Key to Success at IIT-JEE!!. Review on Successful Preparation for IIT JEE

Dear brilliant friends,

Here I am once again on important and most demanded topic as it's my earnest desire that number of successful students be increased and more IITs be opened as per our Govt. plans towards quality education. The IIT-JEE is (Joint Entrance Examination for IITs) conducted by the IITs for admission in the seven IITs and ITBHU (Yes, Govt.is thinking over making this number to 12 as per rediff news). Screening Test has been introduced since yr. 2000 to drop out candidates with casual attitude. Dear friends, I wish to mention here with great pride that my son studied hard (self- study and correspondance course) and got AIR 320 in the yr.2000 at the same yr. of his XIIth Board exam. getting 98% for his PCM group. (Refer my review - ''How to choose IITs'' for candidates called for counselling at IITs after passing JEE).

As I gather so far most of the people think that IIT JEE is very difficult competitive examination. Yes, it is competitive and different exam. Be sure that IIT- JEE requires a very systematic preparation and determination with continuous hard work with no excuses of Board exam or family problems etc.which can be sorted out by co-operation of family members. Earlier you start preparing for it the better. Keep in mind that IIT-JEE is totally different from traditional pattern of board exams where success can be achieved with lots of mugging. IIT-JEE tests your fundamentals of the subject and your capacity to think logically and analytically.

Students may arrange for proper guidance (My son depended on self-study and correspondance courses not to waste time). Then practice of solving JEE level problems is must (My son practiced Brilliant Tutorials and FIITJEE papers (two yr.integrated course) sometimes bunking tests of Brilliant being on the same days). Students need to have access to enough recommended books including reference books. For this consult senior IITians with good AIRs (All India Ranks). Students can join classroom coaching wherever possible ( It may be of great help provided it is supported by devoted self-study). Try to get second-hand postal coaching material (which may be in addition to what you have newly subscribed for) from students who have appeared for JEE recently. Purchase or contact good Library to have access to various reference books . I had purchased each and every book my son needed. At the end of this review I have given list of Books.

HSC exam. and JEE together is felt very tough and minimum one of the family members should be involved helping student to keep health and moral support though not doing duty of teacher or of driver every day. So, if students have true ambition,collect info.about IITs from net or parents of successful students/ successful students who have gone through whole procedure with great involvement keeping zeal. Understand why you want to be in IIT and prepare systematically,strategically as this is examination of elimination rather than selection as limited seats (3000+) are available. I would recommend to start preparing for JEE, immediately after Xth.and more earlier is the better. My son was good at Maths and attended Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan classes for Maths Olympiad and was successful upto Regional level while he missed INMO (National level) exam (he could solve 3 problems out of 6 and one more would have declared him successful). Yes, I kept full interaction with my son and hope all parents should keep to bring up their kids. This doesn't mean unnecessary advising. Their problem is parents' problem always...may be matter of health or exam.

From about 1,00,000 candidates 15000 candidates are selected at screening test (objective type exam)...Then 3000+ are selected at final (subjective paper) exam. SC/ST candidates have reservations. The IIT-JEE is selecting the best candidates from the country. It is highly recognised by Universities abroad. Students can get practice for screening test by attending postal coaching (mostly arrangements are made in main towns)/classroom coaching tests. Total no.of questions, marks per question and method of negative marking varies every yr as same pattern is not followed. The Main Exam. has three papers of maths, physics and chemistry, each of two-hours duration. Here I wish to mention that colour of paper e.g.blue/ yellow/white shouldn't make difference and students (of age 17+) should not get confused or disturbed by colour change. I heard one student at the centre saying,'' Err, they changed Maths paper colour and I was used to blue colour for maths...so I got confused...and could not solve more than even one problem.'' (Of course this was after-thought). Blue was the colour while practicing tests taken by his postal coaching organisors.

JEE exam. tests students' clarity of basic concepts, logical aspects with ability to apply fundamentals to problems. It requires special analytical approach to solve the typical JEE like problems thinking in many dimensions like one has to at Olympiads. Here I emphasise that my son was successful due to his studies for Maths Olympiad.

Brilliance with high ambition, determination and keeping temperament make final goal as only IIT-JEE. For this student/parents may have to forget worldly matters for two yrs. Parents' role is also important to keep students cool and comfortable upto the mark. Solving full papers in exam like conditions (with stop-watch/alarm) can improve your capacity/speed. Timely test series offered by some classes could be of help. Try solving old papers in exam.like condition at home and check from solutions available. Treat Solutions as your Gurus if no teacher is at your help easily available.

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Last but not least- My son used following Books-

Physics-

Fundamentals Of Physics -Resnick and Halliday (Reference Book).

Concepts of Physics - HC Verma

Problems in Physics -

I E Irodov (Must solve problems)

Mathematics-

Co-ordinate geometry, Plane trigonometry,Vectors- S L Loney (These were Olympiad Books),

IIT-JEE-Maths- Tata Mc-grow-Hill

IIT mathematics -M.L.Khanna ( After finishing Tata my son referred this)

Chemistry-

IIT Chemistry -OP Agarwal (My son finished this book by Nov.of XIIth)

Organic Chemistry-Morrison and Boyd (Reference Book after studying OP)

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© Mrs.Medha.