Updated on Apr 11, 2017 17:14 IST
R.L.Trikha, Director, FIITJEE shares strategies for answering various types of questions in JEE Advanced 2017.

By R.L.Trikha

JEE Advanced 2017 will be conducted by IIT Madras on May 21 for admissions to B.Tech programmes in 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Application forms for the exam will be available for filling from April 28 (10 am) to May 2 (5 pm).

Paper I of JEE Advanced 2017 will be conducted from 9 am to 12 pm, while Paper II will be held from 2 pm to 5 pm. It's mandatory for candidates to appear in both the papers. JEE Advanced 2017 is the second stage of JEE.  From 2017, Class XII marks will not be required for JEE Main & Advanced rank determination.

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This year, approximately 220,000 top rankers from JEE Main will be eligible to take JEE Advanced 2017, whereas in 2016, 198228 top candidates from JEE Main were eligible for appearing in JEE Advanced.

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For cracking JEE Advanced 2017, students must focus on three things:

  • Strengthening of the concepts
  • Proper applications of concepts
  • Practice of JEE Advanced level problems

Examination pattern:

There will be two question papers, each of three hours duration. Both the question papers will consist of three separate sections on Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. These will be of objective type, designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates.

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The question papers will consist of various shades of objective type (multiple choice) and numerical answer type questions designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates.

Some of the questions will entail negative marking for wrong answering.

The question paper will be in either English or Hindi. Candidates must exercise the choice of question paper language while registering for JEE Advanced 2017.

Strategy for answering following types of questions:

Multiple Choice Single Correct: The best way to attempt these questions is to run through the Question- Option – Question way. Scanning the question again after the options in mind helps strategizing the approach to solve the question. Sometimes the options themselves guide the correct strategy or even the correct answer.

Multiple Choice Multi Correct: Each question has to be solved and mapped with all options. It may also happen that the options are same values written in different form. Statistically these are the questions with least percentage of correct responses.

Comprehension Based: Even if you know the concept mentioned in Comprehension, you should still read it thoroughly, there are chances of redefining a concept or providing hypothetical assumptions. In that case your conventionally correct approach might lead to incorrect answer.

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Matrix Match Type (One to One Matching): If the question is of One to One matching, then your approach should be finding the odd one out (if any). This will help you quickly reach the correct mapping.

Matrix Match Type(One to Many Matching): This type of Matrix Match would be the most challenging and time taking. The suggested way would be to attempt this problem if you are confident on the concepts of all 4 rows, or else keep this question in abeyance for attempting last.

Integer Answer Type: Generally these questions are the subjective questions converted to objective, and hence would be time taking.

The correct way would be treat them as subjective and solve them only if you have a command on the topic or if you have attempted all other questions of the paper. These questions also have a low scoring statistical record.

Assertion Reasoning Type: These days these types of questions are not at all asked, but in case there are few questions of this category, be very careful if both the statements are correct.

Because, then it’s very tricky to decide between the options A and B.  You can mark the correct response easily in any other case.

About the author:

R.L.Trikha is the Director, FIITJEE.

Also read:

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JEE Advanced 2017: Subject-Wise Tips For Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics

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