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Score Better In Exams: Test Prep Skill

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Course Introduction

      1:43

    • 2.

      Establish A Baseline

      2:29

    • 3.

      My Introduction

      3:53

    • 4.

      Gamify Your Exam Preparation

      6:46

    • 5.

      Study In Sprints: Then Revising

      6:53

    • 6.

      Question Types & Mock Tests

      2:34

    • 7.

      Preparing Notes: Avoid Making Them Too Long

      3:59

    • 8.

      Study Group: Social Pressure

      4:24

    • 9.

      Conclusion & Further Thoughts

      0:33

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In this course I'll share the strategies with which you can prepare for exams in a less stressful and a more productive way. The insights are from my personal journey preparing for various exams and how I managed my time and coursework to tackle those exams and score better.

If managed well, it's not hard to score high marks in exams while not even getting too stressed. If the preparation is done in a strategic way then the time taken can be reduced and scores achieved can be higher. There are some social and psychological tricks as well that you can use to make sure you're disciplined in your preparation.

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1. Course Introduction: Internet is flooded with advice for studying and giving exams, like keep yourself distraction free. Don't procrastinate. Keep your studying area clean. That's not what I will be telling you. What I'll be talking to you in this course and sharing with you is core insights about how you can specifically prepare your notes, how you can prepare your plan and study group so that you have the social pressure to crack your exam. And a lot of core insights so that you're not wasting time. This is a byproduct. This is not what you want to solve. You want to know what you want to spend time on so that you're automatically not wasting time. Hi, I'm Kushal soya. I'm a graduate from Bit Spillane, which is the top engineering college in India, from the private sector. I have gained two scholarships, one from the college and one from the government of India, which is called the Inspired scholarship from the Department of Science and Technology for being among top 1% students in India. And today, I want to tell you how I was able to achieve all of that with very low amount of brute force effort and just simple strategies because I used to study last day and just crack the exam. I was not somebody who used to study throughout the year. And how just in that last day or last two months or last week of studying if the exam had 12 15 subjects, how I was able to get from -15% relative to the toppers two plus two plus 3% and all of the exams in my community, which I was giving. So if you'd like to understand the strategy of how you can just stop wasting time, what you need to align to, how you can strategize and very easily crack the exam, this is the course for you. Let's dive right in, see you in the next video. 2. Establish A Baseline: Here's what you should do before you start studying, and this might sound funny. But even before you start studying, just glance through what the syllabus is for just 5 minutes, hardly 5 minutes. And even without studying, what are the elements or what are the chapters that you want to cover. Give a mock test. Even before you've studied anything. This helps you establish a baseline. This helps you establish that, okay, this is what my worst performance could be somewhere around this. Now you know where is your starting point and where you need to end at. So if your baseline is at 40, it's okay. Without studying, you're already at 40, so you know that these are the things that you already know. And once you encounter the questions, which you couldn't answer, and when you study later, that's when they'll get answered. And that's when you'll start spiking, you'll start reflecting those spikes in your mind that, yes, this is what I came across once and I couldn't answer it, and now I can. And once those patterns start forming when you study later on, That's when you'll be able to cover the syllabus and understand everything very, very quickly, and deeply, things will start fitting into place. But before you start studying, I'm telling you, do not even open the book, read the syllabus, give a mock test. A MC test can be a previous year question paper. AOC test can also be sample tests that you can purchase from companies that already give it online for example, if you're preparing for the GMT, you might be able to buy a lot of GMT MOC tests. If you're preparing for something which is there in your college or school, then you might get previous year papers. Before you start studying, ensure that you give the mock test or a previous year paper. Check it, see what your score is, and keep that as a reference that this is your baseline and you have to quickly ensure that you're developing from here. Each sprint or each time you study and you'll not study the whole thing once, you'll actually study the whole thing probably 15 times 20 times. I'll tell you that all of it can be done with minimum amount of effort. You don't need to actually put a lot of effort to study the whole thing 15, 20 times. You have to study in a very magazine a way where you give the mo test, then you come back and then you say, Okay, this is the part I couldn't answer, this is what it looks like. And that's how you're able to cover the silvers 15, 20 times and answer the questions deeply and cover more of the parts that you did not know. Before you start off, don't think of anything. Just give a mock test or PVS a paper, solve it, see your score, establish your baseline. See you in the next video. 3. My Introduction: Hey, there. Now, before we begin with the course, let me also tell you who I am so that you know whether I'm the right person to teach you this course or not. Now, I am an inspired scholar from the government of India. This is a scholarship that is awarded, which is given to the top one person students in India in the science stream. Also, I'm an alumnus of the top engineering private college in India, that is Witzplani where you have to score in the top few thousand among three LA applicants, approximately if you want to get a chance of entering into this college. I wasn't one of the best students all throughout my school life, but I knew that when the real exam happens, you have to score well then. Let me share with you another story. In the school final exams in class 12 where I had to give the environmental education exam, which is something I did not study for throughout the year. I had to figure out how I can crack the exam in one day. So I wake up at 9:00 A.M. One day before the national exam in environmental education. And I tried to figure out, which book do I have to study from because I did not buy that. I did not study from that book throughout the year. So then I asked one of my friends and I got one book which was from a senior at around ten, which was one year older. So it was 95% similar to the current year syllabus, but a little bit different. But I did not worry about that. I was like, Okay, we're going to study from that and crack it. And towards the end, after 12 hours of studying, that is from 10:00 P.M. To 10:00 P.M. With breaks in between, of course, to have food and things like just taking a little bit of a rest. I was able to score 92 out of 100 in the exam. Of course, I did not do some rocket science to crack it. I only studied strategically. And in this course, what I want to share with you is the strategy to study productively and score well. If you want to crack in exam is the course for you. If you are looking to philosophize a lot, understand your subject way more deeply. If you're looking to Google a lot of the information that you studied and relate with ten other topics, then this might not be the course for you. But if you're looking to play that game of scoring well in your exam, if that is the simple target you have clearly in your mind, if that is the output that you're looking to generate, then this is the course for you. By the way, one more small little anecdote to tell you why I'm the right teacher for you. In the class 12 final exams where you have to give a mathematics exam nationally. It is a little hard in India for the science students, and I was not somebody who could even imagine scoring above 90 or 100. And I tried my best to figure out how I can strategically study and score the best. That's all I tried. I just gamified and tried that. I did not study the whole subject very deeply and understand each and every concept deeply. I understood how I can apply the formula and which situation, what I should apply. And just doing that, Probably very few students are able to score 100 out of 100 and I was shocked to see that score. That's when I understood that, okay, if you want to give an exam, you can even study for just a few days and score really high marks if you do that strategically. And since I feel that I've been able to apply that strategy to help me crack exams quickly, that's what I want to share with you today. So see you in the next video where I will talk about how you can gamify giving the exam, how you can gamify your study strategy so that you can score better in your examinations and make it much easier for you to score with less amount of effort. So that you can have more time to play football or do music or do whatever while scoring really high marks in the exam and not getting too stressed. See you in the next video. 4. Gamify Your Exam Preparation: If you play a game, all you're concerned about is, which is the level you are at? What is the thing you have to do to cross this level and you get to the next level? Continuously upskilling and facing bigger and bigger challenges. That's what makes the game fun also. Now, if you're suppose trying to crack a mathematics exam. What you might end up doing is something. Let me draw the analogy from the game. You saw a game character. Now you're trying to analyze what is the name. Then you try to analyze, what is the history of the name of this person? And then you Google and try to understand if there is a real person with this name. Then you get back to the game and try to analyze what is the level and you start thinking of why the game developer thought of designing this level in that way. Then once you understand which game developer developed did you study about that company. You try to find out, Okay, this is the company size. This is the number of employees. This is the revenue the game made. Now, you come back to the game. And then once you are able to fight a boss or fight some character and overcome some challenge, you try to think, Okay, this challenge was this hard. It took me this much time. And now I want to overcome the next challenge. And before I go for that, let me reassess and retry that previous challenge five more times so that I'm sure that at least I'm very comfortable crossing this previous challenge. So now you do that five times, you redo it five times, and you will then look at. Now, this is the next challenge which is coming up and you start philosophizing, out of 14 levels, right now, I'm on level seven. And level seven has taken me probably 5 hours. The next few levels are going to be harder. So out of 14, will the next seven be solved in 5 hours or will I be able to solve the next seven in 25 hours? And then you try to come up with an estimate. And after your estimate is figured out, then you say, Okay, let me try to create a whole roadmap and a plan, and I'll take breaks in between so that I'm able to achieve that estimate. And in order to achieve that estimate very, very quickly, I will also try to diversify how I spend my time in each and every aspect. So I'll spend 1 hour on upskilling, how I'm using the controller, one on upskilling my eyesight so that I can look at the game properly or whatever. The analogy is, you try to go too deep into each and every aspect. When you're studying a subject. But you do that when you play a game? No, you just try to finish it off. You just look at your score, what your high score is, what is the leader board? Okay. Somebody is doing better than me. Let's try to check the next score. But when we're studying for a subject, when we are say studying math and we look at matrices, or we look at maybe calculus. We end up reading the history of how it was discovered. We try to come up with how this can be proved. And then we try to show off, to our friends, how these five new equations can be used for some five random ways, and then how your friends will think once you do that equation and how big the subject is. And if you've done this, can you do this five other times, and then you solve five more problems of the same type rather than spending time on another chapter or the next level. You spend time solving similar type of questions for another 2 hours, which is just boosting confidence that, okay, I can solve that question, but that's not something which is generating an ROI because you did not go ahead, you just did what you already knew. I hope I was able to draw a clear analogy of how we end up repeating the same thing and doing the same thing that we already know and end up philosophizing and Googling ten other things. Don't do that. Look at the input that you have to put to get the output. So have a reverse method. That, okay, this is the output I need. This is the level I want to cross, and I just want to go this way and that way, and this is how I'm going to cross it. And similarly, you just have to look at your subject in a very, very simple way that, okay, I need to get this core, and this is what I need to do, and this is the five type of problems, and these are the five concepts, and this is how I cross it. Keep your approach as less emotional, as less romantic as possible. Now we've understood that we don't want to go too deep. We don't want to end up Googling and distracting ourselves. We don't want to philosophize. What do we want to do? Then First, before you start studying, understand the syllabus. What is it that is going to be asked? Even before you start, you can just check your baseline, which is just give a mock test. Just check your base line. Do not even start studying before you know what is going to get asked in the end. I have given exams mock tests of subjects without even opening the first page of the book. And then after I get the exam, I knew that, okay, this is the final boss that I have to face in this game. So now before I face that boss, this is the level I need to stowly progress with. And my direction of where I want to go is very perfectly aligned. Otherwise, what happens is that you want to get from this point to this point and you take a very wavered path, and then you end up here after spending maybe 500 hours worth of effort, whereas if you just encountered it not as a distance, but as a displacement from point to point P directly, probably, this was just a five hour thing. And that is how in 12 hours I was able to score 92 or 100 versus spending a week to study a subject to score 85. And I have been in both situations, spending a week to study a subject and scoring just 85. I have had that problem. And once I looked at it in a gamified way, probably because I had put myself forcibly in a situation where I just have a day to study that. And that's how I was able to figure this trick out that you just want to know the syllabus. So first, I just used to give a real test and then look at the roadmap of, Okay, this is what I need to do, and this is from this point to that point, how I need to get there. But the game is not as easy as this. This video was about helping you understand the perspective of how you can gamify. In the next few videos, we will understand how you can make a roadmap. How you can strategize your revisions, because it is slightly more different from a game. It is not exactly like a game. In the end, you have to remember a lot of things so that you can solve it. And there are tricks with which you can remember better. So we'll talk about roadmapping. We'll talk about revisions. We'll talk about how you should make your notes. We'll talk about how you can put yourself in a social environment, where you're able to also perform better in the exam. We'll also look at how you should sit and study because in the end when you study, there is a lot of things that go around which can disturb you or affect your focus. So coming up in the next video is how you can build a roadmap, and then rest of the things we'll discuss about, see you in the next video. 5. Study In Sprints: Then Revising: Say you have 20 days before an exam. If you have that much time, it is always ideal that you prepare a roadmap of, this is what I'm going to achieve by this day. This is when I'm going to study. These are the chapters that I'm going to study on this day, and this is how I'm going to progress. But here's a catch, you'll never be able to follow it. If you create a roadmap and this is what most students do. They will create a roadmap where they are studying 5 hours a day. That is a roadmap that is hard to stick to and things don't actually go the way you have planned, you probably will end up spending 10 hours. There's a very interesting fact that work tends to fill the amount of time that it is given. Here's a trick that you might want to do instead, which can help you boost up your speed of study, also keep a lot of time open for any meandering or any random, other things that might come up. So in your roadmap, you just prepare a target and prepare the least amount of time you think is possible to do that. If you thought 5 hours, give yourself 1 hour to do the same target. Yeah, 1 hour. So if you thought this chapter can be done in 5 hours, give yourself 1 hour. Now, in your roadmap, what you've actually done is you've given yourself just 1 hour to finish a certain target. You're going to start running and trying to finish that. In that process, what will happen is you may or may not finish. Initially, you might not be able to. The remaining 4 hours, consider it as a bonus. That is the price you're paying for not being able to reach what you have roadmap. So slowly try to optimize so much that you are able to finish that thing in 1 hour, which otherwise took you five hour, and it is possible to do that. It is not that hard because we do not know how to plan. And this is just a simple exercise in which what I'm trying to tell you is figure out how to plan. Actually try to see what your real limits are. A lot of times when we try to study, we try to conquer an exam by planning a roadmap, we plan so emphatically by assuming that we need to make a humuous amount of effort and instead, jeopardize our own growth and productivity. We want to make a plan, which is the most comfortable for us. If something takes 5 hours, put it as 1 hour. Remaining 4 hours, assume you're going to go play cricket. But keep it as a bonus that if you're not able to finish the target, that's when you're going to add this part to it. So if you want to study for 5 hours in a day, Whatever you plan for five days, cram that up into 5 hours. Make sure that you're able to cover all of that in 5 hours. Here you're not studying to philosophize and understand everything deeply once again. Let me tell you if you're studying to crack an exam, that's the game for you. Study to crack the exam only. If you're not putting yourself in a situation where you're trying to crack things and solve problems very, very fast, you might end up getting distracted and take a distance instead of a displacement. You want to force yourself to do things in one fifth or one tenth the time. And the catches the first time you do it, maybe you do it and you reach very low quality, but you call it as done. Next time you do the same thing, you identify that these are the four areas where you missed out, where you were not able to score, once you reflect on it, and studying is a lot about what you studied and what you reflect on it later. A lot of study and productivity actually happens when you are asleep. Your most important time when actual study happens and information gets stored in your brain for a longer time so that you can use it in a proper way is when you are sleeping. So you want to give your brain as much of information on autopilot as you can, and then reflect on it. Once you reflect on it is when you actually understand the concept. You probably will not understand any of the things once you go for it in a forward journey, but actually, you'll be able to connect the dogs looking back. So you want to cram and do everything as fast as possible and then reflect on it and then think, what are the things you could not understand and just do that in the next lab. And that's how you want to study and plan a roadmap. Don't prepare a time table or a plan because you will not be sticking to it. Try to create a plan in which you are just doing everything super fast, and rest of the time is a bonus time where you are just reflecting on things and then trying to build upon it. But the main target is you have to get from point A to point B in that day and you have achieved that in one. So that's how you want to prepare the roadmap. Don't go for a full fledged plan or a time table. You will not be able to stick to it. It is very difficult to, and it is not even productive too. I have never been able to stick to those concrete time tables that I'm going to study 4-6 and then take a 1 hour break. And then from seven, I'm going to study till nine. That doesn't work, and that's not productive. Keep it very reactive and reflective when you plan your roadmap, fix the things you want to cover in 1 hour every day, make it super fast and ensure that you go that journey in 1 hour super fast. If you want to make a longer journey, you want to have two cycles of reflection, then plan two such slots, three such slots. But the slot that you plan that I'm going to go from point to point rapidly, that journey you make it super fast. Don't let it slow down. What happens is that you end up reading a page for 20 minutes. But the interesting thing is the same page, you can actually read in 1 minute or 30 seconds. And if you don't put yourself in that situation where, okay, I have to get from this point to this time at the speed of, you know, reading one page and 30 seconds. That's when you end up doing it, and that's when you start studying more on autopilot rather than meandering into any thought that you have. And that's also when you end up covering each and every part and relating what you did, because if you just read this and you read another concept within a gap of five to 10 minutes, you're able to connect the dots and reflect. But if you did it in a gap of 2 hours, 3 hours, you might not be able to connect and reflect on it. Do it very fast, then spend time reflecting and connecting. So that's how you want a roadmap. You have the next 20 days. You have 20 chapters to complete. Do one chapter each day? No. Now, you want to do it in such a way that you will maybe do three slots and cover the whole cyllbus in five days. Not in five, actually. You should ideally try to cover the whole cybuss in three days. Then next three days, only cover the parts you were not able to answer and start building and filling those gaps. Once you've been able to fill those gaps, then you can build further on doing the whole cyllab more deeply or just smoothing out the parts that you think are erratic. That's how you want to prepare the road map. 6. Question Types & Mock Tests: This is something I realized the hard way. It took a lot of time to actually understand that this is the value proposition, and this is the productive way to study. Whenever you're studying to crack an exam, there'll be a lot of questions you will solve at the end of every chapter. You can also solve a lot of more question papers. In the end, what you want to do is not go deep into solving, say you're doing one chapter. You won't solve all questions from that chapter. Do five or six different types randomly. And then once you're done with that chapter, you've gone a little deep into it. Don't study that further. Do five questions from five other random chapters now, which you have studied and which you haven't studied. It is not about how many questions you've solved, and if you've done 5,000 questions and now you feel that you're well prepared for the exam, it's not about that. If 5,000 questions were of 20 types, then probably what you have skilled up is these 20 type of situations. But if you've solved 100 questions of 25 different types, then that is a much higher value proposition because you're now ready for 25 different types. You don't need to be a rocket scientist in each and every category of questions. You need to know what are the basics and whether you can build upon it. So try not to solve each and every question and go very deep into each and every chapter. Understand the pattern, solve more types of questions. The keyword is more types of questions. Encounter more random types of questions and scenarios that you can solve using information that you've studied. And then try to evaluate. And the best thing is the way to evaluate is after you've done a lot of random questions from the book, and then you've read it very quickly and understood the concepts and understood the concepts or revise the concepts. In the end, keep a fixed date that every three days or every five days or whatever suits, depending on the roadmap that you feel, You will give a mock test and reevaluate your score. So if last time or the first time you give the test, your baseline was 40. The next time you give it, see if you're getting to 50, or you're getting to 60. The next time you get it, are you going down to 50 or are you going up to 70? The next time you give it, are you going up to 1995, or are you stuck at 85? If you give the next three times, are you stuck at 86 or are you going to 99. That is what you need to see as the progress that you're making as you continuously study that subject. You need to evaluate that progress that you're making. So that's it for this video. See you in the next one. 7. Preparing Notes: Avoid Making Them Too Long: Is a very important video because this is about making notes, and a lot of time and effort gets wasted in making notes. When you're making your notes for whichever exam you're going to crack, and you're trying to make some notes or shorthands for that subject, don't make it elaborate. One, you'll get lost in the notes. That will become another task that you have to study through. Keep the headings or keywords that you want to know. If you are not able to remember it, you will refer the book. Just keep the keyword. Don't write the note properly. And also, don't write your notes weirdly in a notebook. Tear the page out. You notes should not be more than five pages, and you should staple them, and it should be something which is just very thin. You just staple it up, and that's all that you have for your notes. And why I'm asking you to do this is if you don't do this, then you'll end up making very, very long notes. Notes are to aid your memory, but most of the information should actually be there in your memory. It should be there in your memory. If you are just making a lot of notes, you're giving yourself a false feeling that you have understood it. You try to assume that this note that you wrote is actually like your brain and once you wrote it, autopilot is going to work and it's going to store every information in your brain, but that's not going to happen that way. Making notes is a false way to prove to yourself that you've studied. You don't want to do that. Don't make notes then. Just keep a shorthand, write the keyword, just write exactly the things that you think you might need to remember again and again and revise again and again, and read that piece of paper with the things which you think you're weaken and then try to recall whether you know it or not. That is all whether you're able to recall it or not. The notes are to help you remind you of the things you don't recall. And you'll just read that word and try to recall. And if you cannot, then you'll check the book. Your book is enough for the notes. The other thing is highlighting. You don't need to do all of that highlighting and go through all of that effort. That also gives a false feeling of you having studied some part. You will keep things very simple. Tear three or four pages from the notebook, staple it, write the ten 15, 20, 25, 50 keywords that you think are the things that you are weaker in and or you think it is important and that you need to remember. And that's it. The time you spend in making notes, the time you spend in highlighting stuff, Don't do that, don't waste that time, spend more time recalling, revising, memorizing things, because in the end, everything has to come from here, memory. In most of the exams. Unless it's an open book exam. If it's an open book exam or if it's an open laptop exam, then the strategy can be different. But still, in that case, you want to save hyperlinks and keywords. You don't want to write the notes. Just the hyperlinks and keywords, short ready recoroners. Rst of the things, if you're doing an open laptop exam, you can recall. Or if you're giving an open book exam, the keywords you know, You have the book in front of you. The book already has a very good structure of index heading subheadings, which page. If you study the book 15 20 times, it's much easier to refer to that book and find out the part that you want to refer to for that specific part because your notes might not be the neatest, or that is just an additional thing to remember. It is not also as structured as the book is. Avoid long notes, avoid all this highlighting, keep it simple. Just stay focused on getting from here to here, which is your target. Don't meander and take the whole distance. Just encounter the displacement. You spend 5 minutes highlighting a chapter. Save that, you spend 1 hour making notes. You don't need that. Keep it simple. Trust shorthands and memory. Okay. 8. Study Group: Social Pressure: A lot of students when they go to college, they invest a lot of time in their club or society. Sometimes even more than the time they spend studying. Why? Because of social pressure and social validation. Something about being social that really motivates us to do something that we otherwise might be lazy to do. And this is one of the most important hacks which you can do to ensure that you are able to ace that exam. And that is, do not think it's a competition. Think that it's a collaboration. And whoever you think is a good student, whoever you think is studying well and strategically doing well for that exam. Become a friend, become a partner, collaborate with that person. Build a small little study group where you're not going to have any other discussion. The only discussion you'll have is where you will ask questions challenging each other about some aspect in a subject. The only thing you will do is you will challenge each other in that subject. So you'll ask unique questions, you'll share something unique you learned, and you'll try to have a bit of a competition in that discussion. But overall, what you are both doing is developing each other and collaborating with each other. While competing in a more competition with each other about that subject. And if you can ritualize this where you're having this discussion for 15 minutes every day that, Oh, I came across this unique question. This is something that I think you might not know, and I figured this out. And that's just a small social validation. If you can set up that kind of a social group, where the conversations are very much specific about these things, try to keep those conversations also shorter, maybe 15 to 30 minutes at Max and that to not regularly, maybe every two or three days. That can give a really, really big boost in how you crack your exam. For me, the social peer group that I was randomly getting acquainted to or that I randomly became a part of boosted my examination performance by at least 20%. I used to go around 60s and I started going around 80s because the peer group continuously challenged me. They asked more and more difficult and unique types of questions. And if I wanted to be a part of that group and be accepted, I had to be able to answer those questions. So that social validation and social selection became a motivation for me to push myself to study, which I might not have otherwise pushed myself as hard. So this acceptability that we get and this social force that we can build up, the social pressure that we can build up for ourselves becomes a really, really good boost. Instead of building a wrong group where the social pressure might not be aligned with your current targets, if you can build the social group where it is aligned with the target you're having in right now we're talking from the perspective of the exam. So build a social group with people who want to crack that exam. If you can do that, your journey of cracking the exam becomes so much more easier because there is always going to be someone who's going to challenge or give you some insights or tell you. This is one thing that I've covered. Another thing that happens in social groups is if there's a syllabus of 15 chapters in a subject, and your social peer who you're having these discussions with shares with you that, okay, I've done up to Chapter nine, and you realize, okay, I've done up to Chapter seven. That becomes a very good metric of what you need to get to and whether you're lagging behind or whether you're on track. If the other person says they are at nine and you are at 11, then probably you are doing a little bit better than being just on track, or you are on track. So you want to constantly have this and do not have one person that you share all of this with. Try to at least create this group of four or five individuals where you're sharing this information. That becomes super helpful, and you start getting insights of different kinds. If you're just liased or connected with one person and sharing this information, then probably you might get a biased. But if you're connected with three or four, you get a more well rounded point of view, and then you can prepare your own plan and strategy and roadmap, and all of the things automatically start getting into place. That's the thing about social groups. So build up that social pressure, that social group, which assists you and which also enables you to assist them in the preparation for the exams. 9. Conclusion & Further Thoughts: Then. I hope that the course has been able to change your perspective a little bit and give you the vision that this is not just about cracking an exam through brute force, but it's a game of strategy. And now that you know the variables, you have to play with and how you can play with them and how you can tackle the exam in a strategic way. I hope that the course helps you and all the best do well in your exam and achieve whatever you're looking to achieve in your career. All the best, goodbye.