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How to Study a Week before your exams and get good grades

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With these simple steps, I managed to ease my exam stress and was able to cover 90% of my syllabus. 1. Collect the materials required for the subject you want to study 2. Before you sit down to study, make sure that your desk is neat and organized. 3. Look at your syllabus. Analyse the texts which you find easy and comfortable to study 4. Pro tip: "Intelligently" cross off 2-3 texts that are either hard or not important from the examination point of view (this step works well if you have options in your question paper) 5. Now you have a self revised syllabus. Happy... 6. Make a list of topic/texts that you will cover in day 1 7. Next step is to set a timer for 50 minutes and start studying. Take breaks of 15 minutes or as you want.                                                  8. If you get bored or feel sleepy watch a study vlog on Youtube  9. Finally when you are famished with your studying and cramming...do some breathing exercises. 10. Penultimate step : As you lie on

The Need for Literary Criticism

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The Need for Literary Criticism Literature is the essence of life and nature. And a piece of text has a wide range of aspects giving it its prominence and aesthetic value. Literature presents before us more than one possible interpretation and meaning. In order to appreciate a piece of work one has to look at its merits and demerits and has to cover every aspect of the work; the history behind, socio-political aspects, time period, tone, purpose, use of words, content and context etc. Most often when analysing a text we arrive at open ended questions that have multiple answers. While critiquing a work work one should also see to it that he or she must point out their personal views and opinions on it, apart from an objective analysis of the text. An ultimate right or wrong is quite impossible to arrive at due to the existence of multiple perspectives. Every time you re-read a work it is like looking through a kaleidoscope. The goal and outcome of literary criticism is to fully apprecia