Hichkiya dilakar ye kaisi uljhan badha rahe ho,
Aankhen band hain phir bhi nazar aa rahe ho,
Bus itna bata do humein,
Yaad kar rahe ho ya apni yaad dila rahe ho!!!
MICS has this exceptional power to torment you even in your dreams.As a matter of fact, I used to feel scary about the idea of even waking up in the morning as MICS was lined up as the first thing to be studied as per the routine suggested by the wise people around.Each morning you would wake up to the shock of find your memory under severe distress.Because no matter how many times you read it, all that remained was a hazy hazy picture .It seemed as if you were reading it for the first time in your life. 'My Intelligence Completely Stolen'..the auto-suggestion sinks in so inadvertently.Can't help it dude!!!!!!
Wise men have opined that the advantage of a bad memeory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.What a joke..at least not applicable to MICS!!!!!!!
The entire subject is a memory based melodrama. The question paper simply tests your ability to mug up this intricately designed, high sounding crap.Some people are exceptional at rattofying but lesser mortals like us used to shiver at the mere idea of retaining those enigmatic points wrapped in a riddle surrounded by mystery.
The examiner does not test your conceptual clarity at all. All that he shouts vociferously is "Tum mujhe points do..main tumhe marks doonga"
So what's the way out of this ruckus. Imagine MICS as a monster..a monster who's standing in between you and the prestigious & money spinning CA degree.Be dead determined that the Davids , residing deep inside you ,are going to defeat the Goliaths challenging your future prospects with a smirk writ all over their face.
Whenever you feel inclined to give up and cite the cliched story .."Humko kuch yaad nahi ho raha", just imagine the feat to be accomplished by someone you violently hate..that someone could be anyone..for e.g. your ex-crush who is also pursuing CA, lets say, at the Inter level.The moment you realise that she'll turn out to be academically more qualified in life than you simply because she managed to notch up a miraculous 40 in the MICS paper which you couldn't, even after your 5th attempt;your gloomy memory will suddenly start rocking.
Hey that was just for fun....will not work out in reality.
Actually the problem is that we have had no exposure whatsoever to Systems Audit in our articleship and so concepts like SDLC and CASE sound like Latin and Greek to us.The initial 6 chapters are awesome and so is the chapter on ERP . But what about the rest??? The opinion is unanimous across the student fraternity!!!
Try this
Around 15-20 four hour of brainstorming sessions with a friend in an equally dismal state of affairs as you are, are extremely productive..especially towards the end of the preparation. My friend Varun and myself used to critically analyse each paragraph overcoming all the fear psychosis. We relate them to our day to day life (for e.g. the activity scheduling for buying a new shirt). We simulated the worst case scenarios . We used to talk like "Yaar, at least this should be the bare minimum we need to remember to cover up our lack of depth ".So we had strategies in store for even eventualities involving a complete memory breakdown in respect of individual answers.We used to devise interesting acronyms..I've mentioned some towards the end.
This coupled with strategy number 2 should work like a magic bullet to scare away the devilish fear factor.
Get hold of a friend who's taking CA Finals the next term.since he has just initiated this tumultous journey, he's comparatively fresh on the enthusiasm front and would readily agree to attending your lectures.He would be simply instructed to keep on nodding his head with the glint in his eye at its usual crest. You will feel that you at least know something as compared to the dumbo across and this will enable your self-confidence to zoom to stratospheric levels.
Use all creative tricks a professor uses to make the topic interesting for his students. Like voice mutations ...singing multi-multi-multi-multi as a rhyme for an answer for Features of ERP...
Making a thing outstanding through Von Restorf Effect. For betetr chances of long term memory retention, a difficult topic should "stand out like a sore thumb" .e.g. if a person examines a shopping list with one item highlighted in bright green, he will be more likely to remember the highlighted item than any of the others.This distinctiveness may also come out in the form of humor (however silly it may be).
Its a battle where stakes are high and you need to employ every weapon in your arsenal to emerge victorious.
Items to be left
Chapter on Design of Computerised Applications.
Remember Aamir Khan in a super flop movie Daulat ki Jung , released in the early 90s. Miraculously, when he just saw a map depicting the secret route to the treasure and then tore away the paper ;eventually succeeding in guiding the entire gang to the glittering diamonds in a far-off hilly cave.
On similar lines, this particular chapter makes a valiant effort to drill into your arteries and veins absurd diagrams, albeit logical. Analyse the scanner and you'll find a sureshot 10 marks questions each term .But unless you've got a photogenic memory, you'll land up losing this Daulat Ki Jung.However this question can be eliminated via the choices offered.
The ERP chapter needs to be studied only till Post Implementation Blues. Beyond that is all nonsense. At the best, mug up five names of ERP Vendors.
CASE Tools is again a chapter which torments but is important for at least a 5 mark question in the exam. At least get a superficial knowledge of the vague concepts ..like what is a CASE Tool!!!
You may also consider leaving out the questions asked in your immediately preceding term. Its a quite a safe risk ..if I can frame it that way.Lolz
Finally the acronyms
Try this for Heading No 8.3 Output Design
CFMFTV (I am dead sure that you will remember it)
C: Content
F: Form
M :Media
F :Format
T :Timeliness
V :Volume
Try this for Heading No 8.18 Coding Methods
Individuals suggest permanent expansion in a convenient space
Individuality
Suggestive
Permanence
Expandability
Convenience
Space : Brevity as regards the number of characters involved in the code.
Infinite stories can be framed for each answer.
Heading No. 13.25
Try this absurd story
Unauthorised Intrusion hoga toh Energy Variation ki wajah se Fire lagegi. Fire Bhujane ke liye jab tak Water aayega , kaafi Pollution ho chuka hooga .
While I have cited some potentially useful ones, you could try and devise some more on similar lines.Trust me it will be fun.
All the best once again for My Intelligence Completely Stolen .
Group II rocks!!! lolz