NOTE (2013-8-28): This is meant to be a humorous article deriding everything that was bad with VTU during the 2005-2009 time frame. THIS IS NOT A GUIDE. There is no way to do well in any exam other than by working hard on your memory.  

the dreaded exam season of the unreliable VTU has begun here are a few tips that will help you score more marks in these exams.

1. Use an Ink Pen . it is only a myth that you cannot write quickly with an ink pen but with enough practice you can actually over run your ball pen colleagues.

2. write to the point. If they ask you to name 5 words, do just that , don't do anything else.

3. write a little legibly .

4. By-heart the answers just as you did for Pre-university and simply write those answers

5. Use the local author's books (Ganesh rao , giridhar etc..) these are the people who set up the question papers . if you read their books chances of getting better marks is very high as they give questions only from their books.

6. understand the recommended books but read the local authors as none of the stuff that you understood will fetch you any marks. If you are used to tutions ,then go to these authors for tutions. if you are lucky they will even give you questions papers that will be the most likely to appear!

7. You will have 8 questions in each question paper. Do not study all of them as you will find yourself in a confused state and will not be able to answer properly. prepare for 6 of them properly i.e you should be able to answer any question they ask from those 6 questions.

8. if you are an early bird . you can even think of writing the tough formulas on the benches. It is not illegal to write on the bench. The VTU rules do not mention it as a malpractice. You can always say that someone else wrote it :)

These rules like the 8 questions in VTU will fetch you more marks just as you did in high school and PU . all the best