What is the secret to a good rank?

Revision.

Part A

This seems like a really easy concept to understand but, ironically, 90% don’t understand it at all.

This included me too at one point, so I’ll try my best to clarify what revision should actually mean to you.

Let’s take a practical example:

I wrote an article a few days back, listing down AND asking you to memorise “Intermediate Filaments”. Can you name all 6 of them now?

Yes, there’s six of them which I’d listed and specifically asked to memorise: And a good majority have forgotten them by now.

Try another more realistic example:

Solve 100 MCQs in any subject, or any random subjects. After a week, resolve the same. Did you hit 100%?

Does it matter? NEET is a 300 Q Paper, and assuming all of those 100 MCQs would’ve come, you just lost 30 x 4 = 120 Marks flat in a week if you answered just 70 right.

Part B

So why does revision seem so simple, yet everyone fails to do it?

There’s a few factors:

So you have to atleast squeeze in revision as frequently as you can manage. Learning new points of a subject should be balanced with revising those points immediately within a few weeks. That should be your strategy and not just reading a subject.

In the same gist, it makes no sense to do ALL resources that you find on the internet. I’ve had these temptations, and that feeling of “losing an opportunity” if I dont read ‘x’, but you HAVE to learn to say NO!

Because you HAVE to give time to revise, as that’ll how you’s remember, and that’s how you’ll score.

Don’t compromise revision.

Part C

Given these together, THEN try to increase your reading width.

Even though this will seem counterintuitive at first (to not read everything that you come across), you’ll see results as your rank improves in SWTs over the months, and especially your recall in the last months when you’ve cumulatively read AND revised much more in fact.

I’ve explained my schedule for how I did this in a previous article.

{This article is a part of the CostaPG publication.}

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