Hello everyone, I am Manav Gupta, currently doing MD Radiology from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, and I have got a rank of 111 in NEET PG 2024 and a rank of 14 in INICET November 2024. So today I am going to talk about a very important topic that is the strategy for interns to crack INI CET and NEET PG. So basically internship is the final year or the last year before you are going to appear for your exam, and it’s a very important year for you to like to revise, consolidate all of the things which you have gathered in your previous years.
So, the most important difficulty or the most important thing which students talk about during their internship is their duties and their responsibilities. So basically duties and regularities what happens is some of your duties are very hectic, some of your duties are very chill, like medicine and surgery usually tend to be hectic and you get a very little time to study and PSM and other short postings are usually chill and you get a lot of time to study. So what I would suggest is to have a structured plan, like use your hectic duties to cover those subjects on which you have a strong hold on, for which you get less mental stress, you need to build less concepts and you have like already you know a lot of things about that subject you have got a strong hold on and which things which you can cover quickly.
So during your hectic duties like medicine, surgery or whatever hectic duties are there in your hospital or your college, cover your easier subjects or subjects which have a strong hold on them in their duties and in chill duties, do subjects which you need to build more concepts on. So, have a structured plan basically you get your schedule before starting your internship. So, before the internship make a structured plan, make a plan, follow it and try to cover and make a plan so that all the 19 subjects you can try to cover during your chill duties and hectic duties dividing them accordingly, according to the subject on which you have a strong hold on.
And second question which arises is how do we study on a hectic duty, like in MAMC what we used to have is during medicine and all and surgery and all we used to work for around 7-8 hours per day, have 24 hours duty then have a post duty and usually post duty you don’t feel like studying, you tend to sleep the whole day. So, what I used to do and what I suggest all of you should do is do MCQs during your hectic duties.
In hectic duties when you go to collect the sample, take your phone with yourself and do MCQs on your phone while walking towards the sample counter to collect the reports or whatever work like basically clerical work usually happens in clerical work you are supposed to do like collecting reports, whatever work, just take your phone with yourself, do MCQs while walking.
I used to solve around 40-50 MCQs daily on a hectic duty while I was walking towards my sample counter to collect the blood samples. Second is have your flashcards, mnemonics, whatever, have photos of them or like have a gallery of them and read them while you are on duty, sitting, like when there is no work, it’s not like 24 hours you will be standing and working, when there is no work, read those flash cards, have a quick look at them while walking, like whatever, like having lunch, having dinner, just have a quick look at them and revise your flashcards. These two things will help you revise a lot like doing MCQs, reading flashcards will help you cover more or less the easier subjects and you can like revise on a hectic duty as well.
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And secondly, the most important thing is to discuss with your co-interns. Co-interns are also preparing for NEET PG and INI CET. So discuss topics with them.
If you see a good case, a case in which you think questions can be asked in the exam, discuss with them, discuss the findings, discuss the treatment, discuss the pathophysiology, discuss whatever you can, discuss the MCQs, and solve MCQs with them. Basically, co-interns are like your study partner as well. Don’t like just having a professional relationship with them, be friends with them, discuss with them and practice MCQs, whatever you like with your co-interns.
So on a hectic duty as well, we can cover a lot of things if you follow these three things. Don’t waste your time. Like if there is no work, try to read your flashcards, do MCQs and discuss with your co-interns.
So the next question that arises is the time. Because of the time, it’s the last year, you don’t know how much to read, from where to read, like how much to read, from where to read, like you don’t have a concise source. So what I’ll suggest is, before the internship or just at the start of an internship, have a concise source from where you can revise, because in the medical field, revision is the key and like again and again will help you remember things.
Without revising, you cannot clear an exam. You just need to revise things because these are volatile things. You need to prepare your neurons again and again so that you are able to remember things.
So have a concise source, a source from which you can revise again and again, two, three times during your internship. Don’t go after bundles of information. Don’t read Harrison.
Like people do read Harrison, but they don’t remember anything at the end. So it doesn’t matter. Don’t read Harrison.
Don’t read Bailey’s. You would have read it during a final year when you had time, but during your internship, during last year, I’d suggest having a concise source from where you can revise again and again. Harrison, you cannot revise again and again.
Bailey, you cannot revise again and again. So have a concise source. And then what you can do to maximize your utilization of your time is to give GTs on your day off.
Suppose you have Sunday off or any other day off, like you have taken a leave or like in your post duty or after you get up, give GTs on that day because GTs you cannot give on your duties. GTs you can only give when you’re sitting at your home on your desk. Give GTs on your day off.
Analyse it the same day. Don’t leave it for the other day because you don’t know when you’ll get off on another day.
Try to analyse, give the GTs and see which subjects are your weakest subjects and then try to accommodate them in your schedule as well. And also, my personal feeling is that wake up early because on your duty, you don’t need your mind, you don’t need to be mentally present there in your duty because more or less, what used to happen in my internship, we used to like do OPDs and all, but more or less mentally I didn’t need to be present there. Only physical work, so much physical work during your internship is there.
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So wake up early, use your whole mental capacity in the morning, revise notes, do MCQs in the morning, whatever you want to do and go to the duty then. And try to sleep early as well, like if you come home from the duty early around whatever time you come, try to sleep early, get up early, read and then go to the duty. It helped me a lot.
I used to get up at 4-4.30 am, used to read notes, do MCQs and all and hence, like my mind is fresh in the morning, and hence I’m able to revise more and do MCQs more, like used to remember more things, that’s it. And also have a schedule, like I said, make a schedule before the internship, like which subjects to revise, how long to revise, have a schedule beforehand and try to follow it at least 80% of the time because no one is perfect enough to follow the schedule 100%. I didn’t even follow, I think I followed only 60-70%, but what I’ll suggest is to follow 80%, around 80% at least, 100% no one can do and also don’t feel disheartened if you’re not able to follow the schedule 100%.
Everyone fails, even I fail. And the next thing which I’d like to say is revise. Again, without revision, we cannot survive in this medical profession.
So, revise at least 2-3 times before the exam, and then only the volatile subjects, the things which you tend to forget easily, will stay in your mind, and then you can perform better in your exam. Revision is the key. Make your schedule such that you complete 2-3 revisions before the exam, and Cerebellum has already made the schedule from which you can have at least 5-6 revisions before your exam, which I’m going to talk about in a while. And many people feel that we have just given the final profs, we are tired, we can’t study anymore.
So what I’ll say is use this thing wisely.
Final year profs, whatever you read for the profs is important and it also comes in your main NEET, PG and INI CET as well. Some questions from the final profs also come in your NEET, PG and INI CET as well.
So a major chunk of the subjects like medicine, obs-gyn, pediatrics and all the short radiology, ortho, anesthesia, etc are covered in your final year professors, and you have a good hold on them. Try to revise them during the start of your internship only because those subjects are fresh in your mind, do MCQs of that subject so that the things get consolidated more and you’re able to get a good hold on the final year subjects as well which form the major chunk of the MBBS of the 19 subjects which we have. So don’t waste your final year preparations, try to use them wisely, don’t think that I have just read it, let me take some rest, I’ll read it later because things are volatile, they will go away.
And the next is FOMO. FOMO means like many people like around 50-60% of people will say that we are not going to study this year, we’ll take a drop, we’ll study next year. And some people are there that we’ll have to study, we are studying rigorously, we’ll study this year, we’ll crack the exam this year.
But what happens in their mind is that we get FOMO, the other person is enjoying it, the other person is partying and all we are doing is just studying and all. Don’t have this FOMO because at the end everyone has to study, everyone has to crack exams. So like be as far as you can from this FOMO and basically focus on your studies and don’t think about it otherwise it will hamper your performance definitely.
The next important thing is previous year questions and previous year topics. Basically previous year questions are not only the questions, those are topics. You need to know the whole topic about the previous year question which has been asked earlier because the questions can be reframed, reiterated and some like different information from the same paragraph can be asked.
So on cerebellum, we have around two sessions of PYQs, one in the morning, one in the evening and which covers around 8 to 9 years of PYQs. 8 to 9 years of PYQs is a lot. For example, if you see a new question in an exam, it is usually a PYQ from an older exam.
So 8 to 9 years of PYQs are covered on the cerebellum. One session is in the morning, one in the evening. So I’d like if you don’t want to practice PYQ separately, just attend these two sessions, attend the questions, and you will more or less cover 90-95% of around 99% of the PYQs as well.
So but the point is at the end is to build concepts. Build concepts from these PYQs, understand why the answer is this, why the answer is that and don’t just remember or rectify the question because at the end the question can be reframed. This happened to me as well.
One question in my INI was asked, which was from the 2016 INI. Just the basic clinical information was changed a little bit, and the answers changed from one option to the other option but only when I read the first two lines, I remembered that question and I marked the wrong one. So have concepts, build concepts on these things and hence not only remember the PYQs, remember the concepts.
Basically remembering the concepts also decreases the burden on your mind for the amount of things which you need to remember. If you are able to solve 50 questions, you don’t need to rectify that. So build concepts, don’t just see the MCQs and remember the answers.
It’s not a good thing to do. So GTs, many people fear that giving GTs is how we will perform, we will have a low score, our confidence will go down. So what I’ll suggest is give a baseline GT now.
Give a GT now, see where you stand, how much correct you are giving and how much correct you are getting and have a baseline and then progressively build over it. Like in the gym, we used to practice progressive overload, right? We are not lifting 100 kgs at the start, we progressively build towards it. Give a baseline GT, then progressively overload it and build upon it and just remember the peak score, the peak performance you need to give is on the day of your exam.
Till then, every mistake, every low score in the GT is acceptable, but nothing is acceptable in your final exam. So, try to give GT right now, build upon it, progressively increase your score, try to increase your score, try to get a better rank and then get the best rank of your day on the day of your exam. So for GT cerebellum, like basically what we have seen in the last years is that I and I need to have various difficulties.
Some papers are easy, some are difficult. It’s not like each and every paper is difficult, each and every paper is easy. So, what the cerebellum has is two difficulties of GTs to give you a more realistic and practical approach to the exam.
Some like one of the GTs is towards a moderate level, and one of the GTs is towards a difficult level. It’s not like giving you an easier GT to give good ranks, good scores, so that your confidence goes up or giving a too hard GT so you get a reality check like you don’t know anything. It’s not the case.
Cerebellum has the GTs which more or less simulate the real exams, gives you a more realistic and practical approach and has various difficulties of exams ranging from moderate to difficult exams. And then the question arises about the MCQs. So many people run away from the factual MCQs.
We are not able to remember this, we leave this. But the point is out of 200 questions, around 80 questions, 70-80 questions are factual. And you read to remember them, you cannot run away from them.
So try to revise them again and again. Don’t run away from them. Do it wrong while you are practicing MCQs, you will remember it for life.
Have a flash card, stick it on your wall, do anything, do whatever you feel like, but remember those factual questions because they are going to decide your rank. And hence in Cerebellum, we have mission 3.0 on which lap 1 is going on, which consists of revision videos and mission videos. So revision videos basically have a consolidated content which have more of the important things rather than the main videos which have an exhaustive compilation of the subject.
Revision videos have important tricks which include PYQs, PY topics and the things which can be asked in the exam. And the mission videos have content which is less than the main videos but more than the revision videos. So I will suggest those who have started preparing for an internship and are starting to watch the mission videos, as well as the main videos as well so that you are able to get a comprehensive view and have exhaustive information about each and every subject.
And at the end, you can go to the revision videos as well. Because in each video, each and everything is updated according to the last previously asked questions, according to the new updates which come in the MBBS curriculum and all. And try to watch the mission videos right now, main videos and towards the end, you can go to the revision videos as well.
And there are live E&Ds which are conducted by the faculty as well. I will suggest having this cycle in your routine to revise and appear for the E&D, appear for the live class where the faculty discuss the questions, ask your doubts and then repeat the cycle. Because it will help you consolidate that subject, help you realize your weak points that you can work upon.
Also, there is a PYQ marathon which is conducted by the cerebellum, in which, from far from the exam, the PYQs are more or less subject-wise PYQs. You can get them in your app. And when the exam is near, it is more of a mixed bag to stimulate your exam, so that you can practice mixed bag questions when you are closer to the exam.
And then again, there will be after lap 1, there will be lap 1A, where again live classes will be taken. Like if you are not confident about something, take these live classes, watch only that part of the video, only that topics which you want and then again practice the MCQs, revise them and then see which are your weaker points. And then there is a marathon INICET which will be conducted in around October or something like where in the 7 days, the whole of the 19 subjects will be covered in cerebellum.
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All the important things, like completing 19 subjects in 7 days, is a big task. All the important things will be covered in this marathon. This is the thing which you need to see, which you need to revise.
Basically, what I was talking about was revision. So basically, these are the steps taken by the cerebellum to help you revise things. The last 7 days before the exam are a good time to revise all the important subjects so that you can attempt your MCQs in the final exam.
Then again, between INICET and NEET, there will be lap 2 where again the same cycle will go. There will be videos, there will be ENDs, there will be MCQs, PYQs so that you can have another revision. And then again before NEET-PG, there will be a marathon NEET-PG similar to marathon INICET.
And hence, a total of around 5 to 6 revisions will be conducted by the cerebellum so that you can comprehensively revise every subject before your NEET-PG and hence NEET-PG and INI CET and hence have a good score and a good rank in your exam. So, at the end, I like to say revise your notes, read your notes, and watch videos. Watch videos at a quicker speed, not 2x, so that everything goes above your head.
Watch videos, read notes, do PYQs, do PYTs, build your concepts upon it, give GTs regularly, progressively build over it, give E&Ds, appear for it, like watch mission videos, watch revision videos, watch main videos, revise 5 to 6 times before INICET and NEET and follow whatever the schedule you have made and try to like go with us, go with the cerebellum, cover all the laps and all the marathons and definitely will succeed. Thank you.
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