1st thing is 2 ask yourself…y u need this… y u need to work hard and afterall there is no guarantee u wl get a seat of ur dream…and many what if questions…---- find out an answer which keeps yourself up all thro’ your prep days… days wl test u mentally more than physically…
personally,i felt many days is this all we can achieve?? and doubted myself…all those frustration and not having felt d joy of sucess atleast once in life…made me to think NEET PG is the way for us to prove to MYSELF WHAT MY WORTH OR CAPABILITY IS…
I ALWAYS BELEIVED IN MAKING AN EFFECTIVE PLAN…and saying that… it is very much subjective…that is
1+3=4
2+2=4
5-1=4…
So give yourself time to figure out how your approach should… i was blank at first…with wide options of platform available online and offline… so approached all kinds of seniors who gave neet,… the toppers tells u what u should do… and the middle ones tells u what they could have done a bit better…and the upcoming neet achievers wl tell where they went wrong last time so that u check whether u can use that way or not…
Then i started to assess the exam pattern… 300 questions…a s per last year… 200 questions correct…with 40 to 50 negatives fetches u 760 on average…rank of 1000 to 2000 (as per neet 2018)… and in d remaining 100 questions… 40 usually on d harder side…and rest 60 needs some more “extra work” and this extra…is like will put in a comfortable position to get a desired a branch or a gud college…so that u dont have to end up with a rank where it is difficult to get desired branch and it depends on what other people choose…and tension remains til d seat allotment day…—SO BETTER TO READ A BIT MORE THAN OTHERS…
Then 19 subjects… divided it into comfortable subjects-which i could read more which getting tired as stronger ones and rest weaker ones… always had one thing in mind… its better to be 60% in all subjects so that we could get all d easy and almost medium questions corect so that we could end up geting a good score… than to be 90 or rtying to specialise that subject in pg prep itself–FELT IT WOULD UTILISE MUCH OF MY TIME FOR 1 PARTICULAR SUBJECT…and n d end if see myself on a whole…ok we are half done with all subjects–it gave me a good satisfaction so that i could fetch minimum marks… and THEN tried to score in harder questions in my strong subjects and not to make any silly or unwanted mistkaes in weaker subjects…
in 300 questions… from any notes or app mostly around 200 questions…leave out 40 tougher ones… rest 60… rest 60 are d ones which are a bit tougher ones…but NOT UNSCOREABLE… 200 quesions 10 15 silly errors… 185 correct…fethches u 725… and the game changer in remaining 60 questions… this made me to be atleast 60% in each subjects…and d rest 60 ones… wil come with repeated revisions…
how to asses youself??? being neet pg s an mcq based exam…only way s to solve mcqs… 1st solve mcqs that tells u where u stand… build up from there…
i have 1 year… how to go with tat??? upto me with such a competition outside we ourselves made it necesary to join some clases or tnd or app’s so that we ll on d right track… thing is we ll get to know d real competition outside so that we wll act accordingly… comparing to neet 18…this year cut off increased and also the major crowd at mark also increased… this time more people between 760 to 820…1st crowd…and then 700 to 750… it has increased by almost 80 marks from last time…which is 20 questions more…
so i believe making a “realistic strtegy is the key”
dont see it as 1 year or 6 month… compare with a test match… as DRAVID said… take it session by session if u win d session…u end winning d match…even if session u collapse…still u can do n d next session…so make a plan for 1 month or so…with plan for each day…
WHAT WAS MY PLAN??— joined classes…with each week wl finish d notes once and also solve mcqs…and if i had time wl revise last weeks class notes only d high yield points… 1st reading is like very superficial wl see whats writtern and which i wl forget very soon…which i feel as importnat…mark them so that could read it next time… anyhow am gonna forget d numerical or mc causes type one liners…so building concepts and interlinkin with subjects help to retain better…and solving mcqs will help to retain better
HOW DO I KNOW WHATS HIGH YIELD? simple solve mcqs see which part is being asked again and again tats d high yield part…
WHERE TO SOLVE MCQS? seeing d pattern it changes every 3 4 years or so… and with neet dnt fee like they wl ask what s the mc cause or such one liners type more quetsions…so concentrate on co relating topics between subjects… and such tat 2nd 3rd and successive revisions u dnt see nephro in anat physio patho pharma medicine pedia surg as diferrent… so that u can also revise in minimal time and more effectively…— i solved only prepg mcqs(only to maintain my speed of solving 100 in 60 minutes) and free marrow questions…
WHAT TO DO IF I GET FORGETTING OFTEN?? remember its completely normal…u wl remember concepts and pls believe u ll remember and u ll see it when u solve mcqs they wl come as reflex… and within 2 3 weeks of reading we ll forget what we read as one liners… so to start with building concepts and marking one liners so that last 2 months revising this one liners…
FEELING MONOTONOUS WHAT TO DO??
reading notes all d time…makes u feel monotonus…so solving mcqs is best…change between subjects…
u can judge your plan only by giving grand tests… i started givng them by feb,18…would have given atleast 14 15…
WHAT TO LEARN FROM GRAND TEST?? i feel gt’s are better to subject tests… becasue 3,30 hours exam time… very difficult to maintain concentration… 1st 2 hours wl be very gud… but d next 1.30 hours or so… we tend to lose it… and max. silly mistkaes wl happen at this time… so giving gt’s wl help u to maintain full concentration thro’exam…
SO D POINTS TO LEARN ARE— dont see what u score n d begining…try to sit and focus for 3.30 hours… and
WHAT TO DO FOR UNKOWN QUESTIONS?? almost 20 questions wl be like nobody can touch out of 40 questions(very tough ones) so minimum of 40-50 questions we wl attend by “intelligent guess” that is see if u had ever read it anywhere…try to think or to relate it with other known things…and rule out options…ruling out options s d 1st thing u need to learn…and that comes only when u solve unheard quesitons…out of 4 guessed questions if 1 is corect…4-3=1…its always positive thing…and thats what happened this year…many attending more and more questions than ever…so always better if we attend 300 questions in mocks or gt’s and see hw many we got right by our guess…it gives us good positive hope for future main exams…
OFFLINE VS ONLINE: personal opinions…
i chose offline becasue i knw i cant sit and watch class and make notes online…i wasnt much prepared n tat way before…and main thing s…offline class s like… compulsary class must attend…if not attedning u ll miss d class and notes…u might not understand few chapters…but online is like yourwish "“u should have good motivation to watch without post poning” when u make a effective days plan for particular subjects it works well…u can make notes watching videos and solve them… SO IF FOLLOWING ONLINE—MAKE REALISTC GOALS…
HW OFTEN BREAKS?? 1 month before d exam 2.0 got released and watched it on 1st day… so its a long process if tired of reading speak to yourself…if u want break take it… and dont think"“wasting my time-should read now”" no a break of 4 5 hours dnt matter much if u take it say 2 weekly once… and i went for a tour of 5 days in june also…
HW MANY HOURS OF STUDY PER DAY?? cant boast of 14 15 hours a day… its max of 8-9 hours a day with 2-3 hours once break… fb for 1 hour youtube videos for 30 40 minutes…speack with NON-MEDICO friends so that actully its a break and dnt think about studies during that… but u must be regular in your efforts…
SYNOPSIS OF PLAN…
1)gud mental health and positive family support is very much important
2)make realistic goals and when u achieve it…give yourself a break…
3)once u decided this way it is my plan…dnt look for more options…it wl only confuse u… select 1 thing and if u follow it religiosuly u wl be d best… if u doubt yurself…solve tests if u improve in exams…sure u wl know u are on d right track…
4)solve mcqs as much as u study… keep checking yourself if u are on d right track
5)MID YEAR is a gud thing…try compelting atleast 2 revisions of subjects what u have read till then…
6)i planned to complete reading once with d class ending by sept… and then revising it before CBT 1… then pre and para clinicals before central insitutes… then again once befre cbt .2… then again once before neet…
7)effective revision s possble only if u are able to select which is hig yield…
8)so make a plan and religiously follow it… when u get up every day ask yourself-- WAS YESTERDAY WAS D BEST U COULD EVER DO…SO ALWAYS BE A BETTER PERFORMER THAN D BEFORE DAY…NO MATTER WHERE U ARE TDAY…UNLESS U STOP MOVING…SLOWER STEPS ALSO MATTERS A LOT… SO BELIEVE THERE S A SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENT…
9)last 2 months are d gem… to be frank…we all ll remember d things what we read n last 1-2 months…so it must be effective…and study what u can revise later…even if u read harrison if u dnt revise u are not going to remember any and u wl end up getting confused…
and pls read this https://www.facebook.com/HimanshuMAMC/posts/10215876481691913
… and folow purpose pg page, Rajamahendran R sir page… full of postiivity… hope it clears your doubts… if any query leave a comment… wl post it soon…
ONLY THING IS:: EVERYTHING IS GUD…IF U KEEP DOUBTING WHICH IS BETTER THEN YOU LL END UP CONFUSING… NO MATTER WHAT OR WHOEVER SAYS…FOLLOW RELIGOUSLY SELECT ONE WAY…BE A BIT HARSH ON YOURSELF… PG IS NOT A EASIER ONE…WL TEST U MENTALLY…BE PREPARED 
IF U FIND IT USEFUL…PLS share it with your juniors…if not u have all d rights to scold…
for undergrads… get a life sir…read your books well…build up concepts…
I want to share a small story of mine. We live in a world where everyone hides what they do and how they do things. People fear if they let out their secrets to someone the other person will become better. Yes survival is important but at the same if you just let out the true stories, it can inspire others and make lives better.
From a rank of 54000 in neet last year I reached a rank of 62 this year. I was a failure in my mbbs, I had a supple in pharmacology and was the lowest scorer in my final year exams. I still remember that day when I got supple, people make you feel like you have murdered someone. Throughout my mbbs I have struggled to pass the exams and to give answers in the viva and have been humiliated in the viva’s of various Professional Exams and I had problems learning or retaining anything. I was practically zero till the end of final year. I had been looked down upon by people because I was unsuccessful. I started believing that maybe I have come in the wrong place. But I had no other choices in life and neither I wanted to take bigger risks to do something else and somehow I completed my mbbs on time which is no less a thing for me.
So it was the drop year, in the month of January I check my result my Rank 54000. Shocked I was, ashamed of myself and for letting my family down and i couldnt even tell my rank to anybody and even lied it was around 12000 to save my honour(people judge by numbers and ranks).
I had no options in life except to get a PG. After my mbbs I had lost faith in me and wondered can I even do this thing. But I kept all my worries aside. I started reading some motivational books. I spent half an hour daily to motivate myself, to stay positive and I watched motivational videos and read 2-3 pages from a motivational book. Every day my routine would start with that and I kept a hope alive in me , " I can do it and I will go to aiims ". I was not used to studying in the internship and so I when I started it was quite a difficult thing for me. I started from studying 4 hours a day then gradually increased to 10 hours a day. In the early days people used to laugh at me to see a book in my hand and say Tu pdta bhi hai?. These words touched my heart, and when people for whom I spent my time said these things, I knew I had to do something no matter what it takes.
I had this fear of not remembering anything, when I used to think about vivas where I always stayed blank. I knew if I repeated that thing again, I was out of the competition. I had once shared my problem to someone about not remembering anything, he was preparing for DM cardiology. He told me that he was AIIMS rank 2 in the aiims cardiology exam and he also doesn’t remember anything. Then he asked me, “what do you think how many times I must have read this textbook of cardiology?” I said 5 times. He replied to me, “I have read every chapter 20 times and that’s how I remember things!”. So I knew I had to do that thing in my drop year, I started to develop this habit of revising things. Initially it was very hard, it’s easy to read new things for the first time but when you had to read that thing second time you cry from inside. I used to re read multiple times with gaps which were of short time period. I started to paste important things and tables on Wall, I remember the first thing I pasted was GCS which I had not been able to learn all my mbbs and I would read all the things I pasted on Wall daily.
And with time I started to gain confidence. I finished my syllabus along with T and D. But because I used to revise very frequently I finished my syllabus thrice along with t and d which finished in the end of August. I never waited to complete my whole syllabus and then start revision. Revision changed me, I started to retain things and I used to feel surprise about myself when I started answering question when discussing with friends. I started giving grand test from the beginning and my score was constantly improving. In the mid year dnb, I got 1700 when I felt like I was on the right track, at that I had not even touched medicine or surgery.
My final year was very weak, and I attended coaching for medicine by deepak Marwah Sir and surgery by pritesh sir. I also attended path class by devesh sir. Then I attended Dvt And Sumer Sethi sir told everyone if you want to increase your speed target Cbt. I set my next target as cbt and completed my whole syllabus again before cbt and got 150 rank which boosted me a lot. It was the first time in my entire mbbs I had a great score. Then I had become very fast by that time, when I used to take 10 days to complete one subject I started completing whole syllabus in 10 days. Though I was weak in catching the minute details from the notes but because of the speed I had a superficial knowledge of all the subjects at one particular time. By september end I was good with notes but mcq books theory I had not revised much because everyone asked me to focus just on notes. So I had reached a steady state in grand tests, 180 to 195 questions, when I realised I had to cover more of content from the mcq books. Some books I had done very well but few subjects whose mcq books I had not done properly in those subjects my marks were coming around 40 to 50 percent. 23 days before aiims exam I revised almost all that I had done, and focused on weaker portions as well. I was able to revise notes and text from mcq books but I could not revise mcqs. And I was confident for aiims exam.
Then the aiims result came it was 1100. I was shocked because I had always studied with that aim in my mind. Yes my paper also didn’t go that well because somehow I felt there were many things I didn’t know. Then it was pgi again the same story didn’t do well - 460 rank. I had always developed that mental strength in me no matter how bad things may go I won’t give up.
In aiims and pgi I was little anxious before the exam, it was only because of knowledge I won’t blame it on getting anxious that I didnt made it there. But I decided that the neet pg I will give in a relaxed state. And I was confident after two cycle of revision and mcq practice that I will get a pg seat even i perform the same as I had done in aiims
One that helped me was that I did not miss a single DAY, not even a single on studying from February till the neet exam on studying. Even if there was aiims exam or pgi exam in May or cbt I would immediately start studying irrespective of it !
I want to thank my parents, my friends and my teachers entire dams family, Sumer Sethi sir, Deepti Mam, Devesh mishra sir , deepak Marwah Sir, pritesh singh sir, utsav bansal sir, Sumit Kumar Sir and Gaurav Khatana sir for supporting me, teaching me and having faith in throughout my preparation!
Some quotes that motivate me
-NEVER GIVE UP
-TO BE ABLE AT ANY MOMENT TO SACRIFICE WHAT YOU ARE FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO BECOME - ERIC THOMAS
-HARD WORK
-TALK LESS WORK MORE
-ARISE, AWAKE, STOP NOT TILL YOUR GOAL IS ACHIEVED
- TAKE UP ONE IDEA, MAKE THAT ONE IDEA YOUR LIFE THINK OF IT DREAM OF IT LIVE ON THAT IDEA. LET EVERY PART OF BODY BE FULL OF THAT IDEA. THIS IS THE WAY TO SUCCESS.