Preparation Tips and Strategies for NEET Exam

National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is the only medical entrance examination in India that you need to care, if you aiming to join medical courses like MBBS and BDS in top medical colleges in India. The CBSE Board organises the NEET exam for the selection of students to gain admission in courses at medical and dental colleges. This is the only medical entrance test for the admission in medical courses.

NEET exam is considered as one of the toughest exams to gain admission in the medical course like MBBS and BDS. Preparing for an exam and the NEET 2018, in particular, needs a good study strategy and evaluation plan. A study strategy will help you to prepare for the NEET 2018.

Here we are sharing few tips and strategies to prepare for the NEET 2017. We hope these tips will help you to score better in the NEET 2018.

How to Study for NEET 2018?

Nothing to worry. Preparing for NEET is as same as the AIPMT. If you are worried about the difference between the syllabus of state CET and NEET, then here is a tip for you. The syllabus for both exams doesn't have much difference. The key strategy is to follow the recommended study materials like NCRET Books and also the AIPMT books are the best study resources for any medical entrance exams.

Subject Wise Strategy for NEET 2018

You need to prepare with subjects like Biology, Chemistry and Physics for NEET 2018. It is recommended to follow study materials that are specially designed for entrance exam such as HC Verma. Further to this, you can also go with the NCRET solutions. 

Here are few best books to refer for NEET 2018: For Biology, you can refer - Elementary Biology, Companion Biology, Objective Biology and for Physics refer NCERT Physics, Concepts of Physics, CBSE PMT, Physics for Medical Entrance Exam. While for Chemistry, go through books like Physical Chemistry for Medical Entrance and Objective Chemistry.

Study Plan

The basic rule to crack any entrance exam is by understanding your weakness. Work on your weakness and turn them into your strengths. In the case of NEET 2018, many of you just go through the concepts, making notes of important equations and formulas. But, you need to prepare a study plan learn concepts, learn by attempting sample papers and go through previous year papers to know the pattern of the examination.

Prioritise Topics

Working with the solved papers you will get the exam pattern. Understanding the NEET exam pattern is extremely important. You can prioritise those topics that are frequently raised in the question papers. Prioritise topic depending on the weaker topic, interesting topic and study them.

Self Evaluation

No preparation is complete without the self-evaluation of your understanding of the subject. It is important to self-evaluate on a regular basis and revise the older concept to know them thoroughly. The self-evaluation can be done with the mock test and also by solving NEET sample papers. All you need is to understand the topic and practice the concept until you master completely.

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The Best Strategies to Prepare for GMAT Exam

Exams are the assessment,  which is held to judge the knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness of a single topic/unit to certify the students based on their performance.

GMAT – (Graduate Management Admission Test) is an International level entrance exam, which is conducted 4 to 5 times in a year for the admissions into management program such as Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Finance, etc. This exam is conducted by the GMAC – (Graduate Management Admission Council).This is a computer adaptive test, which judges the candidate's skills including analytical, quantitative, grammatical, reasoning, reading and writing skills. The GMAT is completely an online exam, which can be given by a candidate any time in a year but not more than 5 times in a year. There are more than 500 test centres around the world, where students can select their test centres near to their locality and give their online exam once they are completely prepared. GMAT is available in 115 countries with many test centres. Nearly 20 to 30 thousands of candidates enrol and appear for this exam every year around the country.

Candidates can easily register and schedule their exam date and centres through the official site of GMAT. The basic criteria required for GMAT Exam is the minimum age of 18 years and must be graduated from any recognised university.

GMAT SYLLABUS

The syllabus for GMAT exam includes Basic English grammar and few topics from mathematics.

As per the GMAT exam pattern 2017, this includes 4 section and the allotted time is for 3hours 50 minutes.

●       Section 1 - Analytical Writing Assessment Section – In this section candidate should analyse and write an essay of 400-500 words for the given topic.

●       Section 2 - Integrated Reasoning Section - In this section, candidates has to use their analytical skills to solve the given problem.

●       Section 3 - Quantitative Section – In this section, candidates need to solve few problems related to their secondary school maths syllabus like Arithmetic, Geometry, Statistics, Sets, Percentage, etc.

●        Section 4 -Verbal Section – In this section, candidates have to read, understand and answer the comprehension passages questions, write the essay for the given topics and other basic grammatical questions.

You can also check- Best Books for GMAT Exam

Here are few tips and strategies used in preparing for GMAT Exam 2017.

1.       Give an enough time to study, as there will be a lot of study material and important points to cover for which you need sufficient time, so at first, we need to prepare a good time table equally for all the topics with sufficient time.

2.       At first, select the study atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to study.

3.       Collect all the books for the preparation, including the books for the fundamental and basic concept for specific problems, guide books for GMAT and previous year question papers.

4.       Always keep a sheet of paper to make a note of important points, formulae, underline every important point in paragraph or answer so that it will make easy to study and to remember.

5.       Always start the preparation with easy and perfect questions and topic as the rate of interest and the concentration will increase.

6.       Solve example problems, go through the glossary, tips, key points, points to remember, which will help to cover the chapter very easily and within sufficient time.

7.       Prepare a study plan, which will help you to study effectively and will also reduce the stress.

8.       Prepare the list of chapters:

➔       How much study materials you need to cover?

➔       Difficult topics and Easy topics.

➔       How much time is available for each topic?

➔      How many questions are there?

➔      How much important each topic/unit/question is?

9.       Divide the study material into several parts so that you can cover the complete material in short period of time.

10.   Revise the running notes ,practice the model papers, important questions, practice writing and spend more time in recalling and discussing the topics, answers, definitions, formulae and equations.

11.   The practice writing the answers or the equations or the formulae rather than telling orally, as writing will help one to remember the important points and also improve the spellings, grammars and also the handwriting.

12.   Practice of writing answer under exam conditions, without any break. So that we can know and manage our time limit for each question.

13.  GMAT is the toughest examination, which needs more practice and preparation. Question asked are really tricky and time-consuming, hence students need to be faster in answering the questions. If you are confident with your preparation try to focus on your goal to achieve it. To clear this exam lot of preparation is required. Need to refer more and more books, question banks, model papers and previous year papers.    

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