Someone once rightly said “Without proper strategy our plans are just wishes”.
This applies to every aspect of our life and the very same goes for the tests conducted by your respective coaching institutes. Weekend tests are very important part preparation for competitive exams.
If you have good strategy related to your weekend test, it will provide you a different domain in comparison to other students
So here we are going to discuss a lil about what you should or shouldn’t do as part of your test strategy.

Things you should do:

Before the test.

•  Divide your syllabus into particular days: Doing this will make sure your preparation is concise and not haphazard while simultaneously ensuring that you don’t get overloaded by syllabus a few days before exams
•  Create realistic time table: Don’t create unrealistic goals for yourself. You and only you know how much you can invest in a particular activity. So, be honest to yourself and make small, achievable goals. Making small goals on a daily basis will instill a sense of accomplishment and will work as a drive for the next goal.
• Studying strategy: Make sure you give enough time for studying theory, practicing questions. Examples should be studied thoroughly.
• Practicing previous year questions is mandatory
•  Complete your syllabus a day before the test: Doing so will help you relax and focus your mind a day before test. And trust me it makes a huge difference!
• Create short notes: Creating short notes will aid in quick revisions. Your notes are customized to your needs and will reduce the need to go back to comprehensive text books.
• Take proper sleep daily: It can’t be stressed enough how proper sleep boosts problem solving ability and memory. So proper sleep is a must.

During test

•  Proper time Management: At the beginning of the test assign proper time to each section and stick to it with 10 min remaining at the end. Use this time to revisit hard questions.
• Complete your paper in parts: Always solve the question paper in parts and never haphazardly. It helps avoid certain mistakes like missing a question or marking wrong OMR box.
• Don’t neglect the OMR: Make sure to mark the OMR after a certain number of questions so that it doesn’t pile up as a task towards the end of the test.
• Don’t stick to a question for a long time jump to next question and solve it in next turn.

After test

•  Rest: Always remember appearing for a test is a very exhausting task. So, make sure to rest after it.
•  Analyze your performance: Sit down with your paper and analyze your mistakes. Look up the right answer in your notes
• Work on weak topics and solve the questions which you made mistakes in or you were unable to solve
•  Start preparing for next test: Moving on after a test is the most important step to preparing for the next one. One shouldn’t let the results of previous test act as a demotivation.
• Keep observing your growth chart: Always look back to see how far you have come or the growth you have undergone
• Cover your backlogs

What you shouldn’t do :

• Don’t compromise with your current syllabus: Missing on topics is something inevitable at some point. What is important is we don’t lag on current topics while covering up for missed ones.
• Don’t compare yourself with others: Comparison is not at all productive or helpful to your growth. Growth is personal and comparison has no place in it.
• Don’t skip tests: If you are underprepared, one instinct could be to skip tests and convince yourself that you’ll prepare for the next. Big mistake! Never skip tests. Its okay to not do well.

Keep on improving yourself daily we wish you very good luck for your preparation.

Article by Rohit Baljot