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NEET PG Exam 2016-17 Official Update

Dear Aspirants,

After a long time, something good is announced officially. Go through the following statement.

Exam Date announced
Exam Date announced

National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test – Post Graduate (Dental) (NEET-MDS)

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for entrance to MDS Courses in terms of Section 10 of the Dentists Act, 1948 as amended in 2016 shall be conducted by the National Board of Examinations.

1.      The examination shall be held in 86 test centers at 41 cities from November 30th – December 3rd, 2016. The examination shall be held as a Computer Based Test and shall comprise of 240 Multiple Choice Questions from the BDS curriculum followed at dental colleges in India duly prescribed as per the Graduate Dental Education Regulation notified by Dental Council of India with prior approval of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.

2.      NEET-MDS is a single window entrance examination for entry to Dental post graduate courses.  No other examination either at state level or institutional level entrance examination conducted by dental colleges /institutions shall be valid as per the Dentists Act, 1948 with effect from 2017 admission session.

3.      Scope of Examination: NEET-MDS 2017 shall be the single eligibility cum entrance examination namely ‘National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for admission to Postgraduate Dental Courses’ for the academic session 2017-2018 which will include the following:

    i.    All India 50% quota seats for MDS courses (all states except Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana)

  ii.    State quota seats for MDS courses for all States/Union territories of India (including the states of Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana)

iii.    MDS Diploma courses at all Private Dental Colleges, Institutions & Universities all across the country

iv.    MDS courses at Armed Forces Medical Services Institutions.

4.      The website for NEET-MDS shall be available with effect from 24/09/2016 and online registration for the NEET-MDS shall commence from 0700hrs on 26/09/2016 till 31/10/2016 (23:59hrs).  The entire procedure for registration and application for the examination is online.

5.      A toll free number 1XXX XX 1700 is available with effect from 26/09/2017.  Further details about the exam shall be available at www.nbe.edu.in

The AIIMS, New Delhi Dental institution is not covered by centralized admissions for MDS seats through NEET-MDS for 2017 session.

National Board of Examinations is an autonomous organization established by Government of India in 1982 with prime objective of conducting post graduate examinations on all India basis.

National Board of Examinations also conducted the NEET-PG for MD/MS/PG Diploma admissions in 2013 and All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE) during the period 2014 – 2016.

Further queries may be directed to mail@natboard.edu.in  or NBE office at 011-45593000.

I am sure by now you would have started studying seriously and would be having all required set of books.

Please tick your checklist again, as any omission can cost you your dream seat.

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

More Dental Books MDS / AIPG Preparation

Do email me if you need any guidance regarding studies.

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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.

If you have missed my earlier posts, click here to read about Simple steps to clear NEET/ AIPG/ AIIMS Dental Post Graduate Exam!!

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.

You can ofcourse invest your time in writing your own experience by building your own blog or website and helping other students. You can try WordPress and host it on Bluehost.

 

Have a successful life!!

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!!

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.

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

More Dental Books MDS / AIPG Preparation

 

How to Study/Prepare for MDS

how

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.