It's the final day for your examination and you go inside, you see the need question paper and you find a sense of joy and relief that most of the questions have been asked from NCERT, a book that you've studied extensively. You start off with biology and start solving it very enthusiastically. You know it in your gut that most of the questions that you're doing are correct. Your mind is already telling you that you got the dream college you've always wanted to go in. It's been 25 minutes and you've completed 86 out of the 90 questions in biology.
Can you imagine 86 out of 90 questions in 25 minutes. In this enthusiasm you start filling out your OMR sheet. You didn't pay attention and instead of skipping the bubble of one one five, a question which you had left for the last, you have now marked the answer of 1116 on one one five, a critical mistake that will cost you something much greater than you can ever imagine. With this enthusiastic nature that you have done most of the questions correctly, you keep on marking without realizing what you've done until you reach the question number 158, another question which you had left for the last. In the past three minutes you have marked 43 incorrect questions in your answer book.
At this point you realize the gravity of the situation and you yourself know you're beyond the competition and beyond the phase of redemption. There is no going back now. There is no extra marsheet for you. That was the one and only thing which was deciding what your future holds. You start having all these negative thoughts and you feel what your father will think once you will get to know what you have done.
As this was your drop here and the financial situation of the house has been thin thanks to the pandemic and you can't really go for another drop here. At that point you can only hope and pray that the physics and chem are easy and at least score a seat in any paramedical branches. This is a story of not one but tens of thousands of students from all across India, be it a single question or an entire marsheet. Lives are ruined just by lack of attention and this is the first story that you have to keep in mind. Don't let your attention slip even for 1 second when you are marking the AMR sheet because that literally is the one sheet that will determine whether or not you will get to become a doctor there's.
A simple solution for this need is yet to come. Go ahead in your stationery shop, bring around 15 to 20 OMR sheets and practice these OMR sheets whenever solving a previous year question paper and that should probably help. I fear that this will happen more this year because of everything being online and people clicking instead of filling the bubble. So make sure you don't fall in the story, my friend. Moving on to our second story.
The sun is bright in the sky and it's your last week as an eight aspect. You're a bit anxious about the paper later this week, as are most of your friends. You are having a breakfast when your friend calls you and asks you three questions that you could not solve in the last paper attempted. These three questions are from three different subjects. After looking at the question of why, you tell him that there is no need to read this.
This is not from NCRT. But the remaining two questions of physics. Those are the ones that really get to your head. These questions seem to require a huge deal of calculations and a lot of steps. Curious for the answers of physics, you go to the one book that you haven't touched for a couple of months since you are revising everything the book is etsy verma.
You start flipping through the pages to find the answers to these questions. But instead of finding the answers, you find more and more questions of which the answers you do not know. You certainly feel a sense of chill crawling slowly up your spine, and when it reaches your neck, you feel your heartbeat inside your ears. Faster and faster it goes. You wipe out the sweat on your forehead and exhale out a deep breath.
Your body and mind have already started a panic reaction. Without you realizing it, you sit down, drink a sip of water, and in this process you've wasted around 2 hours looking for the answers that were never meant to be found. You're linked to your study since the morning has been disturbed throughout the day. You question yourself whether a preparation is enough or not. You have drained your physical and mental well for unnecessary reasons.
What the second story tells his friends is before the examination, avoid going through any new content. Stick to whatever you have prepared by your own. Revise that multiple times. Even if an entire segment of one part is left, don't go ahead for finishing that. Revise the things that you've already done before.
Another thing the story tells us is that there are some questions with the examiners put so that they can confuse the people, they can confuse the top of us. And these are questions that are never meant to be sold in the first place. In every single night examination, you will find a couple of physics questions which are so difficult, so tiring and so calculation requiring that solving them is going against your own progress. So if you find yourself solving a physics question for more than three to four minutes, it's better that you hold that question and reserve it for the last. Moving on to the third and fourth Tuesday, you say to your mom and your mom tells you you both look at each other and pass a smile.
You have solved a lot of previous year question papers and revised the entire syllabus at least twice this week. What could possibly go wrong? At seven in the evening you get this feeling that this is the one last chance for you to revise the entire and it's now and ever. So you open up the physics of class 11th and start flipping the pages of your notes. But instead of skipping over the things which are not important, which have never been asked before, you start to memorize that.
Also, doing this reduces your reading speed by a lot and in 3 hours you've completed just physics of class 11th, which is a very low syllabus. You tell yourself the night is still young, I can do it, I can go on, I can study more and more, I've done it a lot of times. Of course it's 230 in the night and you've finally completed chemistry as well. You tell yourself enough is enough and you go to sleep. But still around 50% of the syllabus is left.
You wake up at four in the morning like you've always been doing for the past two weeks. It's nothing new, but this time after waking up, you feel so extremely tired. Of course, because you slept so late. You get yourself together and start reading biology slowly and slowly. At around 930 you're done with biology.
But then you feel this headache which you've never felt before. It's excruciating. And there is one hidden reason behind this headache. It started out late last night when you decided that you are going to hit your limits. The ATP molecule which is powering your brain was dissociating and forming adenosine which slows you down tremendously and can only be washed away by sleep.
You take a dozen, but the headache seems to not go away and now the nausea has set in. You head towards your exam center and while solving the paper you feel like your calculations have slowed down quite a bit and the anxiety that the paper has bought has also impacted your mental health. All of this leads to consumption of a lot of time and in the end you have to leave 17 questions in your paper that you could have easily solved if you had just more time. Your preparation of two years has been downgraded because of one single critical mistake that you made. Actually two mistakes.
The first one is the most important. You did not give yourself enough sleep. Revising last time for the examination is perfectly fine. Everybody does that. Sleeping, however, is something which everybody does not do.
When you sleep, the cerebrospinal fluids in and out of your brain starts flowing and it starts washing off all of these excess chemicals that have been produced with metabolism and that is why you feel so refreshed after your sleep. So what did you learn from this? First of all, sleep really well before examination. At least 6 hours is what I would suggest. Another thing is that you feel this fear of missing out while reading stuff.
Please make sure you tell your mind that only thing that they're going to ask you is from the syllabus that you've already studied and not from the syllabus that you have not touched with this mindset. Let's move on to the last story. The paper just got over and you submitted your answer sheet to them with you later in the room, you let out a sigh of relief and a smile stretching across your beautiful face comes out automatically. You slowly and gradually move out of the center with a cocktail of feelings, of emotions, of happiness, satisfaction, relief, some joy and some sadness. Sadness that this phase is finally over.
You yourself know that you've done the paper marvelously and the one VAS is finally over and your life is going to turn a lot. Now you go outside and you see your elder sister standing there waiting to hold you. After the paper is done you see only her. She smiles at you and you smile at her. You go running towards her and you hug her and tell her daddy this time selection will be done.
That moment of satisfaction that you get knowing that you've done something great is ineffable. And in that moment of happiness you know that you have made it. No matter what happens, you will be a doctor now. This is the story of thousands of students who come out after they need examination. Outside the center is a mahol in itself but at the same time lacks of students are disappointed and depressed after the paper.
What you need to know my friend is that an attempt in which you have given your best is the attempt that counts. If you have given only 50%, then that attempt does not count as your best. One only and only give up once you have given you 100% and still the results haven't come. The last story my friends is a story that you might get to experience this time. All that you need to do is put in the hard work, have the courage, follow all the steps that I've already told you and you shall prevail.
It's going to be a difficult journey of course because only 1% get selected. But to make into that 1% is not really that difficult. Trust me, I've been there and I've experienced every single story that I've told you in some way or the other.
Anyways, to all the neet aspirants who have an exam very soon I wish you all the best because I know but with the right amount of effort, courage and a bit of luck you shall thrive it's your violence. I'll catch you in the next one. Bye.
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