Can You Crack UGC NET Without Coaching? Self Study vs Coaching vs ChatGPT | What Actully Works?

If a student is not able to clear NET for five times. So that person is somehow not able to crack, we will not be able to wake up at 5:00 in the morning. We need an external support that can lift us up. 10 types of highlighters, 20 types of sketch pens, 10 good notebooks and they are like from tomorrow onwards I will top the NET this time. Are coaching really necessary to prepare for UGC NET. Lying down on the bed, covered with a blanket and comfortably watching videos and videos after videos. And you are under this illusion that is AI a genuine substitute for traditional methods of learning and preparing for exams? How do you think it actually helps the student or whether it does not help. Will a coaching institute help you understand what to study? What is important from the exam point of view? Which way to read? And how much time should be given to things. Because when I started preparing for NET, I did not enroll in any coaching institute. We also need the books our five friends are reading. How to balance Paper One and Paper Two ? Because without this you will be shooting arrows in the dark. We both are making matar paneer ki sabji. Ok. For the first time. Studying without coaching doesn't mean studying without a plan. Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of our series on UGC Net on its stocks. And as always we have the one and only Dr. Arpita Kharba with us. Once again Arpita Pleasure to have you here. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. And today we are going to talk about something which is probably a question that almost every aspirant who is preparing for UGC NET has is that is coaching really necessary to prepare for UGC NET? Sarpita will just straight away dive into that. What Do You Think? Do you really need to go to coaching to prepare for UGC NET? So, if you want a blanket statement from me , so I would say that the answer is no. It is not necessary to clear NET along with coaching. Because if you look at the numbers, if I talk about the stats, then around 10 lakh students appear for this exam every six months. Now out of the 10 lakh students do all of them take coaching or if we study the results then I can tell about UGC NET English because a lot of my students are from that field. So I have seen that almost equal number of students qualify from both coaching and non-coaching. So it is not at all true that coaching is the only way to get you through UGC NET. There is only one way. But having said that I would also want to give an analogy that let's say if I am travelling from Jaipur to Delhi and I do not use Google Maps. So, in that case, most likely, if I don't know the route very well, I might take a lot of wrong turns, I might kind of take routes where a shortcut could have been taken instead or which are very heavy traffic areas, I will try to go through that. Whereas if I have Google Maps, then I have kind of a direction that will lead me to my destination faster and more efficiently. So that is exactly what coaching does for anybody that you get a direction but just like in Google Maps I have to take help from him but I have to drive the car myself. I can't rely on Google Maps saying that okay, now Google Maps is going to do the driving for me. Similarly, after the help you get from coaching, you will have to reach your destination on your own. So I think the right question wouldn't be, "Do I need coaching?" The right question would be what coaching does that is going to benefit me? So how can coaching help me? So I think or okay but but you made a very interesting point that still of all the people who are qualified for the examination 50-50 is the ratio of people who went to coaching and those who did not go to coaching. So we are saying that it is very practical to be able to crack UGC NET even if you are not going to the coaching institute. Right. Right. So, Arpita, if coaching is not really necessary to crack UGC NET, you can still clear UGC NET without even going to a coaching institute then why do you think so many students still opt for coaching classes? Ok. So I think I can put those students into two major buckets. One is those students who are complete beginners. Those who do not know what to read and how to read it. So for example, if I am starting my workout journey and I am going to the gym for the first time. So I absolutely have no clue about all the machines that are there. So for the first time I will need a trainer who can tell me how to use the machines? Otherwise, if I start doing it myself, I might get injured. If I do it myself I might not use the right machines for me. So once just to get the hang of things. People would need coaching. Just Like We Need A Trainer In The Beginning Of Our Fitness Journey. Because they will be able to tell you what to do, how to do it, how long to do it, how many repetitions to do. Similarly, a coaching institute will help you understand what to study, what is important from the exam point of view , how to study and how much time to devote to each subject. Because a lot of students have scenes that try to study on their own. They kind of neglect paper one which plays a very important role for UGC NET preparation and to achieve the target score. The second bucket includes students who are in a time crunch. So who has a time crunch? Generally college students, working professionals, people who are not full time aspirants. Maybe there is a homemaker out there who only has 2 hours of time. There might be a student who is you know probably doing something simultaneously with the net. And because of that, the person has very limited amount of time to study. There you need someone who can provide a full structure that you have got all this in one place. You just have to keep going through the notes. And that's exactly what I have done in my paper one book also. That those students who are starting to study on their own, they do not want coaching. So I have given a couple of articles in the beginning of the book. In the prelims section very in I have given articles on how you can create your own time table. Have given articles on what are the major mistakes that students make during their preparation journey? What things can you keep in mind when you are solving MCQs. So these are the things that you get in coaching. So these two things generally belong to these two buckets for which students join coaching. Ok. So Arpita you said coaching one of the most important contribution of coaching is guidance. If you have to specifically explain to the listener what exactly that guidance means, what it would be, okay, so I think there are five major things. Number one coaching tells you as I already mentioned what to study because the syllabus is very huge. What to read? Which book should I read from ? How much to read? What else is there not to read? What else is there not to read? Exactly. Second would be how to study. How to make a time table ? How to carry out revision and PYQ practice together? How to balance Paper One and Paper Two? Because without this you will be shooting arrows in the dark. Number three and the most important thing is doubt solving. Because a lot of students who are preparing on their own will stumble upon topics where they will get confused. If I talk about UGC NET Paper One let's say. So there are many students who have a lot of problems in research methodology. There is problem in mathematical aptitude in logical reasoning. Because they have never gone through this subject ever before. So, many doubts arise in those topics that what is the difference between this sampling and this sampling? I found this answer in logical reasoning but why is this answer coming wrong? So all those questions are kind of answered by the teacher. But now there's a new ah development in this is with AI in the picture. So now if you have any doubt you can very well go to AI and you can ask chat of GBT. Ok? I do n't understand structuralism and post structuralism. So explain to me like a fifth grade student. So he will start you from the very basics. So that is another benefit then on top of that discipline is varied because people who are in coaching institutes have this thing that you study from Monday [nasal sound] to Friday, now you have a test on Sunday so you will not take leave on Saturday. You know I have to study for the test. Whereas when we do it to ourselves, we kind of become laid back. If we do not get external push then we think okay, if not today then we will do it tomorrow. But if there is a test in the coaching institute then it has to be given. So discipline is another thing. And lastly I would say it helps a lot in confidence building. Because you are learning with a support group. You have created an environment. You are preparing for that exam consistently. So somewhere you feel that okay well I am on track because I am understanding what the teacher is teaching. I have scored this much in the exam as compared to my peers. When we read it ourselves, we have this doubt whether we are reading it correctly. Maybe someone is reading more than me. Where do I stand? That is why you know on my platform if you see so I have given this leader board system that when you give mock test you get leader board ranking so that you know where do you stand in comparison to your peers? So yah. Thanks for clearly explaining what exactly a coaching institute contributes in the journey of the aspirant. But now I ask the more difficult question. Let's say if I am a student and I do not have the permission to go to a coaching institute. I know I don't even have the time to go to coaching institutes and if I have to bridge all of these gaps which might get created without going to coaching institutes can I and if yes how can I actually bridge those gaps without going to coaching institutes without going to coaching right so as we have talked till now that in coaching you are getting a readymade system. Now if you study on your own then you will have to create that system yourself. One benefit is it is going to be tailored as per your needs and requirements so it is just like I go to Shopper Stop. I might get a t -shirt that fits me. Another approach could be I can go to a tailor and get a T-shirt tailored for me. So the fitting would definitely be better in the second one. But it will have a little more hustle because I have to get the clothes. I have to give it the measurements to the tailor and all that. Similar to that is how a student is going to study if he is studying on his own. So if I talk about UGC NET preparation, then inside the coaching you get everything preplanned. If you study on your own, you have to collect those things. Your understanding improves within that process. This is what I have personally seen in my career journey. Because when I started preparing for NET, I did not enroll in any coaching institute. I was doing it on my own and I would accept the fact that when I started my preparation for the initial two months I was absolutely confused about what to do. I studied many such topics which are not covered in NET, which are given in the syllabus but their importance is not that much in the exam papers. I left out many such topics which I thought were not that important but when I saw the pre-queries later, I saw that so many questions had come from there. So, I made a lot of mistakes for 2 months and after that I somehow understood what is the right approach. Because of which I got so much clarity that I ended up opening my own institute and I was able to mentor so many students. Because I have seen the mistakes that I have made. I have learnt from those mistakes. So it makes you a better person in general. And in that journey, one thing that most students do when they go for self-preparation is not understanding from which point of view the examiner is making the paper. And [nasal sound] now we do n't have the resources to go into his brain and do an X-ray. So a better approach would be to look at the PYQs. By looking at the end PYQs we understand what the trend is. If the questions that are coming are from this topic, then what kind of questions are they coming ? Is it surface level or very in depth? And that's why I somehow feel that a lot of students who get in touch with me say that the PYQ book plays a very important role for them. Because that it kind of gives them an idea and topic wise questions. It tells them that this is a good topic. Out of these, these types of questions have come in the last 10 years. So you also start understanding a trend. And that is very predictable. So it's and that is very predictable. Absolutely because if you see that a topic has stopped coming then it will not come back suddenly, so you can kind of neglect it and that is why in the courseware book of our paper one, I have given this special marking of exam essential in every chapter that in every chapter whenever you open a chapter you will find that there are three to four topics which are marked as exam essential. That means these are the topics that are trending. Similarly, recently we have introduced Trending Now boxes in every chapter, in which we are giving those topics which have suddenly been asked for the first time. So they have more chances of appearing in the upcoming exams. So even if a student just looks at Exam Essentials and Trending Now in the book, he understands a lot about which direction he has to move in. Because this is the course book with McGraw Hill when I was writing it. So my intention was that if someone does not want to take coaching then how can he do self-preparation through a book. Plus at the same time he can avoid the errors that students generally make. And to simplify it even more. I will give another example. Let's say we both are making matar paneer sabji. Ok? For the first time. And you have joined a cooking class. You are being taught there. So, The Instructor Is Kind of Telling You Everything What Can Go Wrong. How to check if the gravy is well done. How to check that paneer is well marinated and all of that. I am learning on my own. I have YouTube videos. I have my grandmother and grandmother guiding me. So, it is not that only you will be able to make it. I might also be able to make it. I might take a little more time. I might make a little more errors in the process but somehow eventually we will both end up making that recipe. So similar to that is having an instructor and not having an instructor. So Arpita, if I as a student have decided that I have to do self study. I don't want to go to coaching. Where will I begin and how will I create a system for myself which will compensate for the loss of not going to the coaching institute. So, first of all I would recommend that we divide the syllabus into small parts. Rather than trying to tackle the entire syllabus in one go because it is very overwhelming. Especially for someone who doesn't have that extra support. Because as soon as I see you I think, my God, how will such a big syllabus be covered. So an ideal approach would be to break units also into topics. That's what I have tried doing in my book also that the 10 units I have divided it into 33 chapters. So if you do one chapter per day, you complete the entire syllabus in 33 days without getting overwhelmed. Similar to that, I think people can apply it in their papers too. As well, whatever your syllabus is, try to divide it. I would even say that if you have let's paper two, be it History or English, then you divide it into 200-300 topics. You divide 10 units into 200 topics and you have a checklist with you and you keep tick marking the topics that you have done. So, you also get satisfaction from that that out of 200, I have completed 50 or 30 topics. And you know what is the final finish line. That is one thing. Second, I would think that students who generally prepare on their own do not understand how important a role understanding plays in UGC NET. It won't happen through memorization. Because now if you see the trend, the trend is changing tremendously. [nasal sound] Earlier there were questions that came directly that if you had memorized them, you could answer them. Now they are making it tricky every year. So now you will get Assertion Region questions. You will get statement and reason based questions. You will get practical application based questions. So if the understanding is not proper there then you will get stuck. And understanding and memorization are two different things. First you understand the thing and then you memorize it because memorization is what is going to help you understand which of these four is not an option. For this I would always suggest them that try to explain it in their own words. Once you've done a [sound of clearing throat] topic. Don't try to just reread it. Keep the book aside and try to explain it to somebody. Late you imagine that there is a student. Yes, exactly. And you try to see how much you remember or which points you remember. And in this, the most important thing that I tell the students is that they should read it by connecting it to real life so that they can understand how it is being applied in real life. That's why we have given a lot of syntactic connections and examples in the book, that even now in this conversation I try to give a lot of analogies and examples so that we can relate and understand that this mistake happens in driving, so this is what we are doing in UGC NET. This happens while making Matar Paneer so that is what we are doing here. So, it helps in remembering things quickly because familiarity is developing. Plus you understand better too. Another thing that I think a lot of students who study on their own neglect is revision. Because everyone thinks that first we will complete the syllabus and then we will revise it. But if you have studied continuously for four months and you start revision in the fifth month, then I can guarantee that whatever you studied in the first month will be cleared from your mind. 100% [nasal sound] That's why regular revision is the key. I always tell my students, which is also in my online course, that you should study for five days. Saturday Sunday Just revise whatever you have studied in these five days. What will happen is that due to the repeated exposure effect of that thing in your mind, that thing will remain in your mind for a long time. And there will be no anxiety a month before the exam that you do n't remember anything. Ok? That's why in our book we also have given those plucked out charts that you can paste on the wall. Now while coming and going, just keep looking at it so that those points keep coming to your mind again and again. Apart from this, if I have to say, I think another very important mistake that a lot of students would make is that they read from too many resources. Because when you go to coaching, you know that you have to study only what the teacher says. When we study on our own, we also need all the PDFs of every Telegram group. We also need the books our five friends are reading. We also have to read whatever our teachers have recommended. You can also watch all the videos on YouTube. So, amidst so many resources, you get confused and you are not able to complete the syllabus. If I read one chapter from 10 places, I will keep doing chapter one for a month. So that's why you should give five days out of the initial 10 days in which you go through all the resources that you have. Read each difficult topic one by one and try to see which one you can understand. Which is the resource where you are getting everything. You are getting all the topics covered. You're getting PYQs. You are getting revision tools. Like we have given everything in our book like Chapter Highlights, Plugin Charts, Quiz Stations, Evaluation Zone, PYQs, 10 Years Papers Set. Video explanations age well. Video explanations age well. Because this is also a big challenge. I have seen with many students that there are many people who are auditory learners, when the teacher is explaining, they understand by listening with their ears. Many people are video learners, visual learners, they have seen the PPT and now the slides are printed. Many people are kinesthetic and will only get it when they write or do some experiment. Try to incorporate all of these into your study routine. If students do this then you will remember things more quickly. I think we all know the essence of these logos that we see everywhere. So why do we remember those logos, the McDonald's logo or any other brand's logo so quickly? Because I am watching it again and again. Visual aids are also being shown in different ways. Looking at it in the magazine as well. Then on top of that we are also listening to some jingle on the radio. So we are involved in every way to understand that brand again and again and that is why those things are remembered. So I think similar to that is what we have to apply in our study routine as well. So Arpita, you have worked with thousands of aspirants over the last many many years. If I have to ask you to give one specific mistake that almost every student does in self-study and how they can avoid that consistency, there are many students who will go to the stationery shop in the beginning and buy so many things like 10 types of highlighters, 20 types of sketch pens, 10 good notebooks and they are like that now from tomorrow onwards I will top the NET this time, my study journey starts from tomorrow but the thing is that you are looking at it like a marathon or a sprint. If you are thinking of making an unrealistic timetable that from tomorrow I will study for 12 hours directly regularly for the next six months. So that means you are destined to go off track because it is not sustainable. It is not for anyone. Today, if I am told to study regularly for 12 hours without breaks, that is not possible. The concept of That's Why Sunday was created. That's why the concept of taking a break was created - that you take a break before your body breaks down. That is variant. So that is why you have to study consistently and regularly. Now discipline will play a very important role in it. Because you have to create urgency for yourself. You should know that this is your weekly target. This has to be met out. If I studied less on any day, I would get compensation the next day. Have to give weekly test. Weekly revision has to be done. And week on week progress has to be tracked. You have to be very honest with yourself. Very very honest. And you have to also understand that this is a marathon. So you have to concentrate a little on your studies and also enjoy life. And along with this, revision PYQ has to be carried along. So I think overall this is a major mistake which I have seen in most of the students that their one attempt gets wasted because they study too much in the first 15 days. Then I don't even know that I have to appear for NET exam also. I haven't even opened my books for 2 months. Or you start procrastinating so much that you tell yourself that from tomorrow you have to study for 12 hours. So now you will not feel like reading even for two minutes. At the same time, if I said, okay, I have to read only two pages today. So my mind will support me in reading two pages. But if I say that I have to finish a book of total 100 pages today. One unit of 100 pages has to be done. So my mind will give me 100 reasons why I should not do it. So finding that out and building a preparation routine around it, I think that's the key. There is another thing that I have also observed from the outside is that now days and not now days actually it has been for quite some time. Is that a lot of students spend hours and hours and hours just watching YouTube videos. And They Call It Self Study. Do you think it is sustainable or do you think it is? It actually yields the kind of results that you are expecting from a net aspirant. I don't think so. Sir, YouTube videos will help you in understanding. If there is any topic, I watch a video of it. I understood what the topic was. The role of that video ends there. Now the next role is that I have to remember that topic. Memorization is something you won't get from any YouTube video. You will have to do that yourself. And it's a very tiring process for the brain. Because you have to make him remember some things. You will have to read it again and again. You have to close the book and ask yourself again. And we run away from this effort. Watching YouTube videos is simple, right? I lay down on the bed, covered with a blanket, and comfortably watched videos, watching video after video. And you are in this illusion that you are studying. But do you mean that after watching those 10 videos, we are able to solve 10 PYQs of that topic. If you are able to do it, then those videos are working. But most of the students I have seen will not be able to do it. Because there is a difference between practicing and understanding. Just like swimming. If I read 10 books on swimming today, that will not give me the confidence to dive into the pool and swim. Right? I might know the basics by reading a book. But the next step would be to dive into the pool and then to try and use those techniques. And that is how I learned swimming. There is leg work, there is breath work. I will not be able to understand this by reading any book. I recently I was reading a couple of books on meditation. I am trying to learn meditation and trying to incorporate it in my life and I noticed that I read a lot of books but still I could not meditate and then there was this one day when I was like I will not read any books anymore. Now I am going to just try this technique for the next 10 days. And the result I was able to see in those 10 days was way more than just reading the books. Because then you understand how your mind is working? What is he thinking? Be non-judgmental, how to look at thoughts and all of those things, practice is what is going to win the game for you, so there are so many books, there are 100s of YouTube channels, there are so many, now you have AI as well, there are so many resources that a student can choose from, if they decide to self-study, you would mind giving them a recommendation on how they should go about picking up the choices which are best for them, I think first of all, in any book or resource, it is very important to find out that are you able to understand the concept from that particular book. During my preparation there was this one book that was highly recommended by professors and PhD scholars and the name of the book was David Dechies rather book means set of two books. And That Kind of Gives the Entire History of English Literature. So I started reading it. I read the first 100 pages. I couldn't understand anything. I vent back. I started reading it from scratch, let's read it again. It is possible that the language is such that you are not able to understand it. And I did a lot of experimentation with that book in order to see if I could understand it. And after 15 days I gave up. I was like I can't. I can't do it. So I went to a nearby book store. I ask them that I am preparing for UGC NET. Can you recommend some books? So he showed me three-four books. William J. Long Rutledge History of English Literature. And I read a similar portion from those books and I was able to see that I was understanding it very well from the Rutledge book. So I picked that up and I came home. I started reading it. I covered it. I was able to very smoothly understand everything. And then I started doing PYQs. I was also able to solve a couple of PYQs which were from that particular section of the book. And then one day my friend called and she was like hey you're not reading this David Day thing. That Is What My Teacher Has Recommended. Nobody can clear the UGC NET without reading David Dechies. It's the bible of UGC NET and all of those things and I had second thoughts but I then went back and remembered that I was not able to understand. So this book is not made for me and then I gave the exam and I was able to clear it my friend who read David Achees could not. So I am not saying that you know that you will clear it from the book standard set by you. Because it is very important to understand whether you are able to understand that book or not. Now that I am like I have tot more than 10,000 students in the last five seven years I now understand that David why was I not able to understand this thing? Because it is written from a point of view of a research scholar, it contains so many analogies and so many complexities that a beginner cannot understand it. A beginner has to first understand the basics and then build up on the concepts with a book like David DeChiese. So now I understand this. So I think this is one thing that I would recommend to everybody, don't just choose a book or a resource that people are recommending. Try to see if you are understanding things from it? Number two, does that book have complete syllabus coverage? Because you will find many such books where some topics are not covered. Does the book have PYQs so that you can see whether you are solving the questions from what you have read and most importantly, does the book have revision resources, tools and all these things so that your preparation becomes easier. If you want it all in one place, I think that's the best resource. And that could be different for everybody. Somebody might feel that I understand this book because that is his learning style. But the learning style of other people is different. He may not understand from that book. So understanding that there is no one book that can guarantee it. Because if that were the case then there would not have been so many books in the market. Everyone would read the same book and clear the exam. It would have been like a 10th board exam. That I have read CBSE NCERT. The paper will come from there only. This is a competitive exam. The syllabus is like an ocean that you have no end to. You can ask anything from anywhere. So I think yeah. Understanding that will help. So Arpita now we will talk about something which of the course now takes the center stage when you are talking about anything related to self preparation which is of course AI and you are anyway connected to thousands of students who are preparing. Ah and they would keep coming to you asking. Can we just use AR to proper this for other. What's your take on that Arpita. Is AI a genuine substitute for traditional methods of learning and preparing for exams? How do you think it actually helps the student or where it does not help. So, I wouldn't say it's a substitute, but it definitely is, and it's a wonderful tool that students can use and not just students. I think everyone in the sphere is everyone. I recently attended the Jaipur Literature Festival. In that, all these authors were there and every panelist was asking this question whether AI can replace Prasoon Joshi was there. So he is like can AI write lyrics now are lyricists and singers now not required. And of all that, they Greeks really said one thing: it's an excellent tool that can help you in whatever you're doing. But can it replace a human definitely no. Why? So in AI a lot of students who come to me they come to me saying that ma'am you have told this answer but AI is telling that I am like ok so I do this activity with them I tell them that ok you connect with me on Google Meet or ZM. Let's do this activity together. You put this question on AI. Now you give the same question to AI after some time. And then you ask me to tell you the correct answer. And every response, in every response it is changing the correct answer. It's changing the explanation as well as the right answer also. So AI I would not say can be useful if you want to cross check and validate your answers because there are a lot of blind spots there. There's a lot of confusion out there, and AI doesn't yet understand how to factually verify things. But yes I would also say that if you want to plan. Suppose you are a working professional and you just have two hours to study and you want someone to make me a six months plan. Definitely AI can be helpful. You can give the entire time table of your day and ah you know a rough routine and feed it on chat GBT and just ask him that now I have to prepare for UGC NET also. So how can I make time? So he will make it complete for you and say that you should study in the morning hours. Come in the evening and just revise. You can take mock tests on weekends. So he will make the complete plan. You have to make some changes in it. You can give that prop. Another thing that is very very useful that I can do is help in understanding any topic. What is metacognition? Now I don't understand this. So you can just say that explain metacognition in simple language. He will simplify it for you. If you want to practice PYQ , then you can use this question for practice that you can probably say that I have covered this topic Research Methodology now give me 10 questions from net point of view and don't reveal the answers untill I respond. So it will help you in the mock test. This will help you in solving the confusion that arises among students somewhere or the other, the doubt that we talked about in the beginning, what is the difference between structuralism and post structuralism ? Explain to me with examples. So in these things AI is very helpful but if you want to rely on AI for facts and factual information like when did any government regulation come, what was the release date of Vividh Bharati, AI may tell wrong things, so there you need a reliable resource that is written by experts and that is created by experts so that the information reaches you correctly otherwise you will read wrong things. So Arpita are there situations ever situation like that when you will generally just tell someone that you know what coaching is probably a better option for you to prepare for this exam. In many cases, when students come to me, many students also ask questions on YouTube, then somewhere I understand what is the problem of this student which cannot be solved without coaching. For example, someone who failed net multiple number of times. So we know that fundamentally something is going wrong. Because if a student is not able to clear NET for five times. So that person is some how not able to crack how to clear the exam. So there you might need a mentor who can probably change the direction and customize the plan for you. So for those who have failed NET many times, I would recommend that you should use coaching. Secondly, people who have a limited amount of time. Because most or all of your time will be spent in gathering resources. So it is always better that you have an expert who can help you. And otherwise if you can just rely on one source. For example, a lot of my students who are watching me on YouTube would recommend that we take the UGC NET Paper One book and we will study only from this book. So you just have one resource and you are studying from that. That is fine. But somebody who would want to study late for UGC NET paper in History and they are handling multiple books or resources. So coaching might help there. People who have problem in consistency, there are some people who are not self starters, that we will not be able to wake up at 5:00 in the morning, we need an external support which can wake us up, so I think coaching is needed there. Many times it happens with students that this is their last attempt and they have to crack GRF. So we know that they need that extra leverage, so it can be applied there. So if I have to summarize, if I have a problem with discipline, a problem with doubt solving or a problem with consistency, then coaching can help you a lot here. So you will have to ask yourself what am I expecting coaching to solve for me. If you are not able to do that thing yourself then you need coaching. Just joining this panic that everyone is joining. All my friends have joined and I will also have to do it because all my friends have done it or else without coaching one cannot clear NET. If you have this belief then there is no need for coaching for it. You need to work on this belief. Sense. Yeah. So, my last question on this would be fee fee fee fee fee fee fee fee fee for our learners who have decided that we want to do self study. Ah for Nat, if I had to ask you what the five specific things they ca n't compromise on are, what would they be? First is a clear plan. Very Very Studying without coaching doesn't mean studying without a plan. Many students think that if I am joining coaching then I can study somehow. You have to have a weekly timetable. You have to make a routine for yourself and in what manner you will cover which topics, when will you complete what things, which units will you cover less, it is very important to make all this in the beginning and gradually you keep fine tuning it as you go in your preparation. Second I think is limiting your resources. I have said that multiple times in this conversation also that do n't run after too many resources, 50 PDFs, your Google Drive is full, you have so many resources, nothing will happen, that will just end up confusing you and even if you read all of them, then we should ask ourselves whether we will have time for revision after that or will we be able to complete it in just four to five months of time. There are many students of mine who take my Paper One book along with my Paper Two course, they have only two resources and their five months, six months are spent in it. So if they take 10 more resources after this, how will it be covered? A lot of students were enrolled in my course, they keep on asking me ma'am, apart from this my friends have recommended this. So should I also study that. So sometimes I would tell them that it is not possible. Many times I feel that if someone is a very good student then I tell him to do my course first. After that, in the time that is left, you refer to your friends' resources. And none of them ever had the time to go to their friends' resources because the course itself takes so much time. There are so many topics that it will take you four to five months to cover them one by one. So limiting your resources is another thing. Then I think PYQ practice is very varied. We must not forget that. Whatever students take my book, please tell them no about this thing. I have given a complete article explaining that after every topic you have to solve the quiz session so that you can know whether you are able to learn to apply what you have read. If you don't have a book, you are referring to some PDF or something there, then try to read a topic and then solve a few PQs before moving ahead. Another thing revision is very very crucial for someone who is studying on their own. Because those students do not practice regularly. They do not have regular tests in coaching. So when there are no tests, you don't revise. You just read and leave. So [nasal sound] revise is variant. And the last thing would be to start giving mock tests some time before the exam. Which is a full length mock test. Set a three-hour timer so that you can understand what mistakes you are making that you can repeat on the day of the exam. What mistake did you make in time management? What silly mistakes did you make? When anxiety becomes panicky, when the timer is running in front of you and it is decreasing , what mistakes are you making at that time ? To know them, if you have given mock tests. Also gave some five or ten mock tests. That's why you know we have also given those online mock tests with our PYQ book which is time and simulated or. Yes, absolutely. They replicate and mimic the UGC NET exam pattern. And the purpose of giving it was because when we were curating that PYQ book, the reason why all of us came together and we were like that we have to give mock tests is because we want that students should practice well in this mode before giving the exam so that they can understand what not to do in the exam. [nasal sound] So these are the things I think if you take care of those five things. I will just repeat it once again. Clear Plan Limited Resources, PYQ Practice a Wrong. So, rather than just giving the mock test, looking at the score and just putting it in the drawer, it is better that you sit with the score and see how you can improve it next time. Thank you so much for that Arpita. And I think that is the perfect note to end this because in our next conversation we will be talking about what happens after you clear the UGC NET examination. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you.