Students’ Speak: 7 tips to follow if your TANCET performance is below expectations

By: Abdullah Salman M

Top B-Schools offer management quota through MAT and other national-level management exams. If you have given those then you could opt for it.

If you don’t get your desired cut-off from TANCET,2020, do not worry. You are still left with two options, MAT and ATMA. Also, those top B-Schools offer management quota through MAT and other national-level management exams. If you have given those then you could opt for it. But the fee for it will be higher comparatively.

As you have already gone through major management exam preparation, then preparing for MAT and ATMA won’t be a tedious task for you. Also along with exam preparation you should also prepare for Group Discussion and Personal Interview (GDPI) round. Through TANCET, you could have availed direct admission with one-shot exam without any GDPI. However, now that you have not got the desired cut-off, you need to work even harder.

Handy tips for preparation of MAT/ATMA 2020

1. Read, understand and apply

The most important step in preparation for any exam is to read an idea carefully, know it inside out and check out to use it in real-world situations. Add that to the limited time you get to answer a question and you discover yourself to be efficient with all the answers that you give. Remember, knowing an idea is straightforward but having a thorough knowledge of it increases your IQ generally, thus saving you time during exams.

2. Notes

Many people find it time-consuming to form notes of what they read and instead find yourself browsing every book they referred just before the clock starts ticking. Keeping a journal of straightforward notes with headings and subheadings of your topics is enough to remind the concept you observed. confirm to possess your share of notes ready before the exam for efficient revising.

3. Practice

Our elders weren't wrong once they said practice makes a man perfect. Of the five sections that MAT covers, four of them require rigorous practice to save lots of time during exams. within the MAT exam pattern, there are a complete of five major but different sections. Not only does it assist you to finish the section early during your exam but also gives you longer to be prepared for sections such as Mathematical Skills which require undivided attention.

4. Solve sample papers

Search for sources that provide with sample question papers of MAT or previous years’ question papers for you to urge a summary of how the paper might appear. Take some time to unravel each question and it's okay to not have it time bound for the primary few papers. The thought is to organise you for the extent of paper which will tend so that you're unsurprised.

5. Crash courses

Crash courses involve money but they're the simplest examination simulators. they assist you've got a practice of answering questions in an examination hall with the time constraints and supply you with an identical environment. They are also a really useful indicator of where you stand among ‘x’ number of individuals so that you'll continue your preparations accordingly.

6. Stay focussed

As the time for exam nears, we usually fear missing out on areas that we haven’t ventured into then we randomly start browsing reference books that we haven’t read before and panic. Instead, better to remain focussed, undergo your notes, practice questions from Mathematical Skills section again and remember of your surroundings. A focussed mind is asleep and ideal before entering the exam hall.

7. Time management

An aspect that everybody must follow during exams. You manage some time more beneficially if you're taking five minutes to travel through the paper and obtain a thought of what you ought to do. Develop a structured approach. it's better to unravel the questions that you simply find easy then advance to the difficult ones. However, you'll also leave some easy inquiries to be solved one by one in between a couple of difficult ones to avoid frustration during exams. Also, before you attempt the difficult questions, mentally calculate the quantity of your time left, the number of inquiries to be attempted and divide them equally so that majority of some time isn’t spent on one difficult question.

Bonus tip:

MAT entrance aims at shortlisting candidates for the varied management studies in India then are on a lookout for college kids that are well informed, critical thinkers who have their own opinions supported facts. History, science, geography, politics are a number of the topics you ought to venture. confirm you furthermore may focus a number of some time on general awareness and be up so far with what's happening around you. it'll assist you to skim through the last Indian and Global Environment section efficiently.

Preparing for exams is tough work but nobody said you can't make it smart work. Follow these seven simple exam hacks and be it MAT or the other exams, your exams will pass even as you expect them to be.

About the Author:

Abdullah Salman M. is currently pursuing MBA in General Management from TSM, Madurai. He has 15 months of work experience as a Network Engineer. He hails from Vellore, Tamil Nadu and has previously completed BE (ECE) from Anna University, Chennai.