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New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 6, 2023 13:46 IST

Here are a few last-minute NEET PG exam preparation tips to help you get a top score.

By India Today Web Desk:

The National Eligibility Entrance Test for Post-Graduation (NEET PG) is a national-level entrance examination conducted by the NBE (National Board of Examinations) for admission to various MD/MS and PG diploma courses.

It is considered one of the toughest medical entrance examinations in India due to limited seats in government medical colleges and private universities.

NEET PG 2022 exam is scheduled for March 5, 2023, and candidates have only one month to revise and Excellerate their overall score in the PG exam. Candidates may have thoroughly covered the entire NEET PG 2023 syllabus, but last-minute revision tips are crucial to their performance in the exam.

Candidates often experience anxiety and stress as they get closer to the day of the examination. To help candidates during this period, here are some tips to stay focused during revision time.

STRATEGIC REVISION

By creating a well laid out revision pattern, candidates can effectively revisit important courses and chapters to Excellerate their understanding of the same. Candidates must also note that it is important to make their own notes in addition to the material available online.

In the last 30 days, the first 12 days can be allotted to the first revision, 8 days to the second revision, and 5 days to the third revision. The remaining 5 days can be used for covering important courses and subjects.

These important courses should be marked separately at the beginning while creating the revision plan.

DOS OF REVISION

  • Focus on what you have studied till now and stick to your revision plan and timetable
  • Daily analysis of the progress should be done by the candidates
  • Solve at least 8 - 10 previous years’ question papers in the last month before the exam. This will give you an idea of the type of questions asked and help you Excellerate your speed
  • Start practising mock tests. Attempt as many as you can and analyze your performance to identify areas of improvement
  • While going through notes is crucial, one can also use additional techniques such as flashcards for preparation. This will further help you in boosting your visual memory

DON'TS OF REVISION

  • Don't try to learn everything at once during revision. You will only overwhelm yourself and won't be able to retain any information
  • Do not succumb to peer pressure. During the last month, most candidates feel like they have not studied enough every time they see their peers studying from a different source. But you should stick to your source and focus on what you have learnt so far
  • Do not take mock test scores as your final results. Mock tests help you to identify your strong and weak areas and they are not the final results

DEVELOP A HABIT OF CONSISTENCY

Adhering to a pattern while preparing for the NEET PG exam can be challenging but it is also essential to have a schedule for the competitive exams. That makes it easier to focus with consistency.

This is particularly true when it comes to your sleep routines right before the examinations, as staying up all night and inadequate sleep may adversely affect your vitality, efficiency, and attention.

Therefore, set a bedtime for yourself every night, so your body doesn’t have to continue adjusting to new habits.

CLARIFY YOUR DOUBTS

While preparing for the NEET PG 2023 exam, candidates preparing for the exam will come across problems, difficulties, and doubts.

These questions must be addressed by seeking help from the subject expert, teachers, and scholars. For a good hold and deep knowledge of the topics, all the doubts must be clarified.

REST YOUR MIND

Eat healthy and take regular breaks in between your study hours. While you should avoid distractions, this does not mean that you should immerse yourselves only in books.

Taking regular breaks is important. Try physical activities or meditate to destress yourself.

- Article by Dr Vyshnavi Bommakanti, Educator, PrepLadder (The writer is a top educator at PrepLadder and has over eight years of teaching experience)

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Killexams : Yes, This Time It’s Different

More than 1 million users signed up within a week of the online release of the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, a date dystopians think will live in infamy. In just two months, 100 million users signed up, a record for any new software, app, or online tool.

ChatGPT—along with other recent, if less famous, competitors—does in fact constitute a radical advance in software, far more consequential than when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, back in the Internet’s first “century.” ChatGPT puts us one giant step closer to normal people having the ability to access supercomputing performance using natural language. So, the chattering classes are all a-twitter with the usual tropes about how automation will bring about the end of work, in this case for “knowledge workers.”

We will, in due course, see news stories about practical “use cases” for ChatGPT. But for now, a lot of people are having a lot of fun playing with it and discovering just how much better this latest AI software is compared with, say, computer interfaces like Alexa or Siri.

Since ChatGPT was trained to recognize and produce language—a fact telegraphed by the word “chat”—I joined the rush to test the new tool, asking it to write a short blurb to promote a Caribbean cruise and to do so in the style of William Shakespeare. Within a fraction of a second, ChatGPT came back with a C+ effort:

Hark! good sirs and fair maidens, lend an ear
To news of grandeur and luxury rare.
A Caribbean cruise doth now appear
For those with hearts that do adventure dare.
Upon the azure seas, our grand barque
Shall bear ye to fair isles of sand and sun
Where comfort and opulence shall embark
And memories forever to be won.

One user gave ChatGPT a standard medical exam; it passed. Another gave it a standard test for Wharton MBA students; passed again. Impressive parlor tricks, but such stunts tell you more about the simplicity of the tests than about the brilliance of ChatGPT. Passing a written test that indicates proficiency with medical, business, or finance rules and nomenclature doesn’t say anything really useful about whether the test taker will be a great surgeon or business leader. Nor would passing the written test for driving a car predict anything about whether the test-taker could be a safe driver, much less a winning Formula One racer.

Engineers love to perform stunts with new technologies. Of course, depending on the stunts, the performance does say something about the state of a technology. The lesson of Kasparov’s loss was to see the “overnight” progress, nearly 20 years later, of Google’s AlphaGo supercomputer beating the world’s Go champion in that much more complex game. Now, almost a decade after that, comes the sonnet-writing, test-passing ChatGPT. The point is that even in the seemingly high-velocity world of computing, so-called exponential change takes quite a while. That’s the reality of commercializing at scale all forms of engineering progress.

For a way to think about what comes next for AI, consider what followed analogous stunts in the history of aviation—a field more relevant to computing than most realize.

The feat that made it clear that an age of useful aviation was possible was Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 barnstorming of all 48 contiguous U.S. states over a period of 95 days, following his better-known stunt of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, which was in retrospect a kind of Kasparov–Deep Blue moment. Even though, following Lindbergh’s odyssey, aircraft would be used in business, industry, and warfighting, it took another three decades until the engineering was good enough to yield, in 1957, the Boeing 707, which launched the age of mass commercial aviation. From there, as entirely new industrial edifices and national infrastructures were built out, the number of revenue-passenger-miles (to use that industry’s term of art) would soar more than a hundredfold by the year 2000.

The emergence of useful, broadly available aviation brought big shifts to the structure and nature of business and employment in transportation. But it ended neither the role of, nor the expansion of uses for, ships, trains, or trucks; and it didn’t end employment in those sectors. Overall, in fact, employment in U.S. transportation services doubled by the turn of the century. It’s no exaggeration to frame ChatGPT as a Boeing 707 moment.

But we’re being told that, well, this time is different. In part, that’s because it seems somehow spookier when technology accelerates tasks performed invisibly in cyberspace—that is, cognitive rather than physical tasks. ChatGPT has reanimated the now-ancient philosophical debates about whether machines think and whether, as they get better at imitating human behaviors, they’ll make a lot of humans redundant and bring on the often-predicted age of unemployable humans.

It is true that there is something different this time, as there is every time. The specifics of the existing machines are different. But what’s not different is the overall effect of automation. Not to diminish the social and political challenges that all disruptions bring to markets and people, but automation has always boosted productivity and thus overall wealth and employment. If labor-saving technologies—namely, automation—were a net job destroyer, unemployment should have been continually rising over the course of modern history as (physical) automation inexorably expanded. It didn’t. MIT economist David Autor has been particularly eloquent on the apparent paradox of seeing continued rise in employment despite advances in labor-reducing technologies, observing that “the fundamental threat [to employment growth] is not technology per se but misgovernance.”

Of course, where and how most people are employed has changed over time. It’s going to change again. And that is disruptive. But the central and unprecedented difference between our time and previous eras is the demographic reality of a shrinking workforce. In the near future, we will need lots of new tools to amplify the efforts of the declining labor supply. Even in our own present, despite the best efforts of the Federal Reserve to increase unemployment (that is, to reduce the pressure employers face to offer “inflationary” salaries to keep workers), job openings still outnumber people available to fill them. Demographics dictate that this gap will widen. Since most jobs in a modern economy are found in so-called knowledge work, the only way to close the labor gap will be with AI tools useful enough to amplify the efficacy of people in those areas.

AI, of course, is not a specific tool per se but a class of tools under that loosely defined term. To extend the earlier analogy, there are many radically different kinds of engines; no single engine is suitable for every class of machine, task, or vehicle—from aircraft to mining trucks. It’s the same for the silicon engines at the core of all AI machines. Much of the misdirection about AI’s implications comes from the sloppy term itself, “artificial intelligence.” It’s no more informative or accurate than calling a car an artificial horse, or an airplane an artificial bird, or an electric motor an artificial waterwheel.

While ChatGPT is a whiz with words, it wasn’t trained on math and, as some users have already observed, performs poorly there. Similarly, ChatGPT couldn’t drive a car, wield a hammer to drive a nail, or carry a box. One needs differently designed and trained AI tools to perform each kind of task. The category confusion about the realities of AI tools is, to put it crudely, the equivalent of seeing that a tool like a hammer makes it easier to push a nail into a board and then trying to use a hammer to drill a precise hole, weld steel, or measure voltage.

The letters GPT in ChatGPT stand for Generative Pre-trained Transformer—computer lingo for an algorithm that, when paired with a powerful computer, can be trained iteratively by looking repetitively at a very large set of samples—in this case, written texts. The same has been done for images and myriad areas where routine tasks entail patterns and rules. The “chat” in ChatGPT will doubtless find early commercial application precisely where chatbots are already used: in online commerce and with the many tasks in all businesses that involve often-confusing or arcane rules, regulations, or standards that a computer can more usefully, quickly, and accurately parse to answer questions put to it in “natural language.”

The management literature is replete with analyses of the productivity-robbing burdens imposed on employees trying to comply with routine tasks in education, health care, business in general, and even in basic research. Such tasks are precisely where the narrow power of AI is most powerful. As it happens, it’s also where one could free up easily re-trainable humans to be redirected to more challenging non-routine tasks.

A exact Federal Reserve analysis divided the U.S. workforce into just two high-level categories: manual and cognitive labor. No surprise that the majority are now employed in the latter. The analysis also created two sub-categories within each: routine and non-routine tasks. Thus classified, about 60 million people in the U.S. work on routine tasks, split almost evenly between manual and cognitive domains. Total employment in both routine manual and routine cognitive tasks hasn’t changed significantly since 1980. Meantime, the non-routine manual labor pool has risen from 15 million to 25 million people since 1980, and employment in non-routine cognitive work has grown from about 30 million to 60 million people.

Four decades of job growth has all been in non-routine tasks. If we want to find more people to take on the jobs where growth is happening—and where they can be paid more—we’ll need to move people out of the routine job domains, while still ensuring that those tasks are fulfilled. That is precisely what’s made possible by AI tools that can increase the efficacy of a shrinking number of people performing routine tasks. Ensuring that that can happen will require AI tools even easier to use, more accurate, and cheaper than what’s available today with ChatGPT and its (jealous) competitors.

We know from history that when new technologies are found to be broadly useful, engineers drive down costs and make them easier to use. The latter is the “user interface,” in the jargon of tech. Again, witness the capabilities of ChatGPT versus, say, Alexa. With Natural Language Processing (NLP), the human-machine interface makes it easier for non-experts to engage casually in computational feats previously reserved for supercomputers and the expert class. The overall effect of NLP, in addition to taking up the burden of routine tasks, will also be to reduce routine burdens for employees in non-routine types of work. It will also enable the upskilling of more people to become “knowledge workers,” including even coding. It’s no coincidence that AI tools are bringing greater productivity to writing computer code. One company touts that its AI-based tool can help a coder write software ten to 100 times faster.

The good news, at least from a macroeconomic perspective, is that there’s been a land-rush of activity to develop mission-specific machine-learning algorithms. One measure of the scale of that activity is in the amount of private capital chasing AI deals and companies. We’re in the early stages of billions of dollars directed at another tech hype cycle.

Another measure of the scale of AI activity can be found in the total quantity of the world’s computer processing power used to “train” deep-learning models; it’s been doubling every few months for the past half-dozen years. That translates into a 300,000-fold increase in computing power used for AI training over that short time. You don’t need a crystal ball to predict that such prodigious efforts will soon yield a fusillade of useful AI tools to succeed ChatGPT.

Coming back to our aviation analogy, it’s the inescapably physical world of energy that reveals the implications of the scale of AI and machine learning. Even AI cognoscenti are surprised to learn that the energy equivalent of the fuel used to fly a jumbo jet from Austin to Asia is gobbled up by an AI-centric computer being trained on “large language models” or other similar sets of “parameters” needed for machine learning. That’s not a one-time investment; it happens every time and for each kind of similar application of learning. As “use cases” for AI expand, the proliferation of AI training will follow apace.

Ah, but for those who are anxious about energy issues, we also know that emerging and next-generation AI chips and algorithms are far more energy-efficient—some are already tenfold better. This will tamp down AI’s voracious energy appetite, even as the tools improve. But it’s that reality—more efficiency and higher performance—that will lead to a repeat of the trajectory of the first, pre-cloud era of the Internet.

Radical gains in efficiency have always been critical to unlocking the commercial viability of any new machine or infrastructure for society. In 1958, when Pan Am began passenger jet service with the 707, no one forecasted (much less exhibited angst about) the aggregate fuel consumption that commercial aviation would induce. Since then, aircraft have become 300 percent more energy-efficient, not to mention safer and more reliable. Those features are what enabled today’s trillions of passenger-miles flown, an activity that consumes some 4 billion barrels of oil each year, compared with a trivial amount in 1958.

Similarly, decades of inexorable gains in computing energy efficiency are illustrated by the fact that, if today’s smartphones operated at 1980 computing-efficiency levels, just one phone would use as much electricity as an office building. A single datacenter at 1980 efficiency levels would require the entire U.S. grid to power it. Instead, staggering reductions in energy-per-logic-operation, again along with gains in performance, are what made possible a commercial world of billions of smartphones and thousands of datacenters. And that yielded today’s global cloud infrastructure—still in a pre-AI era—that already uses about as much energy as global aviation.

In a future when AI machines perform not dozens but tens of thousands of simulations entailing trillions of computing-hours, overall energy use will balloon again. And that will happen because of the economic benefits AI offers to people, businesses, and even—and especially—in the pursuit of science and new discovery.

As Regina Barzilay, an AI researcher at MIT, put it when asked about the power of AI-assisted discoveries to invent new life-saving drugs: it’s “not the machine that invented the molecule. It’s that the machine helped humans to scan the huge space of possibilities and zoom in on the fruitful set of hypotheses that they tested.” Or, as economist Alexander Salter succinctly observed: “Data doesn’t interpret itself.” The AI machines are knowledge amplifiers.

Even so, we will see disruptions to the nature of jobs and businesses. Indeed, the scale of those disruptions will echo the magnitude of the opportunities that AI creates. Some educators have voiced worries about disruptions to teaching, including detecting cheaters. ChatGPT will indeed require adjustments, perhaps even a return to Socratic methods of in-class learning and testing—hardly a new idea. Nor is dealing with cheating, especially in the age of the Internet. Teachers found ways to teach math in the age of the calculator. Adaption to AI is not just possible, but arguably beneficial.

A clear-eyed recognition of benefits from any new technology doesn’t constitute a Pollyanna’s perspective. It’s also true that AI machines won’t all be useful or put to good use; such is the (sometimes sad) state of human nature. As science-fiction author and technology seer Cory Doctorow recently quipped in a long interview, “I think that the problems of A.I. are not its ability to do things well but its ability to do things badly, and our reliance on it nevertheless.” His cautions—and these are a constant refrain in his dystopian fiction—center around the need to recognize the limits of any machine and the kinds of risks arising from misuses.

Coming back to where we started, looking over the long period since the emergence of the modern information era, circa 1970, Census data show a significant shift in the structure of employment—away from production and toward services. Economists David Autor and Anna Salomons have done pioneering work in mapping those dynamics as a kind of hollowing out of highly paid “middle-skilled” jobs that don’t typically require a college degree, and a simultaneous shift toward more low- and high-skilled employment.

Autor recently posed a question as to “whether a countervailing set of economic forces will soon reverse the decline of middle-skill work?” I think the answer to that question is yes. The countervailing forces will come from the fact that computing has finally become widely useful with the advent of commercially viable AI. And that’s happening just in time to rescue the economy from demographic dystopia.

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Killexams : exam cheating tricks

By Wachira Kigotho

In the last year's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, about 3,000 students had their results cancelled or withheld for cheating.

However, Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has been under intense pressure from students and politicians to release the results.

Nonetheless, there are concerns that examination dishonesty is not just perpetrated by students but the integrity of public examinations has been compromised by many actors, including education officials. While releasing KCSE results, Education Minister Sam Ongeri said education officials might be involved in the unending incidents of examination fraud.

Unless the academic fraud is severely punished, it is going to graduate from merely a nagging educational issue to national crisis like in Nigeria where universities have petitioned the Government to be allowed to set their own admission tests instead of relying on the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, which is characterised by massive malpractices.

The crux of the matter is that success in academic life has great value and examinations are the means of selecting candidates for higher education and employment. Success in KCSE optimally opens doors for admission to the best degree programmes in public universities.

Academic fraud

Academic fraud appears to be on the increase worldwide according to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).

"Education has opened new avenues of advancement to growing number of citizens but many complex forms of misconduct have developed, amounting to a wide range of academic fraud," says Muriel Poisson, a programme specialist at Unesco.

But whereas academic fraud can take many forms examination dishonesty can occur at any stage of the examinations. Basically, students or their agents arrive at the venue prepared to use various methods. The most common is known as ¡®giraffing¡¯ where a student sticks out one the neck to see another student¡¯s answer sheet and it is often coordinated by examiners and teachers. It is related to ¡®lateral connection¡¯ implemented through a sitting arrangement, whereby the bright candidate is flanked on both sides by weaker candidates. The bights ones are then asked by teachers to let others peep on his work.

Alice Arinlade Jekayinfa, a professor of Social Education Studies at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria, says a common cheating method in Sub-Saharan Africa is known as ¡®nothing-nothing.¡¯ "This involves the use of empty biro pen to trace information on a blank white piece of paper. Seeing this on the table, one would think there is nothing on the paper, but closer observation reveals well loaded with facts about the examination," says Jekayinfa.

In Kenya, it is called mwakenya and apart from being used during KCPE and KCSE, it is commonly used by university students.

Other forms of mwakenya are dubbing and tattoos.

For tattoos, a candidate ¨C mainly female ¨C writes information on thighs where she can easily adjust to read and copy. The offending material can be deleted quickly when the invigilator becomes suspicious.

There is also a ¡®missile catch¡¯ that represents answers written on a piece of paper, squeezed and thrown to a colleague during the examination.

Body aids

Some cheating methods involve body aids. While announcing last year¡¯s KCPE, Ongeri produced a slipper that was used to write answers. Other body aids that are used to smuggle materials into examination venues include under-pants and handkerchiefs.

Often, students use coded sign language to communicate during examinations particularly in multiple-choice examinations. Another trick allowed by teachers is the ¡®table top guide¡¯ where anticipated answers are written on desks before an examination starts. Mostly, formulas, diagrams and maps are written in short form with complicity of teachers and compromised invigilators.

Ingenuity of examination fraud has also spread to use of tokens. These are short notes on the mathematical set, razor blades, rulers, handkerchiefs and other items for referencing during examinations.

A new form of cheating called ¡®coms¡¯ involves use of calculators that facilitate multiple entries. Quite often, such special calculators are put in casings of ordinary calculators and might look ordinary and escape invigilators.

Direct access is an act whereby an examiner helps candidates during examinations. There is also the ¡®mercenary service,¡¯ which involves another person writing the examination.

In last year¡¯s KCSE, some university students were arrested sitting examinations for private candidates.

The ¡®mercenary service¡¯ is related to ¡®rank zeroxing¡¯ which happens when a candidate collects and copies a colleague¡¯s answers word for word.

In universities where examination procedures are not very strict, academic corruption known as ¡®contract¡¯ is used.

This occurs when a student¡¯s grade is influenced with the assistance of a friendly lecturer. It can occur when a lecturer is paid money or sex for marks to enhance grades.

There is also the ¡®time out¡¯ method in which a student pretends to be suffering from diarrhoea and visits the toilet several times to read prepared answers.

Besides dishonesty during the examination time, academic corruption is often extended after the papers are collected by examiners and this is one of the most difficult examinations cheating to detect.

Tracing marking

With complicity of examiners and education officials, some parents are able to trace the results of their children to the last point of call, be it, the computer rooms where marks are stored for final processing and grading.

Unesco says this form of cheating is directly related to leakage of examination from administrative offices to local examination sites.

"Stakes are very high for cheating when examinations are for entry to higher education," says Unesco, in a report, Combating Academic Fraud: Towards a Culture of Integrity.

Academic dishonesty is rarely punished and is purely driven by greed and quest for profit.

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Killexams : NEET UG 2023: Tips and tricks for acing exam in 3 months © Provided by The Indian Express

- Saurabh Kumar

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET 2023 has been confirmed to take place on May 7 this year by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Last year the highly competitive entrance exam saw over 18 lakh registrations and with just a little over 3 months remaining for the 2023 exam, it is time for the candidates appearing for the examination to push their preparations for acing this entrance exam.

By achieving a good rank in the national-level entrance exam, students get a chance to enroll in the top medical colleges and universities in the country providing MBBS, BDS, AYUSH & other nursing courses.

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Preparing for any competitive examination relies upon the discipline shown by the candidate. With a good strategy along with the right guidance, any applicant willing to go the extra mile can ace NEET 2023.

Exam Pattern of NEET 2023

The test will be conducted offline in pen and paper mode with the exam duration being 3 hours and 20 minutes. A total of 200 questions will be provided to the candidates, out of which they will have to attempt 180 with the total achieving marks being 720.

The paper will be divided into three subjects- Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (Botany and Zoology). Candidates will gain 4 marks for each correct answer while 1 negative marking for each incorrect answer. The physics and chemistry sections will have a total of 50 questions whereas the biology section will have a total of 100 questions.

NEET 2023 Syllabus

Physics

Physical world and measurement, Electro statistics, Kinematics, Current electricity, Magnetic effects of current and magnetism, Work, energy, and power, Motion of systems of particles and rigid body, Laws of Motion, Electromagnetic waves, Optics, Electromagnetic induction and alternating currents, Properties of bulk matter, Dual nature of matter and radiation, Gravitation, Thermodynamics, Atoms and nuclei, Electronic devices, Oscillations and wave, and Behavior of perfect gas and kinetic theory

Chemistry

Some basic concepts of chemistry, Solid state, Structure of atom, Solutions, Electrochemistry, Chemical kinetics, States of matter: Gases and liquids, Classification of elements and periodicity in properties, Thermodynamics, Surface chemistry, General principles and processes of isolation of elements, Equilibrium, P-block elements, Redox reactions, Chemical bonding and molecular structure, D- and f-block elements, Hydrogen, Coordination compounds, S-block elements (Alkali and Alkaline earth metals), Alcohols, Some p-Block elements, phenols, and ethers, Organic chemistry – Some basic principles and techniques, Haloalkanes and haloarenes, Aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids, Hydrocarbons, Environmental chemistry, Biomolecules, polymers, and chemistry in everyday life, Organic compounds containing nitrogen

Biology

Diversity in the living world, Genetics and evolution, Cell structure and function, Reproduction, Biology and human welfare, Structural organization – Plants and animals, Plant physiology, Human physiology, Ecology and environment, Biotechnology and its applications

NEET 2023 Preparation Tips

1) Preparing a timetable- As there are 3 months remaining for the examination, candidates need to prepare a timetable by dividing time equally for all subjects (or as they see best). The timetable will help keep the speed of the student on track and will help them complete the preparation on time.

2) Understanding the syllabus and mastering NCERT Books- As the questions in NEET 2023 are majorly based upon NCERT, students need to master the NCERT books while understanding the fundamentals behind every topic.

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3) Conceptual clarity is key- For acing the medical exam, the candidates need to keep clearing their doubts and understand the courses with clarity. Referring to other study materials can be beneficial for students.

4) Test yourself with Mock papers- Mock exams are game-changers in any difficult entrance exam. Taking them will help the candidate evaluate oneself while finding the weaknesses where they need to focus.

5) Expert guidance- Students need to seek expert guidance to clear their doubts and problems to move on with their preparation.

6) Maintaining a healthy lifestyle will lead to better brain functioning- Doctors say that the human brain has the best functioning in the morning which is why candidates need to give their brains enough time to relax. By encouraging themselves to study early in the morning rather than late at night, candidates will be able to maximize their brain functioning.

The correct strategy and effective time management are important in determining an aspirant's rank. This time is best for aspirants to master their preparation and time-management skills. Learning how to maintain accuracy and quality when responding to a single question while identifying and addressing the weak areas is also essential.

(The author is Chief Academic Officer, Vidyamandir Classes)

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Whether you have the latest iPhone or an older model, your device is chock-full of features and services you may not know about

Chances are, you’re not even scratching the surface of all the amazing and totally unexpected things your iPhone can do to make your life easier. These iPhone hacks go far beyond the obvious—and soon, you won’t know how you ever lived without them. After you discover new things about your favorite personal-tech device with this list of iPhone tricks, you may also want to learn how to retrieve deleted text messages, how to delete apps from your iPhone or how to screen-record on your iPhone.

Use your iPhone’s Measure app as a spirit level

Use your iPhone's Measure app as a spirit level

Use your iPhone's Measure app as a spirit level

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The Measure app isn’t just for measuring things. It also has a leveling feature that will come in handy for DIY projects at home. Since a spirit level (also known as a bubble level) measures how parallel or perpendicular something is to the ground, it can help you hang shelves or place works of art evenly over your mantel. Simply open the app and choose the Level option on the lower right to activate it. If you’re using the app to hang pictures, be sure to avoid these common mistakes.

Make your iPhone keyboard function as a trackpad

Make your iPhone keyboard function as a trackpad

Make your iPhone keyboard function as a trackpad

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If you’ve ever tried to move your cursor in a text only to find yourself stabbing at your phone’s screen with your finger, you need a trackpad on your phone. Here’s an iPhone trick that will come as a surprise to most people: You can turn your iPhone into a trackpad, as long as it has iOS 12 or a more exact update. Just start typing in an email or text message, then press and hold a finger on the space bar on your iPhone’s keyboard. When you do this, the other keys will fade to gray, and you can use the area as a trackpad. Learn more about your iPhone’s hidden mouse.

Turn your iPhone into an activity tracker

Turn your iPhone into an activity tracker

Turn your iPhone into an activity tracker

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If you always have your phone with you, you don’t really need to buy a separate fitness tracker. The Health app on your iPhone automatically tracks your steps and how far you’ve walked or run each day, just like a Fitbit does. Open the Health app that came installed on your iPhone to look at how many steps you’ve taken with your phone each day since you got it. If you have an Apple Watch or iPad, the app will send the data to those connected devices too. When you think about it, iPhone tricks like this give you even more bang for your buck, since they decrease the need for other pricey devices. For more high-tech fitness essentials, check out these smart water bottles.

Flip a coin

Flip a coin

Flip a coin

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Flipping a coin to make a decision can help you wade through your pros and cons to get to the decision you truly want to make. “When we see the result of the coin toss and react with either pleasure or disappointment, we realize that we actually did have a preference for one option over another, whether we knew it or not,” writes Hal McDonald, PhD, for Psychology Today. However, not everyone carries around cash and coins these days. Your iPhone can be a convenient substitute. Simply talk to your Apple virtual assistant, saying, “Hey, Siri, flip a coin!” She will then give you the result of the virtual coin toss. Learn more and find out how to add widgets to your iPhone.

Use your iPhone as a tape measure

Use your iPhone as a tape measure

Use your iPhone as a tape measure

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As long as you have an iPhone that’s at least as exact as the 6s, you can use your device as a tape measure. Go to the Measure app, which will give you instructions to move your device. Hold up the iPhone and move it around, and a circle will appear; a dot will be in the middle of the circle. Now frame your iPhone’s screen so that the dot is pointed directly at the point where your measurement should start. Tap the “Add a point” (plus symbol) option. Now, slowly move your iPhone until the dot within the circle is over the point where you want the measurement to end. Tap the plus symbol once again. Your measurement should now appear. Just be warned that while this is a pretty handy iPhone trick, it isn’t quite as accurate as a manual tape measure.

Access a magnifying glass

Access a magnifying glass

Access a magnifying glass

rd.com, Getty ImagesHave you ever been practicing a magazine only to find that certain passages were teeny-tiny and impossible to read? If that happens to you again, you don’t have to rummage through junk drawers to find an old magnifying glass. Your iPhone will act as a magnifying glass with a few clicks on the screen. To access this iPhone trick, open the Control Center by swiping down from the top right of your screen. Within the Control Center, simply click on the Magnifier to open and use it. To adjust the magnification, move the slider that should then appear on the screen. (If it’s not already in your Control Center, go to Settings, click on Control Center and tap on the plus sign next to Magnifier to move it to the list of your included controls.)

Use your phone as a recording device

Use your phone as a recording device

Use your phone as a recording device

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Turning your iPhone into a recording device is simple. Open the Voice Memos app and press the red Record button. It will then record the audio of what is going on, much like a tape recorder does. Tap the red button again to finish the recording, then title it and save it as desired. That said, here’s why iPhones don’t let you record calls.

Transform your iPhone into a white noise machine

Iphone Tricks White Noise

Iphone Tricks White Noise

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Drift into dreamland easily, or focus on the task at hand anywhere you go, no matter how noisy it is. With a few taps on your touchscreen, your iPhone will become a white noise machine, blocking out annoying and distracting sounds with your own special brand of soothing, shushing background noise.

To activate this feature, go to Settings, tap Accessibility and select Audio/Visual. From there, search for Background Sounds, and toggle it on. Relaxation awaits!

Customize your flashlight to provide optimal brightness

Customize your flashlight to provide optimal brightness

Customize your flashlight to provide optimal brightness

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If you’ve ever accidentally pressed the flashlight button on a sleeping iPhone screen, you may well know the humiliation of sending its blinding light into a room as you try to turn it off. But you don’t have to worry about that kind of disruption being so severe in the future; now you can customize exactly how bright you want your flashlight to be when it turns on. Just swipe down from the top of the screen (or swipe up, depending on your model) to open the Control Center. Now press and hold down the Flashlight button on the screen. A slider will appear on your screen that you can move up and down to adjust your flashlight to the exact level of brightness you want.

Use your iPhone playlist as a sleep aid

Use your iPhone playlist as a sleep aid

Use your iPhone playlist as a sleep aid

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Have you ever wanted to fall asleep to your favorite playlist but didn’t want to burn through your battery or wake up with the music still playing? The iPhone now has a sleep timer that lets you turn off your music at a specific time. Simply go to the Clock app, tap on the Timer option on the bottom-right corner of your screen and choose the specific amount of time you want your music to play. Next, tap on the option for When Timer Ends. Now scroll all the way to the bottom and choose Stop Playing. Then all you have left to do is tap Set at the top right-hand corner of your screen. Voila! With this iPhone trick, you can enjoy your music without worrying about it playing all night long. Don’t miss these things you didn’t know your EarPods and AirPods could do.

Turn your phone into a high-tech medical ID bracelet

Turn your phone into a high-tech medical ID bracelet

Turn your phone into a high-tech medical ID bracelet

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Your iPhone has the power to work as an advanced medical ID bracelet. With the Medical ID function, medical personnel can instantly access necessary information about your medical needs and history from the lock screen. To set this up, go to the Your Health app and click on the Summary tab. Tap on the profile photo of yourself in the upper right-hand corner. Tap Medical ID, then choose to edit it. Now input all the information someone may need to know to act and protect your health during an emergency.

Set your phone to answer itself

Set your phone to answer itself

Set your phone to answer itself

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If you are often in a situation where you don’t have your hands free or can’t quickly grab your phone when it rings, you can set your iPhone to automatically pick up to ensure you don’t miss important calls. Go to Settings, open the Accessibility option, then select Touch. Next, select Call Audio Routing, then scroll down to Auto-Answer Calls and toggle it on. When you activate this feature, it will answer any incoming call and let you speak with the caller immediately. If you do miss a call, you can view (and delete) your iPhone call history.

Access the calculator’s hidden backspace button

Access the calculator's hidden backspace button

Access the calculator's hidden backspace button

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It’s no secret that the iPhone has a Calculator app, but many Apple customers don’t know about the hidden backspace button. Once you’ve entered a lot of numbers or started your calculations on the app, it seems like you have to press clear and start over if you accidentally press a wrong number. However, if you swipe to the left on the area where the numbers are displayed, the last number will be deleted without erasing the rest of your work.

Connect your computer to your iPhone’s hotspot

Connect your computer to your iPhone's hotspot

Connect your computer to your iPhone's hotspot

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You can turn your phone into a mobile hotspot and router, providing Internet access for all the computers in your household. Since most data plans are limited, it’s best to use this option only in a pinch. For example, if your power goes out or your home’s Wi-Fi network goes down, the hotspot can provide a high-powered way to connect. Simply go to Settings, choose the Personal Hotspot option and make sure it’s set to “on.” As long as you have a hotspot option with your phone plan, you can use the password on the Personal Hotspot page to wirelessly connect your laptop, iPad and other devices to the internet. By the way, if you want to share files between your Apple devices, you should learn how to use AirDrop.

Access the one-handed keyboard

Access the one-handed keyboard

Access the one-handed keyboard

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Your iPhone has a one-handed keyboard that’s convenient when you’re multitasking and have only one hand free. Simply go to Settings, tap on General, choose the Keyboard and toggle on One Handed Keyboard. Once there, you can choose Left if you’re left-handed or Right if you’re right-handed. You can also come back to this screen to turn it off and return your keyboard to normal.

Track your menstrual cycle and other health data

Track your menstrual cycle and other health data

Track your menstrual cycle and other health data

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Need to track your menstrual cycle in a way you can easily access at the doctor’s office without a lot of effort? Your iPhone can help you track your monthly symptoms (including PMS), basal body temperature, episodes of spotting and more. Go to the Health app, click on Browse and select Cycle Tracking. Now swipe the correct day for when your last period started and tap the oval option to log the date. Do this each month. If you want to add more data, scroll down and choose the category where you want to provide more information about your menstrual cycle to have it readily available.

Sign documents

Sign documents

Sign documents

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Electronic signatures are becoming an acceptable norm for business contracts, new-hire employee forms and many other kinds of documents. You don’t have to buy expensive software to sign something electronically—you can do so easily within the Mail app using the markup option on your iPhone. Open the document from the Mail app on your iPhone. If it wasn’t sent to you via email, forward it so that you can easily access it from the Mail app.

Now, go to the email and tap on the attached document you want to sign. If you haven’t downloaded it already, click to obtain it. Next, scroll through the document until you pull up the lines where you need to provide text. Tap on the lines and fill them out as directed. For the line with your signature, tap the mark-up symbol. (If you are unfamiliar with the mark-up option, it’s the small icon in the upper-right corner that looks like a pen.) An assortment of pen options will appear, along with a plus sign. Select the plus sign and then the signature option will appear. A screen will open that allows you to use your finger to sign your name. When you finish writing your signature, click done. You can then place your signature precisely where you want it on the document. While we’re on the subject, find out how to sign a document on your computer too.

Harness your iPhone’s travel-planning tools

Harness your iPhone's travel-planning tools

Harness your iPhone's travel-planning tools

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If you’re a frequent traveler, your iPhone can function as your personal travel planner and also act as a buddy that warns you of potential trouble. With the Maps app, you can get cycling directions, be alerted to potential red-light and speed-trap cameras on driving routes, even find guides to nearby restaurants, stores and attractions when you’re on the go. And don’t forget about the Weather app, which can help you pack appropriately, and the Notes app, where you can jot down helpful tips from friends about your destination. Trust us: These iPhone tricks will make your next vacation even more relaxing.

Find a photo based on who or what is in it

Find a photo based on who or what's in it

Find a photo based on who or what's in it

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Have you ever been daydreaming about a time you went somewhere special, like the Eiffel Tower? Or wished you could sort through all the photos you have of you and your best friend? If you want to find that special moment to post a Throwback Thursday or a Flashback Friday online, it’s possible to search for a photo on your iPhone based simply on what’s in the picture. Go to your Photos app, then click on the search bar. Your phone will offer you suggestions of people, places and things. Choose the right one or type in exactly what you’re searching for. A group of photos matching your description should appear, so you can pick the ones you want to look at, send or post online. Then learn how to take a postcard-perfect picture on your phone.

Use different (good) vibrations for each contact

Use different (good) vibrations for each contact

Use different (good) vibrations for each contact

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Many people know about custom ringtones, but you can also choose a different vibration notification for each friend in your contact list. That way, when you’re out with friends or in a meeting, you don’t have to check your phone every time you get a text. You’ll know just from the specific vibes when a text comes from someone you really need to respond to.

To set the vibrations for certain contacts, go to your Contacts. Select a Contact, then click Edit on the upper right corner of the screen. Scroll down and tap Ringtone or Text Tone. Next, choose Vibration, and select a specific vibration pattern for that contact when they call and text. You may choose the same vibration for their calls and texts, or specify different vibrations for their calls and texts. You can also choose Create New Vibration to customize a whole new vibration for each contact.

Locate your vehicle

Locate your vehicle

Locate your vehicle

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Who hasn’t found themselves in the humiliating situation of not being able to find their car in a big parking lot? Happily, the next time that happens, you can rely on your iPhone to immediately locate your vehicle and get on with your day. Before you leave the house, be sure you still have the Maps app installed on your iPhone, then check to see that your phone is connected to CarPlay or Bluetooth while in your car.

To ensure you can locate your vehicle, go to the Settings menu, and choose the Maps app. Next, scroll to the bottom of the list to the Your Car heading, and turn on Show Parked Location. The toggle button will be green to confirm that it’s on, and your phone will be all set to show your car’s location any time you park it. When you park your car, the Maps app will drop a parked-car marker so you can easily find your way back. To find your car when it seems lost, open the Maps app on your iPhone.

Use your iPhone as a scanner

Use your iPhone as a scanner

Use your iPhone as a scanner

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With the many changes that have occurred in the workplace since 2020, having a scanner readily available can come in handy. Whether you need to sign an onboarding document for a new job or send a personally signed note to a friend online, you can use the Notes app as a scanner. Open the Notes app and tap at the bottom to create a new Note. Tap the Camera button to select it, then tap the Scan Documents option. Place the document in front of the camera on your phone, making sure it’s centered. If your device is on Auto mode, it will immediately scan the document.

To manually capture the scan, tap the Shutter button. Next, adjust the scan to fit the page by dragging the corner, if needed. Tap Keep Scan, then select Save. If you find yourself scanning lots of documents, here’s how to free up space on your iPhone.

Translate words and phrases

Translate words and phrases

Translate words and phrases

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Ever hear a phrase in another language you wish you understood? Your iPhone can translate a number of languages, including Spanish, French, Russian, Italian and German, making it one of the most useful iPhone tricks when you’re traveling abroad. First, make sure you have updated to at least iOS 14. Then, tap on your phone’s built-in Translate app; at the top of the screen, choose the language you’ll be translating from as well as your target language. Next, either type the word or phrase you want to translate into the open space or paste it there from your source document. Tap Go to confirm that you’re ready for the translation, and the translated word or phrase will appear. If you want to hear it spoken aloud, tap the Play button.

Hide screenshots and photos from prying eyes

Hide screenshots and photos from prying eyes

Hide screenshots and photos from prying eyes

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It’s easy to keep your private photos on your iPhone hidden from others who might use your phone. Simply go to your Photos app and click on the pictures and screenshots you want to hide. Then—and this may sound contradictory to your goals—select the Share option. From the list that appears, choose the Hide option. Go back to the Photo Library to make sure the photos are now private. Your iPhone will automatically place them in the Hidden folder. You can find this folder by clicking on your Photos app, then going to the Albums tab. Scroll down below all the albums and Media Types, to the Utilities heading. The Hidden folder is there, along with imports and recently deleted photos.

If you change your mind and want to “unhide” the photos, simply select the photo and choose to move it back to the primary album of the Photos app.

Enjoy your iPhone as an old-fashioned radio

Enjoy your iPhone as an old-fashioned radio

Enjoy your iPhone as an old-fashioned radio

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If you get homesick when traveling and long to hear your local radio station, you’re just a couple of steps away from hearing the familiar voices of the DJs you know and love. Sure, you have options of endless podcasts, iTunes, and streaming films and television shows to keep you entertained, but stellar programming still exists on radio. Use Siri in iOS 13 and later to access more than 100,000 radio stations from across the country and around the world. Siri uses radio.com, iHeartRadio and TuneIn, so you can listen no matter where you are.

Move Safari’s address bar to the top of the screen

Iphone Tricks Safari Address Bar

Iphone Tricks Safari Address Bar

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This is one of those iPhone tricks that seems incredibly simple, but so many people were annoyed when Apple moved the navigation bar on Safari to the bottom of the screen. Since most people have been using top-placed address bars since they first used the internet, it was difficult for many to adjust to seeing it on the bottom. So, with iOS 15, it’s now easy to correct this and move the address bar to the top of the screen again. Simply go to Settings and scroll until you see the Safari option. Tap on it and scroll again to select Tabs. Now tap “Single Tab” to change your view of Safari to the old style, with the navigation bar at the top of the screen.

Program your phone to self-destruct

Program your phone to self-destruct

Program your phone to self-destruct

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If you have sensitive information on your phone (and who doesn’t?), you may worry about what could happen if it gets into the wrong hands. Prevent that from happening by taking the rather dramatic step of setting your phone to essentially self-destruct if someone steals it and tries to use it. If you enact this feature and someone enters the wrong passcode more than 10 times, your phone will erase everything on it. (Of course, if you frequently forget your password or have a child who plays with your phone, you may want to think twice before opting for this security measure.)

If you decide that this is the right move for you, go to Settings, choose Face ID & Passcode. Your phone will ask you to enter your Passcode. After you do that, scroll to the bottom and activate the option to Erase Data. Then, if someone steals your phone and tries to repeatedly break into it, the data will be erased and inaccessible to the prying eyes of the thief. Read on to find out whether iPhones can get viruses.

Remove annoying, unnecessary notifications

Remove annoying, unnecessary notifications

Remove annoying, unnecessary notifications

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Any iPhone user has likely received unwanted notifications. The good news is that you are actually in control of how and when you receive these notifications. First of all, if you don’t want to see a screen full of notifications every time you pick up your phone, go into Settings and tap Notifications. If you’d like to get notifications but don’t want a steady stream of them, you can choose to get a Scheduled Summary. This sends a list of all your notifications to your phone at a time you select, so you can peruse them when it’s convenient for you.

If you want to get some notifications and not others, that’s easy too! While you’re in the Notifications setting, scroll down to Notification Style. You can customize your notifications on an app-by-app basis. Simply toggle the notification option on to get notifications for the apps you want, and turn off those you don’t. Select how you want notifications to appear. When you exit the screen, the new settings should be applied. Here’s how to get rid of annoying phone notifications.

Shoot bursts of photos

Shoot bursts of photos

Shoot bursts of photos

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Sure, you know you can use your iPhone to take relatively high-quality photos instead of lugging around a bulky camera. Many people don’t realize, however, that you can easily use the phone’s camera to shoot bursts of photos like you would with a DSLR camera. On iPhone X and earlier models, just hold down the camera app’s shutter button. On iPhone XS, iPhone XR and later models, swipe the shutter button to the left. In either scenario, simply lift your finger to stop shooting bursts. You should definitely also know how to recover deleted photos from your iPhone.

Record your screen for work projects

Record your screen for work projects

Record your screen for work projects

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If you’re attending work meetings on Zoom or other apps with your phone, you may want to record your screen so you can access the shared data or documents later on. It’s easy to do this on an iPhone. Go to your Settings, then choose the Control Center. Next, add the Screen Recording option. Then, when you want to record your screen, go to the Control Center and simply press the record button. One important note: This only captures the visual component of your screen; it doesn’t record the audio. This works best for things like slideshows, where you only need to access the visuals.

Back up photos in the Cloud

Back up photos on the Cloud

Back up photos on the Cloud

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With just a few clicks, you can ensure that all the photos you take with your iPhone will be saved in iCloud. You can then access them from your computer, iPad and other devices. Go to your settings, then select iCloud. Next, choose Photos and switch on the iCloud Photos option. That way, your iPhone will automatically back up both videos and photos to the Cloud.

Use hashtags to streamline your Notes documents

Iphone Tricks Notes Hashtags

Iphone Tricks Notes Hashtags

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On social media, hashtags have made it much easier to find like-minded people and courses that interest you. Now you can use this convenient trick to sort and organize the documents you create in the Notes app. Whether you are writing a novel and want to organize all your book-related Notes under one hashtag or simply want to gather together related thoughts on a topic, you can create hashtags to easily categorize and organize everything in your Notes app.

Simply add a tag anywhere in the note, including the title. To add a tag to one of your notes, type # followed by the tag name. Alternately, select a tag from the suggestions menu above the keyboard. Once you do this, you’ll see the text change color to confirm that a tag has been added. Learn more about hashtags and other punctuation marks you see everywhere—and about how confusing life would be without punctuation.

Use your iPhone to help you remember things

Use your iPhone to help you remember things

Use your iPhone to help you remember things

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Have you ever been on the go when you thought of something you wanted to remember later that day, only to find that it flew right out of your head? Your iPhone can serve as your assistant so you never have that frustration again. Just tell Siri, “Remind me of this …” and then tell her exactly when you want to be reminded. Your iPhone will automatically program the reminder based on your vocal command.

As an alternate way to get a little help in the memory department, snap a photo of something you want to reference later, whether it’s the menu of a restaurant or the names of your medications. Of course, it’s easy for these reminders to get lost in your primary album, so instead, create a special one just for reminders, or email the reminder to yourself. Check out these genius things highly organized people do on their smartphones.

Extend your phone’s battery charge with Airplane Mode

Extend your phone's battery charge with Airplane Mode

Extend your phone's battery charge with Airplane Mode

rd.com, Getty ImagesThis is, hands down, one of our favorite iPhone tricks. When you want to extend your iPhone’s battery, switch your phone to Airplane Mode. This is an optimal solution when you don’t need to be connected to the internet. Bonus: Setting your phone to Airplane Mode can also help it charge faster. You should also know what low power mode is and what it does. (FYI, these things are killing your smartphone battery.)

Access the hidden Caps Lock key

Utilize the hidden Caps Lock key

Utilize the hidden Caps Lock key

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When you first look at the iPhone keyboard that pops up on your screen, it’s noticeably missing a Caps Lock key. However, all you have to do is double-tap the Shift key, and it will turn into a Caps Lock key. Use it any time you need to write in all capital letters, so you don’t have to press the Shift key for each letter. And while you’re typing, keep in mind that spell check won’t catch these common typos.

Set communication boundaries with iPhone’s Focus

Iphone Tricks Focus

Iphone Tricks Focus

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With iOS 15 and later, Focus can help define how and when you interact with people using your phone. For example, you can set up a profile and away message for when you’re driving, so you don’t feel pressured to answer any calls or text messages when you need to focus on the road. If you want a week away from screen time—or just an hour to get work done—you can set your phone so it doesn’t send you notifications and other unwanted information during that time.

Simply go to Settings and choose Focus. Now, choose one of the Focus options: Do Not Disturb, Driving, Personal, Sleep or Work. Tap on the one that most closely meets your needs; then you can customize which people and apps you want to receive notifications from during your Focus period.

You can also turn on Focus from Control Center. Simply open Control Center on your iPhone, then touch and hold Focus. It will bring up the full menu for you to choose the Focus you want to adjust.

Change Siri’s voice

Change Siri's voice

Change Siri's voice

rd.com, Getty ImagesIf you don’t want Siri to have a female voice, it’s easy to change it to a male voice. If you have a thing for Australian or British accents, you can opt for those too. Simply open Settings, scroll down to Siri & Search and choose Siri Voice to make the changes. If you change your mind, it’s just as easy to switch it back. While you’re in Siri & Search, you can also play around with hearing Siri speak in other languages. If you’re trying to learn another language, you may learn a word or two by hearing Siri speak it. Also, here are some funny things you can ask Siri to do.

Help friends find their phones

Help friends find their phones

Help friends find their phones

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If a family member or close friend loses their iPhone, you can help them find it with yours! According to Apple, the Family Sharing and Find My iPhone options help make this happen. Just be sure that you and your family and friends turn on the Find My iPhone option. This can also help you find your phone if you ever lose it. Under your iPhone’s Settings, go to Privacy, then Location Services. Turn on the “Find My iPhone” option. Also, under the same Location Services menu, go to Share My Location and select the name of all the friends and family members you trust to help you find your phone too. By the way—if you want to keep the conversations between you and your friends private, here’s how to hide text messages on an iPhone.

Connect your iPhone to your home wireless network

Connect your iPhone to your home wireless network

Connect your iPhone to your home wireless network

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If you have unlimited data through your phone’s service provider, connecting your iPhone to your home wireless network can seem like an unnecessary hassle. However, it’s worth it. Some downloads and updates don’t function unless you’re connected to your wireless network, so having your phone automatically connect to your home Wi-Fi when it’s available is a smart idea. Also, depending on where you live and how fast your cell phone provider’s network is, connecting to your home’s wireless network often makes surfing the web on your phone go faster.

Correct Siri for a smoother experience

Correct Siri for a smoother experience

Correct Siri for a smoother experience

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Ever get annoyed that Siri keeps getting a location wrong or telling you information you don’t need? You can correct Siri. Unlike some real-life friends we won’t mention by name, she actually listens and will change according to the information you give her. For example, if she mispronounces a word, speak up. She’ll then let you choose the correct pronunciation and will remember it for next time. All you have to do is tell her, and she’ll offer you verbal options to choose from; there’s no need to plug anything in manually. Just keep in mind that there are a few things you should never ask Siri.

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Killexams : No Medical exam Life Insurance: Cheap Term & Whole Life Insurance Without a Physical

No medical exam life insurance — also called simplified issue — offers coverage without a physicals, blood test or urine test. If you need insurance on short notice or have a preexisting condition that would make it hard to pass a medical exam, simplified issue life insurance can be convenient and affordable.

No medical exam life insurance policies

No medical exam policies are available for both term and whole life insurance. One key difference between term and whole life is that the death benefits for whole life coverage without an exam are typically limited to $50,000, whereas term life benefits without an exam can be twice that.

When applying for no medical exam insurance, you'll be asked several questions about your health and medical history, and your responses will be used to determine whether you qualify for coverage. Each insurer has their own list of questions, meaning you may be rejected by one company but find coverage at another.

A life insurance policy that doesn't require any medical screening and doesn't ask for responses to any health questions is called guaranteed issue or guaranteed acceptance.

Regardless of what you're asked, honesty is important. Insurers can cancel your policy during the first two years of coverage without a refund if they find that you lied or misrepresented anything. Keep in mind that even without a health exam, insurers still have ways to confirm the information you provide. Insurance companies regularly check your responses against:

  • Prescription databases
  • The Department of Motor Vehicles
  • The Medical Information Bureau
  • Physician statements

No medical exam term life insurance

If you don't qualify for fully underwritten life insurance and need more than $50,000 in coverage, your best option is a no medical exam term life policy. Term policies are among the cheapest forms of no medical exam insurance and are offered in lengths up to 30 years. They can typically be purchased until age 75, but some insurers restrict term lengths based on age.

When shopping for simplified issue term life insurance, you should make sure the policy is described as "level term" or has guaranteed level premiums for the term length. These phrases mean the life insurance quotes you receive will reflect the price you'll pay for the entire length of the policy.

Some insurers offer a no medical exam term insurance product where quotes are based on your age group (typically a five-year period, such as ages 50–54). With these renewable policies, the term length is essentially one year, and premiums increase each time you enter a new age group. This means the policy becomes incredibly expensive over the course of 15 to 20 years.

As an example, let's say you're a 45-year-old man and want $150,000 of coverage for 20 years. New York Life offers coverage according to your age, so the monthly premium would increase each time you enter a new age bracket.

Cost of no medical exam term life insurance by age

45–49 $119
50–54 $146
55–59 $194
60–64 $269
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Even though your initial quote was for $119, the average you would pay over the term would be $182 per month. Over 20 years, you'll have paid $43,680.

If you had a level term policy and paid $119 per month, you would pay $28,560 over the course of 20 years instead — a savings of $15,120. Level term policies are usually more affordable because premiums can vary based on factors other than age, so the insurer can better price your risk profile.

Another product you’ll want to look out for when shopping for life insurance is accidental death insurance, which is similar to term life insurance but only pays a death benefit if you die as the result of an accident. Because only about 5% of deaths are caused by accidents, premiums are cheap and coverage often requires no medical exam. However, accidental death coverage does not apply to natural causes, such as stroke or heart attack.

No medical exam whole life insurance

No medical exam whole life insurance is typically used as a form of final expense insurance, because the coverage is lifelong and death benefits are generally capped at $25,000 or $50,000. After your death, your beneficiaries may receive a payout large enough to cover your funeral, other end-of-life costs and potentially a small loan. However, it won’t be enough to pay for a mortgage or provide income replacement for an extended period.

If you want final expense insurance and do not qualify for traditional coverage, simplified issue whole life insurance will be less expensive than a guaranteed acceptance policy.

Should I buy no medical exam life insurance?

We don't recommend no-exam insurance if you would likely qualify for traditional coverage. No medical exam life insurance is more expensive than fully underwritten coverage and typically provides fewer options. For example, you usually can't increase your death benefit or convert a term policy to permanent coverage. In addition, the medical exam for traditional coverage is free, typically lasts less than 30 minutes and can take place at your home or work, so it’s a fairly easy process if you would likely qualify.

However, you should consider a no medical exam policy if:

  • You have preexisting medical conditions that have been diagnosed in the past two years
  • You have a significant preexisting condition, such as diabetes
  • Both of your parents died before age 60
  • You have DUIs or other significant issues on your driving record in the past two years
  • You have a record of drug or alcohol abuse in the past five years
  • Your job is particularly high risk, such as being a firefighter
  • You have high-risk hobbies, such as BASE jumping or outdoor rock climbing

If any of these scenarios apply to you, we recommend first looking for an insurer that offers fully underwritten coverage for your situation, as insurance companies all have different restrictions. Independent insurance agents represent multiple companies and are familiar with each insurer's underwriting requirements, so an agent may be able to help you find an insurer that accepts your health profile.

No medical exam life insurance is also useful if you need instant life insurance to secure a personal or business loan, which is a common requirement from institutional lenders. No medical exam policies often provide coverage the same day or may take up to five business days, whereas traditional policies can take several weeks for approval. In these cases, we recommend getting no medical exam coverage and then applying for a fully underwritten term policy. This way, you can satisfy the bank or other lender’s immediate requirements but minimize your long-term costs.

No medical exam versus guaranteed acceptance life insurance

Guaranteed acceptance life insurance is similar to no medical exam coverage, in that you don't need to get a physical or provide blood or urine tests to apply. The main difference is that there are no health questions for guaranteed issue life insurance, so anyone who falls within a particular age range will be accepted. This makes guaranteed issue policies even more costly than no-exam insurance, but they're still a good alternative if you don’t qualify for no medical exam coverage.

Each insurer has its own standards and questions for no-exam life insurance applicants. In general, you should probably consider a guaranteed acceptance policy if:

  • You’re on dialysis
  • You’re restricted to a wheelchair or in a nursing home
  • You’ve been diagnosed with a medical condition, such as diabetes, in the past two years
  • You are HIV positive
  • You have kidney disease

Guaranteed issue policies are only available for whole life insurance, and coverage is typically less than $25,000. It's usually intended as final expense insurance, offering a death benefit that’s enough to cover a funeral and other costs associated with your death. There are no alternatives for term life insurance without providing some personal information.

No exam term or whole life vs guaranteed acceptance whole life

Typical coverage max. $500,000 $50,000 $25,000
Length of coverage Up to 35 years Lifetime Lifetime
Medical questions Yes Yes No
Waiting period None None 2–3 years

Because guaranteed acceptance policies offer life insurance coverage without health or medical questions, they generally have a two- to three-year waiting period, during which the insurer will not pay the full death benefit to your beneficiary. Instead, they’ll provide your beneficiary with the amount you've paid in premiums, plus interest (usually 6–10%).

No medical exam life insurance policies usually have no waiting period, but the company will investigate the circumstances of your death if it occurs within the first two years of coverage. If they find any evidence that you died from suicide or provided any misleading medical or personal information during the application process, they can deny the claim, and your beneficiaries won't receive a payout.

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In 2012, a group of investigators from the University of Vermont and the Vermont Ski Safety Equipment Corporation published a study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine of snowboarding injuries at Sugarbush Resort in Warren.

Though earlier studies had examined snowboarding injuries and how they differed from alpine ski injuries, most were small-scale, observational and short-term. The Sugarbush study began in 1988, as soon as snowboarding was allowed at the resort. The last eight years of the study also included data from the terrain park, which had been added in 1998. The investigators used a case-control study design (comparing injured snowboarders to uninjured snowboarders with similar characteristics) and examined more than 2,000 injuries over an 18-year period. This larger scale, more systematic examination reflected the need for greater knowledge about injuries incurred by those participating in the sport, which was growing in popularity by the year.

The Sugarbush study contributed substantially to the expanding literature on snowboarding injuries. Another group of authors from the University of Colorado recently summarized what is known in a comprehensive review article in Current Sports Medicine Reports in 2019. Here are the highlights.

How common are snowboarding injuries?

Snowboarding injuries are reported at a rate of 1 to 5 per 1,000 athlete days. There is some conflicting data, but most studies indicate that younger, male participants are at highest risk of injury. Upper extremity injuries are more common than lower extremity injuries, and severe injuries are more likely on days with less than about 2 inches of snowfall. When an injury is severe, it is usually because of a collision rather than a fall.

Are there risk factors for injuries?

As it turns out, your age and your competition level might put you at risk for specific snowboarding injuries. Children and recreational snowboarders are at greatest risk for wrist injuries, collarbone fractures, injuries to the acromioclavicular joint (where your collarbone meets the front of your shoulder blade) and ankle injuries.

More experienced and elite snowboarders are at greatest risk for knee and ankle injuries. Those in this group are also at some risk for shoulder, wrist and hand fractures.

What are common injuries, and how do they happen?

Wrist fractures are the most common upper extremity injury. Frequently, the end of the radius (forearm bone on the same side as the thumb) is injured, and the mechanism is a fall onto an outstretched hand. Clavicle, or collarbone, fractures are found frequently in those who use terrain parks. Many times, they occur from the hard impact of falling out of a jump onto the shoulder. Injuries to the acromioclavicular joint also are seen in advanced snowboarders who fall directly onto their shoulder. Finally, injuries like anterior shoulder dislocations and fractures of the top of the humerus (upper arm bone) can occur.

Because of the softer boots used in snowboarding, ankle injuries are far more common than in skiing. A unique snowboarding injury that is sometimes mistaken for an ankle sprain is the “snowboarder’s fracture.” This is a fracture of the talus bone of the ankle, and it can cause chronic problems if not diagnosed correctly. Knee ligament injuries might also happen, especially in experienced snowboarders who do tricks and jumps.

The most common head injuries in snowboarding, as in skiing, are concussions. Typically, these occur with a fall. Those who suffer concussions should not return to snowboarding on the day of their injury, especially if they have symptoms such as headache, light sensitivity or brain fog, and should seek medical evaluation. Spine injuries and abdominal trauma, though less common in general, can be worrisome and warrant prompt medical evaluation.

How can I reduce my risk of getting injured?

Beginner snowboarders are at highest risk of injury, so a focus on education and use of protective equipment when someone is first starting out is key. Helmet and wrist guard use is preventative, as is awareness of proper chairlift technique. Knowing your limits, and only attempting jumps and tricks after adequate instruction and experience is a must.

Dr. Rebecca Breslow is a sports medicine doctor, freelance health care writer, and Burr and Burton Academy assistant cross country coach. Reach out to her at rbreslow@bryantviewhc.com.

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