BCS Written Preparation (Maths and Analytical Ability)

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(As I have deactivated my previous account all my posts about BCS written preparation were gone .I am reposting them here

Dear BCS candidates,

I welcome you once again in my article about BCS preparation. As I said earlier, I do not consider myself qualified enough to give you advices, all I can do is share my experience. As a candidate you should do what you feel most comfortable; the only aim of my article is to give you a basic outline of the preparation process. Let’s get started:

INTRODUCTION

Dear friends, I congratulate you on your successful completion of the preliminary exam. Now please do yourself a favor which is written below:

STOP WORRYING ABOUT THE PRELIMINARY EXAM AND START YOUR PREPARATION FOR THE WRITTEN TEST.

I am sure you are worrying about the following matters:

a) What will be the pass mark for the preliminary exam

b) Is there any benefit of preparing for the written before the result of preliminary exam is published?

c) What if you fail in the preliminary exam?

Dear friends, I told you earlier that BCS exam is more a test of patience than a test of merit. Merit is important, but patience is more important for any BCS candidate. I am considering the worst case scenario: Suppose you all fail in the preliminary exam. What should you do with your written preparation then? The answer is simple: You will prepare yourself for the next BCS. This preparation for written test will put you in a much advantageous position than those who didn’t prepare at all. You must have the determination to fight till the last. My cadet college brother Major Ahsan (Former Commando School Instructor and Congo civil war veteran) said - Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

Your mind is like a car and the above doubts/hesitations regarding preliminary exam is like a brake.If you drive while pressing the brakes, it will be impossible for you to move in full speed.So, please stop worrying and start doing!



HOW MUCH TIME YOU WILL GET



After the publication of preliminary exam’s result , you will NOT get more that 3 months. If the preliminary result is published on 1st March(NOTE:It’s just an example!) then the written exam will almost certainly start by 1st June. If PSC takes 2 months to publish the preliminary result, on an average you will get like 5 months in total for your preparation. Now, PSC might change their mind but if you start your preparation from today (8th August), you should get at least 4 months for your preparation. The syllabus is HUGE , so you must utilize your time effectively.



REMINDER: This 900 marks written exam will determine whether you will get the job or not. If your marks in the written exam is very high , it is almost impossible to stop you from getting your desired cadre. Despite what you hear about the corruption/mismanagement in BCS exam , your written marks is something that can take you through all these barriers. I tell you once again, do well in the written exam, just pass the viva-voce and you will see your name in the merit list of your desired cadre!





SUBJECT-BY-SYBJECT PREPARATION

a) MATHEMATICS AND ANALYTICAL ABILITY:

This is one subject where you can easily ensure 90+ marks out of hundred. There are always one or two papers where the questions are unusual/out of pattern/very tough. For example, in 27th BCS the science question was quite tough as they asked to draw the circuit ,which is totally unexpected for non-science graduates like me . In 28th BCS, Bangladesh 2nd paper was fully based on constitution which is very unfair to the non-law students. When these things happens, the only way to save yourself from complete disaster is to do really well in mathematics and analytical ability. Good marks in this exam might save you from the shortage in any other paper.

For mathematics, the first thing you should do is to solve the previous year’s question papers. By doing this you will be able to understand what kind of math they ask you to solve. For last 2 BCS exams they have asked to solve only 5 maths questions in 2 hours which was not very tough. However, if they ask you to solve 10 questions within the same time, it will be tough for you to solve unless you practice really well. If you practice maths 1 or 2 hours everyday, it is almost sure that you will get 50 out of 50. So, buy any guide(Professors/Oracle/MP3) and solve it from A to Z. You should buy the old “Patigonit” book of class 9-10 and solve the entire algebra part with examples given in that book. Examples from the old text book are very important as they prepare you to solve confusing algebra questions in the most accepted way. You can use “Gonit-BCS”(Shikkha-Sagor Publications) as the solution for the old textbook. Remember, I am not advertising any particular book , any good book should be enough for your preparation. It is not necessary to buy the books that I mentioned above. Whatever book you use , please try to practise in such a way so that you get full marks in the mathematics part.



It has been a trend of BCS analytical test to ask questions from the GRE book. You should solve all the analogy/sentence completion/synonym/antonym questions from GRE big book. It has a massive collection of questions so by solving it you can be quite confident about doing well in these questions. IBA’s BBA/MBA questions can also be a very good sources for practice.Go to Neelkhet and buy any BBA and MBA preparation guide where you will have all the questions of previous exams.Tell them to give you the GRE Bigbook too. Vocabulary part is the tough one in the analytical exam-if you do well in this part you can easily get 40+ marks. For other questions, buy any BCS Analytical ability guide and solve it (generally maths and analytical ability are put together) .Try to use your own judgment while finding the answers as these guides have billions of mistakes.



Remember dear candidates, by practising only 1 or 2 hours a day you can get 90+ out of 100 in this paper-which is impossible in any other subject.Try to use this as an advantage and do your homework well. These maths are very easy and even the weakest mathematics student can get full marks if he just practise well! Get 90+ in this paper and give subsidy to any other paper where you might get below average mark.



( Due to shortage of time I am stopping here. I will gradually write about the preparation for other subjects one by one and add them in this post. I plan to write about Science and Technology paper. Any suggestion/criticism/discussion is welcome!)



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