Author: G. Pavan kumar, teacher. How to succeed in Competitive Exams? This is a million dollar question. Everybody search for the easy ways to get success. Firstly, you have to know that the goal comes from your need or interest? If Concern towards the success comes from your interest, it gives you inspiration so that effort for success should give as pleasure as success gives you. But ‘the need of success’ generates the fear of failure. We more concentrate on the ‘success’ than the ‘effort towards success’, which gives us anxiety. So, the effort towards the success is more important than the success. In this regard we have to consider the following: 1. Get pleasure from the subject you elect. It gives you inspiration. The inspiration simplifies your effort. 2. Prepare the ‘material’ for the syllabus from various sources. Standard material makes things easier. 3. Prepare a PLAN (Time Table) for the preparation. The plan should be easier and the implementation should be solid. No negligence in the implementation should be occurred. Once the PLAN is prepared no alterations should be done. 4. Implementation of the PLAN is the crucial thing in whole preparation. Many aspirants get failure in this stage. If you want to get something, you should lose something. So you must leave the things which obstruct your goal. To succeed in the competitive exams pass the following four stages: 1. Knowledge 2. Understanding 3. Application 4. Skill I. Knowledge: In this stage the aspirant should remember the subject as it is in a book. Most of the people face struggles in this stage and they stops here. But if anybody stops here they will not get the success. II. Understanding: In this stage in order to remembering subject, the aspirant understands it and gets the ability to explain it. They give the reasons, examples and find the differences in that subject. They can find the relationship between the topics. The aspirant who reaches this stage is at the half of his goal. If luck permits they will succeed in their goals. III. Application: In this stage instead of thoroughly understands the subject the aspirant applies this knowledge in many other unknown situations. They completely understand the subjects they elect. 75% of this kind of people will get success IV. Skill: Skill depends on how accurately and speedily the aspirant analysis the subject. In this stage speed and accuracy is very important. If the aspirant reaches this stage they will surely succeed in their goals. Any aspirant who wants to succeed in the competitive exams should complete at least three stages stated above. Otherwise the success is like “Sour Grapes”. A person who gets the success will not have four hands or two heads. They are also common human beings like us. The difference between success and failure is interest and fear. So love your goal what ever it is. It gives you pleasure and success. Best of Luck. Some great quotes about success: “Dream and Aim are sensational words. Make your dream as your aim but never make your aim as your dream” remember it. Success and rest don't sleep together. Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan. Success is doing what you like and making a living at it. Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. Success leads to insolence. … [Read more...]