Can Candy Crush, QuizUp and Flappy Bird Help in Competitive Exams Preparation?

Games have been used as educational tools for young children since the days of Monopoly and Ludo. But educational games have rarely tried to engage teenagers, despite their enthusiasm for gaming overall.

With another session of ambitious new students dreaming to gaining admission into top-tier colleges ,things don’t seem to be getting any easier. Rather they need creative, outside-the-box tools to give their study plan an extra edge. Many initiatives like the specialised coaching classes, digital learning , crash course etc. are starting to shake up the traditional Test prep process. But capitalizing on teens’ smartphone obsession is still an relatively new segment, yet to tried by young audience.

So till all you youngsters are ready to take the plunge, let us share key lessons you can learn by studying the strategies used by wildly popular mobile games like Candy Crush Saga, Flappy Bird and Quiz Up,to kick start competitive exam preparation with a gusto.

Candy Crush Saga – Add Multiple Layers of Gameplay

Interestingly, this game’s core color-matching mechanic is not at all unique. Its beautiful design, superb difficulty balance, and progress map are really what made it a mega-hit with 500 million installs. The map – a colorful, appealing landscape – allows players to not only track their progress visually but to compare it to other players’. It adds an additional ‘meta-game’ to Candy Crush, in which players are incentivized to play more to keep up with their friends.

What To Learn:
1. Keep Practising
2. Studying in Groups instills feeling of competition and also make students feel like part of a community that’s exploring a new world together.
3. Visual representations of progress is known to help students take pride in their accomplishments and keeps them motivated.

Quiz Up – Enable Player Contribution and Head-to-Head Competition

This slick, fast-paced trivia game was one of 2013’s surprise hits, and ended up becoming the fastest-growing game in iOS history. One of the most significant factors in Quiz Up’s success is its deeply social gameplay, which allows players to compete one-on-one and add their own questions to its massive library.

What To Learn:
1. Create your own study questions which help engage with subject material in new ways, and would give your Test preparation more complexity and depth, making it more challenging.
2. Relax! make review your results but remain light-hearted
3. Test yourself to the max.

Flappy Bird – Allow for Instant Gratification

This arcade game, in which users pilot a goofy bird through suspiciously familiar green pipes, is the breakout hit no one saw coming. Gamers will debate for decades what made the game so successful, but its simplicity and re-playability are undeniably part of the answer. People learn how to play Flappy Bird moments after opening it, and when they fail, it’s incredibly easy to try again. These easily repeatable but hard-to-master mechanics have proved surprisingly addictive.

What To Learn:
1. Go into “study sessions” in a good mood. It will also make you less anxious about failure and more willing to try again when you make a mistake.
2. Engage with your study material , Try to devise strategies to underst a topic and its application
3. Cracking competitions isn’t complicated , dense or the hype that is created around the same.

Engage with Fun, Then Inspire Through Learning

Learning is a long-term process! But creating a fun, engaging learning environments will help you aspirants to keep coming back and pursue your long term goal with enthusiasm instead of just mugging them.

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