Students’ Speak: Top tips to ace JEE Advanced 2020

By: Manish Motwani

JEE Advanced is held every year in the month of May and is considered to be one of the toughest entrance exams in the country. Held for premier institutes such as IITs, IIScs and NITs there will be cream student crowd who will be giving this exam. This article will help you in clearing your queries regarding time management, scoring and suggestions regarding preparations tips and techniques so that you could stand out of the competition and gain an edge over others.

JEE Advanced Preparation Tips

Till the time you will reach Advanced, you would have been done with your boards, hence you can utilise your boards’ knowledge in it. Mostly with Chemistry and the subjective part. Don't try to focus on any other entrance exam one week before JEE Advanced. One important thing to note, read the instructions carefully on each page of the question paper. There will be questions where you will have multiple answers correct and for each correct option, you will get marks. So, you won't need to solve the whole question.

JEE Advanced Last-Minute Tips

Don't start anything extra and read any new topic from the syllabus. Also, do not prepare for any other exam alongside. Do solve questions from JEE Advanced previous years’ papers. Solving the most number of questions with proper accuracy and in the least time is the key to stay in the competition. Stay away from distractions such as mobile phones (it's fine if you use it productively), social media, TV, marriage and family functions or outings, etc. Eat and sleep well to be healthy and fit on the day of the exam. There is a lot you have put on a stake while preparing for the exam. Hence, after this, everything will be worth.

JEE Advanced Time Management Tips

Time management is also important. As there will be two papers and the paper pattern changes almost every year, one has to keep in mind that nobody knows everything. The difficulty level of each section i.e. Physics, Maths and Chemistry will be equally difficult. Hence, start solving the questions right after you get the sheet and together with it, fill the OMR itself. Advanced has fewer cutoff marks. You only need to score only 60% to be in the top 1,000. Don't worry if the paper comes from topics you are weak in.

While solving the paper, try to understand the questions carefully. There will be questions in a paper where you know the questions but you didn't understand the language of the question, so you can leave those. It is important to keep such things in mind. You can also enroll yourself in a test series of various coaching institutes. This will help you analyse your preparation and then you can work to do better.

About the Author:

Manish Motwani is a third-year Computer Science student from Lovely Professional University. He is passionate about writing content to help students in solving their career-related queries and providing guidance in their journey. He is also a tech enthusiast and travel freak.