what to do to get into vidyamnadir!

Well…I’m back and today I’ll be starting a three phase post of how, what, and when to study for entrance exams in general, though there will be separate posts for the VMC and IIT-Jee Exams, this one will be the Vidyamandir Entrance Exam helper post…

So let’s proceed, the first thing in our agenda is WHAT to study?

1)      There are a lot of things that you can study, but before you start on them, you have to be completely done with your NCERT text books, and by mean done, I mean DONE. Done as in that your soooooooooooooo(and many more…) done that you are confident enough to use it when the next bonfire night comes up  . (For those who don’t know what a bonfire means, imagine the festival “Lohri”). Heck, I was “done” with all my NCERT books by the end of November.

2)      Remember that if you still consider your NCERT questions “hard”, then you’re not ready, not by a long shot, I’ve said this many times before and I’ll say it again, the level of your NCERT books is SH*T. (To read more about this click HERE )

3)      After you’ve completed your NCERT books, there are many things that you can do, namely, you could sit down and do the complete R.D. Sharma, which in my opinion, is a complete Waste of time. I think that you all should enjoy your last few months before you step into +1. Really, you’ll really rue the about it afterwards if you don’t, do what you like to do, if you like reading books….DO IT! If you like roaming around the streets like hooligans…DO IT! If you haven’t asked out that girl that you like yet…HELL YEAH! DO IT! Believe me when I say that your board exams are going to be as easy as it is to read this on your PC.

4)      Next, this is THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT before you give your exam, build your confidence, yup, it’s that simple; don’t do ANYTHING that’ll lead you to think that you’re wrong. Just do anything that builds your confidence, go around places with your friends as if you own the place. Do things like that until it comes to the point that if you get a question and your answer doesn’t match what’s given in the book, the first thing that comes to your mind is “Heck, the book’s wrong, they’ve made a misprint here…”. Yes, cracking the entrance exam is not on the basis of how much you know, but how you manage what little you do know. A super genius type of guy could let it all go if he panics in an exam (but why would he panic if he’s a genius though…) anyways, let me make this clear, even the IIT-Jee exam isn’t about intelligence anymore…(yes I said it ISN’T to those rubbing their eyes) It’s about how clever you are. It’s not the art of doing questions; it’s the art of picking out the easy ones and doing them. That is the most important thing while giving an exam.

5)      By now many of you must be thinking that this guy is spewing out crap and he won’t give us anything to study, for those people, I’ll fill their stomachs as well. Remember, this the most UNIMPORTANT point of all, the guys over at 100percentile.com(Click HERE ) offer a foundation course online test series programme( but i’m not sure if the’re offering it this year, check it out, maybe they are). I hear it’s quite good and after looking at some of the questions afterwards I realized that the questions were of an appreciable level, meaning they were at par with the entrance (they should be, they are in partnership with VMC itself). The course isn’t that expensive either, I think it’s around 600-700 bucks (INR). That would be a very good guide as to the difference between your school syllabus and the VM entrance level.

Those were some pointers on what to study before the VM exam and in short it’s this-

Your NCERT text book, how to become as abominably confident in yourself s possible, do what you want to do, and if you still want to you could go for the 100percentile.com course as well.

Keep your eyes out for the next post, I’ll be doing the “how” part of going about all this!

Good Luck (Not for your boards, btw if any of your teachers decide to wish you good luck for it, tell them to Can it and stop ruining your chances for a good life, now that may sound really bad but it’s not, trust me, you’ll come to know as soon as you’ve been in +1 for a couple of months  )

JA,

Harshyt