Interview with Dr. Jineesh V – 1st rank holder – AIIMS PG entrance – November 2010
- Congratulations on securing a top rank in AIIMS November 2010! What is the secret of your success?
- I was able to prepare well during internship period, studied Ashish Gupta and Mudhit Khanna, An element of luck was also involved
- What was your study strategy?
- I used to do previous year mcq’s and read the corresponding topic from standard textbooks
- When did you seriously start preparing for this exam?
- During 8th semester
- In your opinion, how much time does a student require for preparing for this exam?
- Approximately 1.5 years
- How many hours did you study each day?
- About 4 hours a day during internship period
- Did you have a timetable for preparation? Were you able to stick to it?
- I hand a monthly time table of topics I intended to finish. But most of the time, I was not able to adhere to it
- Were you able to prepare well during the internship period?
- During certain posting, there is a shortage of time, otherwise it was OK
- Did you attend any coaching? Was it useful?
- Yes, I attended the coaching conducted at Calicut Medical College by the Alumni Association. It played an important part in my success
- What were the subjects you focused upon?
- I focused mainly on Anesthesia, Radiology, Hemato oncology, Pharmacology and Community Medicine
- What books did you read for theory?
- Anatomy – Notes
- Physiology – Ganong
- Biochemistry – Harper
- Pathology – Robbins
- Microbiology – Rachana Chaurasia
- Pharmacology – Sparsh Guptha
- Forensic medicine – Across
- Ophthalmology – Parsons
- ENT – Dhingra
- Community medicine – Park
- Medicine – Harrison
- Surgery – Ashish gupta
- Obgyn – Sheila
- Peadiatrics – Notes
- Anesthesia – Ajay Yadav
- Psychiatry – Niraj Ahuja
- What was your plan for the week before the exam?
- I revised Ashish Guptha and Mudith Khanna
- What was your strategy for taking the exam?
- I took the exam in 2 rounds
- First round – about 2.5 hours – did the easy questions
- Second round – remaining 30 minutes – tackled the difficult ones – attempted all questions in which I was able to eliminate atleast 2 of the options
- How many questions did you attempt?
- 196
- How many do you think you got correct?
- 150-160 I guess
- What is your advice to future aspirants?
- Read the questions carefully, try to attempt maximum questions
- The November AIIMS exam usually contains new questions, whereas the one conducted in May usually has more repeat questions
- That brings us to the conclusion of the interview. Best of luck for your future endeavours!
- Thank you very much
Related Posts
2 Comments
how can i perform that.
Your advice was soo useful, thank you soo much…i hav a question:How to remember all the important points without getting confused…???