Students’ Speak: Time management in the preparation of JEE Mains exam is important

By: Parakh Mishra

All the concepts of Chemistry and Physics, which are generally asked in the exams, are briefly explained in NCERT textbooks. So one can prefer a help book to understand them clearly and then can easily understand NCERT’s briefs.

To prepare for JEE Main, one of the biggest entrance exams for the students planning to pursue engineering, a student must go through the basic concepts of all the topics from NCERT Text Books. Candidate should clear all the concepts in such a way that there is no need to emphasize on them again during JEE Advance preparation. All the concepts of Chemistry and Physics, which are generally asked in the exams, are briefly explained in NCERT textbooks. So one can prefer a help book to understand them clearly and then can easily understand NCERT’s briefs, and the candidate must go through the exercise of all the NCERT chapters as questions of all the topics are covered in them.

Here are certain things that you must do:

• In the last week, as there is no time to go through all the chapters again, candidates should select important topics in which they are facing difficulties and should prepare them well. If most of the topics have been covered completely then the candidate should take some mock tests, which are available both online as well as offline mode. These tests help in preparing for a real scenario.
• There are two types of time management:

1. Time management during Preparation
2. Time Management in Exam

During preparation, the time table should be managed in such a way that all the chapters of physics, chemistry and mathematics can be easily covered with atleast 2 hours to each subject.  

For time management during the exam, candidates should take mock tests as they help in assessing and time management. A candidate should first solve the section for which his preparation is good and then move on to the weaker sections.

• Some of the topics in which you could score well in Physics include Radioactivity, Dual Nature of Matter, Photo Electric Effect, SHM, Doppler Effects, Oscillation and Waves, Thermodynamics. In Chemistry, they are Complete Organic, Solutions, Electrochemistry, Redox Reaction, Surface Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics, MOT Dipoles, etc. In maths, focus on Sequence, Series, 3D-Geometry, Vector, Sets, Relations, Probability, Matrix, Determinants, etc.
• Preparation strategy for Physics and Chemistry is to go through NCERT Textbooks and for reference, a side book. Candidates must go through NCERT Exemplar and exercise it properly. For Maths, R D Sharma along with NCERT Exemplar is sufficient to touch all the topics in detail.
• For revision, the best way is to solve the practice papers and then figure out the topics which still need finishing.
• It’s not tough to manage both if you study in a systematic way from the start. If you are studying NCERT then automatically your topics of Physics and Chemistry will be covered and for maths, if you have studied R D Sharma then NCERT is a cakewalk. You must attend school to know how to write in the Board Exam, as you would require elaborating skills and writing skills to score good marks in 12^th

About the Author:

Parakh Mishra is a final year student at ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad. He is in the final year of Bachelors in Civil Engineering. He is currently working as a Guide for Shiksha.com. He had cleared entrance exams such as JEE Mains, VITEEE and UPSEEE in 2015 and is currently preparing for NICMAR.