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BuddyGuy

Hey People!
It has been a very anxious month for all you ppl who've appeared for the IIT-JEE,AIEEE, and other entrance exams...It's finally over , the wait...
Hearty congratulations to all who've made it big, and also for those who couldn't make it, because you know what ur hardwork levels were..n that for sure will never go a waste in life :)
Well, being an IIT-JEE aspirant (2008), I , well I guess all my peers, would like to know,
-What are the factors that lead to success in IIT-JEE
-For those of you who missed it this time, what are the reasons ,
So we aspirants should not repeat it the following yr
-Some tips/tricks that only experience can tell us

So c'mon friends just vent all ur feelings...

BuddyGuy

BuddyGuy

y no response?thats nt encouraging at all!

agent007

thats a nice topic you have created.....and i think it does deserve a lot of attention from the outgoing batch ( which includes me )

sad to say that i haven't cleared.....but if you still like some advice, here is a piece of it:

try you best to avoid predictions. this is something very important i learnt out of writing the JEE twice. i dropped the year thinking that the experience i gained out of writing it once would give me an edge and tried to unneccessarily predict certain aspects of the question paper. this proved to be my biggest undoing, as my attempts itself were simply not enough.

it doesn't matter if it is coming out of a FIIT-JEE or KOTA or any other run-of-the-mill place, there is always a chance that predictions can go wrong ( most people who have appeared for JEE 2007 will agree to that )

i wish best of luck to all the upcoming aspirants and hope they don't get caught flat-footed like us.

agent007

namangu

to break into iit one requires awesome

concepts,concepts,concepts,concepts,concepts,concepts,
concepts,concepts,concepts,concepts,concepts,concepts and only concepts

coolyog

im a student of bits goa..i rote iit without preparing secured AIR 5600...nd was expecting 257 marks....i m sure i hav got less marks..i dono why i got less....i feel i hav marked answers rongly....may be because i dint rite any mock paper...nd i dint study also..this cud be the only possibililty..coz checking is done properly
this may be the reson why i missed IIT..in 2007

now last yr in JEE 06 my total was quite gud but i dint qualify cutoff in maths....i got what i expected last yr...so u shd clear individual cutoff keep that in mind

how to prepare
ur concepts shd be clear ..nd u shd practice on omr sheet..so that u dont make the mistake wich i hav comitd

akshay66

jus dont worry about crkin the iit-jee as it is not the only aim in life. if u still wanna prepare damn seriously fot iit then i guess u have no other choice than to slog it out. Jus work for abt 4 hrs a dayin preparin for the test. u should be satisfied wid a 70-90% in the boards as u gotcha read only the IIT books and not the prescribed books for CBSE

gorakavipraveen

ah good idea to start this discussion. I would suggest few ok,
I have cracket JEE twice. last year with a very big rank of 3600+. this time its ok.
what i would suggest you guys is first of all dream for iit. Establish a strong desire to join IIT's. second prepare for no exams els ( except aieee which stands as a good backup, its all after your confidence). Next is, you have to be clear woth concepts and establish few tactics(tricks) that works in mathematics, this will help you to secure good marks in maths. Try to visualise the concepts that is extremely useful for IIT physics. If once you can do it, you will clear physics and maths cutoffs. ok, then comes chemistry, do lot of work in 5 chapters of physical chemistry( Atomic., Equill. , ionic equill., thermo chem. and electro chem.) perfectly. in organic chem, reations and ascending descending nature of properties are most useful (to work on). inorganic is quite simple as 10 table.

thats how, write as many mock tests as possible but never care for its results. it is just a guide for you for what next step of preparation must be.donot beleive predictions any where. FIITJEE people siad that i cannot enter into iits. But i have made it. donot get depressed or exited with those reults. take a complete time for your preparation. donot go behind books, but go behind problems. i guess you understand. inferiority is to be avoided. be superior indeed !
as narayana material contains do remember,
ALL IITIANS ARE GREAT BUT ALL GREAT PEOPLE NEED NOT BE IITIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!
{IITIANS} is a sub set of {great people}see you all at IIT
:)

coolyog

all iitians need not be gr8

just qualifying JEE ( a six hrs exam) is not enough to prove that u r gr8

ankulid

i was confident of a rank in top 1000 in iit.... all statistics of my 2 yrs test series etc. agreed wid it... and ended up wid just 4273

. Its just the performance on that D-Day that matters only... i got too nervous in the xam... nd it made me do a lot of mistakes... so after making all ur concepts nd knowledge strong... the main work that remains is being MENTALLY STRONG AND WITHOUT NERVOUSNESS!!!!!!

executioner

I beg to differ...

I think you should concentrate on speed/accuracy first, make sure you have AIEEE BITSAT in the bag.. and THEN move on to JEE level preparation. i have many friends with IIT ranks of 3000 and AIEEE ranks of 20,000... AIEEE and BITSAT open up a lot more chances.. apart from that its really hard to get a good branch at IIT..

IIT JEE is a different ballgame compared to AIEEE BITSAT etc.. the latter needs different kind of preparation too.. do not make the mistake of thinking that JEE prepn > AIEEE prepn (by prepn i dont mean just studies, i mean exam strategy and other paraphernalia)

Do the math. IIT JEE is one exam which is really hard. There are around 4 other exams for entrance into good colleges which can be easily cracked with decent speed and strategy. Preparing for the latter is obviously a safer bet. I'm not saying that you shouldnt prepare for JEE, im saying you should first ace AIEEE level first and then move on to JEE (by level i dont mean the question level, i mean solving the exam to get a good score, this includes time management and the art of leaving questions) Exam strategy is as important as your hardwork.

I've noticed one thing. Coaching instt's teach you lots of complex stuff. Well, frankly speaking, unless youre a real pro, you will not be able to solve that complex stuff during the exam primarily due to exam stress. Why not spend that time on studying stuff like errors, biomolecules instead? During the exam, instead of pondering over how to solve that hard exam, why not focus on solving other easy stuff? All that matters in the end is your score, not how you get it (isnt it obvious that solving 5 easy questions in 5 mins is better than 1 hard question in 5 mins?). If you're thru with the course at a basic level, you can easily crack AIEEE and the likes with a decent strategy. The key is to solve questions you know correctly, and NOT WASTE ANY TIME on questions you dont know/questions u find hard. In exams like DCE, 3/4th of the people dont even get to look at all the 180 questions just because they got stuck on some stupid hard question they thought they COULD solve. I left around 15 hard questions in DCE this year and found that 20 VERY VERY easy questions followed those 15 questions. As a result, i was able to solve around 140-150 questions, and i am expecting a score of 440+, which is good..

The key is to NOT NOT NOT NOT waste time on any question, and keep moving on, so what if you couldnt crack 5 hard questions? there are 20 easy questions waiting for you (only if you leave those 5 hard questions). First solve all the easy questions you know! Most probably, even if you solve the easy stuff correctly, you will get a great rank!

I messed my AIEEE up REALLY badly (i got a rank of 36000 after dropping, i am not that bad people, i got 297 in BITSAT, was expecting 180-200 marks in JEE, am expecting 440-475 marks in DCE). I didn't take JEE seriously, because i know i dont have it in me to get a top 1000 rank (neither did i work hard enough), and i wanna pursue CS or Elec only... JEE takes a lot more hardwork, dedication, but ill reiterate, i know loads of people with 3000 4000 ranks in JEE and abysmal BITSAT and AIEEE scores because they got stuck solving hard questions.... those who want IIT for the tag are happy, but those who wanted a good branch are really depressed.. they are in no mans land..

I blanked out at the day of AIEEE. Why? I was nervous. I got a score of 143. I knew stuff worth 320 marks in that exam. Even if i had solved 80% of what i knew correctly my score would have been 256, i would have easily been in the top 4000 in the country... so the key word is to maintain your cool all the time. Gulp Red Bull before your exam (it helps). Solve ONLY what you know. Do not waste ANY time on what you dont know. Nervousness/Exam Stress influence your performance MORE than your preparation (assuming you were a bit serious about entrances, i am not talking about people who score in double digits/negative). The no. of students per rank is high, and your composure could determine your future to a large extent.. stay cool.. thats damn imporant For eg, take my case in AIEEE. panicking led to such abysmal performance. Get a good night's sleep.. dont forget the red bull.
Cheers.

executioner

btw, Buddy Guy and Simpsons rock :D

executioner

another important tip : as opposed to what many people advised me to do, i'll advice my juniors to complete the whole syllabus (so that all the easy questions can be solved), inorganic is DAMN important (chem in everyday life, biomolecules, statistics, errors, etc etc) These topics are ignored by coaching centres, they are a pain in the arse to put up with, but look at it this way : MOST people do NOT study these chapters too well. You gain an edge over others, you get easy marks for memory based questions.. youre the winner. The no. of easy/medium questions in exams exceed the hard questions by a huge margin, so it makes sense to study statistics instead of racking your brains over some herculean calculus problem which takes up a lot of time during the exam AND in your study schedule.

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