Mass Communication

To become an anchor, you should complete your graduation first. Although, that was not compulsory in the early times, however today a good education qualification is must. Most importantly, you need to personally mold yourself into a personality perfect for an anchor. You should be updated with current affairs, general knowledge. Confidence and alertness are key to become a good anchor. Thus, I would suggest you to complete graduation in courses that would help you in these areas, such as Bachelors in Mass Media or Bachelors in Journalism and Mass Communication. Also, you can do Diploma courses in anchoring or other certified courses in the field. Coming to the success in the field, it completely depends on your talent, hard work and skills. There is no secured job as such. However, if you are excellent at your work, there are hundreds of opportunities that would wait for you.

Symbiosis is one of the prominent institutes in India. Getting admission into the institute is a dream of many students, so they need to take the entrance exam for having their dream. Symbiosis offer courses like Management, Law, Design, IT and Computer Application and Medical Technology programmes, etc. The entrance exam is conducted at national level and around 17 test centres will be provided for the candidates.
Structure of Symbiosis Entrance Test:
The exam is of objective type with multiple choices. There is a negative marking system for each wrong answer so the students should carefully mark the answer from the four options. There are totally 150 questions and the students are asked to complete the test within two and half hours. The five areas of the question are:
English
Quantitative
General awareness
Analytical Reasoning
Logical Reasoning
Syllabus of Symbiosis Entrance Test
There is no proper syllabus for the exam. The students should practice the questions from the above domains.
English
Out of 150 questions, English carries 25 questions and the students can practice certain areas like:
Synonyms
Antonyms
Reading Comprehension
Dictionary meaning of different words
Correct grammar usage and their rules, etc.
Quantitative Aptitude
It also carries 25 questions and the areas need attention are
Geometry
Algebra
Statistics
General Awareness
This section carries out 60 questions and students should know the current issues and events in:
Business
Health
Legal Area
Analytical and Logical Reasoning
This section carries 40 questions and the areas covering are
Coding and decoding
Data interpretation
Definitely true or false statements
Probably true or false statements etc. Reference Books for Symbiosis
Entrance Test
Some books which can be referred to are:
Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by R. S. Agarwal
Mental Aptitude by Subhkamna Publications
Data Interpretation and Logical reasoning by Arun Sharma
NCERT of 9th to 12th standard
Study Plan for Symbiosis Entrance Test
Practice and Practice is the only way for scoring high.
They can practice with the textbook of the same or can get the study material in NET. They have to learn to adjust the time and solve each question within the prescribed time. So, the best way of preparing for the exam is to practice a number of mock tests and understand the weak area.

The key areas that you need to focus on are:
1. Reading habit:
So, it would include the reading of at least 4 national dailies and keeping par with the news related to the economy, international developments, and society. You must also read related magazines and about the most influential people in this field.
2. Writing skills:
Writing skills are utmost important for this field. You can practice by writing small notes on the articles you read and by developing your opinion and perception.
3. Study topics:
There are various fields of journalism like Advertising, film-making, Public Relations, Event Management, Radio, Photojournalism, etc., so one should have a fair idea of the syllabus and themes that are pivotal to these subjects.
4. Analytical and Comprehensive skills:
Many institutions test their students on the basis of reasoning ability, analytical and comprehensive skills. You must give attention to this area for this you may go for the previous year question papers.

Hi Shuchi,
In order to crack this exam. You should prepare the following topics:
1. You should be thorough with all the rules of English grammar and practice sentence corrections, phrasal verbs, idioms, jumbled sentence and vocabulary.
2. Learn the logos of the major brands, presidents and CEOs and editors of news channels, newspaper, and companies.
3. Knowledge of current affairs: This will be helpful both in subjective as well as objective sections. Under the subjective questions, you'll have to write an essay on any of the major events.
4. Practice on improving your writing skills.
You can find the syllabus of the exam here:
https://www.shiksha.com/college/xavier-institute-of-communications/exams/xic-oet/syllabus