[Music] hey guys so finally I'm back with another video it's been so long since I uploaded I know um like a proper study related video um since my board exams ended in all of that and um so many of you in the comments had asked me study methods how to study how to read ncrt how to take notes how to study from your notes how to revise before your exams and so many more questions related to studying and preparing for board exams and we all know how important board exams are whether you're trying to apply for colleges in India or abroad or just really feel that kind of um satisfaction after studying the whole year after working so hard you really want to end your school life with a bang like a true um um I don't know a true accomplishment to be honest like you're finishing your 12th grade your school life and you're finishing it well you're doing well in your boards and then you're leaving school that feels really nice and at least for that I pretty sure you should watch this video and should really take an effort um to do well in your 12 grade boards um so if you didn't know and haven't seen my board result reaction video yet make sure to check that out I'll put that in the link down below but either ways um I scored 93 in physics and many of you had asked me how I was able to score about 90 um for physics and I know it was hard um there was so many derivations but here are some of the tips I used um some of the study methods I used um and in the end of the video I'm also going to be sharing my uh physics notes uh which I used um it's my own handwritten notes whatever I learn from class YouTube all that study material combined and I'm pretty sure it'll be helpful in some way or the other so yeah make sure to watch the video till the end and um make sure to give this video a huge Thumbs Up And subscribe to my channel because I'm going to be making this series of videos for each subject and then overall like writing method studying method ncrt and just so much more in the series and I can't wait to share all the insights of studying with you all so yep let's get started so I felt that the best way to start the video is with ncrt um so physics has two textbooks as you know and um I I'm I do understand that I think some schools they may go with um learning one textbook for first and then the next and some may just mix up the chapters uh so I I don't really exactly remember but I think that we actually started with the first book so um it really depends on how your school does it um or if you go for coaching I would suggest stick to one like either school or coaching and go with that order so that when you're learning and you're Sim simultaneously being taught in classes it really helps to refresh that memory and that concept and you can also clear that out simultaneously as you're learning so it's just a double learning sort of method which I feel is very helpful and then um as you can see uh I think I need to show my textbook first um I am someone who loves loves loves writing and annotating my book um and uh yeah I do have notes but then I like to write everything in the side of my textbook you'll probably see things like this the I like like if I if I were to explain the pencil marks are all um during the initial starting of the year when I was studying and writing notes and stuff whereas these pen marks are basically from by the end of the year when I just you know don't care much and I just want to write quick stuff which I feel like I might forget so you can see there's a lot of like writing going on and I think that for me personally it was a very good method that worked and I had my own color methods like for example here I have a derivation so in in in case of this derivation I will there's already the derivation given in the textbook of course most of the derivations that you're preparing for exams are in the textbook but I like writing it down in pencil because see textbook derivations if you understand what is written here that's great well and good but sometimes they skip certain steps you don't understand how from like one step it came to the next and that's confusing and if you just memorize it for the exam it's not going to work but rather in the exam if you know how the entire you know like working is and how it comes to that particular formula or value you're supposed to get or the relation you're supposed to get I think that is very helpful because even if you forget like few steps in between you know how to work it out and you'll get the answer in the end so you can see that the derivation that's given here so here there's a potential that I'm Cal calculating due to a point charge and the potent the value of potential V is equal to 1x 4 Pi epon Epsilon Q by R right which I've got here and it's the same thing here as well so you can see that there's probably like 1 2 three and like few steps here and four and for me I don't understand all of this so I need to write it down in my own words and sometimes I would like frame sentences and remember this is very important in derivation always don't just write like for examp example I have q q not p r small R don't just leave it like that in the actual board exam take some time at least a few seconds 30 seconds just write a small sentence in the beginning um consider a source charge Q at Point p and then which is the origin and a test charge Q not at R because examiner is not going to know what is your Q what is your Q not you have to tell them that so make sure to write that down and um sometimes the textbook may use different letters for example here there's capital Q but uh since we were taught in class with q small q and Q not that's what I use in my derivations as well so as long as you mention clearly in your answer what is used as what and what you're substituting that letter or um formula as I think that'll help the examiner know what you're trying to show in the in the paper and they'll correct accordingly um and then as you can see here I have written something in red um and for me the color red or the color pink which I use in my textbooks and notebooks is for very important things especially red if it has like three stars or four stars it means it's very very important it was probably a pyq question or something my teachers often ask questions about so here I have written um a question see um the question says show that electric dipole oh sorry sorry show that electric point due to a dipole Falls as a square of large distance es so that is basically VP is equal to KP cos Theta by r² so here what I've tried to mention here is that they won't just ask derive this formula no they'll give questions like this they'll ask you to show that the potential Falls as a square of large distances and that means it's R square so that's what they're trying to say so you really have to understand what they are trying to ask in a question so my teacher once told me that this was a b this question can be asked like the question for this derivation can be asked and that's why I wrote it down um because I didn't want to confuse myself so just anything the teacher says like oh the question can be framed like this and they give you that kind of an question example write it down because they know things better they have seen previous year questions more than you so write down what they're saying um otherwise I think it's kind of similar I write down derivations uh and yeah often here in like one second yes so here this is basically under electrostatics of conductors um there are certain uh behaviors of a metallic conductor in an electric field uh whether it's like the net charge inside zero or whatever uh but what like as you can see it's all like in long paragraph so usually before exam it for I find this very like scary like it it's kind of repulsive to read the entire thing so I write down points in the side and I quickly go through it it's like very easy for me I mean it depends I'm a very visual learner I see something I just have that photographic memory and for me that is not what I write in the text what is written in the textbook what what I write on the side and um I remember that during the exam and that's been helpful for me so at the end of the day try and find out what is works best for you but definitely give this method also a try if it works for you great if not try something new uh but yeah that's similarly what I do for everything and as you can see here C is independent of Q or V this is for capacitance and this is a very important I think one marker which we were told and as you can see I marked it as important over here so this is literally how you mark important things don't just see the textbook if you're buying it it's it's for you to Mark everything to write everything you have so much of space in the side not just to leave it blank write down everything and um at the end what I do is I use notebooks as a question Bank whatever I did in class the questions I refer to that in the notebook and everything else the notes the derivations at the end you won't believe me I had all derivations in my textbook yes that's true I literally had all the derivations in my textbook nothing in the notebook I mean I did write it in the notebook in class but I would come home and I would copy it down on my textbook next to that exact chapter uh sorry exact topic for example capacitance of a parel plate capacitor the derivation is here with the diagram the rest of the derivation and as you can see I would box the final formula yes that is literally how it works and I think that when you're revising for the exam or just before you enter the examination Hall you're trying to study you're trying to clam the last minute also you just go through the topic and you'll find everything next to it you don't have to open a notebook open a formula book open all that everything is just in your textbook and I just find that to be so useful um so yeah don't just leave ncrt as it is write as much as you can on the side of it like this and make it as um really a one place reference point for everything you need to know right before the exam hey guys so if you didn't know about me yet I am someone who is very forgetful about the things that have to do I won't forget what you said I won't forget what we did but I will forget that I'm supposed to do something and that is film this video yeah I don't remember the last time I was recording the uh physics textbook but then a few days have passed I have been so busy with so many other things I completely forgot to record the rest of the video so I'll be doing it today um anyways today is going to be my very favorite thing and that is is my physics formula sheet and I don't know what inspired me to make this genuinely saying I did not watch any video or check any like Pinterest board and make this it was completely something random I made and I found it very useful so um I don't know how many of you guys have done this but it's definitely an idea that's worth trying um so I initially in 11th grade like many of you all I had this small book where I used to write the formulas and stuff wait I I think I might have it here yeah this one so over here I used to write all the formulas and stuff I don't know if it's even 11th or 12th I forgot okay I think it's 12th yeah this is 12th but then in the start of 12th grade I wrote formulas like this and I think it went for a while but beyond that that was all and to be very honest I didn't use this much um I don't know for what reason but initially like during the first few months of 12th grade and even in 11th when I had stuff like this it was helpful but not very helpful so then I came up with something new which is something I love and enjoy and that is in my physics notebook so let's see here it is so this is my formula sheet and it is my favorite you might be seeing it's just completely wrinkled it has like tons of papers but let me tell you this bunch of paper is all of my 12th grade formulas and sometimes even important points now let me tell you how to make this wonderful uh collection of papers so what this is is it has a list of not I wouldn't say formulas but derivations and formulas and you might be wondering how for example this agage there are like two sides so this side is for moving charges and magnetism and this side is for current electricity so if I take current electricity you might be wondering how do I have all the derivations of current electricity in a page well the answer is I don't I don't have the derivations I have the title of the derivations and you might be wondering what's the use of that now this is how you do active recall and this is what helped me get 93 in physics so trust me when I say this it's extremely useful now if I talk about active recall it's when you're not just simply looking at the derivation and being like Oh yeah this comes after this and all no you look at the uh let's say heading of the derivation let's say it is um derivation of drift velocity I've star marked it because my teacher said it's important it has come for like the previous year boards and I star marked these so this how you really prioritize stuff as well but anyways um if I look at derivation for drift V velocity immediately my mind should start going to the first step in the derivation what is the first step I write how do I carry forth that derivation and how do I come to the conclusion so mentally I do a lot of derivation where like so for example if I'm going from home to school through the uh in the bus and I have this paper with me I refer back I read through this list of derivations and if I look at drift velocity I start actively recalling without any book with me um just I just think about it in my mind I think about how the derivation goes how it starts How It Ends uh what are the formulas involved and that's how you actively recall and train your brain to remember at least have a visual idea of how the derivation looked like so in the exam it's very helpful because if you're constantly looking at the derivation like I I'm just looking at the derivation I'm like yeah I know this yeah I know that that won't work either you write it down in practice or you keep you know thinking about it whether you when you're going in the bus when you're going in the car when you're um whenever you have free time in class and I think that's very important um and also if you see here I will have the uh formula over here so it it just has the heading and then the formula so I know this is the formula I have to arrive and how do I arrive at it another very important thing I do is let's say relation between drift velocity and current so I have this this is the relation here we have the drift velocity cvd which I marked here and the current I and this is the relation I have now I need to you know arrive at this uh using a derivation right so this is let's say the start of the deration just like a few pointers that will help me uh remember what the derivation is like so for example number of total electrons is a number of electron um per unit volume and the total volume which is area into length of the uh conductor so and then I'm like and then I get an a l then I get the total charge as n into e right so that'll be n a l e and that's how I come to that derivation uh I'm not sure if the camera is focusing oh God okay so this is how I come to to the end of the derivation and like come to the conclusion so having like a list like this and then it ends with that formula but then you have few pointers just to remind you what was there in the derivation is very helpful just try making something like this of your own list down all the formulas there are in a chapter like when you're just when you're having the chapter in front of you when you're learning the chapter take an A4 paper and put number one and whichever derivation you see first write it down draw a line number two whichever derivation you see next write it down and then when you're learning the derivation sometimes if you're trying to memorize a derivation and you have the derivation aside and you're trying to write it down and suddenly you're like oh what comes after this step I forgot and that's when when you write that forgotten step down just to give you sort of like a push to remember what the derivation was and I think this is very helpful also apart from writing all the list of derivations on top you would see me saying internal resistance is res resistance affected by the electrolyte of the cell just some pointers to uh help me remember some important stuff because I always have the sheet with me then I have Loop rule of just a few pointers here and even in the end you can see like I have this one marker important and this is how I really Mark stuff that are important for me and uh remember formulas and this is how even at the end because in 11th grade I was struggling with derivations a lot of course from 10th to 11th I mean in 10th we barely had all this derivations right so like in 11th derivations were very hard especially for me to remember there was so many derivations which had very similar steps and it's very hard to remember I agree but then if you have such formula sheets it's very helpful and um I think yeah these were some important points I was having by the end just some stuff that I kept forgetting this was especially something I made uh by I think by the last few months uh of 12th grade just a few months before my exams and um just some very important stuff that I kept forgetting from all chapters very random um and some derivations that I knew I had to revise based on the diff difficulty based on my difficulty but yeah I used to have that and when I was studying when I was revising this is what I was doing but you don't need to have this it's just like very messy but I would definitely recommend all these list of derivations as you see I have for all chapters I will try putting uh maybe a scan document of these I'm not sure if I'll have time but definitely either now or maybe by the end of the month I'll do that but yeah I had like a list but even if I do I would suggest you you should make your own because for me some derivations are harder so I mark them more I give them more importance But whichever is hard for you whichever is easy for you based on that I think you should make this list so as you can see for most of the non theor I mean theoretical chapters no wait I'm confused non- theoretical chapters I would have it for some theoretical chapters I don't think I had um I think there was some I I completely forgot the chapter names also it's been so long but some chapters which don't have many derivations I just didn't make this because I didn't find it useful but otherwise um I did for example there there's a chapter of uh for EM waves right electromagnetic waves like the microwave radio wave and all that I don't think I made a list like this because there weren't many derivations in that um if I remember so for those chapters I did not make anything like this but for those which had a lot of derivations yes I made these pages and this actually helped me in chemistry also so I made a very similar kind of um thing for chemistry and that's for conversions uh so and even definition some of the definitions I did write like this so I'll definitely share all all about that in a video that I'll make for chemistry soon as well but yeah this was for physics and I think this was very helpful for me and I and I was pretty sure that it was going to be helpful for all of you as well which is why I decided to share this and uh let me know if you really like this tip and let me know if it works for you try it for like a month or so and see the difference you'll definitely be able to see a difference maybe not in marks but in your ability to retain information and if you can retain information definitely your scores will 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