One grave mistake that's most likely to cost you a rank!

(This blog was written on the Target Educare Facebook Page on December 6th, 2014 - a good one and a half month before the AIPG 2015 exam. It sounded like a warning, and came true. AIPG 2015 had a lot of new questions and new pattern. Read on!)

If your preparation is not good enough to solve any new question or a newer form of an old question, be sure that you will be left behind.Even if you have solved and revised all MCQ books ten times and lucky enough to get 180/200 questions repeating in AIPG, still you can't be sure of a rank. The reason is these 180 MCQs will be repeats for everybody, for all your competitors- several thousands of them who would also answer them correct along with you. So you will have no unique advantage or edge over others. In such situations, the actual competition remains concentrated in the remaining 20 'newer' questions. In every exam, it is the newer questions that decide the fate of students - victories and disappointments.

That's why whenever someone writes to me and explains in an email that he/ she has 'revised' these MCQ books - "Book ABC" 5 times, "Book PQR" 7 times and "Book XYZ" 6 times it conveys nothing to me. It only talks of their 'efforts - to get familiar with Questions' and tells nothing about the 'results - his/her capacity to solve any new question'. This explains why students feel disappointed with the results "even after reading everything". 

You may have done your best - but only in a wrong direction; and your best was not good enough simply because you were not the only one appearing for the exam and there were many others who were better than you.
That's why whenever someone writes to me and explains in an email that he/ she has 'revised' these MCQ books - "Book ABC" 5 times, "Book PQR" 7 times and "Book XYZ" 6 times it conveys nothing to me. It only talks of their 'efforts - to get familiar with Questions' and tells nothing about the 'results - his/her capacity to solve any new question'. This explains why students feel disappointed with the results "even after reading everything". 
You may have done your best - but only in a wrong direction; and your best was not good enough simply because you were not the only one appearing for the exam and there were many others who were better than you.
That's why whenever someone writes to me and explains in an email that he/ she has 'revised' these MCQ books - "Book ABC" 5 times, "Book PQR" 7 times and "Book XYZ" 6 times it conveys nothing to me. It only talks of their 'efforts - to get familiar with Questions' and tells nothing about the 'results - his/her capacity to solve any new question'. This explains why students feel disappointed with the results "even after reading everything". 

You may have done your best - but only in a wrong direction; and your best was not good enough simply because you were not the only one appearing for the exam and there were many others who were better than you.

Take home point: Minimize your over-dependence on repeat questions; it may cost you a rank. Instead develop your analytical capabilities to solve any new question!