Every Days Science - Tricks of Trade

Every Days Science

Books 

Encyclopedia of EDS by Dr Rab Nawaz Samo
Every Day Science by Kashmiri
Solved Past Papers MCQ's by Faridi's
Notes: National Officer Academy Notes By Sir Atif 



The dos for EDS preparation

• Try to memorise the definitions. (This is especially for those who have no science study background.)
• Practise the diagrams and draw them appropriately at the time of the exam;
• Differentiation or comparison shall be in form of 'tables';
• Draw flowcharts, tables and comparison where necessary;
• Make mnemonic devices or search them from the Internet;
• For example, the mnemonic device for eight planets is 'my very educated mother just served us noodles.' 'M' for mercury and so on;
• Make notes of only important topics or things that confuse you;
• Write down important points and facts while reading a book for the objective portion of the exam.

The Don’ts

• Do not use synonyms or thesaurus in science e.g. a total eclipse will always be a total eclipse, not full or complete eclipse;
• Avoid spelling mistakes;
• There is no need of introduction, background or history in EDS;
• Answers should be to the point;
• Do not grab data from unreliable sources

How to attempt the EDS paper?

The same rule applies to the preparation of EDS as to be followed in other subjects like good presentation, precision and accuracy in answers and without spelling mistakes. Legible handwriting will, of course, be a plus point.

Now, let us see as to what type of questions are asked by the paper-setter. In the Subjective Part (50 marks), eight questions are given and the candidates are required to solve five questions out of them. A serious look at the previous papers will suggest the following topics, or areas, which should attract your attention:

Q1: Muslim scientist
Q2: Definitions
Q3: Comparison/ Differentiation
Q4: Abbreviations
Q5: Reasoning questions
Q6: Short notes
Q7: A one-word question (animals and their locations, hormones and their functions, vitamins and their deficiency, diseases and their causes, etc.)
Q8: Lengthy questions

At the first place, the selection of questions is very important. Suppose, you know the answer to all the questions, what will be your order of preference? Which questions will give you maximum marks? As a student, I will solve the questions in the following order:

a) Abbreviations;
b) One-word question;
c) Comparison;
d) Reasoning, and
e) Definitions.

Following this order of preference will result in maximum marks. If 10 abbreviations are correct, you will get 10 marks -- no discretion of the examiner.