For
students aspiring to enter any prominent engineering college, this is
inarguably the most crucial time of the year. Scheduled on April 7 (offline
test) and April 8 to 25 (online test), the JEE this year has 14 lakh students
enrolled to appear for the exam.
Concept Educations shows stepwise
Master plan for IIT-JEE 2013 aspirants on how to crack IIT-JEE (Main and
Advanced) this year 2013?
With less than 15 days to go for the Joint Entrance Examination
(JEE), Mains, aspirants are now entering the final phase of their
preparations. JEE is a tough nut to crack given the magnitude of
competition that it entails. Competition may be cut-throat but the
students who ultimately make it to the selected category are the ones with the
clearest concepts and two years of organized and dedicated preparation. Equally
important for an aspirant is appropriate study material. The students need to
approach every set of problems differently and with a separate methodology.
Regular practice, speed and accuracy is the key to succeed at the JEE.
According to general analysis, about 25% questions in the
examination paper are easy, 50% are average and 25% difficult. Last year, the
JEE (Mains) Mathematics and Physics sections were definitely difficult as
compared to JEE (Mains) 2011. Chemistry was relatively simple. With a little
more than a month before left for the final test, students need to focus on
practice and numerical problem solving.
How to go about solving a problem
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Try conventional methods first.
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If they don’t work, understand the problem again and find clues
that can lead you to solution.
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Go through the concepts related to the problem once again and see
how they can be applied to the problem at hand.
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Try to relate the problem to real-life situations. It will help
you to analyse it better.
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Consult the solution, only when you have exhausted your limits.
See, what you had missed earlier.
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Practice similar problems. Doing 100 quality and concepts based
questions is more important than doing 1,000 questions, which have not been
selected carefully.
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Devise your own shortcuts and ways to tackle particular kind of
problems.
One weeks before JEE (Mains)
In
the last week before JEE (Mains), aspirants must revise all the formulas and
the important points rather than studying new topics. One must study all three
subjects daily. Here is a step-by-step guideline for what aspirants must do in
the last two weeks
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Make a note of important points.
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Make a Time-table for the coming twelve days to revise your
syllabus. Give maximum time to your strengths. For instance, if you are strong
in Physics, for example in Electrostatics then revise electrostatics, giving
enough time to it so that you are sure and confident of every concept of it. If
you are not thorough in Modern physics, then only revise whatever topics you
have studied. Don’t study anything new in the last week.
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Cover your syllabus within next 7 days. Now you have to revise
your syllabus once.
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Take a few Mock Tests to check your Speed and Accuracy.
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Identify problem areas. Try to analyze where you are making
mistakes, which section you are doing best. This will prepare you for the main
exam. What most students do is that they revise whole of the syllabus but do
not attempt a mock and thus they make mistakes in main exam.
A day before the JEE
(Mains)
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Do not study anything. You need to stay calm, confident and trust
yourself.
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Tell yourself that you are excited about JEE (Mains) and that you
can crack it easily.
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Relax or meditate to soothe your nerves.
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Don’t ask your friends how much they have studied. You do not need
unnecessary pressure.
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Have a good sleep for at least 6-7 hours before going for the
exam.
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The most important requirement for cracking JEE is clarity of
concepts and regular practice in problem solving. The examination is not
difficult, but tricky, and hence its questions do have a need of being tackled
with different tactics and perspectives. Both speed and strike rate matter. You
need to be quick and accurate to achieve high scores. High speed with less
accuracy can actually ruin your results. While preparation counts, it is
important to select your questions wisely and not panic while attempting the
paper. If you solve easy and average questions correctly, you can easily
get through. You may attempt difficult ones to make merit.
Importance
of Chemistry
It
has been observed that those who crack JEE (Mains) are the ones who do well in
chemistry. A week before the exam, give four hours to brush up your concepts of
organic, three hours to inorganic and one hour for physical. Try to attempt
chemistry in the first hour as it has some easy questions. Solving these first
will increase your confidence and efficiency. Just read the concepts of
thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium. Some questions from these parts are
just conceptual. So clear your concepts and you can cover 40% of the questions
from these two topics itself.
Expert
Tip
Always attempt theoretical questions first and then questions
which require calculation. It is human nature that if you attempt a few
confident questions in the beginning then you feel loaded with positive energy
which increases your efficiency and speed for the rest of the paper. It is
advisable to avoid numerical questions in the first 10 to 15 minutes of the
exam.
Know your
strengths and Weaknesses
You can plan the journey
to the destination well if you know the start point. You need to understand
your strengths and weaknesses for any test preparation, like you can be strong
in Mathematics, average in Physics and totally clueless in Chemistry. This is
important because then you will create your plan to turn your weaknesses into
strengths and ignore certain weaknesses if they are not important from exam
point of you and improve your strengths.
Plan your
preparation
It is
rightly said, "He who fails to plan, plans to fail". Nobody can
undermine the importance of planning when doing any important task, and if it
means preparing for the IIT-JEE exam, you should be even more careful. The
Study Plan that will be created for you will be weekly, you will be assigned
some chapters to study every week so that you are able to complete your
syllabus in time
Top 10 useful Hot Tips for sure
success
Always start preparing
from 'Basics' because it is really important to have a good base for a right
foundation.
1.
Never prefer solutions of questions before giving good attempt
to the question. Try to solve the problem till you exhausted, always give a
second or third attempt to the problem before moving to solution page.
2.
Do not leave the question in middle. Never jump from one question
to another in hurry. Lots of students practice questions without attempting it
fully.
3.
Always try a question with Conceptual Approach, do not just read
the question and start solving it without realizing the points that what is
being asked in the question.
4.
Divide your time well for your preparation of boards and for
your IIT-JEE. So you will not miss anything.
Time management is really important to do well in this exam.
5.
Always keep the syllabus with you, before preparing the new
topic look at the syllabus first.
6.
Always try to solve 50-60 problems on per topic or chapter, but
try to solve the quality problems which need different applications and
concepts to solve the problem.
7.
Make your own strategy to crack the exam, rather than following
others.
8.
Try to learn the fundamentals of the concepts rather than memorizing
the concepts.
9.
Always practice previous year's papers; it will give you the
idea about the type of questions asked in the exam, and the level of difficulty
of the questions.
10. Always remember that
time is really important factor for every exam. Try to finish your paper well
before time, so that you will get time to review your answers.
Which Books
should I study?
This is a
very important question. Here you go
Physics
1. NCERT 11th and 12th
2. HC verma
3. Arihant
Chemistry
1. NCERT 11th and 12th
(Very very important)
2. Physical – P Bahadur
3. Organic – Arihant
4. Inorganic – P Bahadur
Mathematics
1. ML Khanna or RD Sharma
2. Arihant series
Which coaching institute should you go
for it?
There’s
no hard and fast rule that you have to join coaching. IIT-JEE can be cracked
even without coaching but for that you will have to work really hard. I won’t
be advertising any coaching institute here. But my advice is go for the “Most preferred coaching institute”. Search
on the Google for the best coaching institute in Assam for Crash course. Even if you join coaching try not to deviate
yourself from the studies and consistently focus in the class Clear or Concept
of Educations and revise the same at home or hostel.
How many hours should you study?
You
need not have to study 10 hours a day. Even if you consistently study 7 hours a
day it’s definitely possible to achieve the impossible. Or if you are aiming All India Rank (AIR) 1 in IIT JEE than
you need to be different. For that you have to study for long hours every day
with Full Concentration. Suppose of study 5 hours a day, it’s perfectly fine.
But Please Fully concentrates for those 5 hours. Believe in Quality Study and
not quantity.
Take an Oath
Last
but not the least, take an oath, “I and
IIT JEE aspirant, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully plan and execute my
study plan, and will do the best of my ability try not to Procrastinate and not
to waste time anymore. So help me God..”
