Students’ Speak: Exam preparation tips to ace JEE Advanced

By: Srinivas Goud

Stick to the syllabus as there are many questions carrying good percentage marks within the given time. By following the prescribed syllabus you can easily crack the exam, therefore, don’t waste time and energy studying unnecessary topics.

There are certain exam preparation tips that can come handy when you are preparing for the next stage of Joint Entrance Exam i.e. JEE Advanced. Known to be one of the toughest entrance exams in the country, it is important that you are well-aware about the exam pattern and syllabus to clearly begin your preparation. Stick to the syllabus as there are many questions carrying good percentage marks within the given time. By following the prescribed syllabus you can easily crack the exam, therefore, don’t waste time and energy studying unnecessary topics.

When beginning with preparation, follow these four steps:

1. Divide the copy in three parts. One each for each subject i.e. Physics, Chemistry and Maths.
2. For every chapter, write up to three pages of summary. You ought to write all the important formulas and important tips/points which you gathered while you were attending your classes, practising from your institute booklets or revising (earlier) thereon topics. I think you all do make your class notes. So you would possibly have already got a thought regarding the way to make one.
3. Attempt to be as short and particular as you'll while you're writing or getting to write. Be certain what to write down and the way to write. Please don’t write the entire story. Be precise. In some cases, you'll be writing up to five pages of summary, especially in Physics and in Organic Chemistry.
4. The aim of this copy is to revise quickly and efficiently and in lesser time. Also, you ought to believe in whatever summary you're making. What I mean here is that you simply shouldn't be back and forth to your class copies and chapters while you're revising from this copy otherwise you'll never be ready to believe this which can defeat the entire objective.

Take the help of technology

If possible, voice record all the details (which you've got just written in your revision copy) in your own sweet voice in your phone/iPod or on the other memory device. It’s not recommended speaking out whole plenty of formulas. Record just the important concepts. You’ll hear them whenever you're travelling for your class or anytime between your breaks. This may keep you engaged and you'll soon remember most of them by memory. Don’t worry if you can’t do that. You continue to have your revision copy. Cash in of the free online mock test and online studying platform to form the simplest out of it.

Set your alarm clock

I encounter many scholars who don’t deliver in exams as most of them suffer from “Night Study” syndrome. So, please stop studying at nights (You can/may study till 11:00-11:30 pm at max). Please start building the habit of waking up early. I will recommend three hours of study from 9:00 am-12 noon and 2-5 pm. The thought is to deliver maximum output during this point duration. Whenever you're studying, you ought to be doing that on a table and chair and not on a settee or your bed.

Practice, practice, practice

You need to practice a lot during this significant period of last month. You must practice:

• A test paper of 3 hours in a day
• Previous years JEE (at least last 8 years),
• All previous test series (Mock JEE or any 3-hour test) held at your institutes

The whole idea is that you simply should have a habit of doing at least one paper a day. Don’t rush for altogether new questions in sort of new books within the market. It’s more advisable and recommended to practice those which you're getting from your institutes or from online resources. We might imagine over the new questions if time and energy permits.

Plan your studies

This is crucial. Please plan your studies by making short-term goals for the next three days. Don’t plan for the next two weeks or one month. Very rarely, they're going to get executed as planned. Make targets for what all you would like to hide in the next three days and check out to follow and achieve them together with your best efforts.

Refresh yourself

Play, spend around half-hour to feel a flow of positive energy. Don’t consider it as wastage of your “precious” time. Recreation always makes a person's better. From now onwards, I might recommend that whenever you're studying in your room and there's a window, keep it open and let some cool breeze in.

About the Author:

Srinivas Goud is a student at CMR Technical Campus pursuing BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering.