more you are relaxed the better it will perform inside the hall. Have faith in your preparation.

After Exam is Over, What to do next!

Frustration and exhaustion from studies!!

frustration

 

Everyone of you will go through this rough phase. How well you cope up from it will decide your rank. Yes, this phase is equally important and shape the way you prepare for your exam.

In my first attempt, I was thoroughly misguided, you may identify yourself with my situation. I studied everything, literally every book that there was to read. Yes, It helped me a lot in gathering knowledge, but that absolutely did not help me clear my exam. I wasted precious hours in my fear of failure to read through chapters that were futile. In my extra effort to retain everything that I read, my brain over burdened with all the information, deleted important things and during exam, I knew I had read this question somewhere, but I could not recollect the answer! Utter frustration! After My first attempt I gave up the thought of pursuing MDS and joined a clinic as a Locum. I felt I slogged my ass for 18 hours a day, dint enjoy my internship, as I used to sit with dental pulse to solve questions, studied while travelling in trains, while eating , etc. Dint go for movies, studies late at night, all for nothing! This is not my piece of cake.

How much to attempt?

I just waited for exams to get over. Every day seemed like I had a mountain to climb in scorching sun!! Well, I dint get a good rank and so I decided to give up MDS.

8 months I was doing locum, was happy. But somewhere I felt I did not give my full potential and then I decided to give a last shot! But this time, with a different approach.

As I mentioned earlier, I chose to study for just 8 hours.

Every 1 hour I took a break of 10 mins. I listened to a song, or did exercise. Every evening for 45 mins I walked listening to my favorite music. On Sundays I enjoyed for complete 3 hours, either a movie, or meeting a friend, etc. I ate while watching my favorite serial or with family. All these small activities made me happy.

List Of books For Neet,MDS , AIPG/ AIIMS Pg exam

Now the thing about our human brain is, if you stress it, it will likely forget many things, even if you are literally trying to hammer information inside it. But if your happy, enthusiastic, don’t fear about the outcome, just focus on the time table of just that day, your brain will retain things even read once.

More Dental Books MDS / AIPG Preparation

MDS preparation is all about training your Mind. It’s a MIndgame. You succeed in that, you will definitely reach your goal. By the time my exams came, I was so hungry for more knowledge, that I was happy to study for 14 hours and yet wasn’t exhausted. That’s how you should feel, if you are studying correctly.