Preparation Strategy for Written Exams

There are some entries for the forces in which you have to first qualify a written exam in order to get into the forces as an officer. NDA, CDSE and AFCAT are such entries. Now you must understand the importance of these written exams because they are the first step towards your goal. 

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As you know that written exams are important because you need to clear them for getting a call for the SSB secondly you need to do well in these exams because their marks are taken into consideration while preparing the final merit list, so if you don’t score well there are chances of being merit out. In this article we are going to discuss about the preparation strategy for these exams, which might help you to score well in them.

1. The syllabus for these exams is vast, so you need to devote a decent amount of time for the preparation, don’t expect a one night wonder like the semester exams!
2. The good part is that the syllabus is large but easy. All it requires is time. There is no thing very hard to understand kind in the syllabus. However you need to remember a lot of things so for doing so you need time.
   
3. The first step to start your preparation is by knowing the syllabus and buying a good study material for it, it can be a good book or any study material for the exam you have chosen to give. Do a good research and buy a decent study material.
4. Start making nutshell notes for whatever you study for the exam. This will help you for reference at the time of the main exam.
5. If there is math’s involved, practice as much as you can every day. Make sure you write the formulas somewhere and also learn the tricks to solve the questions quicker.
6. English in these exams is generally easy and scoring, if you are okay in English then practice more and become even better, so refer a good practice for this, we have given reviews for some books on our website.
7. There are current affairs based questions in these exams, so make sure you read and are updated with relevant current affairs.
8. The meaning of relevant current affairs here is that you should read current affairs portions based on your specific exams. Like for example the different organizations like BRICS, ASEAN, UNO etc. and the news related to their meetings and development are important, so are the news related to the different sports events, prizes etc.
9. A few questions are always expected to come, like the booker prize winners or the winners of noble prize etc., also the winners of tennis events, and other important sports events. The recent winners of Bharat Ratna, Padma bhushan etc, and some information related to them, you must be prepared with.
10. The best way to judge and understand the depth of the questions so as to predict the question paper is to solve the model papers and the previous year question papers.

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She is a defense aspirant from Varanasi completed her BCA. She has attended SSB Interview at 1 AFSB Dehradoon and has more SSB coming up. She is confident about joining Defence Forces one day. Here, she is sharing her views and experience. Join us now.