The Problems with the First
Paper of Net/SET/SLET and their Solutions…
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
A Post By -
Anil Awad
English Net/JRF and Set Consultant
9922113364 (Also WhatsApp)
9423403368 (BSNL)
anilawad123@gmail.com
PLEASE
KEEP SHARING TO GROUPS, YOUR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, FRIENDS, NET/SET ASPIRANTS
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
The Net/SET Aspirants, particularly from language and
literature ask some common questions – Why the first paper is so difficult. How
can we score more marks in the first paper? How to deal with the first paper?
“We are doing much better in the second and third paper but the first paper is
chaos…” Why? Even some students claim that it is unnecessary to include the
first paper in the syllabus… “If we are students of literature what is the use
of first papers for us?” Let me clear about it…
The first paper is related to analytical skills, reasoning,
logic, language competency & comprehension ability, IQ, and current
affairs. It tests the General Ability of aspirants to perceive things and
situations. It is inculcated in the syllabus and common to all. The second
paper is related to literature. Literature is related to an individual’s
perception power of abstract ideas, concepts, imagination, understanding the
power of a genre, and the ability to express them – orally or in written form.
These two things are very different from each other and their roots are in our
brain and the reasons are purely psychological.
Our brain hemisphere is divided into two parts – Left and
Right. The left side is Analytical and the Right side is Creative. We are
always in contact with the Creative part of our life i.e. literature. So
naturally while reading the literature right part of our brain has been
developed easily but the left part is somehow neglected (but not neglected
totally).
The condition is different till the age of twelve. The
learning center of a child or a kid is ONE in his brain. So, he/she can easily
grasp many things at a time…even we have some paradigms of some kids speaking
8-10 languages at a time or solving unimaginable mathematical questions easily
or doing both at the same time. Why? Because the brain is like a clean
slate…anything can be written on it. But it starts to change at the Adolescence
Stage. Now the INTEREST and SITUATION start to play an important role in brain
development. So, some moves to analytical skills, some to creativity, and only
a few can keep the balance of both. One aspect of the brain is always dominant
than the other. One of the two (Analytical and Creative abilities) is later
developed habitually but not without costing the other abilities.
Most of the aspirants of English Literature are very good at
the Right side of the brain (Creativity). It is natural for them…but
simultaneously they have paid the price – for the Left side (Analytical
Ability). The first paper is related more with analytical and general mental
ability than creativity. Although doing well with the second paper …some
students find it difficult to perform well in the first paper. Why? The Right
Side of our brain is more dominant than the Left Side. So how to improve the
Analytical Ability? Here are some tips…
Have you observed any athlete? If there is a competition in
the future…he prepares for it for a long time, practices daily, try to match
his heartbeats with his body movements…slowly & gradually. Then enters into
the competition with full strength and determination and wins the race. It is
the practice that makes him win the race. What will happen if he would have been
entered directly into the race without practicing? Perhaps he will be fast at
the beginning…but will be tired soon and even would not complete the race.
As previously mentioned…the left side of the brain is
neglected…NEGLECTED NOT DEAD! You must develop by stimulating it. Only daily
practice can do it. So as per your schedule, give an hour daily for the first
paper. In the beginning, you may be slow but soon your brain will start to
grasp and the first paper will not be chaos. So instead of reading a book on
the first paper when the exams are near, practice it daily. Choose the
time…like early in the morning or before going to sleep. The formulas and
formations will enter into your unconscious mind and it will strengthen your
analytical ability, gradually but definitely. This Analytical Ability is like
Ayurvedic Medicine…you are taking for a specific purpose but rectifying other
functions in our body. How? One such ability is developed you will be able to
remember the dates and ages easily. You can interlink the various literary or
even historical events to each other and also the genres.
I still remember the days when I was preparing for the IAS
exam with Indian History and English Literature as my optional subjects.
Numerical ability and Reasoning were the daily part of my Brain Diet and with
the above two subjects, I had to deal with many other subjects also. I
developed that ability so enormously that I started to co-relate other subjects
to the events in English Literature. May be 1798-99 is the date of publication
of ‘Lyrical Ballads’…but it was the time when the Sher-E-Hindustan Tipu Sultan
was killed in the battle of Srirangapatna by British. In 1817 John Keats wrote
a letter to his friend and the Third Anglo-Maratha War was won by the British
in 1818…Union Jack soaring on Shanvarwada, Pune. William Shakespeare and
William Wordsworth have some similarities…how? Both were Williams and both died
on 23rd April…an additional benefit to Shakespeare…he was born on 23rd April.
So, when we celebrate the World Book and Copyright Day (UNESCO) on 23rd
April…is it due to the birthday of Shakespeare or Death Anniversary of
Wordsworth? Both are our favorites. Unfortunately, Wordsworth died in 1850;
otherwise, he should have been traveled by first-ever run Indian Railway in
1853. The renowned warrior Tatya Tope was good at English but not able to read
the ‘The Origin of Species’…Why? He died on 18 April 1859 and the book was
published by Charles Darwin on 24 November 1859. Major political reformation
took place in India in 1935 (Govt Act of Indian in 1935) and T S Eliot staged
his Poetic Political Drama “Murder in the Cathedral” in the same year. Out of
50…I was able to score 46 in the first paper without preparing a single
question exclusively for Net.
If you consider Albert Einstein as the most intelligent
person of the 20th Century, only 5% part of his brain was used throughout his
lifetime. To identify the power of your brain, practice daily, stimulate your
brain and enjoy the unlimited power of it. After all, it is the gift of nature
to human beings only.
Thanks.
©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO MR. ANIL AWAD
A Post By -
Anil Awad
English Net/JRF and Set Consultant
9922113364 (Also WhatsApp)
9423403368 (BSNL)
anilawad123@gmail.com
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
PLEASE KEEP FORWARDING TO GROUPS, YOUR
STUDENTS, TEACHERS, FRIENDS, NET/SET
ASPIRANTS
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸