Your NEET PG prep guide!
What is the right time to start preparing for PG entrance exams?
People will tell you stuff like “The best time to prepare for NEET PG was yesterday”. You have to learn to not beat your head around that. The answer to this question will differ with respect to the phase you are in (MBBS student/ Intern/ Post-intern).
What to choose?
If you are a MBBS student then you can probably go for any of the online platforms like Prepladder, MarrowMed, DBMCI or DAMS. Offline coaching centres were preferred maybe a couple of years ago but there’s no doubt that online platforms do provide us the benefit of convinience. Albeit, the choice is completely yours to make. I’ve known a lot of students who would go for the conventional classroom teaching sessions intead of attending lectures at home.
Smart approach to the subjects
Starting with Pre-clinical and Para-clinical subjects is a good idea as they play a conspicuous role in fetching substantial scores. Scoring high in extensive subjects like Medicine and Surgery lies on a comparatively difficult axis. Following these, should be the short subjects (Dermatology, Psychiatry, ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Radiology, Anesthesia, FMT) as they have a very limited syllabus and can be covered briefly within a short span of time. Among the major subjects, ObGyn and Community Medicine are represented distinctly in the entrance exams by a significant number of questions.
Ingredients required for a veritable preparation
Reading and revising notes is the key to these exams. Ofcourse, solving good quality questions and attempting Grand Tests does give you an edge over everything else. Not reviewing the Previous year questions is a crime that you do not want to commit while preparing for these exams. Previous year topics are a crucial ingredient for exams like NEET PG and INICET. Having a 20th notebook consisting of the most volatile stuff (last look on the day before exams) has been found helpful.
Gamechanger : The Last Week
It would be wise to say that one should rather prepare himself for the last one week and not the D-day (the day of exam). Most of the students ponder over the vast amount of material they’ve accumulated over the prep-time.If you wish to have an extra edge over the majority, you need to start building your ‘Last look’ material right from day 1 of your prep. And that would consist of the most high yield stuff from all the 19 subjects you’ve been studying over an year.
Skipping PYQs: Considered a SIN
PYQs (Previous year questions) might not give that extra push to your ranks but they definitely will drag you down on the rank scale if you manage to get any of them wrong. The ‘Last Look’ material should contain stuff related to Previous year topics and some important volatile stuff. That’s what you’re meant to gobble up in the last week.
Last but not the least
I know it is easier said than done, but, please believe in yourself. When pain is fresh and hope is counterintuitive, it’s difficult to trust the universe. Years back I latched on to borrowed hope when my faith was shaken. Today I want you to borrow some of mine. Maybe that’s our role in each other’s stories.
As cliched as it sounds, it’s going to be okay. It always does :)
