How To Tackle A Tough Objective/MCQ Exam

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Life is a never ending exam. Some win, some loose and some quit in between. On each and every path, it comes with different passages and number of options. Some paths are creaky, some are steep, some are exciting, some are breathtaking, some attract us towards thereselves while some retract. In  these variety of options we have to choose the right one. Sometimes our chosen options can either proved to be a boon for us or it can proved to be a regret of lifetime. So either it is small or big, each and every decision matters.

Similarly objective or MCQ's (Multiple Choice Questions) exams are identical to journey of life because it comes up with different passages and number of options in which we have to choose the right one. Whether it is life or exam we can not always be prepared for every hurdle. Especially talking about exams every question cannot be answered or solved or you cannot solve every question still you are well prepared.

In our previous article How To Explore Career Options After Engineering, we told you about the various career options in different fields after engineering but to enter in engineering field or almost any of the field such as Medical, Management Exams, Civil Services, Armed Forces, Banks, SSC etc you will have to pass through initial hurdle of 'Objective Exam.' So this is our sincere effort to help the students to tackle a tough objective exam.

Some Tips To Be Followed :

1. First thing you have to do before every exam is to calm down your nerves and relax your mind. Wipe out all the other thoughts from the mind but the exam.

2. Make your pre-exam strategy i.e. how to tackle the questions, how much time to spend on a particular section because objective exams basically contains number of section and most of the objective exams are speed based such as SSC, Banks, Railways etc. so you have to plan your strategy to do well and attempt a number of questions which will make your way further.

3. Try to set a target of how much questions you have to attempt to ensure your success in exam.

4. This is one of the most important tip which will work in many questions in many exams. Try to solve the question or find out the right option by ruling out or eliminating other options. You can eliminate odd options in a following way

• Logically.
• By putting value from options in the question to check that which option is satisfying the problem. This technique mostly works in the filed of Maths, Reasoning, English etc
• By solving a question in a systematic procedure so that you will find out the correct option in first attempt and other options will automatically ruled out. But this can be time consuming.
• By various short tricks and techniques so that you can get the right answer in a little time.

5. As we have discussed above that most of these objective exams are speed based. So if your speed is slow then try to attain the accuracy. Make sure that maximum number of questions should be correct from the number of questions you are attempting.

Different Objective Exams And How To Prepare For Them :

1. Exams like JEE-MAINS (For NIT's and other Engineering colleges) and JEE-ADVANCE (For IIT's) needs good quality of preparation. Try to work on concept building. Practice the variety of questions. Devote a good amount of time to your study.

2.Exams like GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test In Engineering) and other individual exams for PSU's needs how much you can remember from your course of 4 years in your respective engineering stream. Start preparation from the beginning. Prepare notes of every core subject from the first year, it will help you a lot. Try to solve different practice papers of GATE pattern.

3.Exams like CAT (Common Admission Test) needs speed in sections like Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation. Try to work on your calculation speed. Don't follow entire procedure to solve questions, try to solve it in a way in which it consumes less time. Read english newspaper daily to improve english. Your english for CAT will be improved by reading merely. Read a variety of content from different fields such as politics, economics, science, psychology etc.

4. Exams like SSC, Banks, Railways, Armed Forces need speed with accuracy. Practice hard to develop good speed with accuracy.

These were the few common exams which is in trend in India right now but one must positively prepare for every exam because shortcuts don't work everywhere. Hard work is a key to success.

Also Read:

• How To Handle A Tough Question Paper ? (Subjective Exam)
• How To Clear Board Exams (Weak Students) ?

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