Temperal Balance
Keep your cool during the paper. If you feel you are getting flustered, close your eyes for some time to regain your composure and
concentration.
Keep yourself in a cheerful and positive mood.
If you feel tension rising during the paper, take deep breaths to release tension.
Do not get demotivated or overexcited on seeing the question paper. Keep your balance. Demotivation will make even easy questions appear tough
and overconfidence will make you commit silly mistakes.
Do not get depressed by tough questions. Instead remind yourself that these questions are tough for every aspirant.
Do not get emotionally attached to any question. It is not necessary that you will be able to solve a question from topics you have prepared
well.
Do not worry about the minimum cut-off marks for JEE. No one knows about the cut-off for sure, but no one has ever been rejected on the basis
of any subject-wise minimum cut-off.
Do not argue with anyone about anything before the test.
Have faith in God and in yourself. Whatever happens to you will be for the best.
Keep depressing thoughts away
First of all, realize that you are not the only one facing anxiety. Each IIT-JEE aspirant is facing the same dilemma.
Also realize that if you have studied even 60% of JEE syllabus properly, you need not harbour negative thoughts. Your success at the screening
test is ensured.
Whenever you feel tensed, start a countdown from 50 to 1. It will help you release tension.
Light stretching exercise also helps reduce pent-up tension.
If you are feeling tensed, do not suffer alone. The company of friends and light chit-chat will help you divert your mind from negative
thoughts.
Examination Strategies For IIT JEE
Revision related tips
About 20 days before the JEE , start getting acquainted with a wide variety of topics to improve the range of numericals you can
attempt. Do not attempt lengthy questions, and focus instead on objective, numerical questions to practice as many types of questions as you
can. You should look at breadth rather than depth in these 20 days.
Revise all important concepts and formulae, so that they are on your tips and come to you without any effort or thought.
The JEE paper gives equal weightage to all three subjects ? and so should your screening preparation.
Remember - The JEE has negative marking for wrong answers. So your familiarity with concepts will be crucial if you take the
calculated risk of logical guessing.
Things to keep in mind one day before the examination:
You need at least 6-8 hours of sleep before the examination to keep yourself fresh while solving questions.
Eat a light meal so that you do not feel drowsy or lethargic during the paper.
Revise only those topics that you have studied earlier. Do not start reading any new topics just before the examination, since this will be a
waste of time and you may lose the information you have already grasped.
You should reach the test center at least half an hour before the exam and if you haven't seen the center before, then you must go and visit
the center on the day before the exam.
Note: If your examination center is in another city-
Reach the city positively on the day before the exam.
Ensure the place of your stay there is calm, clean and conducive to study.
In actuality it does not make any difference whether the center is in your city or in some other city. So get the fear of an unknown city out
of your mind.
Never go to the center on an empty stomach. Always keep biscuits, fruits etc. handy.
Some students complain of nausea or headache close to the test. So keep relevant medicine handy.
If you plan to ride your own vehicle to the center, ensure it is in proper running condition and has enough fuel in its tank.
If you do not have a vehicle, ensure a means of traveling that reaches you to the center well in time, and give at least half an hour of time
for unforeseen delays like traffic jams and rush hour traffic.
Keep a wristwatch, your permission letter, a pen, two pencils (sharpened at both ends), an eraser, a sharpener and other relevant stationary
systematically with you.
Some important points to keep in mind during the examination
General Instructions
Synchronize your wristwatch with the center clock.
Open your permission letter and keep it on your table.
Do not use a red pen.
Points regarding presentation
Start attempting the question paper only after reading the instructions given on it very carefully.
While attempting questions, go on segregating them by the A, B, C method A :These questions are from topics that you have prepared well, and
you can clearly comprehend the meaning of these questions. You have done questions containing similar concept earlier and you are confident
that you will be able to solve these. B :You know you can solve these questions but they are time-consuming, nevertheless you are confident you
will be able to crack them when you come back to them. These questions should be attempted in the second round of question attempting, i.e.
when you have solved all questions marked with a B. C :You don't know head or tail of these questions and you should not waste time attempting
them.
Attempting to solve all questions in haste increases the chances of error. It is better to solve slightly fewer questions faultlessly.
Never attempt two questions at the same time. Concentrate on one question at a time.
Carry out all rough work only in the space given in the paper.
If you need a diagram to understand questions in say physics or coordinate geometry etc., do make one.
Use the value of constants given in the paper in solving a numerical. If the value is not mentioned, use the one you remember.
Give all three subjects equal time - i.e. 50 minutes each for physics, chemistry and mathematics.
While attempting the answers, do not shade the answer key immediately. Instead, tick your response with a pencil 4 on the answer key.
Keep marking questions with A, B, C in the first round of solving the paper. All questions should be segregated into one of these three
categories. This saves valuable time later.
Fill out the answer key 30 minutes before final time. Fill out the responses to questions attempted after this directly in the answer key.
Important Topics
Choosing the right topics for maximum study is very important not only for clearing JEE but also for getting a high rank. Lots of topics in JEE
syllabus require a huge lot of time, incomparable to that required by other topics. Spending too much time on these topics and ignoring other
topics leads to drastic failure in rank.Lots of topics in JEE are very easy and are of NCERT level.The key to topping JEE is to maximize your
scoring in these topics which boosts the rank. Many such topics require considerably less time and is much much less than the time required by
certain other topics with proportionate marks.You should spend more time on these topics and try to earn full marks in such topics.I list a few
of these topics:
MODERN PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS :most of the questions easy and similar to past JEE questions.
WAVE OPTICS :most of the questions are similar to past JEE questions
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND GENERAL CHEMISTRY :most of the questions are of NCERT level and are simple.
SOLID STATE :Most of the questions are very easy.
PROBABILITY AND DIFFERENTIATION :most of the questions are simple and NCERT level.
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS :most of the questions are similar to past JEE questions.
By spending legible time on these topics ,the scoring in JEE will be boosted and only will you clear JEE but also get a high rank.But beware ,
don't neglect there other topics. In topics like mechanics, electricity , physical chemistry and analytical geometry , if the concepts are
clearly understood then many of the questions pertaining to these topics can be easily handled.