My goals was pretty straightforward. Based on my track record in school I had a fair idea of what I was capable of and so I set myself a goal of scoring 90% or thereabouts in the boards.
Rules of Success
Attendance First things first, Attendance is critical. Christ has strict rules on attendance of course and so most of us end up being pretty regular in class. But I need to emphasize this - be very regular. Just being there every day in class gives you a continuity and discipline that really helps while reviewing your lessons and preparing for assignments, tests and exams later. Sure you can borrow your friend's notes and make up for missed classes, but nothing beats having been there in person. It really helps.
Daily dose Review your lessons daily or at least once every other day. That way, you can digest the portions in small doses and quickly identify areas that need more work on your part. This way, you build your concepts brick by brick and soon, without even realizing it, you have a nice little wall. It's a great feeling to open your books before an exam and to realize that there are no nasty surprises in there.
Caution: in all honesty, I must tell you that this is the most difficult part of college. It is easy to be disciplined and regular for a week or a fortnight or in fits and starts. But it requires a lot of will power to commit to a daily dose of study day after day, week after week, month after month. Of course you will slip up occasionally - there will be guests at home, family functions, travel plans, movies and parties. But you've just got to tell yourself that sure, I'll do all of that but my first priority is to spend a little time with my books - every day. Notice that I really didn't put a number to how many hours I studied every day. It varied - some days the portions were less, some days it was more. But they were never too large. Of course, during exams, my study hours shot up exponentially. But that's only to be expected!
Project work. In the Christ system, you have a lot of scope for self-study. I know that I have done more presentations, book reviews and other projects than I care to remember. I was also part of the 'Excellent Students' program where students are made to create presentations on topics that are relevant but not necessarily from the syllabus - for example, two of my topics were OPEC and Naxals. Okay, you do you feel stressed sometimes as you run around to get reference material, coordinate information with friends, and then put it all together on PowerPoint and make the whole show ready before a deadline. I also feel that some of the presentation topics should have been taught to us formally in class because they were completely new to us. But having said that, I do feel that this whole business of researching and presenting new concepts trains you to manage unstructured information and convert it into sensible insights. It teaches you to handle complexity.
Live a normal life. I hope all of the above has not made me sound like some sort of a nerd who had no time for life in the exciting and happening city of Bangalore. Far from it. The best part of keeping some time for studies on a daily basis was that I also had time for everything else. Christ offers you tons of opportunities to develop yourself as a person. Grab them. I liked debates and I have represented Christ at all the better known college fests in the city from Esplendida at Carmel and Artemis at JNC to Ideation at Sophia, Equinox at Joseph's, and a whole bunch of other programs. I was active in MUN and was a vice chair last year. And of course, I was active in Spectrum and Xite here at Christ. And in between all that, I had plenty of time to catch most movies at a theatre with friends, hang out at Forum and other places, and go for holidays with my family.
I am thankful for one thing though. Though I attended classes at Career Launcher for CLAT, they did not eat up my life like the IIT entrance classes that my friends in science attended. But hey, that is a choice I made early in life and I'm very happy with the road I've taken so far. Touch wood!

Urvashi Sudhindra

Arts

Total Marks: 554 (Fifth Position in the state)

Naveen S.

Commerce

Total Marks: 584 (Ninth Position in the state)

Congratulations to Mr. Chandrashekar J, HOD, Department of Languages for the award of Ph.D Degree in Hindi from Bangalore University.

His thesis titled "NAYI KAHANI MEIN PARILAKSHITH SAMAJIK CHETANA"