Some students are very brilliant and outstanding in their studies yet they fail to crack the NEET exam. People often ask, what goes wrong in the case of such students. A simple answer is, silly mistake becomes a reason for failure in the NEET exam. Or we can say unwarranted mistakes students commit while attempting the NEET paper are too costly for them.
Simple advice from the experts for the aspirants is while attempting the NEET exam, students should remain careful. Students should try hard to avoid as many mistakes as they can. It is because the competition for a seat in the Government Medical colleges is very tough. A minor mistake can become a too costly affair in the end. To simplify the matter we should say that a single wrong answer can get leave you short of crossing the cut-off line.
Actually, a single wrong answer gets a 1 negative mark in the NEET test. Sometimes students, in order to get some extra marks to play a gamble without knowing the correct answer. This may work or may not. A loss of a single mark can cost a seat in a government medical college. Students should not attempt even a single question in this manner. Also, sometimes in a hurry, due to absence of mind or due to anxiety, students fill the wrong bubble on the OMR sheet, despite knowing the correct answer. This silly mistake may be the end of the road. So, the best way is to be careful, attentive, and cautious.
“Never attempt an answer, unless you are sure about it”, says Razi Akhtar, faculty at The Hind Guru Academy, a NEET coaching in Delhi. “Even one have a fifty-fifty type situation, he or she should leave the answer blank”, he suggests.
Some students think in such situations if the answer goes right, it may fetch full four marks in NEET Result. It may work sometimes but most of the time dicey answers result in the deduction of one mark. Imagine, an aspirant scored 579 marks, and the cut-off for the government medical colleges is 580. It will be more disheartening for the student than to fail directly. Such conditions are demoralizing and students often develop some sort of depression.
So, what to do? The easiest tips to follow in the exam room are:
- Never attempt an answer unless you are sure about it
- Don’t answer in a hurry. Read the question word by word, and properly
- Fill the answer sheet after confirming the choice for an answer
- Fill the bubbles on the OMR sheet properly
- Be attentive in the exam room and follow the instructions
- Sometimes there is a wrong question with an improper answer. Check for it properly
- Answer the easiest questions first and leave the tricky ones for later
- Don’t waste extra time on a single question
- If you don’t know the answer to the first five, six or seven questions, don’t worry.
- Never panic. If time is less and you have much work to do, then also never answer in a hurry
- It’s better to leave an empty response than to attempt a wrong choice
Follow these rules and we are sure that you may clear your NEET exam with a good ranking. Still have any confusion, then meet our counselors. Also, visit our blog regularly for more tips and answer to your queries.