If you can make proper use of the time available before the 36th BCS preliminary examination, it’s possible to prepare excellently for the preliminary—combining it with some written exam preparation alongside the preliminary study. The preliminary is the passport to the written exam. Passing it doesn’t depend solely on your qualifications; it also depends considerably on luck that day. While passing the preliminary is largely beyond your control, performing well in the written exam is entirely within your control. Therefore, prepare for the preliminary with careful calculation. Without leaving home unnecessarily, study at least 15 hours a day at home. This won’t happen in a single day. Try to increase your daily study time. Study at least 15 minutes more each day than the previous day. When you achieve the target of completing a major study session, reward yourself with something small—like buying books, watching movies, going out, browsing Facebook, talking on the phone—things like that. This will increase both your enthusiasm and momentum for studying. People work with incentives, after all. When you get tired reading one subject, pick up another easier subject. Close your eyes for a while and imagine what you want to become—visualize how you and the people around you will feel when that happens, how life will transform. This will significantly reduce study fatigue. Sit down to study without keeping anything nearby that might distract your concentration.
That’s enough talk. Now let me discuss mathematical reasoning and mental ability.
Mathematical Reasoning:
The mathematics that appears in the exam is simple—you’ll surely be able to solve it, but perhaps not within an average of one minute. For this, you need to learn to solve using shortcuts while practicing beforehand. Not a single math problem appears in the preliminary that cannot be solved using shortcuts. Learn the methods; if you can create your own methods, that would be excellent—then you won’t make mistakes in those types of problems anymore. Shortcut methods have no fixed grammar; your invented method might not match someone else’s, but as long as the answer matches, that’s fine. Write shortcut formulas right next to the questions on the book pages, substitute values, and solve. If you can develop the ability to solve all math problems using only a calculator and the small space beside questions, then I’d say your preparation is quite good. Almost all preliminary math problems can be solved using the backtracking method—meaning, you can substitute the answer options into formulas or questions to solve them. Additionally, you can use the POE (Process of Elimination) method. This involves eliminating the two options that are less likely to be correct from the four options and thinking about the remaining two. If you can properly utilize these two techniques, you’ll be able to solve math problems very quickly.
Many people study board textbooks for mathematics. The problem with this is that you’ll end up reading a lot of unnecessary material that you don’t need to study at all. You won’t have that much time either. Instead, you can solve all the math problems from at least two good guidebooks or job solutions. Good books mean books with many more practice questions. Once you start a chapter, don’t leave the table until you finish it. Preliminary studies require continuous effort—without leaving home, without getting up from the table. Then take all the tests from two model test books. If you know all the math but can’t solve it very quickly, preparing this way is equivalent to not preparing at all.
Mental Ability:
Questions in this section are supposed to be somewhat tricky. You need to keep a cool head, read questions carefully, and answer with full concentration. Questions in this section will be simple—so simple that they’re harder than difficult ones. Buy 3-4 sets of guidebooks, along with 3-4 IQ test books. Besides these, solve previous BCS written exam questions and Dhaka University evening MBA admission exam question banks. Keep in mind that you won’t get full marks in this section while preparing. In addition to guidebooks and IQ test books, regularly search Google in English for ‘verbal/abstract/mechanical reasoning/space relations/numerical ability/spelling and language practice’ or ‘verbal/abstract/mechanical reasoning/space relations/numerical ability/spelling and language test’ and solve problems on various websites. Questions in this section are not supposed to be ‘common,’ so there’s no alternative to extensive practice for good performance. Common sense will be more useful than knowledge for doing well in this section.
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