u/SirRevolutionary1637

So the simple answer is "you have enough time to study, but not enough to waste" this line I heard from a teacher or youtuber i forgot whom it was, but the line is absolutely true,

If you start putting every moment of time you have from today onwards you can definitely do it, you will even have time to deal with burnout which may come if you really work hard but you can deal with it, actually you have to, no other option if you jump for it now.

But believe me I did it in 6 months, and it changed the way I see myself. JEE had made me believe I wasn't capable of a good rank, but this journey proved that I was or at least i am not that bad i was seeing myself as. Sometimes all you need is one chance to surprise yourself. (and this can be yours, so bas lg jaao and pyqs jarur se krna)

Got addicted to watching Hindi anime explained videos during the last month of my GATE prep. (Btw, I had only 6 months in total for preparation.)

I didn't want to do it, but I just couldn't control myself. I watched at least 1–2 anime explanation videos daily. It started with 20–30 minute videos, then became 50–60 minute ones, and in the last few days I was even watching two 1-hour videos sometimes.

Earlier, my mocks were going well because I had solved the last 10 years' PYQs twice. In the last month, I got so bored with revision that I couldn't even read my 7-page short notes. So I decided to stop revising and only give mocks.

At first, there was no problem. I was scoring around 90 in previous-year papers (which I had already solved subject-wise earlier). My GO AIMTs were also going well. I scored 58 with a rank of around ~120, even after a power cut and no Wi-Fi, because my screen froze for almost 50–55 minutes.

I thought, "Okay, that's good."

But after the next 3–4 tests, my score dropped to around 51 with no power cuts, and my rank fell to around 380–400. I got scared.

One friend suggested I start revising again. So, I left all problem practice for 3-5 days and did only revision. No anime at all.

After that, my next AIMT score was 72, and later I scored 80.02 in the last one, with a rank of around 40.

Meanwhile, the urge to watch anime was still there, but I tried to control it by watching only shorter videos (under 1–1.5 hours 😭). I bookmarked a few 4-hour-long videos (Baki if you know) to watch after the exam and somehow dragged myself till the exam date.

I had completely lost motivation at that point. Earlier, I could study 12 hours easily. During the last month, because revision felt so boring, my average study time dropped to around 5–6 hours. But in the last 2–2.5 weeks, things improved a bit. I got back to revision and tried to reach my peak again.

Btw, after GATE, I watched around 100+ anime explained videos, ranging from 2+ hour videos to stories split into multiple parts totaling 8–9 hours giving around 12 hrs a day to watching it.

And guess what?

After giving so much time to anime, I eventually got bored of it (the same that happened with gate studies, Uno reverse). Now almost every isekai story feels repetitive, and I don't even have that excitement to watch them anymore.

I want to end this with a quote one of my friends said in college:

"It's very common to suddenly develop a huge interest in painting, singing, dancing, or even finding the cure for an incurable disease during exam time... and that interest lasts only until the exam is over."