Hello students, my name is Pankaj and now we shall discuss the strategies to prepare and score in algebra. So the most basic and the most important thing that you required whenever you are entering the examination hall enter with the correct confidence that is the most important thing. You know many of times of come out and saying we knew everything in the paper but still we couldn’t score because we did lots of silly mistakes. Now the question is why you all do silly mistakes you keep on hearing this from so many students, we knew the calculations well, we know 4 * 4 = 16 but in paper it becomes 8 so what is the reason you all are doing so many silly mistakes in the exam, the reason is simple somewhere you are not very-very confident while writing the paper, somewhere there is lots of examinations stress, lots of examinations pressures and in that stress, in that pressure, you tend to forget all the calculation that you already know. And then you do the silly mistakes. That’s why it becomes very important that whenever you enter the examination hall enter with the correct confidence but then there are certain things that you need to do while entering the examination hall to get that right confidence and the first and the most important thing is you should have the basic knowledge about the subject. Now what do we exactly mean by you should have basic knowledge about the subject, what does that mean, always ensure that you know all the concepts given in the textbook you should have that basic understanding of all the concepts which are there in the textbook, you know whenever you study always study concept-wise for example if you are learning say linear equation so always learn, always evaluate whether I know the graphical method that’s one concept whether I know the crammers rule that’s the second concept than exercise 3.4 where we substitute and re-substitute since variables are there in denominator, do i know the concept of consistency and inconsistency well do I know the word problem well always keep on asking these questions to you so whenever you are doing a particular chapters see to it that you know all the concepts given in that chapter everything you should know in that chapter and if you don’t this is a right time go to your teacher and get all your doubts clarified, get your concepts clarified. That will give you the confidence, I know everything in algebra.

Don’t forget to do the solved examples as well so why is it important to solved example see we are not saying that they will come in exam it will not come in the exam, lets not get in to that debate ke solved example ayenge kya solved example nahi ayenge to kya? Why should we waste time in solved examples. But it is very important for you have to do the solved examples because you know whenever you all don’t do the solved examples somewhere in the back of you mind you know ki I can score good marks in algebra and I have not done solved examples, you are always in that confusion state of mind whether I should do whether I should not. And in that confuse state of mind you tend to call up 10 friends of yours , you know you keep on doing you have this habit ke aap apane friend ko phone karenge ya tune ye solved examples kiye hai kya you know you waste so much of time so much as energy in deciding whether you should do solved examples or not rather utilize that time and energy doing in the solved example we are not saying practice these every solved example but at least go through every solved example that will give you the right confidence ,right so don’t forget to go through the solved examples and don’t wait till the board exams to do the solved examples do it now every night before sleeping half an hours do solved example for one chapter there are six chapter six days your solved examples will get over, at least you will be satisfied, at least you will be confident that we know the solved examples also, right , makes sense. Do not leave anything for option you know many a times we tend to get tempt that ki itna sara option hai let us leave this chapter for option let us leave this concept for option, never do that. You should know everything so do everything don’t leave anything for option. you can always set priorities in exams whether you should attempt this or not but you should at least know the concept you know many come to us and say statistic 1 we don’t want to attempt because there are lots of calculations its ok but at least you should know the concepts what its there is which you don’t know then statistics 1 always attempt I am just giving you an example so don’t leave it anything for option last but definitely not least don’t waste much time doing the non textual sums you may do hundred non textual sums what is the hundred an first sums comes in the exam what will you do rather utilized that time in making the hots given in the textbook absolutely perfect utilized that time in doing the solved example and after doing all these if there is some time left then try to do few small textual sums but don’t give it the priority right, just giving you the basic knowledge of what is the chapter wise weightage of algebra as we all know arithmetic progression with option it will come for 12 marks in the board exam quadratic equations 12, linear 12,probability 10, statistic-1 6 marks, statistics-2 8 so total 60 marks out of which you need to attempt 40 marks as simple as that so this is the chapter wise weight-age that for your information so this is what meant by you should have the basic knowledge about the subject. The second thing which is required to get that confidences, the time management during the exam you know many of time you are not aware how much time is allotted to us to solved a particular sum and we just feel ki we should write a paper fast only then the paper get over to early, the paper will get over in time but in that but in that hurry we again tempt to make lots of silly mistake that’s why its becomes very important for all to have a proper time management during the examination so what is a time management acting in to follow during the examination see we all know that ki we have a 40 marks paper for which we get 2 hours that is 120 minutes so for 40 marks we get 120 minutes so the equation is simple that every mark the allotted time is 3 minutes this means if you are attempting a 1 mark question the time allotted is 3 minutes you are not supposed to take more than 3 minutes for a 2 marks questions 6 minutes for a 3 marks questions 9 minutes, 4 marks 12 minutes and 5 marks 15 minutes. All multiple of 3 right, this is how your paper pattern is which I am sure you much knowing by now question no. 1 attempt any 5 out of 6, 5 marks these are all 1 mark questions so per question allotted time is 3 minutes