How to Strategise your Schedule

So a brief outline on how I went about creating my schedule:

Step A:

Start with the broadest schedule.

The point is to START and make a plan so you know what’s there on your plate, and what you have to complete.

If you don’t know, you’ll waste time assuming you have plenty of time.

When in fact you have none.

Eg.

Mine went as such:

• Friday (4PM — 8PM) , Saturday (2PM- 8PM) , Sunday (8AM — 8PM): Go for coaching.
• Monday, Tuesday, Half of Wednesday: Study Coaching Notes.
• Wednesday, Thursday, mid-Friday: Complete MCQs from the App (Around 400–600 MCQs per subject on average).
• Friday: Do a Subject-Wise Test (SWT) (after the notes reading and MCQs are solved)
• Saturday Morning: go through SWT Answers.
• On Mon-Thur Evenings: Revise the previous subject that was taught in coaching (last week), and do ANOTHER SWT once this SECOND reading was done.

The goal here is to try and follow this schedule dedicatedly week in and week out.

Eventually it will become hectic, with Medicine and Surgery and you may have to drop the SECOND Revision, Second SWT but it’s mostly manageable.

Your gains will come through “spacing”, and learning what MCQs are important as you keep practicing them.

Step B:

Fine tune your Broad Schedule with Details.

For this, I used to see how many “Modules” and MCQs the App had, and I used to divide these over the days I’d solve them.

Say, in case Anatomy had 20 Chapters (Modules), each containing say 20 MCQs, I’d use a calculator to get 400 MCQs which I’d have to do over 3 days or so.
That equals to 7 Modules Per DAY ({400/3} MCQs per day, which equals {133/20} Modules per day on average}

Then THIS would be my target, and I’d make sure to hit it anyhow, just to complete the whole portion.

The same goes for notes- Which is much easier considering you already know how long each class is, roughly.

So if you have ‘x’ number of pages of notes, divide that ‘x’ pages by 3 (days) and that’s your target PER day over 3 days. [Adjust days as per your requirement- I’ve used 3 as I had 3 days of Notes (per week) from Coaching Classes.]

After you know how many MCQs/Modules you have to do per day and how many pages of notes you have to do per day so that you complete everything on time, WRITE IT DOWN.

Then make sure you hit those targets.

I’d also advice to write down how long it took you for each revision, as it comes exceptionally helpful towards the end of your NEET PG revisions.

This PART A and B is very important, because once you can clearly see that you CAN indeed complete your portion in your set time frame, you’ll have much less anxiety, and you know EXACTLY what you have to do next to move on.

Read it again till you understand this crucial concept.

{Section PART B Updated for clarity since some folks couldn’t understand this part}

Step C:

Set up your calculated schedule for the WEEK in your Google Calendar or use Google Tasks- whatever you prefer, and get at it!

Hit your targets DAILY, and you’ll enjoy the feeling of accomplishment each day to keep you motivated.

Create your OWN Schedule for YOUR Chosen Strategy. I’ve just given mine for an outline as to my thinking process.

The coaching Class Schedule was roughly as such:

Friday (4PM — 8PM) , Saturday (2PM- 8PM) , Sunday (8AM — 8PM):

Pharmacology: ~6–8 classes
Pathology: ~6 classes (over 2 weeks- 2 x 3=6)
Anatomy: ~4–5 classes
Surgery: ~9 classes
Medicine: ~9 classes
Opthalmology: ~3–4 classes
ENT: ~2 classes
Anesthesia: ~2–3 classes
Forensic: 2 classes
PSM: ~7–8 classes
Orthopaedics: ~3–4 classes
Paediatrics: 3 classes (1 week)
Physiology: ~3–4 classes
Biochemistry: ~3 classes
Microbiology: ~5 classes
Dermatology: ~3 Classes
OBG: ~3 + 3 Classes
Radiology: 3 Classes
Psychiatry: ~3 classes

For more on how to prepare, click here: https://mailchi.mp/b1df86afaeb1/ebook_neetpg_subjects

{This article is a part of the CostaPG publication.}