Students’ Speak: Don’t focus on results, concentrate on the preparation for JEE Mains 2020

By: Swapnaneel Bhuiya

The first thing that you should keep in mind is to not think about the result. Concentrate on the syllabus and the areas of your strength. Always complete your training first and after that concentrate on your weaknesses. Never aim to be the best. Instead, try to give your best. Now read the following tips to prepare well for the JEE Mains 2020.

Last week’s plan

In the last week, forget about revising and learning new chapters. You already know by the last week about your strengths and weaknesses. Solve at least one paper daily and not more than three. Also, it is not compulsory to solve three papers because it depends on your performance. If you feel you that you can score pretty good or satisfactory numbers then you can practice once per day, but sincerely. Three days before the exam, solve a two-year-old JEE Mains question paper and on the next day, solve the previous year’s question papers. In the penultimate day, just relax and watch some movies or something. The trick is to remain calm and not lose your composure, which many candidates do before the exam.

Manage your time well

This is a crucial part of the exam. You have 180-minutes to complete 90 questions. Therefore, you can easily see that you have two-minutes per question to devote. You are giving the exam online or offline, it does not matter. If you are attempting one question, do not waste more than two minutes on it, as it would then be the worst possible case scenario. If you are wasting more than two minutes then be assured that you are doing harm to yourself. Leave the question, mark it up, and move on to the next. You should first target those questions that you are sure about and then move on to the harder ones.

Topic-wise preparation

Physics portion of JEE has twenty chapters. Of those twenty chapters, you need to pay good attention to the following topics:

• Dimensional Analysis: Though a really simple chapter, however, knowing correct units and dimensions of physical quantities will simply assist you to eliminate the choices in multiple alternative sorts of queries.
• Gravitation & physical science: These chapters are conceptually almost like one another (in terms of enticing forces concept).
• Electricity & Heat Transfer: Once more, these are conceptually almost like one another. After you browse through these chapters, be careful of the similarities (which could be deceiving at times).
• Magnetic attraction Induction, Waves & Sound
• Geometrical Optics, Natural Philosophy

For maths in JEE Mains, you should definitely study the following seven topics:

1. 3-D geometry
2. Probability and Statistics (weightage is low, and try only if you want to)
3. Vector Algebra
4. Integration
5. Complex Numbers
6. Parabolas
7. Trigonometry

Following topics are essential to be covered in order to attempt questions in JEE Mains based on the pattern of the previous JEE question papers:

1. Chemical Bonding and the periodic table –If you can master Chemical Bonding and the properties of periodic table elements then chemistry will be an easy subject for you over many years to come.
2. Carbonyl Compounds and their derivatives.
3. Redox reactions, Mole Concept and the concept of equivalents.
4. Solid-state, solution and gas theory.
5. Thermochemistry and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Have a study plan

As said earlier, you have to analyse your potential. You should not exaggerate your own abilities and end up falsifying your chances. Practice offline and online test series that you might have enrolled in. Point out the weak portions in the strong areas that you had previously demarcated. Do not be overconfident. If possible, solve topic wise tests once you are sure that you have completed a particular topic. Study for at least four hours per day and practice at least one paper every day, one month before the exams.

Juggling between class 12th and JEE preparation

In my case, I was able to balance both pretty well. My suggestion is to study your Class 12^th syllabus deeply. This would help you clear your basic concepts about the JEE syllabus. After clearing your concepts, you should go for a bit higher studies as it would be necessary for you to clear JEE Advance. This is because Advance exam is not limited to the 12^th syllabus like JEE Mains. It would rather test your in-depth knowledge on a subject matter by giving you tricky problems, requiring you to sweat out your grey matter. Follow the above-mentioned tips if you want to do well in your 12^th and JEE Mains+Advance.

About the Author:

Swapnaneel Bhuiya is a fourth-year mining engineering student at IIEST Shibpur. He appeared for JEE exam in 2016 and scored 140 marks in the first attempt.