Military Nursing Services (MNS) is one of the most coveted national level entrance examination for the female candidates who wants to join Indian Army as a Nurse. The MNS Nursing exam is just around the corner and aspirants are leaving no stone unturned in their preparation. Every year thousands of students participate in this exam, some students get through while some put in all the more effort and prepare to appear for exams the next year. This time around the number of candidates that have registered for MNS Nursing Exam are nearly 30 thousands. The competition being fierce than ever, students are somehow looking at just cracking the exams.
However, one must understand that having the right attitude is underestimated and often overlooked. Candidates must aim high, as high as topping the exam with scores never attained. As they say, "Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling, aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor" – rightly justifies the context.
Through this article, we collate and bring to you some of the best set of tips, ideologies that MNS Nursing toppers over the years followed/practised and reached the pinnacle of success.
WELL-INFORMED OF THE GROUND RULES
Most of us have watched movies, historic movies, or read stories on wars, imagine competitive exams as a battleground. When you are on the field, what are the important things that decide your success? Apart from having the right attitude and knowing the potency of the opponents, the logistics and many other factors decide the winning.
Similarly, here with MNS Nursing, one must know everything about the exam, right from the syllabus, format, duration, marking scheme, topic-wise weightage, and such metrics. Additionally, one must know their weak areas and continuously work on converting them into strengths. These must be mastered and have a workaround.
TOPPERS STRATEGISE AND FOLLOW A DISCIPLED PLAN
Remember, all these tips are coming from toppers. That being said, one common streak that has been noticed in such candidates is the uncompromising and staunch levels of discipline they possess. After having set goals and gathering all the material, one must carefully and conveniently set up a plan regardless of the time frame. While designing a plan, ensure to cover these points:
•Balance and manage time between board exams and MNS preparation. Allocate dedicated time for MNS separately.
•Equally divide time for all subjects – General English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and General Intelligence.
•Study for at least 13-16 hours a day.
•Include breaks after every while.
•Set realistic daily, weekly, monthly targets, and achieve them. Prepare a schedule for topics that would be covered from all the subjects on a daily basis.
•Stick to your plan and track your progress.
•Master the Syllabus of all the subjects.
Most often, students, while starting to prepare or when already into the preparation are in a fix regarding the books and stumble upon thoughts like “Which book to follow for MNS?” or “Which is the best book for MNS?”. The answer to this, as recommended by toppers is, NCERT. For the subjects like Physics, Chemistry and Biology, the best book is NCERT. It is often neglected or undervalued. Instead of juggling between multiple sources, candidates are advised to stick to NCERT. For the subjects like General English and General Intelligence, students must keep an eye on general knowledge.
NCERT syllabus for class 11 & 12 serves as the ultimate source for students, as paper setters mostly target questions from this syllabus only. There is no substitute for this, master the NCERT syllabus, be crystal clear with your concepts, as it sets the tone for your preparation.
Apart from this, students must go through and solve online questions, previous years’ question papers and refer to online modules to ace exams.
IMPORTANCE OF SMART WORK OVER HARD WORK
Toppers are smart, they know how much time to dedicate to which concepts. Avoid referring to multiple sources for topics and overloading with points. Know to an extent to have your concepts cleared and what could potentially be asked. If you have gone through question papers, you would have noticed that questions are always tweaked while the concept remains the same.
Most of the students have studied the topics, it is the same book, but what differentiates a topper from others is the knowledge of applying learned concepts that comes only with rigorous practice.
PRACTICE AND REVISE THOROUGHLY
“Build upon concepts and master them” – this is the phrase we get to hear from toppers. And this comes only from dedicating time, learning, and understanding if required seeking assistance from experts, seniors, online or any other sources.
Aspirants must aim at solving at least 100 plus questions a day, tackling new questions each time. Take up different topics, learn, understand it, and solve as many questions around it. For this, you can go through added information related to the questions, examine each question and also the options provided, solve formula-based questions to assess your own abilities.
This helps widen your understanding, gain conceptual transparency, enhances logical thinking abilities, and boosts confidence in making decisions with respect to the answers. Therefore, take up as many mock tests, practice papers, sample papers of MNS Nursing. Also, always ensure to practise papers under ideal exam scenarios.
PICK THE BEST BOOKS
NCERT books must be your go-to for the MNS. Do not refer to multiple sources and get confused. A topper confessed about having gone through confusions at the exam hall as a result of preparing for a concept from multiple sources and hence the difficulty in answering. Avoid being in this situation. You can refer to the best set of books for MNS here, where complete information about the same is provided.
•Whole syllabus of MNS Nursing.
•Coaching notes.
•Solving previous years’ question papers (as many as 20 previous years’ question papers).
Just with these 3 resources, one can definitely crack MNS Nursing with great scores. He also suggests that self-study is the best form of studying. Most of the students, due to various reasons, cannot take up coachings. Such students can simply stick to mastering the NCERT syllabus and solving sample papers, question papers, and modules. Those students must enroll themselves for the online Live Crash Course.
RESORT TO ONLINE ASSISTANCE
Remember, MNS is a time-based test, where what rank you get is decided by the application of the knowledge you acquired by understanding concepts, and for this, what’s most important is getting your concepts cleared. For this, you can seek online assistance which is a better and economical way to have your doubts cleared. These online coaching centers render all the required guidance, preventing students from wasting time on unnecessary facts. Some also provide you with shortcuts, tips, and tricks beneficial to MNS.
SUBSCRIBE TO TEST SERIES SCHEMES
Take up these schemes offered topic-wise on a regular basis to outdo. Once done solving the paper, tally your answers, arrive at a score, match this with the MNS cut-off score. Solve more papers aligning to this pattern and notice the progress. It is also suggested to make note of your mistakes, examine weak areas, and hence working on it.
SUBJECT-WISE TIME ALLOTMENT
Split time, subject-wise where you focus on subjects you think requires more of your attention. But that does not imply that you take it for granted and ignored since you are good at it. Set limits and finish subjects within the stipulated time. Physics requires time-solving numericals, understanding and remembering formulae during the exam time, and recalling it within seconds comes with practice. Chemistry is the most scoring subject and less time consuming, whereas Biology is vast, hence time must be allotted with these metrics in place. Students must keep an eye on General knowledge and solve reasoning questions.
PREPARE YOUR SELF NOTES
The importance of preparing notes cannot be stressed enough. Here candidates make note of highlights of chapters, important formulae, mapping different concepts, diagrams, use mnemonics, and much more, further fueling their learning.
ALIVE AND KICKING
Maintaining the well-being of self is equally important. For this, a healthy, well-balanced diet, active lifestyle, and sound sleep are key. Avoid junk, keep fit.
SOME OTHER IMPORTANT TIPS SUGGESTED BY TOPPERS
Align your system according to the afternoon session, i.e., when the exam would be conducted. For this, schedule your day and orient your study plan in such a way that you are the most active from 2 pm – 5 pm. Inculcate this when you are preparing for exams.
•Wear comfortable clothes on the day of the exam.
•Use the washroom before entering the exam hall.
•When approaching a topic, read it fully, revise a couple of times only then move to solving questions on it.
•Set a timer while solving questions, even during preparation time.
•During the MNS exam, attempt the Biology section first. Biology is a scoring subject. Chemistry is less time consuming, least amount of time must be spent here. Physics section should be attempted last for the numericals it has. General Intelligence and General English should be completed in time as well. Practice to ensure you have these windows set for each section.
•Do not move to answering without having read the complete question. MNS Nursing Exam toppers confesses that one can miss out on completely reading one question and hence lost out on those marks.
•Avoid silly mistakes such as missing out on reading questions fully, missing out on options, choosing the wrong answer, overlooking questions and skipping to the next, etc.
•Focus on your preparation rather than thinking about the rank.
•Stick to one source and avoid multiple sources.
•Even if you have not taken up coaching, you do not have to fret as the paper is designed keeping this aspect in mind.
•Try attempting as much as Mock tests you can.
•Avoid social media, it can be a hurdle.
•Indulge in breaks periodically.
•Have confidence in yourself and your preparation. Avoid panicking.
•Also, look up for mistakes committed often in such exams and avoid committing them.
Good Luck!
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