Preparing For IIT JEE 2012 - Some Last Minute Tips

The countdown for IIT JEE 2012 has begun! IIT JEE exam is round the corner at 8th April 2012. Finally the time has come up to take stock of the situation and put your best foot forward. Every year lakhs of students appear in this entrance exam with a dream for reserving a seat in top engineering colleges of India. There are some last preparation tips for those who are going to appear in JEE exam this year. 


Time For Revision
In the last few days, don't start a new topic as it will confuse you further leading to a panic situation. Revise your key concepts, derivations and formulas whatever you have studied earlier.  Some important topics for revision are Electromagnetism and modern physics in Physics, Calculus and Coordinate Geometry in Maths and Aromatic compounds & Ionic equilibrium in Chemistry. If you have prepared flash cards of important theorems, topics, formulas, equations etc., this is the best time to revisit them. Scan through all your notes a day before the exam. 


Practice Practice Practice!
Do Practice as much as you can from IIT sample paper or Online mock tests. Also attempt last 5 year question papers of IIT JEE before IIT JEE exam pattern has changed after 2007. Ask all your doubts from your teachers/seniors/colleagues. But try to solve your question yourself. 


Change Your Biological Clock
In the last few years, you might have study in wee hours of night and sleep in the day time. Now the time has come to reverse your body's clock. Eight hour sleep is must for everyone. So in the last week, you shouldn't study in late night. Prepare a time schedule and stick on it. Also include some time for yoga, meditation or some entertainment.  These activities will help you to relax and calm. 


It is truly said by Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ” So Appear in IIT JEE 2012 with full confidence and well preparation.

How to study physics for IIT JEE...???

Phun of physics

For a good engineering career your physics must be excellent.Engineering is actually application of physics.

It is a subject in which you can be sure of scoring good marks if you have studied well. Unlike maths and chemistry paper of physics is always comparatively easy in IIT-JEE and you can score ample marks in it.

How to study physics........???

To excel in physics your maths base must be strong. you must be cool with differentiation and intigration.

so please strong your maths base. you must not be afraid of cutting sections,plotting graphs...etc. 

so strong maths base provides strong foundation for strong physics.

Boost your concept.

physics is a science of nature. it is governed by certain laws.you must learned these laws by heart. hardly there are 25-30 laws in your course....so please take care of it. now there comes applications of laws.

you must solve small questions to boost your concepts......and to learn how these concepts work in different types of enviorment. so doing small questions is a big thing in physics.

now comes the real thing

many tough looking questions of physics involve concepts from 2-3 chapters...so don't be afraid if such question comes because they are very easy. to solve these type of questions,first create a workplan either in your mind or on your paper. this will give you more insight in questions and will help you to understand which concepts are to be used.

above may be very small looking things but it will help you greatly as basics are more important than anything else in IIT-JEE. 

3 must things for IIT JEE Mathematics/maths

All the topics are equally important for IIT JEE but there are some topics which you must do with extra care. THREE C’s are very important in maths- complex numbers, coordinate geometry, calculus. These three are very important and you must take extra care of them. These topics will appear you lengthy and somewhat tricky at some level but after practice these will be the most easy topics for you. For doing these topics smoothly you must follow three steps-

Visualization - you must visualize the problem in your mind before doing these problems. These problems requires substitution etc. so if you straight forward start doing these on paper then you may fall in deep trouble. So solve problem in your mind before doing it on paper. This needs a lot of practice so start now

Comparison- if you can compare one question to another you can save time and effort. This also no one can teach you but you must learn it by yourself. This would help you in your calculus problems especially integration.

Graphical approach- sometimes problem becomes lengthy if you solve analytically but you can solve it easily with graphical approach. It will help you in removing cases, rejecting options etc. almost every question can be solved graphically quickly and easily.

No one can teach you above traits. Only you can learn it by yourself. You wont learn it in one day and lots of practice is recquired. don’t panic if you cant learn them all. If you learn even one you can crack IIT JEE……so best of luck……and start practicing…….and do come again to this blog for another nice bunch of topics.-

Now Score High in 12th Board Exam and in a Aptitude Test(Non subject test) For I.I.T 2013

The council of IITs today proposed a pan-India common 


entrance test for admission to engineering programmes 


possibly from 2013.


After a five-hour meeting of the council, Human Resource 


Development Minister Kapil Sibal, said , "We have decided 


there shall be one exam. Subject to the clearance of the 


Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) committee and 


subject to the clearance of the state ministers we will try and 


put that into operations from 2013." 


The government had constituted a committee under Secretary to the department of science and technology T Ramasami to examine implementation of a single entrance test. Six options were deliberated upon for the test and Ramasami has been asked to finalise one of these
within a month.


On the issue of hiking tuition fee as recommended by the Anil Kakodkar committee, Mr Sibal made it clear that "fee would remain the same at Rs 50,000 per annum" but added a student,
excluding STs and OBCs, would 'pay back' the amount which is the difference between the fee deposited and what the IIT spends on him.


The cost factor for an IIT for each students at present stands at around Rs 8 lakh against Rs 2 lakh paid over the entire duration of the B. Tech programme. The HRD Minister said implementation of the Kakodkar committee recommendation, which had sought to raise the tuition fee to Rs 2 lakh per annum, was "not possible" with interest of all sections of the society kept in mind.


Mr Sibal said that the 'pay back' scheme won't be applicable to those who enroll into M. Tech programme, those who do PhD and to even those who are recruited as faculty in IIT.The Finance Ministry's nod would be sought before putting in effect the scheme, Mr Sibal said.


On changes in the admission process based on the common entrance test, Mr Sibal said an all-India merit list will be prepared based on the combined weightage given to class XII exam and to a common entrance test. The test will examine a students logic and non-subject matters. Weightage would be given to the marks obtained in class XII boards after the results are equalised for which Indian Statistical Institute will put in place a mathematical formula for equalisation.


The minister said the council was aware of the problems that states like Andhra Pradesh faced while implementing the equalisation procedure. Mr Sibal said Indian Statistical Institute's formula would be based on the data of various boards collected over the past four years to make it an efficient equalisation model.


The meeting of the council attended by the directors of all IITs took a view of several systems for conduct of the test where it also decided to produce 40,000 PhDs by 2020 and create a pool of 16,000 faculties by then.


Mr Sibal exuded confidence on the viability of the 'pay back' scheme in instalments, saying the DMAT system will be utilised to execute the plan. DMAT is a process for the establishment of a national database of academic qualifications -- currently underway -- in an electronic format by an identified, registered depository. The dematerialisation of certificates would ensure confidentiality, authenticity and fidelity, enabling online verification and easy retrieval of academic qualifications.

Revision strategy for IIT JEE and AIEEE

As the most prestigious IIT-JEE exam comes nearer (especially when only 3 months are left), it brings along a lot of anxiety and nervousness for the students every year. Every year, I get (and getting as usual) a lot of queries on how to effectively utilize this period to extract maximum out of the minimum amount of time left especially by 12th class studying students since they have Board exams also which will definitely eat up a lot of their important time and energy. I thought of writing this article so that maximum students can get maximum benefit out of my learning and experience.

I am going to share some important points which, in general, will apply to most of you. Here we go :

1. First and most important of all. We should have a Revision copy/booklet. Let’s see how and what kind of purpose will it serve and what should be its contents.
(a) Divide the copy in 3 parts (each for subject : PCM).
(b) For each of the chapter, write 2-3 pages (on an average) summary. You should write all the important formulas and important tips/points which you gathered while you were attending your classes, practicing from your institute booklets or revising (earlier) on that topic. I believe you all do make your class notes.
(c) Try to be as short and particular as you can while you are writing or planning to write. Please don’t write the whole story. Be precise. In some cases, you may be writing 4-5 pages of summary (especially in Mathematic topics and in Organic Chemistry) so don’t worry.
(d) The purpose of this copy is to revise quickly and efficiently and in lesser time. Also, you should have confidence on whatever summary you are making. What I mean here is that you should not be running back and forth to your class copies and chapters while you are revising from this copy otherwise you will never be able to rely on this which will defeat the whole objective.
(e) This will also help in other competitive exams since the syllabus overlap between them is generally more than 95%. So, you are in a win-win situation.
(f) You should have a smile on your face whenever you revise any particular topic from your beloved copy.

Don’t worry if you still haven’t made a similar one or you have made with your own thinking. I idea is that it should serve the purpose and if it does, that’s it. In case, you haven’t worked on this yet, I will recommend that you should make one such and you don’t have to spend 2-3 weeks especially and dedicatedly on this at a stretch. Start working on this when you are revising any topic and build this gradually (say over a month or so).

2. Take help from Technology. If possible, record all the important points (which you have just written in your revision copy) in your own sweet voice in your phone/iPod or on any other storage device. I will not recommend speaking out whole tons of formulas. Record just the important concepts. You can listen to them whenever you are traveling for your class or anytime between your breaks. This will keep you engaged and you will soon remember most of them by heart. This couldn’t be done 10 years back but much possible, easy to do and inexpensive today. Don’t worry if you can’t do this. You still have your revision copy.

3. Set your biological clock. I think it is the time when you should start working on yourself on biological terms. I come across a lot of students who don’t deliver their performance in exams as most of them suffer from “Night Study” syndrome. So, please stop studying at nights (You can/may study till 11:00-11:30 PM at maximum). Please start building the habit of waking up early. I will recommend “atleast” 2 three hours sittings from 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon and 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM. The idea is to deliver maximum output during this time duration (as these are the JEE paper timings). Whenever you are studying, you should be doing that on a Table-Chair combination and not on a sofa or your bed. You should be in a tidy position every time you sit for studies. Wear jeans/T-Shirt/Pull Overs while studying.

4. Practice a lot. You need to practice a lot during this crucial period of 3 months. Let’s see what all you can practice.
(a) You have to ensure that you do a test paper (of 3 hours : PCM) practice every day.
(b) What all can be practiced ? This should include : Previous years JEE papers (atleast last 5 years is the minimum you should do), all previous Test series (Mock JEE or any 3 hours test) held at your institutes. You can also make practice test papers on your own (rather take parents help) from the additional problem sets or workshops or other packaged problem sets you must have got from your respective institutes.

The whole idea is that you should have a habit of doing atleast one paper every day. I will advice you not to rush for altogether new questions in form of new books in the market. It is more advisable and recommended to practice the ones which you are getting from your institutes. We may think over the new questions if time and energy permits.

5. Plan your studies. This is also very crucial (Execution is more important than Planning and we, as Indians, generally, lack in execution even though we are good planners.). Please plan your studies by making very short term goals for next 2-3 days only. Don’t plan for next 2 weeks or 2 months. Very rarely, they will get executed as planned. Make targets for what all you want to cover in next 2-3 days and try to follow and achieve them with your best efforts.

6. Refresh yourself. Please don’t close yourself behind the doors and keep on inhaling your own CO2. Try to go for a morning walk everyday (These days due to icy winters, go around the time when it is some shiny out there and in upcoming months, start early) as well as an evening walk. Choose a park near your home and give yourself some time out of this tension freaked atmosphere around you. Spend around 30 minutes and you should feel a flow of positive energy. Don’t consider it as wastage of your “precious” time. Don’t be so calculative (:-)). From February onwards, I would recommend that whenever you are studying in your room and there is a window, keep it open and let some cool and fresh breeze come in.

7. Prepare for Inorganic chemistry early. Now it is the right time to start preparing for Inorganic Chemistry from NCERT (both XIth and XIIth class books) and may be from early (or may be 2nd week of) February, you can start working on it from your Institutes Inorganic Chemistry modules. You should put 1-1.5 hours every day. While you are going through this, you should underline the important points on the book itself in parallel so that you don’t have to spend extra time on this and make sure that when you will again revise (You have to do that also) sometime in February AND March, you only revise the underlined only. [The reason to refer NCERT is because I believe that you should be able to do more than 80% of the Inorganic questions in Entrance exams purely using NCERT and it will also help to prepare for your Board Exams also.]

I hear from a lot of students that they feel Inorganic Chemistry is boring but I feel that if from a particular topic, question(s) is(are) coming every year, then it is important and interesting (to some extent though). So, please make your heart understand (simply listen to your mind) that it is very important to score in this branch of Chemistry and it is as important as Mathematics and Physics. You can see on your own on how many questions on s, p, d, f – block elements, Extractive Metallurgy, Surface Chemistry, Solid State, Biomolecules and Coordination Complexes have been asked in last 4-5 years of JEE. You can have a look at my analysis of JEE ranks versus marks to see how much difference Inorganic Chemistry can make. If that number still doesn’t fascinate you, I will say sorry and can’t help you further on this.

8. Be Cheerful. I think we all should try to be and remain as cheerful as we can. If, at this early stage in life, we behave like a frustrated person, we will eventually (very soon) become one such (as this will become our nature) and this is definitely going to hamper our performance in every field of our life, be it studies, job or relationship. Its ok to some extent if you are getting much less marks than your peers. I am not saying you to become a “chill pill” type person. I am suggesting/advising you to stay relaxed. I am more than confident for all those who are preparing hard for IIT-JEE that they will definitely become good engineers from good colleges (which may or may not be the IITs). Staying frustrated and anxious is only going to degrade your performance further. It is not going to buy you anything good. So, always smile.

9. Take a Pledge ( ). Take a Pledge that you will not waste your time on Cricket World Cup 2011. Please don’t let yourself ruin your careers. These cricket world cups will keep on coming in the future but this chance of doing something for yourself will not come back. Believe me that this period is very very important for your careers and you should not at all be engaged in any activities related to a mere wastage of your time. Let others bump up their TRPs rather than you becoming the victim. Assume that all the cricket matches are fixed. It is as easy to get rid of this fever of cricket.

At the end of the day, all that matters is your confident positive attitude which is going to help you crack all the exams. Please don’t waste these important 3 months of your life. You need to prove yourself buddy. You can still study for a 1000 hours in this time period and I have seen a lot of students doing exceptionally good and bad in entrance exams all attributed to their efforts in this crucial time period.

BTW, do you still remember the titration curve between a Strong Acid and a Strong Base and how the pH changes near equivalence point in this graph ? In real life, you can relate this graph to be as Performance versus time OR Tension versus time depending on your “karma” (:-)). Don’t worry if you didn’t understand this.

I would like to wish everyone of you a great luck for these next 2-3 months.

Cheers

IIT's to change pattern of IIT JEE

The Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) are all set to bring about a whole new change in the pattern of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) being organised every year across the country. The changed exam pattern may be put into practice from the year 2013 but a final conclusion will be reached only at the IIT council meeting scheduled to be held in the first week of January.

"The IIT council has accepted the recommendations of Dr T Ramaswamy committee but how will the suggestions made be put into implementation is yet to be deliberated upon. It will be only in the first week of January next year that any concrete decision in this regard would be taken," IIT-K director SG Dhande informed media persons.

Prof Dhande said according to the recommendations of Ramaswamy committee, the new pattern of JEE would include conducting an aptitude test for exam aspirants. The students will have to crack this aptitude test consisting of questions based on reasoning and all other subjects that the students have studied in their schools.

Dhande said instead of calculating the performance of the students on the basis of the percentages received in their Class XII, the weightage would be given to the percentile. For this, the percentages achieved by the students in their Class XII would be converted into percentile by using a specific formula.

"As different states have different state boards and there are only two central boards viz CBSE and ICSE, it will be a difficult task to establish uniformity in the percentages achieved by an individual student when comparing his performance with the other individuals. For this the percentage of marks achieved by the students would be converted into a percentile. This would be done through virtual mapping by the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata," said Dhande while explaining about the proposed way via which the percentages achieved by the students in Class XII in their different state boards would be brought on a uniform scale.

He further said the 50% weightage would be given to this percentile performance and other 50% weightage would be given to the performance in the JEE. It would be on the basis of these two performances the students rank in the JEE would be accessed.

Dhande also added that there were 42 state boards and because of that reason, some kind of uniformity had to be established to match the performance of the individual students (in Class XII) with one another.

"And when so many boards are there and each one of them has its importance, the percentile match is the only way out to calculate the students performance," he further said.

AIEEE -All India Entrance Test for admission into various engineering courses in different engineering colleges and institutes in the country has hit the imagination of school going students more than any other entrance test conducted at this level. Every year, lakhs and Lakhs of students toil hard to succeed in this exam.

Without argument, you need to be very well versed with the pattern as well as the level of the questions asked in the exam.

A CHAPTERWISE analysis of previous year’s questions is called for here. With this objective in mind, we are giving below the chapter wise analysis (break-up) of questions asked in last 9 years (2002-10) of AIEEE in each of the subjects of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics

Year : 2010	Total Question: 90	Total Marks : 432
Physics	No. Of Question Asked	Chemistry	No. Of Question Asked	Math	No. Of Question Asked
Electricity	5	Organic	10	Calculus	9
Heat & Thermodynamics	1	Inorganic	5	Trigonometry	2
Magnetism	4	Physical	15	Algebra (XII)	3
Mechanics	9			Algebra (XI)	5
Modern Physics	6			Coordinate Geometry	3
Optics	3			Probability	2
Unit and Measurements	1			Statistics	2
Waves	1			3-D (XII)	2
				Vectors	2

Year:2009, Total Question:90 (432 Marks)
Math		Physics		Chemistry
Sets, Relations and Functions	2	Units, Dimensions, Errors, Experiments	1	Atomic Structure and Classification	3
Limits, Continuity & Differentiability	1	Kinematics	2	Chemical Bonding	1
Application of Derivatives	3	New ton's laws and friction	0	Stoichiometry	0
Indefinite Integrals, Definite Integrals & Area under the Curve	2	Work, Power & Energy	1	States of Matter	1
Cartesian coordinates & Straight Line	1	System of particles	1	Chemical & Ionic Equilibrium	1
Circles	1	Gravitation, Rotational mechanics	1	Chemical Kinetics & Nuclear Chemistry	1
Conics	3	Properties of Matter	1	Chemical Thermodynamics	2
Quadratic Equations, Inequalities, Progressions	3	SHM, Oscillations	1	Solutions	2
Complex Numbers	1	Mechanical Waves and Sound	2	Electrochemistry	1
Binomial Theorem, Exponential & Logarithmic Series	1	Ray Optics, Wave Optics	3	General Organic Chemistry + Functional Group I	5
Permutation & Combination	1	Heat and Thermodynamics	5	Organic Chemistry – Functional Group II	2
Probability	2	Electrostatics	3	Organic Chemistry – Functional Gp III	1
Vectors	2	Current Electricity 2 1	1	Chemistry of Representative Elements	3
3-D Coordinate Geometry	1	Magnetism, Magnetic effects of current	2	Transition Elements	2
Differential Equations & Properties of Triangles	1	EMI , AC and EM waves	1	Coordination Compounds & Organometallics	2
Trigonometric Ratios, Equations, & Inverse Circular Function	1	Modern Physics	5	Surface Chemistry	1
Heights and Distances	0			Biomolecules	2
Matrices & Determinants	2
Mathematical Logic	1
Statistics	1