Shashank was a brilliant student with a very sharp mind. He was among those students of the class who used to answer questions instantly as the teacher asked. But finally in IITJEE, he managed to grab a rank around 5000. So what went wrong? After interrogating him for a few minutes I realized that
he was good in the topics which were taught to him in last few months but he had difficulty in recalling the concepts he learned 5-6 months back.
he told me that he revised all the topics before the exam but I could clearly see that he was not following the correct revision strategy.
he was good in the topics which were taught to him in last few months but he had difficulty in recalling the concepts he learned 5-6 months back.
he told me that he revised all the topics before the exam but I could clearly see that he was not following the correct revision strategy.
All of us have a limited memory resource of various capacities.
some people have an iconic memory but majority has normal memory which tends to forget things gradually with time. But to score a good rank in JEE you need to have all the concepts on your finger tips. A proper revision strategy is what you require the most. It does not matter that you were the topper of your batch in the class test of definite integral. All that matters is how many of the definite integral questions you cracked in JEE. Usually the students who are good in some topic and have done well in class tests of that topic tend to ignore the topic while revising. They feel that it is a cake walk for them and here they make a mistake. A batsman practices more with his lucky bat. If he starts feeling that his lucky bat will do the entire miracle and he keeps on practicing with other bats in nets, in match his lucky bat will become less familiar to him. So the crux is, keep practicing more with your stronger area. But mind it I am not saying that for that you should ignore other topics which you find less attractive. No one can predict which topic's question will be more in the exam. So you need to maintain a minimum level in all the topics. After that you make your favorite topics stronger. One more thing which you should keep in mind is to try to find out the topics which are more common in papers (like definite integrals in maths) and try to make them your strength.
some people have an iconic memory but majority has normal memory which tends to forget things gradually with time. But to score a good rank in JEE you need to have all the concepts on your finger tips. A proper revision strategy is what you require the most. It does not matter that you were the topper of your batch in the class test of definite integral. All that matters is how many of the definite integral questions you cracked in JEE. Usually the students who are good in some topic and have done well in class tests of that topic tend to ignore the topic while revising. They feel that it is a cake walk for them and here they make a mistake. A batsman practices more with his lucky bat. If he starts feeling that his lucky bat will do the entire miracle and he keeps on practicing with other bats in nets, in match his lucky bat will become less familiar to him. So the crux is, keep practicing more with your stronger area. But mind it I am not saying that for that you should ignore other topics which you find less attractive. No one can predict which topic's question will be more in the exam. So you need to maintain a minimum level in all the topics. After that you make your favorite topics stronger. One more thing which you should keep in mind is to try to find out the topics which are more common in papers (like definite integrals in maths) and try to make them your strength.
Make your own short notes of whatever you are reading (I will talk about some tips for making short notes in another article). Whenever you solve questions from some book/handout, try to give remarks to each question. You will certainly find some questions for which you will feel that the concept behind the question must be on your finger tips to solve such questions in exam. So mark "revision" on such questions and when revising, do such questions. Remember that revising a topic does not means that you redo all the questions of the topic. You just need to do quality questions which you have already marked when you practiced the question set for the first time. Please note that quality question is not same as tough questions rather they are more of conceptual questions.
Every week keep a small time slot in which you just quickly revise some of the previously read topics from your short notes (this will help you in keeping the concepts in your memory). You do not need to do questions every time you revise a topic. A quick revision includes only revising the concepts. A comprehensive revision is advised to be done in vacations or when you don't have some new topic to read while quick revisions must be done on weekly basis.
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