Top 20 Last Minute Tips for JEE Main 2015

By Shailendra Maheswari

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JEE Main 2015 offline exam is all set to be held tomorrow, on April 4. The exam will begin sharp at 9:30 am and will end at 12:30 pm. However, the entry to the exam hall will commence at 9:00 am. Check JEE Main 2015 detailed schedule here.

According to Shailendra Maheswari from Career Point, Kota, students should take the exam with full confidence without any panic. They shouldn’t take stress but should focus on enhancing the speed and accuracy and compete with their own-self first.

Furthermore, they should make a game plan as per the time and pace and follow it thoroughly.  He further suggests that the mantra to crack the exam is to just follow one’s dreams and again try to achieve with new vigor. If you lose confidence, you lose everything!

Here are the top 20 last minute tips that students should follow for JEE Main  2015:

1. Revision should enhance question selection strategy
2. Practice more & more tests and analyse performance effectively
3. Systematic Revision under expert guidance enhance speed, accuracy and scoring ability
4. It is recommended if the questions are prepared and selected by subject experts
5. If you have good command over 80% of JEE syllabus, then you can be sure about your success, provided you convert your knowledge into score during those 3 hours
6. Revise important formulas, theorems, diagrams and important questions
7. Don’t try to read any new topic that you have not seen before
8. Look at the index which you must have developed during preparation. Solve only those questions which you were unable to solve in your first attempt.
9. Carefully read the solutions of these questions which you have marked as important or good questions in index or in book.
10. In case, you feel short of time, don’t try to solve each question, don’t get emotional try to solve next question
11. Make sure you are going to bed by 11 pm in last 2 days and get up by 7.00 am.
12. Reach the examination centre 30 minutes before.
13. After getting the question paper, have confidence in yourself, then start attempting the easy questions. After that try to attempt the difficult questions. Use right[ü], Circle[¢] and cross [r] method to select the questions. Read the question paper sequentially and mark right [ü] for those which seems too easy, mark circle[¢]for those which seems bit tricky but could be solved and cross [r]for those which you fail to understand or difficult. Solve all the questions first which are marked right, then go for circle ones and in case if you have ample time then go for those which are marked cross else leave it.
14. In case of these competitive exams you must know which question to leave so as to get ample time for those which are easy to solve. Focus on that only and avoid silly mistakes.
15. Don’t waste much time on only one specific question.
16. Keep filling the OMR Sheet at regular intervals.
17. There is negative marking in JEE Exam. So it is suggested that do not attempt the questions that you are not sure. It is always better to leave such questions rather than taking chance.
18. Give one or two minutes for yourself at regular intervals, drink water and do not take excessive stress.
19. In these type of competitive exams the cut off marks are low, so one should try to concentrate on accuracy to answer the questions.
20. You have to maintain the speed and accuracy that is the only key for success in this examination.

 About the author:

Shailendra Maheswari is the Director of Academics at Career Point Ltd, Kota.