RACE FOR NEET – 10 STEPS TO SUCCESS IN HIGHER DENTAL EXAM by Dr.Gowri Shankar
HOW TO PREPARE FOR DENTAL EXAMS ? The trips and tricks to prepare for dental educational exams starting from dental graduation to higher degrees.
Step #4 – Should I Read Theory Text Books?
This is one of the important questions put by many aspirants.
The answer is yes – yes-no-no-yes.
A textbook may be loaded with too many details but when it comes to entrance exam very few are of high-yielding nature.
The intelligent reading of textbook ?? !!
Extensive coverage of MCQs on all the topics with intensive coverage of selected topics in textbooks
Extensive textbook preparation is not all that necessary for PG or dental entrance preparation.
Selective reading of certain topics is all that needed from this textbooks.
Mark the topics where you are weak and go through recent question papers on the topics which they are concentrating –for example, the emphasis is more on implants, periodontal pathology, trauma and fractures, biostatics etc..
So first start practicing MCQs—then you will get an idea what to read and what not to do read in this books.—make the textbook reading a retrospective way.
See that your theory preparation from textbooks should not at maximum exceed 20-25% of the time allotted for PG preparation.
Prepare points, notes, tables values etc when you are reading the books.
All well-known MCQ books have some mistakes.
Very well written any MCQ book is no way equivalent to a textbook.
In the case of doubt don’t hesitate to refer standard textbooks for that particular question.
Your goal in entrance exam preparation is to cover as much as possible – as quickly as possible. So, you simply don’t have time to go through line by line of textbooks.
Yes, the knowledge of theory is needed to understand the concepts. But you also need to realize that the entrance exams are MCQ based exams. You are not going to write long essays for that.
What you need is a good memory and strong, repeated revisions to recall the answers.
So one of the most followed approaches is to – keep solving the questions from MCQ books chapter wise and along with doing that check the theories, in brief, taking the help of synopsis provided in the MCQ book.
