MY TAKE ON NEET MDS PREPARATION
This blog post provides a structured approach to preparing for NEET MDS, emphasizing the importance of planning, discipline, and holistic well-being. It aims to guide aspiring dentists towards achieving their career goals through effective study techniques and perseverance.
CONTENTS OF THIS BLOG POST
Introduction
Choosing Your Path
Endurance in the NEET MDS Journey: From Start to Finish
Category of Aspirants
Building on Your BDS Knowledge: Transitioning to NEET MDS Preparation
Choosing Your Approach: Self-Study vs. Coaching
Subject Combination Strategy
Building Stamina: Establishing Your Initial Study Routine
Optimize Your Study Breaks for Maximum Efficiency
Finding Your Study Rhythm: Personalizing Your Learning Schedule
Optimizing Pulse Practice: A Step-by-Step Approach
Strategic Revision Planning: Balancing Dental and Medical Subjects
PYQs and Revision
Balancing Work and Study
Prioritizing Sleep: Essential for Optimal Study Performance
Staying Dedicated: The Key to Exam Success
Maintaining Momentum
Acknowledging My Support System: Gratitude to Mentors and Loved Ones
Conclusion
Introduction
It is an exam which every MDS aspirant wants to crack and get into the government college . In today’s competitive era , this exam like any other exams also demands consistency, planning and lots of smart work along with hard work to get through it with flying colors.
Choosing Your Path
Everyone wants to clear NEET MDS , but does everyone clear this exam ? Does everyone put in the efforts which this exam demands ? Are there so many seats that everyone who prepares for the exam gets the government seat? Answer to each of these question lies within you .
No everyone doesn’t clear NEET MDS . But yes ,mostly aspirants will put in their maximum efforts to clear the exam .Are your efforts in the right direction? Smart and right efforts is what will take you to the fruitful results. See you just need to secure one government seat for yourself. So , your efforts shouldn’t be influenced by the number of government seats.
Endurance in the NEET MDS Journey: From Start to Finish
Everyone starts the race of NEET MDS exam preparation but not everyone reaches till the finish line or wins the race. I am talking about finishing the preparation and not cracking exam with government rank , this is what i mean by an aspirant reaching the finish line. Now , let’s get some more clarity .
Category of Aspirants
There are 2 separate categories of aspirants:
1)There will be many aspirants who will kickstart the exam preparation but get tired throughout the way and leave the preparation amid , one month before or one week before giving up , reasons can be many , you all know .
2)There will be few other aspirants who also started their preparation like the category 1 and they cracked the exam also.
Decide yourself which category do you want to fall into ? Self assessment time for you.
Building on Your BDS Knowledge: Transitioning to NEET MDS Preparation
Start from the scratch just to say , but as you have all done your BDS so definitely something you know, it’s not like the first day of BDS at all . So , stop mercying on yourself that you have so much to study . Is it that only you have to study so much , obviously No . Everyone is studying the same syllabus of huge 19 subjects to be covered . The one who prioritizes the exam preparation , gets priority by the exam and gets it . This satisfies that same equation of LHS= RHS isn’t it.
Choosing Your Approach: Self-Study vs. Coaching
Do one exercise by yourself as to what kind of preparation suits you ? Self study or with some coaching. You are the best person to decide for yourself . Listen to all and decide in the end on your own.
Self Study Approach
If you select Self study , then you got to work on yourself. You are your mentor , you have to make a schedule and stick to it so strictly , no chance of procrastination. If you even attempt of procrastinating , you will land up nowhere and you are the one responsible for it. But there is always a scope that you can crack exam with Self study also . Though you have to very much into it , for things to work magically and you ending up in cracking the exam.
Coaching Approach
Coming to coaching scenes , they will have one schedule for you , which they will be following without fail. But does joining the coaching suffice it all ? No , definitely not . The schedule has to followed at your end as well , then only some magic is going to happen. They will give you the guidance in the best way, you have just stick to that guidance thoroughly. One coaching has something good while other coaching has other thing good in it. So just have belief and faith in the coaching which you had joined. It shouldn’t be like you have joined one coaching and you are following half of your coaching schedule and other half of your friend’s coaching schedule or study material, etc. Then you will get the result also in the same way.
One coaching strictly to be followed blindly since day 1 to last day before the exam. Then you are sure shot going to crack the exam. Everyone makes schedule, who knows why they made the schedule will follow that without excuses. Either you have schedule or excuses . Both cannot co-exist.
Subject Combination Strategy
You can study Physiology , Medicine and Pharmacology together or one after the another in the same sequence. Pedodontics is so vast and an overlapping of so many subjects, so study Pedo in the end , so that you just end up studying Pedo just once instead of many times. Study DADH , Oral Pathology and OMR together , it makes sense right. You can study General Pathology and General Surgery together. You should study Oral surgery, General Anatomy and Oral Pathology. Biochemistry, Microbiology can be wedged in between these subjects combinations. Conservative Dentistry has some part overlapping to Dental materials , finish that once. Endodontics clinical part is done by OPD of our colleges itself . Few of those scenarios will be in the form of clinical case there. Rest all the final year subjects has to be dealt properly as they are extremely important.
Building Stamina: Establishing Your Initial Study Routine
1) Experimental /Initial days: See start how much you can study in one stretch initially. Some may be able to sit and study for 30 mins while others can sit for an one hour initially.
2) Then push your initial limits to maximum now.
Optimize Your Study Breaks for Maximum Efficiency
In that 5-10 min break , drink water and keep yourself sufficiently hydrated. Also eat healthy food and on time . Avoid eating from outside in the last few months before the exam (most crucial time) as your flow of studies will get hampered once your health get affected.
Study with breaks – Study for about 40 mins and then take a 5 min break, don’t look into phone . As nobody leaves phone in 5 mins , we land up using phone for 30 mins instead of 5 mins. Instead you can just close your books , sit and relax for 5 mins and start again.
I used to listen instrumental music so that I don’t end up listening for more than 5 minutes because I won’t get time to connect to lyrics of the music.
Finding Your Study Rhythm: Personalizing Your Learning Schedule
It depends on you , how much time you take to take to solve questions. How much time you take to grasp a new concept or how much time you take in revisions for the same ? So it’s totally subjective in my opinion. There will be some aspirants who will study for some 10 hours a day and others who devote 6 hours and both may be on the same page . So , the number of hours should not bother you , neither it should be a burden for you to study for those many hours. One person will take 30 mins to finish one topic , while other is taking 15 mins to finish a topic . So at the end both are finishing the same number of topics with difference in timings. No problem, at the end what you learnt or studied thoroughly matters. So be happy with any of the approach.
Optimizing Pulse Practice: A Step-by-Step Approach
#Pc: Government Dental college , Raipur Library
1)Attempt each section of the Pulse (subjectwise ) like a real exam (take a paper , write 1, 2,3, ….. till the last question ) and
2) Then do assessment of it after the attempt.
3) See how many questions you attempted are correct and how many are wrong.
4) Divide them into further subdivisions according to you , as to how many you did correct by guesswork and how many you were genuinely knowing them.
5) Work on them accordingly , if you know them well and good. If not , it was just guesswork , jot that fact or the concept in your notes, so that you don’t repeat the same mistake again.
6) Simply go over it again and again unless it gets imbibed in your head.
7) Questions once done wrong , chances are there they will be done wrong again unless you rectify them.
8) Then go to the synopsis in the end, highlight what’s not written in notes or may be you write that also to the notes whatever suits you.
Strategic Revision Planning: Balancing Dental and Medical Subjects
Make a revision schedule of yours. Make sure to keep one dental and medical subject in it. Don’t waste your time , plan smart . Find out the weightage of all the dental and medical subjects and incorporate into your revision also in the same way. Go through facts of dental and medical subjects in the early morning for better retention.
PYQs and Revision
1) Previous years questions hold a significant weightage in NEET MDS exams. They come as it is in the paper. So , kindly don’t leave them for the last moment. Keep doing them side by side as you finish each subject.
2) Go over the all the topics asked in the PYQs in depth as you might encounter another question from the same topic too in your exam, that’s also a decent possibility. So be prepared both ways.
Do past 10 year papers , but last 5-6 years should be on your tips without any fail.
Integrate them into your study plan early on to familiarize yourself with exam patterns and question styles. Consistent revision is key; ensure the last few years’ papers are at your fingertips.
Balancing Work and Study
Put in more hours if you have more time ; because sooner you finish your syllabus, sooner you can switch to your revision part also.
Time for your hobby– take out some time for your hobby as you will get refreshed because of it. Then you can start fresh again. Breaks are also equally important to the study hours. But don’t get carried away and distracted during preparation phase.
Remember it’s not one week or one month journey , it’s more than that. It is not like you study with full intensity in the initial days and in last days sitback and relax. No , it is not going to work this way. It is the consistency till the end which will take you long ways in life.
Prioritizing Sleep: Essential for Optimal Study Performance
You are keeping the track of your study and diet properly. Now one most important thing is the sleep , keep track of that as well. Sleep for 6-7 hours definitely. Sleep early and get up early as the morning hours are the most efficient hours or say golden hours of the study , as least distraction from phone or anyone as everyone would be slept and no one to disturb you. You will definitely not be sitting with phone alone.
Other thing is that I had put sleep mode on my phone from 10:15 pm to 5am in the morning , so my phone will automatically turn to sleep mode at 10:15pm and I will not get any calls or any messages or any app notifications either. See my life became easy. So use phone for the good.
It really helped me , you should also try it.
Staying Dedicated: The Key to Exam Success
In the end all the efforts from day 1 matters. So, just put in all your efforts each day . Then you will not be worried one day before the exam as you will be busy studying each day religiously and boss you had no time to worry for the results.
If you are worried it means you are not studying. Because if you are studying you won’t get time to fall into the trap of vicious cycle of endless worrying.
Keep one source for the reference in last time revisions as you won’t have so much to go over n number of study materials and finish revisions last moment.
Maintaining Momentum
Consistency is paramount; avoid the temptation to relax prematurely. Keep track of your progress diligently to ensure you’re on track for success.
Acknowledging My Support System: Gratitude to Mentors and Loved Ones
My suggestion is to have one mentor or guide , for me it was Ichita Joshi ma’am who helped me throughout my journey. I would like to extend my thanks through this blog post to almighty God, my family , Ichita maam and some of my friends for my consistent support to reach me where i am today .
Coaching Credit
“BDS 2 MDS teachers and team, in my opinion, constitute the finest coaching.”
Conclusion
Preparing for NEET MDS is a journey that demands resilience, dedication, and strategic planning. Whether you choose self-study or opt for coaching, commit wholeheartedly to your preparation regimen. Remember, the ultimate goal isn’t just passing an exam but securing a future in dentistry. Stay disciplined, stay focused, and success will follow.
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