Cracking a competitive test appears to be a difficult undertaking. It’s a difficult task to complete a large quantity of research and solve a number of complicated issues in a short amount of time. Competitive tests need a different perspective and knowledge than a typical high school or college academic exam.
With over 3 crore people opting for competitive exams on a yearly basis in the country, there is intense pressure on the students to make it to the top. While the competition is intense, such issues can be easily tackled by following a wise study method and maintaining the correct mental attitude. This way, you can easily make the entire process much more doable.
To help you better, here are some tips to prepare for State-level exams:
- Study from NCERT books
When preparing for state-level exams, the only smart way to do so is to prepare using NCERT books. These books are focused highly on the fundamental values provided by individual subjects and also align with the latest CBSE syllabus, allowing aspirants to clear their basics.
2. Knowledge about the exam pattern
Exam patterns play a significant role in preparing you for the exam in advance. When working with different exam patterns, you get to have an idea of the type of questions. Most importantly, it becomes easier to understand the question patterns and mark out the necessary questions.
3. Practicing using mock tests and previous years question papers for effective studies
We’ve all been doing this since school time. Preparing using mock tests and previous years’ question papers adds to the effectiveness, improving your understanding of the types of questions that might come. Further, solving these papers also improves your speed.
4. Following the various state toppers and using their example
While it might sound uncertain, many students have reported following their state toppers closely, while preparing for their exams. This way, students try and adopt the preparation methods and make the most of their preparation, while improving their chances of success.
However, besides all the aforementioned suggestions, preparing yourself with the latest current affairs is one of the most important things while preparing for state-level exams.
Now that you know about the different methods to prepare for your upcoming exams, let’s have a look into the most common challenges faced by students.
What are the challenges faced by the students?
- Lack of self-motivation: Probably one of the biggest challenges faced by students during the preparation of their exams. Lack of self-motivation during the exams can be disruptive and slow down your learning.
- Aimless attempts: Most of us are busy with wishful thinking! This is where things get disturbing, especially when preparing for a state-level examination. Therefore, when preparing, always ensure that you’re focused.
Comparing yourself with others: Comparison is probably the worst trait when preparing for competitive exams. Yes, you’re going to come across candidates better than you, but, you shouldn’t lose confidence in the way.
Sachin Sardana, COO and Co-Founder of Dhurina Ventures
Sachin Sardana, COO and Co-Founder of Dhurina Ventures Pvt Ltd, has been an IT expert right from the 
commencement of his career. Following his dream to create a sustainable and accessible digital platform for education for second and third-tier cities and rural areas, he founded Dhurina Ventures Pvt Ltd, with his friends.
The e-learning platform of Dhurina, established in 2019 has the technology platform established by Sachin, who is at the helm of the technical services of the start-up. As a tech-savvy person, Sachin has an inclination towards building products that hold high value and fixing system-related loopholes. From IT services venture to product building, his expertise span across Ed-Tech and IT domains.
Ajay Kumar Rathore, Co-founder and CEO, Dhurina
Ajay Kumar Rathore is a visionary in the field of education whose dream of making education available and accessible to the masses, led him to start Dhurina Ventures Private Limited, an e-learning platform.
Given his profound knowledge on competitive examinations and the processes followed for Banking and state-level examinations, Ajay felt that he can add value for the aspiring students from Tier 2 and Tier 3 suburbs and rural areas in their preparations to appear in the exams.
Ajay founded Dhurina Ventures Private Limited, the e-Learning platform for the state, regional and central level competitive exams in 2019 with friends as partners with an aim to provide quality content and subject coaching to aspirants residing in rural and tier 3 cities.
The online platform of Dhurina has already achieved a milestone of one million+ download on the Google Play Store, proving the requirement of quality education in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. Dhurina has not only successfully been able to help thousands of students with their toughest preparations in the easiest and interesting ways, but also have been able to get the best educators in India to teach the aspiring students, irrespective of geographical location.
Dhurina Ventures Private Limited
Dhurina Ventures Private Limited, an ed-tech start-up was conceptualised and founded in June 2019 by four friends and promoters Sachin Sardana, Ajay Kumar, Murari Singh, and Sanjay Singh. The e-Learning platform is aimed especially for the tier 2 and tier 3 cities, suburbs and rural hubs, to provide quality education services to the aspirants from these emerging neighbourhoods.
Dhurina Ventures primarily provides online guidance, classes and materials for state, regional and central level competitive examinations. While the aim is to bestow quality education for students across the nation, it has started its journey with the towns and outskirts of cities, as the founders feel that these are neglected areas. Special care is also taken about teaching specially-aided students.
Essentially a mobile application, the enterprise offers online learning courses on handheld devices for various state level and central level competitive exams and skill-development courses by the state experts and from the best educators of the country. With the established digital platform, business know-how and in-depth knowledge about the curriculum along with the demands of competitive examinations, Dhurina hopes to bridge the learning gap between Bharat and India.
The founders of Dhurina believes that India being a huge country, talent can be found in the deepest corner of the villages but needs to be scouted and prepared as the next human resource of the country. Thus Dhurina is positioned to address the vulnerabilities of the current education system in remote areas such as the lack of availability of quality content and training mechanisms, through the e-learning platform.
Headquartered in Fatehabad, Haryana, Dhurina is currently also operating with Rajasthan, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. Dhurina has an edge over similar ed-tech platforms as the founders of the start-up are well-versed about the challenges in remote areas, having faced those themselves. The experience has served as a catalyst for the new-age education platform towards delivering affordable, high-quality learning and the best technical infrastructure to worthy aspirants.
With a team of 200 plus highly qualified educators and experts across the country having more than 10 years of teaching experience and studios and setups in various locations, Dhurina has been contributory in imparting quality education to more than 15 lakh students from across the country.
Along with online education, we also provide offline options to students such as Gurukuls such as the Dhurina Gurukul in Rajasthan and various libraries in different locations, in Haryana itself, thus inculcating the much-needed habit of reading and studying beyond examinations and offering overall growth to students.
The platform has raised 1.2 Mn USD in its Pre-Series (a round of funding) concluded at the end of 2021. Around 10,000 selections in the year 2021 and over two million downloads in approximately two years and now we have total downloads of over 3.5 million.
Towards providing sustainable development, Dhurina has also taken steps to provide students with books, mock tests, doubt clearing sessions and notes. They have collaborated with partners like RBD publications to make the outreach viable in long term. As the rural markets and tier-II cities need earning oriented courses, the start-up also provides skill courses for Spoken English and Microsoft Excel for its students along with personality development courses.
The all-round development perspective of Dhurina is expected to bring about expectation changes for rural students and inculcate professional behaviour to job aspirants, in addition to the coaching for subject matters. Dedicated towards building the bridge between modern and rural India, Dhurina looks to expand India’s horizon of development.
