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...]
Review: 100 Days of UPA government
Author: Mona Gupta, New Delhi In spite of setbacks like drought, swine flu and Sharm el-Sheikh, UPA has made steady progress at the start of its second innings by taking some crucial steps. But it has plenty of problems to deal with. In its first 100 days, UPA 2 has had to negotiate some sharp bends with drought and swine flu but it hasn’t lost momentum. But then it has to run a five-year marathon. Following is the analysis of the first 100 days of the UPA government on 10 major sectors. 1. Judicial System: The judicial reform journey started three months ago with law minister Veerappa Moily. He had a smooth drive till now. Moily’s roadmap on judicial reforms had four major components • Make judges declare assets • Make them accountable for misconduct • Reduce the huge pendency of over 3 crore cases in trial courts and the high courts • Speed up the snail paced justice delivery system. The UPA government is in the final stages of preparing a blueprint on appointment of ad-hoc judges for clearing the backlog and tune up the justice delivery system to reduce the average life of litigation from 15 years to 3 years. Priorities: • To reduce pendency of 3 crore cases to manageable levels by 2011 • To reduce litigation life from 15 years to 3 years by 2011 • To bring in a law to make judges accountable for misconduct Misses: • Judges Assets Bill way off the mark, SC judges virtually make it redundant • Promise of laptops for trial court judges by 2009 not kept • No concrete plan to persuade states to increase trial court judges’ strength Challenges: • Finance. Will Centre assist states? • Executive’s role in appointment of judges • Will the impeachment mechanism finally be simplified? 2. National security: The home ministry continues to be on its toes, maintaining the pace it set last December while launching its grand plan of shoring up the country’s security and intelligence infrastructure after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. First 100 days of the second UPA government appears encouraging. There’s perceptible improvement in intelligence sharing, which shows in the fact that the country has not witnessed any terror incident beyond the disturbed zones of Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast. However, the continuing Maoist mayhem remains a major concern particularly. The recent chief ministers’ conference on naxal issues showed encouraging results with non-UPA ruled states like Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal showing signs of narrowing differences over security matters. Hits: • Four NSG regional hubs — Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai — get operational on time • Peaceful conduct of Amarnath yatra, World Badminton Championship and Independence Day celebrations despite threats Misses:• Increasing casualties among securitymen in anti-naxal ops • Jharkhand, despite being under central rule, continues to be a soft target for Maoists • Alleged fake encounter cases in Manipur virtually derail peace process, raising questions over methods of security forces Challenges: • Ridding states of naxal presence. Hope rests on the upcoming grand anti-naxal operation • Strengthening nationwide security, intelligence infrastructure • Handling the boiling Northeast. Focus has to be on a solution to Naga issues; elimination of Ulfa in Assam 3. Health: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has probably been the country’s busiest cabinet minister. With a global pandemic — the first in 41 years — threatening to infect two billion people across the globe over the next two years, which includes 33% of India’s population, health minister has his hands full. Besides swine flu, Azad’s crusade against fake drugs has made his critics sit up and take notice. Ghulam Nabi Azad has also been working hard to fill vacant medical posts in rural areas. Doctors willing to work in farflung areas have been told they will earn double of their urban … [Read more...]
Online Education: Multiplication
Mathematics lesson: MultiplicationTeacher: Mona, Delhi. Mathematics is a wonderful, elegant, and exceedingly useful language. It has its own vocabulary and syntax, its own verbs, nouns, and modifiers, and its own dialects and patois. It is used brilliantly by some, poorly by others. Some of us fear to pursue its more esoteric uses, while a few of us wield it like a sword to attack and conquer income tax forms or masses of data that resist the less courageous. This article does not guarantee to turn you into a Leibniz, or put you on stage as Professor Algebra, but it will, I hope, bring you a new, exciting, and even entertaining view on Multiplication. In this article, you will learn to do multiplication in your head faster than you ever thought possible. After practicing the methods in this article for just a little while, your ability to work with multiplication will increase dramatically. With even more practice, you will be able to perform many calculations faster than someone using a calculator. Multiplying Number by Eleven: Let’s begin with how to multiply any two-digit number by eleven in your head. Consider the problem:45 X 11To solve this problem, simply add the digits, 4+5 = 9, put the 9 between the 4 and the 5, and there is your answer, 495. What could be easier? Now you try:53 X 11Since 5 + 3 = 8, your answer is simply, 583. Now before you get too excited, suppose the problem is67 X 11 Although 6+7= 13, the answer is NOT 6137, as before, the 3 goes in between the numbers, but the 1 needs to be added to the 6 to get the correct answer: 737 Now, if you tell a friend or teacher that you can multiply, in your head, any two-digit number by eleven. You will be amazed at the reaction you get. Now, question is, Can we use this method for multiplying three-digit numbers (or larger) by eleven? Answer is yes, you can, for instance, for the problem 314 X 11; the answer still begins with 3 and ends with 4. Since 3+1=4, and 1+4= 5, the answer is 3454. More you practice more you comfortable with multiplying any number with eleven. Simple Methods for 2-BY-2 Multiplication: When squaring two-digit numbers, the method is always the same. When multiplying two-digit numbers, however, you can use lots of different methods to arrive at the same answer. For me, this is where the fun begins. I will tell you about “addition method,” and similarly one can use “subtraction method” to solve all 2-by-2 multiplication problems. The Addition Method: To use the addition method to multiply any two two-digit numbers, all you need to do is perform two 2-by-1 multiplication problems and add the results together. For example to multiple 42 by 46 one can use following steps:46X 42 (40+2)40X46 = 18402X46 = + 92--------1932 Here you break up 42 into 40 and 2, two numbers that are easy to multiply. Then you multiply 40X46, which is just 4X46 with a 0 attached, or 1840. Then you multiply 2X46= 92. Finally, you add 1840+92= 1932.Here’s another way to do the same problem:46 (40+6)X 4240X42 = 16806X42 = +252--------1932 The catch here is that multiplying 6X42 is harder to do than multiplying 2X46, as in the first problem. Moreover, adding 1680+252 is more difficult than adding 1840+92. So how do you decide which number to break up? I try to choose the number that will produce the easier addition problem. In most cases—but not all—you will want to break up the number with the smaller last digit because it usually produces a smaller second number for you to add. Following are some of the tips on breaking up the number:• If both numbers end in the same digit, you should break up the larger number• Break the number which ends with 1• If one number is much larger than the other, it often pays to break up the larger number, even if it has a larger last digit• When you multiply a number in the fifties by an even number, you’ll want to break up the number in the fifties Subtraction … [Read more...]
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