Today I’ll discuss Bengali, Geography, Environment and Disaster Management, and Ethics, Values and Good Governance.
Looking at the Bengali questions in BCS preliminaries, you’ll feel like you know everything in Bengali except what actually appears in the exam.
Bengali tends to have more questions of the “looks familiar, yet unfamiliar” type.
Review the author introduction sections from the Bengali First Paper books of classes 9-10 and 11-12. Read thoroughly through Lal-Nil Dipabali, Jiggasha, Mahbubul Alam’s History of Bengali Literature, and previous BCS written Bengali literature questions. Before reading these books, mark and study as many past questions as possible from guidebooks and job solutions. This will help you understand what types of questions appear most frequently in exams. Don’t memorize—read repeatedly; this way you’ll retain more. Keep in mind that you won’t be able to answer all literature questions, and prepare accordingly. For Bengali grammar, read the relevant chapters from Hayat Mahmud’s ‘Bhasha Shiksha’ following the syllabus topics.
Don’t strain yourself memorizing the extremely difficult, nitpicky grammar questions.
BCS isn’t an exam where you need to know everything. Difficult questions don’t carry extra marks, so instead of spending excessive time learning one difficult question, use that same time to learn 10 easy ones.
For Geography, Environment and Disaster Management, thoroughly study the relevant chapters from the 9th-10th grade Social Science textbook, along with 3-4 market guidebooks.
For Ethics, Values and Good Governance, common sense is most essential. Alongside 3-4 guidebooks, you might also consult Muhammad Habibur Rahman’s ‘Nagorikder Jana Bhalo’. Attempting to answer all questions in this section is essentially inviting negative marks.
Let me conclude today’s piece with some general tips.
1. Take 4 hours to plan how to organize the next 40 days for studying 6 subjects. Complete each day’s tasks daily.
If the previous day’s work remains unfinished, don’t reduce that day’s workload—instead, cut down on sleep time and increase study time.
2. Before sitting down to study, write on paper what you’ll read that day and how much. Always think on paper!
3. Study at home for an average of 15 hours instead of spending time outside. Buy guidebooks and give yourself 2-3 model tests daily to evaluate your progress.
4. During this period, don’t socialize much with those who are more advanced. Never compete with those who excel significantly in any particular subject. Focus only on surpassing yourself each day.
5. Taking a good exam is more important than good preparation. Just as good preparation doesn’t guarantee everyone passes the preliminaries, poor preparation doesn’t guarantee everyone fails. Results always come after results.
6. Don’t prepare thinking “this is my first BCS.” Give your absolute best effort.
7. From experience, I can confidently say that after BCS results are announced, you’ll see many supposed experts fail. Don’t think about what others can do—focus on what you can do.
8. When fatigue sets in while studying, quickly read something easy that you know best; the fatigue will pass.
9. Save time from chatting, dating, Facebooking—use it for prayer instead! Job first, then those things.
10. Don’t feel like studying anymore? Close your eyes for 5 minutes. Imagine how you’ll transform yourself and your loved ones once you get the job! I’ll bet studying will regain momentum!
That’s all for today. We’ll talk again.
This piece was published in Prothom Alo’s job supplement on Friday, 20/11/2015. The link is below:
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