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Frustration and exhaustion from studies!!

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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.

 

Important Topics

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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