Your Best Help is 'YOU'

Anwesha Ambaly is 6th topper of English Journalism, 2012-2013. Love Social Work and Anchoring. Currently, working with OTV, leading 24 X 7 news channel of Odisha, as a Reporter.

Well, the question of ‘How to Start’ will always irk you. Since, you are setting out for a great mission that is equally competitive and challenging, you need to plan and then prepare, or else despite knowing to swim you will end up drowning in the ocean of news and information.

On the first thought of appearing for IIMC written examination, the first issue is keeping track of all the latest happenings around you in the past one year simultaneously decide on the significance of the news so that you gather as much as information as possible of the important happenings.

There is no substitute to reading. Go through as many as opinion-based magazines and editorials of various newspapers, this will immensely help you form your personal opinion and analyse issues on a wider frame.

Maintain a diary of events where you can jot down information on various issues and topics collected from various mediums. This will be extremely helpful two-three days before the examination; it will help you in quick revisioning and thereby save time before the exam.

While writing, your answers need not be ornamental or floral, stick to to-the-point theory providing as much as facts and fundamentals as possible.

Before concluding, seeking help and suggestions is fine but remember, at the end your best help is YOU. If you are confident and if you are focused on your goal, you will crack it easily. Opinions vary; many people will give many ideas but you have to settle on your comfort zone and prepare accordingly, just be sure of what you are doing keeping in background the thought, ‘There is no shortcut to success’.


Best of luck!