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How to Study/Prepare for MDS

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Now, you have all the required materials. Next hurdle is how to prepare? Everyone in detail advises you what to study, no one says how to do it. Well, I will describe my first hand experience.

My method was as follows:-

  • Prepare a proper time table for 3 months.
  • Everyday study for no more than 8 hours
  • 5 hours to solve papers. ( that way, Mudit Khanna, pulse, Amit Ashish, Bhatia are covered)

The shocking thing that you will realize while solving papers is amount of times repetition occurs of the same question!!

Try this yourself.

For example, take following papers of the same year say 2009

AIPG 2009 (Dental NEET PG paper)

AIIMS 2009 (May and November) (Both Dental and Medical) (4 papers)

AIPGMEE 2009 (Mudit khanna)

So in all 6 papers. Now compare the questions, you will be surprised to see 20-25% same questions in all the papers!!

So if you solve all these papers together, not only you are inadvertly revising them on the same day, also you are now understanding the question paper pattern.

Make sure you have the right list of all the required books.

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

To understand the important topics , getting inside the paper setters mind and using your intuition as to what new topics might be asked based on your analysis is the third key to success.

  • 1 hour to solve National boards
  • 1 hour to solve dental pulse ( I just studied clinical part)
  • 1 hour to go through your diary / textbooks.
  • 1 hour of your recreational activity mandatory.

The rest of the hours you may spend as you wish to.

What to Prepare

You already must have realized that studying for MDS / Post graduation is like swimming in a Sea of Books! You know every book, but don’t know which one to study from or what to study from which book. One mistake that everyone does is gathers information from everyone and then you become exasperated as you are now over informed. Yes there are a number of books, but you have to decide which one to study from and then stick to it no matter what.

The biggest mistake is to study from every book and NOT REMEMBER ANYTING WHEN TIME COME TO PERFORM.

Revision is the Key
Revision is the Key

REVISION IS THE KEY AND THAT IS ONLY POSSIBLE IF YOU STICK TO LIMITED STUDY MATERIAL.

 

Our brain is not an elastic box that you can keep loading it with all information. You have to be selective, concise and precise.

 

Books that I read from

 

  1.  Dental Pulse set 2016 updated. This is a must have book.

 

 

 

2. Another Bible of Dental PG Neet Entrance 2016 updated. Must have book.

 

3. COMEDK Dental Buster. This book has very important Comedk Papers. Majority of questions are repeated from previous papers, So you must go through this.

 

 

4. I cannot overemphasize the value of this book. Out of 200 questions in Neet PG, 100 questions come from medical subjects and this is THE book, from which you will be able to crack those quesitons. DEFINATELY HAVE THIS BOOK- AIPGMEE updated 2016 by Mudit Khanna.

5. Another latest 2016 dental Solved MCQs from various exams. Target MDS. 

 

6. Almost all Periodontology questions are asked from this book. It is a very useful book for Perio subject.

 
7. You will be surprised when you go through this book, understanding from where Neet PG is asking questions related to Community dentistry. Its a very very important book deciding your scoring in a boring subject like Community Dentistry. But I assure you, you will not be bored reading this informative book. Its the secret of top scorers.

Now apart from the basic textbooks which everybody has, here is a list of other textbooks, from where recent questions have been asked.

  • Neville for oral pathology.
  • Fonseca and Peterson for oral surgery.
  • Kelly and klein for oral surgery.
  • Cohen and Ingle for endodontics.
  • Satyanarayan for biochemistry.
  • Harrison for medicine.

Be Focused on what you want

You have to be very clear why you want to do MDS/ Post graduation. Getting admission is one thing and dedicating 3 years of your most youthful phase of life is another. So be very very clear about your goal. 10000 other students are vying for the seat that you desire. You have to do something extra, that will get you your dream.

The Difference between Extraordinary and ordinary is just that “Extra”.

Remember SRk’s Dialogue in Om Shanti Om “If you want something with burning desire, the whole of universe will conspire to get it for you”…Lets start reminding the universe!

So your first step is to Write on a paper which college and which Specialty you want and stick it up on your dashboard and look at it like 20 times a day. It works.

It Works!
It Works!

Simple steps to clear NEET/ AIPG/ AIIMS Dental Post Graduate Exam!!

 

Hi Fellow colleague! Since you are reading my blog, I assume you have already decided that you will give atleast one shot to clear PG exam for a better and respectable life. You are absolutely thinking right! Now you may be one of the following:-

  • Just entered your internship after clearing your final year, full of enthusiasm and hope of getting the prefix “DR” ahead of your name and motivated to pursue your specialization.
  • You are about to finish your internship, hadn’t thought much seriously about PG earlier, but now exams are a few months away, and have decided to give a shot.
  • You have already started preparation but still feel something missing or are just baffled how to go ahead.
  • You are appearing after an unsuccessful attempt and want to better your preparation techniques and rectify your mistakes for a good result.

What to study?

Well, you have come to the right place and I assure you after going through all the further preparation details you will be refreshed and your dedication to succeed in your this attempt will only become crystal clear.

Dental PG exams are challenging. That’s a fact. Clinical seats are few in number and government colleges are barely 25-30 compared to more than 250 Private colleges. Your Aim is to get in a government college, with choice of your specialty. Well there are 10000 Odd students fighting for the same seat, so how much chance you stand? What is it that will make you stand apart from the rest?

It is your recipe to success!!

PG entrance exams are like a dish that everybody is trying to cook. Nobody knows the exact proportions (how to study), few know all the ingredients (what to study) and even fewer know how to present ( how much to attempt in exam). Just a balanced diet has carbohydrates, fats proteins etc in proper proportions, MDS/ MS exam preparations too require a planned number of things if you wish to succeed.

Your simple steps to clear PG exam begins now!

Read How to Prepare for PG exams.

Firstly, If I could clear the AIPG, you can too! I am not a genius. I failed in my first attempt after studying for 18 months, 15 hours a day, so I exactly know what should not be done. Read What to Prepare in my other posts to get a general Idea about the magnitude of preparation necessary.

I cleared in my second attempt, by just studying for 3 months, 8 hours a day! Yes that is right, 3 months and full of smart work and not donkey work like my 1st attempt.

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

I am going to share my tips and mantra for success which I am sure will help you in many ways.