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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.

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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.

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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.

 

Coaching classes

You would have probably joined one by now or must be thinking of joining one, even if you don’t want to, but because rest of your friends are joining you don’t want to be left out. Also the fear, that you might lose in the competition and that coaching classed might teach you that something extra also makes you join one. I had joined a test series in my first attempt and I was very happy that I did, as because of that I thought I was studying for every Sundays test. Well, that was my biggest mistake, as any coaching center deliberately sets a paper that asks questions about any subject in so much detail that you feel you don’t know anything!!!

AIPG exams or for that any other exams never ever go in that minute detail of each and every subject.If you just analyse past 5 year question papers, you will be surprised that around 100 – 120 questions are just repeats!!!! Yes, that is the truth! So instead of focusing on that, we in fear of flunking out next test series, study subjects in so much detail from textbooks, that we waste our time, energy and money in gaining the knowledge which is futile for entrance exam.

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I am not saying don’t join a caching class, but don’t totally follow their pattern. Make your own pattern and and don’t take results of the mock exams conducted by them seriously.

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Group vs Self study

 

Group vs Self study

group study

 

I have experience of both! Well you have to figure out what is best for you. In my first attempt, I group studied. It was helpful, specially when you were demotivated or frustrated to study but your groupies kept on reading stuff so atleast you could hear information!! But them again, getting overloaded with lot of info is equally detrimental. Lot of time is also wasted sometimes.

Self study requires lot of dedication, isolation and planning. In my second attempt, since I Stuck religiously to my plan and time table, I enjoyed studying by myself. I could follow my intuitions, without a second doubt and had faith in myself. Also, I kept on revising my methods and could actually study faster and efficiently.

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Make your own notes

 

make your notes

 

You will go through many texbooks, many chapters, but its not possible to open them again and again and that’s how we skip revising them. To avoid this blundering mistake, Always keep a diary with you whenever you study to jot down important key points, which you must revise on a daily basis. This will be particularly helpful when you are solving national boards.

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Important Topics

important

200 questions are asked in Exam paper. If you have studied even decently, you will be able to answer atleast 150. A bit of hardwork will let you attempt another 20. It’s the last 30 questions that will set you apart from rest of the crowd and decide your ranking. Making any mistake in answering any repeated question is like committing a suicide.

YOU CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE IN A REPEATED QUESTION.

This is your 4th  key to success.

For that you need to analyses which are the favorite question that keep on recurring, making it an important topic for you.  You need to mark those questions which are repeated more than thrice in last 5 years and then read a bit more about their sub topics. Also, If a new question has been asked you need to pay special attention to it and read entirely about it.

 

For example, In 2009 AIPG paper a question was asked about protapers. Previous papers had no hint about any such question. So I read in detail about them, their diameter, lenth tip, etc and as predicted, 2010 AIPG paper had a question related to the tip length of pro taper.

 

So here, we are preparing for a predicted new question and studying in the right direction according to our analysis. Have faith in your gut feeling and intuition.

This is your 5th key to success.