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Top Tips To Beat Your Exams Stress

Top Tips To Beat Your Exams Stress 

Are your exams round the corner? Are you suffering from sleepless nights? Do you feel confused while opening books? Sorry, but you are caught by exam phobia.

‘Exam Phobia’ is not a new term for anyone of us. Whenever examinations are about to knock our door, instead of greeting them with a smile, we welcome them with a lot of stress. Having a little stress is not bad as it kicks your conscious to give your best, but when it gets out of control, it can ruin things.

At Punjab Technical University (http://www.ptu.ac.in) , we have a family of more than 4 lakh students and thus, we perfectly understand the phenomenon of exam stress or exam phobia. In order to help students in fighting the exam stress, the expert counselors of PTU have provided some advice.

1.      Believe in yourself

Self-confidence is the best stress killer. The more you believe in yourself, the more you have this attitude that ‘it’s just an exam, I can do it’, the farther exam stress remains. However, please note that there is a thin line between confidence and over-confidence, and we believe you are mature enough to distinguish between the two.

2.      Don’t compare

‘Everyone can’t be good at everything, but everyone can be good at something.’ Thus, it is not necessary that if your friend is a master of physics, you also need to be. Everyone is different and is meant to be good in different things. Don’t compare your skills with your mates, until and unless it gives you a boost to perform better. Healthy comparing that gives you motivation to work hard is good, but if comparison gives you depression and leaves you disheartened, there is no point doing it.

3.      Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

A bit of a change in your lifestyle can bring a lot of change in your performance at the exam center. Creating useless mountains of stress and staying awake till late nights is certainly no solution. Instead, go to bed on time, enjoy comfortable sleeping hours and get up early in the morning. The fresh morning breeze is best medium to refresh you and your mind.

4.      Time management always works

We know that every weekend you make a time-table for yourself, and by the next weekend you forget it. Kindly this time, don’t be so ignorant. While your exams are about to knock your socks off, you need to have a proper schedule for studying. Divide your time equally between the subjects and on the same hand, do keep scope for breaks. Don’t over study, study smart and kick stress out.

5.      Eat healthy and exercise regularly

Healthy eating gives strength to your brain for easy grasping and stamina to your body for enduring long stretched study hours. Further, don’t forget to exercise or play, as it refreshes your mind and body.

On this note, PTU wishes all the students good luck for their exams. May you come up with flying colors!

Character Building: A Step for a Brighter and Better Future

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” 
                                                                                                            - John Wooden

‘Character’, well it seems to be just a nine letter word, but with the meaning of a million. It is something that defines the real you; that defines and guides your actions. If you go by the dictionary words, they sum up character as the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Therefore, if you wish to stand out as an individual you need to give a thought to character building.

What is character building?

In case you have this little question hovering in your mind, allow us to help you. Character building means some really simple and intellectual steps that help in creating and boosting your distinctive personality.

The 4 stairs to Character Building

People generally believe that character is built and enhanced with time and life experiences, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Yes, the life experiences do play a great role in creating an individual’s character, but you need to put some extra efforts to bring things on the right track.

Though no institution can teach you on character building, it can certainly show you the path. The Punjab Technical University believes in crafting professionals by building character, and therefore has brought forward the following points for your assistance:

Set your principles

Being the superior race created by the almighty, we humans understand the basic difference between every right and wrong deed. Still, at times we fail to take the right decision. This happens because we don’t define a set of rules and principles for ourselves. So, the first step says that you need to set your principles, certain morals and ethics. Remember, these principles should not be implied forcefully, but by your happy willingness. 

Evaluate yourself on past experiences

Be it good or bad, past experiences always teach you something. You need to recollect the choices you made in the past, and evaluate that how far those decisions stood clear on your principles.

Be the change

The past cannot be changed, but the future can. ‘To err is human’, so don’t regret on any bad decision made in the past. Look forward and make sure not to repeat those mistakes in near future. Bring a change in yourself and stand firm on your self-made morals.

Give a daily check to your decision making power

Right from selecting the color of your attire, to selecting the way to success, every day you make numerous decisions. If you really wish to build a strong character, then stay more conscious while making choices.

You are now aware of what went wrong in the past, so just don’t let that happen again. The final call is always yours; make sure that you make it wisely.

The above stated are very simple steps for character building that can be really helpful for every individual. Punjab Technical University hopes you stay blessed with a strong character and thus enjoy a better and brighter future.

Internship- An Asset for a Healthy Career Growth

Internship is popularly known as the practical introduction to the education world.  It is not just a part of the student’s syllabus but, has also become a necessity for a continuous and positive career growth.

A formal introduction to the outer world of business and jobs is what internship brings us to.

Like every institute, the colleges at Punjab Technology University have also made it compulsory for every student doing professional degree to do a minimum 3 months internship.

But, more than just the certificate, PTU believes that internship is very important for the professional grooming of the students. Therefore, to assure that all its students get internships in respected organisations and companies around the world, PTU has associated with few of the top most companies across the globe.

Internship helps a student to earn and learn few of the best lessons of his professional life. This is the time when the student can actually learn the practicalities of the education and put into practice the tenets of theory. All these lessons are taught in the class but, internship takes a student far away from the classroom sessions to the world of true learning, where everything is learnt with the help of practical training.

The mistakes rectified and the strategies learnt during the internship period stays with the student for life long and help him paving a healthy and successful career path for himself.

Points to remember before going for a job interview!

Soon after you leave college, a number of things start knocking your head. From getting a job in a renowned organisation to fulfilling your parent’s expectations, leaving the cozy college environment to entering a new world of professionals. All these uncertainties keep bothering our mind. 

In an effort to get over these jitters and facilitate smooth changeover to a challenging professional career, Punjab Technical University brings some important tips to you straight from its counselor's desk:

Here are some of essential points you must have in mind while preparing for job interview.  This will give a good and powerful first impression about you during your interview.

1.         To start with, you should have a very well knitted resume designed as per the demands of the current market trends.

2.         Before going for the interview you must do your homework, i.e., do a good research about the company you are going to give interview in.

3.         While going for an interview, check your look, prepare your physical appearance to look attractive.

4.         Neat, clean and professional dress gives you a bonus point. Never choose casual dressings for your job interview.  Casual dress mostly ruins your first impression during such  interviews.

5.         Stand in front of mirror and speak and act as if you are in front the of interviewer. Check your body language while talking in the mirror.  It should reflect your confidence in whatever you say and your gestures.

6.         You should always have a positive attitude and a charm on your face and should never be rude at any time during the interview.

7.         Ensure that you had taken all of your required documents for the job interview.

8.         You must not fake for anything. Every single thing present in your resume should be based on facts and you must accompany your original certificates to prove their credibility.

9.         Always be truthful and forthright in answering every question with full confidence. Remember, even if you are not able to crack the interview, you are surely going to learn something out of the whole exercise.

10.     Smile gives you extra advantage during your job interview. So keep a smiling face.

11.     Along with a presentable resume and a good personality, you also need to have a mouldable attitude to adjust yourself in the environment of the office you would be joining in.

All these points would surely help you take a positive step towards your journey of a successful career. All the very best!   Stay Positive!

How we see Punjab developing in the coming years!!

Punjabis have brought laurels to the country with excellence in every field. Be it agriculture, manufacturing, business, media, politics, banking or any other field, they have done India proud by succeeding in every field, whether in India or abroad. Now we want to take our achievements even further by creating excellence in technical education and giving our bright, young minds an opportunity to study from the best and get an all round personality development. The Technical Education Summit, 2014, going to be held on the 8^th February, 2014 at Mohali Sports Stadium shall elaborate on these issues, where Sh. Parkash Singh Badal ji, Hon’ble Chief Minister Punjab; Sh. Madan Mohan Mittal, Minister for Technical Education, Punjab; Sh. Sunil Kant Munjal, Joint Managing Director of Hero MotoCorp among many others will be present to address the students on the steps taken by Punjab government to create a brighter future for our youth.

Punjab Technical University, with its 108 engineering colleges and more than 400,000 regular and distance education students, has provided technical education to a vast number of students. PTU has performed a new feat in the past year by completely revamping its education system and winning the Best Technical University Award, 2013. To further increase the standards of education, PTU has entered into a MoU with University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to form an “Institute of Excellence” in Chandigarh. This institute, which is due to start its first batch in June 2014 will focus on providing University of California standard of education at a fraction of the cost. The students studying at this “Institute of Excellence” will be selected from the affiliated colleges of PTU and the details of an entrance exam are being worked out.

Students will, apart from getting an excellent education, be able to exchange credits with UCSC, have the option of attending a semester or more at UCSC, or pursue their Masters at UCSC. The Institute of Excellence will attract international students to Punjab from all over the world, including US and will be a hub of innovation and experimentation. PTU will also very soon be sending a group of students from PTU affiliated colleges to UCSC for a summer programme so that they can learn from the one of the best technical education institutes in the world.

While the first batch of “Institute of Excellence” will have 60 students, the intake is expected to rise to 600 by its second year of operation. The institute will follow a trimester system and will also teach advanced courses like Artificial Intelligence, Mechatronics and Bio-Informatics. The speakers at the Technical Education Summit, 2014 will elaborate on the idea of Destination Punjab for Higher Education and “Institute of Excellence” so that students get a taste of opportunities that have been created for them and get a bright future.

Changing educational preferences

The world is changing and so are the mindsets, demands and the academic preferences of the students around. The students these days are more conscious and aware of their career choices. They know the latest courses available in the Universities, in and around the country and their respective career options. Students are the guiding force for the universities these days in many ways. Therefore, to help its students stay ahead always and provide them with every latest development in the sector of education; Punjab Technical University makes every possible effort to implement the latest of technologies in its colleges.

The PTU’s Institute of Excellence in collaboration with University of California, Santa Cruz, to be set up in Chandigarh is its recent and biggest step to compliment the changing educational preferences of students. By setting up a foreign institute in India, PTU aims give its students foreign level of education in the country itself. Punjab Technical University endeavours to facilitate its students with Global Standards of education in India only, so that they don’t need to go abroad for further studies.

According to Dr. Rajneesh Arora, Vice Chancellor, PTU who has been working steadfastly for making Punjab a global hub for higher education and innovation informed, “This is not a Memorandum of Understanding but a Memorandum of Commitment. It is in fact one of the finest examples of Indo-US collaboration when it comes to furthering technical education. There is a sense of urgency to fulfill the human development needs of the people and, therefore, we intend to start, albeit in a limited manner, as early as June 2014.”

“The long term vision of IOE is to enable any student who otherwise qualifies on merit to attend the institution even if he/she is unable to afford the cost. For this purpose, IOE intends to raise funds via grants and donation to finance scholarships for needy students and also to meet other obligations,” added Dr. Arora.

With this global and a distinguished step, PTU aims to make its students at par excellence from the students of any country and of any field of education.