Subject-wise tips for NEET UG

NEET-UG is fast approaching. This is the exam that will test aspirants seeking admission to various undergraduate medical and dental courses in India, on May 5, 2013.

We hope that you tried to follow the best possible preparation strategy for NEET. Now make the most of the time left for preparation with these subject-wise revision tips from Aakash Chaudhry, director of Aakash Educational Services Ltd.

Tips for Biology:

• Give special emphasis to diagrams, as related questions are often asked in entrance exams.
• Be aware about the weightage of each portion of the syllabus and revise accordingly, remember that the class XI portion also needs to be studied well. After completing any topic, solve objective questions and go through the questions asked in previous year exams from the same topic as it will give useful insight into the depth of the topic to be covered.
• Adapt a learning style that suits you – whether visual, auditory or tactile. Visual devices include drawing, pictures, charts, maps, graphs etc to supplement your learning. Use bright markers and symbols to point out important notes. This helps during revision. Students are known to retain knowledge better when they can associate an image or demonstration that refers to it. Auditory techniques include reading aloud in a silent place, making tutors or friends a sounding board to your understanding of concepts, use of mnemonics or music, verbal discussion of ideas etc to support revision.
• Prepare the summary list of important facts of every chapter and keep on revising the list regularly. As the exam is objective type, this will be helpful.
• Reading is important but the most important thing is revision. So you should have fortnightly revision program. Revision tests can be helpful.
• Try to take few tests in exam like environment with focus on time management.

Chemistry:

• Chemistry is said to be the most scoring subject. A good percentage is devoted to Organic and Inorganic sections where no calculations are required, thus, the paper can be covered fast providing sufficient time for Physical Chemistry.
• However, expertise on these portions is attained only by solving a large number of standard problems and marking those where difficulties are encountered. These must be done frequently to see if difficulties are still encountered.
• Repeat the exercise every week till you know the answer as soon as you see the question.
• Name reactions in Organic chemistry are extremely important and must be done very thoroughly with sufficient examples.
• Find quicker methods for chapters like Stoichiometry which may be outwitting your competitors.
•  Coordination compounds have become increasingly important while qualitative testing of inorganic and organic compounds has never lost its importance in these competitions. So, how so ever difficult it may appear the attitude of never giving up pays at the end.

Physics:

Generally, the students are found to be having the phobia of Physics but it is a very fundamental subject and if you are good enough in this subject then definitely it will give you an edge over the others. It’s advisable to concentrate on the following points which will be really helpful:

• In medical entrance examinations most of the questions are found to be based on direct formula, so revise all the important ones regularly by making their list and solve maximum number of questions based on them.  You can solve last 10 years papers within proper time limit in the same manner as you are expected to solve in an entrance exam. It will increase your speed.
• Mechanics & Electrodynamics are the backbone of Physics in an entrance exam. So give enough time to these two units.
• Optics, Modern Physics, Heat & Thermodynamics, Oscillation and Waves are relatively easier topics and question already asked from these topics are more formula or direct theory based with less of concepts.  So, moderate efforts in these topics could give you better output.

Analysis of old AIPMT papers from 2012 back to 2010 shows this pattern of questions asked in different units in different subjects.

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About the author: Aakash Chaudhry is an alumnus of Harvard Business School in Boston, USA. By profession, Aakash is an engineer with a bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences and an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.