I tell all the students who come to me for advise that they should stop judging themselves by the marks they score in the tests. Instead, develop the habit of understanding the chapter, what it deals with, what its purpose is, what its applications are and the like. Don't put pressure on yourself to get high marks and slip into exam centric preparation. You are BOUND to get wonderful marks once you get into concept centric studies.

Much later in my career, when I was reading books written by the management gurus I realised that EACH ONE of them have emphasised on the visualisation technique. They have all advocated Visualisation very strongly.

It is the weakness of human mind that when we read about some one else's experiences we tend to get momentarily swayed but eventually tell ourselves that the guy got lucky and it may not be applicable to us. That is pure escapism because your mind refuses to walk that extra mile because of moving away from your comfort zone of thinking. UNLESS YOU TRUST what you read and hear, it would have NO IMPACT whatsoever and even if you force yourself to try, you would do it half heartedly and more on experimental basis.

Friends. Practice visualisation with FULL belief that what you visualise would surely manifest. IT WILL.