Students’ Speak: Read this before you appear for JEE Main 2020

By: Payal Jajodia

With less than a week left for JEE Main 2020, you must be in a rigorous revision mode. Here are certain things you can now keep in mind and abide by in these last few days to the JEE Main 2020 exam.

Last week tips & tricks

• It is beneficial to have a maximum of eight hours of sleep in the last week to JEE Main 2020.
• While studying make a habit to take a break of 10 minutes every 1 hour.
• It is better to avoid studying late night as the mind becomes restless.
• The best time to study is 4-6 am.
• Also, if you want to memorise something, study it before going to bed and when you wake up again study it. This will provide to be very helpful.
• Revise perfectly all the important topics from the exam point of view.
• Try not to start any new topic before a week as it needs an ample amount of time to be understood.
• There are certain test papers Go through them.
• Have a habit of making short notes or bullet points so that it saves a lot of time.
• Do yoga and other breathing exercises to keep your mind calm and stress-
• Eat healthy food and spend some free time listening to music.
• Avoid all the distracting things so that you focus more on your studies.
• Have a balanced time schedule for everything so that you are not frustrated.
• Spend some time to play outdoor games.

Tips on time management

• Make bullet points and short notes to save your time.
• Watching videos for the difficult topics on youtube also saves a lot of time rather than studying it from books.
• Prepare and maintain a well-planned schedule for study purposes and other activities.
• Avoid spending too much time behind checking for every notification on your smart gadgets.
• Study all the topics which are lee time-consuming.

Dos and Don’ts of JEE Main

• In Phase-I, perform all the easy questions for which you are confident and is not much time consuming i.e. 1.5 minutes for each question.
• In Phase-II, go for the questions that are time-consuming and you are not so sure about them taking three minutes out for each question.
• In Phase-III, appear for the most difficult questions which might take 5 minutes or even more than that.

Subject-wise scoring topics

Physics

• Current Electricity
• Rotation
• Semiconductors
• Electrostatics
• Units and Dimensions
• Measurement of error
• Alternating Current
• Fluid Mechanics
• Gravitation
• Magnetism
• Heat Transfer
• Law of Motion
• Force
• Kinematics
• Work, Energy and Power
• Rigid Body Dynamics
• Radioactivity
• Bohr’s Atomic Model
• Centre of Mass and Collisions
• Oscillation and Waves
• Thermodynamics
• Chemistry
• Chemical Bonding
• IUPAC Nomenclature
• Periodic Table
• Hydrocarbons
• Gaseous State
• Hydrocarbons
• Chemical and Ionic Equilibrium
• Electrochemistry
• Polymers
• Isomerism
• Metallurgy
• Thermodynamics
• Aldehydes, Ketones, Amines
• Alkyl Halides and Aryl Halides
• Colligative Properties
• Nitrogen Compounds and Aliphatic Amines
• Nuclear and Surface Chemistry
• Redox and Volumetric analysis
• Carboxylic Acids
• Alcohol and Ether
• Mathematics
• Trigonometric
• Permutations and Combinations
• Applications of Derivations
• Integration
• Matrices and Determinants
• Limit and Continuity
• Vector Algebra
• Parabola
• Statistics
• Height and Distance
• Differentiation
• Differential Equation
• Complex Numbers
• Conic Sections
• Properties of Triangle
• Straight Line and Circle
• Set and Relation
• Binomial Theorem
• Sequence and Series
• Indefinite Integral

Time to revise

• Revise all the important topics that are mentioned above before you appear for the exam.
• Theory part should be done properly as mostly question paper is being covered from it.
• Formulae should be on your fingertips along with the roots, squares, logarithms values for numerical.
• Have a habit of solving previous year questions and several mock test papers.
• Time management is very important for every topic of every subject.
• Carefully revise the important topics and all the formulae’s a week ago and clear all the doubts as early as possible.

About the Author:

Payal Jajodia is a student at Poornima University studying Bachelor in Technology with a specialisation in Computer Science Engineering.