Introduction
As NEET aspirants, you must’ve started you coaching by now! Everything is new, the syllabus, the environment, the pressure and the routine. Studying for NEET is really tough if you’re consistent enough. And even harder if you don’t take all the test series seriously.
Test series for Neet aspirants are like a goldmine, it helps you understand the pattern, most likely asked questions and most importantly helps you with time management. You must’ve heard of several cases where students have missed bubbling their OMR, even though they had all the correct answers! Imagine the stress and disappointment.
In this article we will cover:
- how to study the entire week
- how to prepare for the weekend tests
- how to analyze the tests
Test series for NEET aspirants
Every coaching has a test series for Neet aspirants, they can be weekly or biweekly, i.e., once in every two weeks. If you have the option to choose between the two, I’d suggest the first one!
Studying the entire week, then being tested on the same knowledge can be a gamechanger. There are a lot of benefits of weekly tests
- analyze yourself topic by topic
- get to practice questions for each topic briefly
- perfects you in all ways
How to prepare
there are several test series for NEET aspirants that are launched throughout the year, don’t confuse yourself by paying attention to those. I suggest, stick to the tests conducted weekly by your coaching and give a test on the month end, covering all the syllabus of your said month.
Where to find these monthly papers? easy! search on telegram, you can get several test series from different coaching’s. Just research a little on which one’s better suitable for you and stick to it till the end
how to actually prepare for the tests:
- Pay attention in the lectures throughout the week
- note down all the important question types the teacher is discussing (they mostly ask that in the paper too)
- practice pyq on each topic daily (from mtg books or any other book you like)
- undertand your mistakes and rectify them, then and there
- don’t learn anything new the day before paper, only revise
- the morning of the paper, revise one last time while reviewing your mistakes
During the paper:
- make sure to bubble the OMR, as you solve the answers, don’t leave it for the end
- if a question troubles you, do not waste your time on it, move on
- keep in mind the negative marking, in the beginning you might scoreless just because of it
- set fixed timings for each section, don’t waste time on a particular section
don’t review the entire section before solving it, start solving directly (I did this to avoid anxiety, but opinions might differ on this one)
These test series for NEET aspirants are made to test and help them improve throughput the year, don’t lose hope if you scoreless in the beginning!
Negative Marking
As a new aspirant, managing negative marking can be difficult, don’t overthink it. Everyone finds their tactic over the course of time.
Just keep in mind to first mark only the questions you’re 100% sure of, then try re-reading all the 50-50 questions, and the one’s you’re not sure of. leave them completely. Do not try your luck by marking a question, that you’ve never seen before.
After the test, go through the questions you didn’t understand, do not throw away the question papers, mark those questions, and over the year, these questions will become your question bank, the month before your NEET!
Conclusion
The success mantra is to keep solving, keep analyzing and keep redoing! That’s all! It might seem less in the beginning but as the syllabus piles up it might get difficult to stay consistent but keep trying!
Hopefully, now you’ll be able to give your tests with 100% efficiency!