JEE Main Preparation

JEE Mains Preparation: JEE Mains is the gateway to prestigious institutes like NIT’s and IIIT’s. It’s also the preliminary test for JEE Advanced, which lands you the ticket to the much-coveted IIT’s. All these facts may raise the pressure on the student, but if there are proper planning and ample preparation, this is no Herculean task.

JEE Main Preparation General Tips

• Make a proper timetable. Make sure that you get enough sleep and eat well. A healthy rested mind is very important to think clearly.
• Take timed breaks! If you study for extended periods of time, you might burn out. Increase your duration of studying little by little until you reach three hours. This will ensure that during the exam, you’re not distracted and restless.
• Along a similar line, a study in the morning as that is where the exam will be held.
• Give as many mock tests as possible. The exam tests not only your concepts but also your time management.
• Practise exam taking strategies. Start with the subject you’re the most confident in. Go through all the questions once, and start with the easy scoring ones.
• Do not take it upon your ego if you can’t solve a question that looks easy. Spending too much time on a question could lose you a lot of marks.
• But remember, past year papers are always a better estimate of the exam pattern and difficulty level.
• Make a proper note of the syllabus. There is a lot of difference between the syllabus for JEE mains and advanced.
• Remember that there is negative marking! Do not make blind guesses. It’ll only lower your score.
• But go for educated guesses! Since it’s an objective type examination, elimination and substitution will help immensely. The dimensional analysis will help a lot on the elimination part. Practice these skills in past year papers to see how you cope.
• Though the exams are hyped all over the media, it is not impossible to crack them. Mains is much easier than Advanced and is aimed at the average student. If you analyze past year papers, you’ll notice that a major portion of the paper consists of easy and moderate level questions – there are only a handful of difficult questions that will act as “rank deciders”.
• There is a lot of good preparation material available in the market, but the base is laid down by NCERT. A lot of people ignore these textbooks as they deem it too easy, but in the past, many questions have been asked directly from the same.
• There also a lot of good free resources available online, including Khan Academy, Rao IIT Academy, Exam fear, Etoos India, Aplus topper, etc. Make good use of them!

JEE Main Chemistry Preparation

This is, in general, the easiest subject in the paper. Practice inorganic chemistry regularly as memory is where a lot of students fail. Maintain a small notebook where you note down the points you forget the easiest. Revise them on a regular basis. A good reference book is an Inorganic chemistry by J.D. Lee.

Inorganic chemistry, make sure that you understand the mechanisms. Learning the reactions by rote will get you nowhere. For clearing your concepts, refer to Solomon and Fryhle, Morrison Boyd or Paul Bruice. Physical chemistry takes a lot of practice! Solve a lot of problems from O.P. Tandon and M.S. Chauhan.

JEE Main Mathematics Preparation

• This is a difficult subject for a lot of people. But with practice, you can ace it. Don’t ignore the mains specific topics like statistics, mathematical reasoning, relations, heights, and distances, etc. They are easy scoring topics.
• For co-ordinate geometry, draw the diagram. Even if you don’t know how to solve the problem, this will help you identify the relations between the different parameters involved.
• Practice solving problems within a time limit to improve your speed and accuracy. A good source for JEE math problems is S.K. Goyal. You might also want to refer to higher algebra by Hall and Knight.
• In trigonometry, know the basic properties by heart. Even if you can’t remember all the properties and formulae, you can easily derive from these!
• For sequences and series, if you don’t know the answer, try substituting the first few numbers in the given options. It almost always leads to the correct answer.

JEE Main Physics Preparation

This is, arguably, where most students lose marks. But in fact, it is also one of the easiest to score in! There are always direct questions from easy topics like dimensional analysis and error. Even otherwise, physics relies a lot on units and dimensions and it is hence very easy to make educated guesses on the answer.

Do not, again, ignore the easy or less important topics. They always have easy questions from them. For instance, the basic equations of motion are more than enough to tackle any problems from kinematics.

Make calculus your strong point. A lot of questions involve differentiation and integration and will prove difficult if your concepts are unclear.

Everyone says H.C. Verma is the Bible for physics, and there is a reason why they say so. Go through the problems in the book carefully. It’ll help in clearing your concepts. Once you’re done with the same, go for more difficult books like Irodov. (But keep in mind – this is OPTIONAL. It is not necessary to solve Irodov to score well in Mains). Another favorite is Resnick Halliday. It explains all concepts beautifully and would make you fall in love with physics.

Remember, JEE preparation is a marathon, not a sprint. Make studying a habit and keep persevering to reach your goal. Always keep a why in mind – it’ll help motivate you whenever you want to give up. If you work hard enough, there is nothing you can’t achieve.

ALL THE BEST!

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