How I will I crack the entrance examination for journalism
Here are some tips to crack the entrance exam-
Reading Habits
You must read at least a national daily in order to acquire vocabulary and gain knowledge about politics, society, international developments, and economics. You must follow news channels and informative websites as well.
Previous Years Question Papers
While preparing for any entrance, one should refer to the previous year’s question papers as they provide a good starting point to the syllabus. This should be your priority.
Time Management
Another important thing to be very careful while attempting the objective questions as there are often many asked, but you should time yourself and should try and spend an equal amount of time on each section of the question paper.Do those ques first you are confident with.
Writing practice
Practicing Writings are very important in this field. You should develop them efficiently. Write short notes on current topics in news and try to develop your own opinion on the issue. Read newspaper articles and you will gradually develop your own writing style.
Important Topics
There are various fields within journalism like Advertising, film-making, Public Relations, Event Management, Radio, Photojournalism etc. So have a fair idea of the syllabus and themes that are pivotal to these subjects.
Hope it will help.
All the Best !!!!
To crack the entrance exam for journalism you should follow the following steps :
Step1 : Enhance your vocabulary. Read newspapers daily to be updated.
Step2 : writing skills should be perfect as journalist's main work is to focus on report writing as well as editing.
Step3 : Solve previous questions papers in order to score good marks.
Step4: Manage your time properly and give equal time to reading as well as writing since both are important for being a journalist.
Good luck!
these three books extremely useful for clearing this exam:.
- Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism) 6th Edition by Stanley J. Baran and Dennis K. Davis
- Mass Media Research: An Introduction Roger D. Wimmer and Joseph R. Dominick
- Mass Communication in India by Keval J Kuma
Along with these three, download all previous question papers (unsolved) and proceeded to solve them over a period of a month.
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Inorder to crack entrance exam you see to be have these skills
1. Reading Habbit : you need to have daily reading Habbit of news.
2. Writing skills: must have a unique style of writing need or reporting in your way.
3. Analytical skills: opinion on a topic or news and elaborating that one.
4. Reference books (not compulsory) since of the books are
Guide to Journalism and Mass Communication Entrance Exam (IIMC, Jamia etc.)
How to crack IIMC Entrance Exam.
Success Master: Journalism and Mass Communication.
Word Power made easy by Norman Lewis. General Knowledge Digest by TMH.
5. Practice Previous year question papers
6. Time management
7. Communication skills
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