A week to go for all Karnataka entrance exams.
Look at these scenarios about the exams and their papers. Applicable to any and every exam.
1. One extreme - All questions are highly difficult. All questions seem to be out of syllabus and out of reach.
2. The other extreme - All questions are damn easy and repeats. 'All' are repeats.
3. The balanced paper - Some old. Some new. Some newer versions of old questions. All subjects equally distributed.
If you think any one of these scenarios is more helpful - in other words, you have a better chance of getting a rank in 'any' one of these three situations, you are wrong.
I have written it many times before. It's only the 'mass average percentage' (aka. central tendency) that changes.
Scenario one - it may be less than 25%
Scenario two - It may go beyond 90 to 95%
Scenario three - the usual 75 to 80%.
In other words, it's only the 'absolute score' of yours that goes low or up, whereas your relative position (compared to others) remains the same.
Remember one thing - as long as your 'relative position' (when compared to others) doesn't change, you are going to stay with the crowd only with the 'mass average' score; and this is not something that you wish to have, if you seriously want a rank.
Scoring the average and staying with the crowd was a norm in your BDS years. There was a lower limit set by the university to pass there.
Here the objective is different. There is no lower limit. There is only upper limit. Apply common sense. You have to be on the higher side. So the concept of easy and difficult exam doesn't apply and stays invalid.
Another point of view - Unless your relative position improves, you stand no chance. Unless you beat majority of the aspirants (your competitiors) you stand no chance.
Now just ask yourself a question. If you have been asking your 'competitors' and taking their help on what you should answer and in return you are also 'helping' them on what 'they' should answer in the exam (just like you did in your UG days) - does it work here? Is it logical?
Third point of view - if all 1000 of you moved up together, does that improve your 'relative' position as compared to others?
Think about it. Introspect. Answer yourself.
Look at these scenarios about the exams and their papers. Applicable to any and every exam.
1. One extreme - All questions are highly difficult. All questions seem to be out of syllabus and out of reach.
2. The other extreme - All questions are damn easy and repeats. 'All' are repeats.
3. The balanced paper - Some old. Some new. Some newer versions of old questions. All subjects equally distributed.
If you think any one of these scenarios is more helpful - in other words, you have a better chance of getting a rank in 'any' one of these three situations, you are wrong.
I have written it many times before. It's only the 'mass average percentage' (aka. central tendency) that changes.
Scenario one - it may be less than 25%
Scenario two - It may go beyond 90 to 95%
Scenario three - the usual 75 to 80%.
In other words, it's only the 'absolute score' of yours that goes low or up, whereas your relative position (compared to others) remains the same.
Remember one thing - as long as your 'relative position' (when compared to others) doesn't change, you are going to stay with the crowd only with the 'mass average' score; and this is not something that you wish to have, if you seriously want a rank.
Scoring the average and staying with the crowd was a norm in your BDS years. There was a lower limit set by the university to pass there.
Here the objective is different. There is no lower limit. There is only upper limit. Apply common sense. You have to be on the higher side. So the concept of easy and difficult exam doesn't apply and stays invalid.
Another point of view - Unless your relative position improves, you stand no chance. Unless you beat majority of the aspirants (your competitiors) you stand no chance.
Now just ask yourself a question. If you have been asking your 'competitors' and taking their help on what you should answer and in return you are also 'helping' them on what 'they' should answer in the exam (just like you did in your UG days) - does it work here? Is it logical?
Third point of view - if all 1000 of you moved up together, does that improve your 'relative' position as compared to others?
Think about it. Introspect. Answer yourself.
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