You must have seen the latest papers of jee .Its getting on the simpler side.Let us assume that only 15000 students are effectively in the fight for these precious 3000 seats.
So, when the papers are getting simpler, still why do 12,000 people fail every year. Also those 12,000 could had solved most of the questions at home but the fact remains that they couldn’t helped themselves on the D-day. Here, I will try to enlighten some of the points which may help you not to be in that pity 12,000 lot . Good luck.
The foremost important thing that you have to do is to visualize how it feels after you are across the jee hurdle. Think , how your family will react hearing that their son has been qualified in the world’s most difficult entrance. Imagine, you will be the icon for most of the students in your relatives and neighbours. Everybody will praise you. Your success depends on this very exam, so you ought to work your as* for this.
But there is other side of the coin.Some students may feel pressurized and burdened by thinking all these crap. So, for those I would just say that IIT is nothing but a mere building of stones , in which some damn profs are eager to harass the students. Tell me how many successful IITians do you know? Or how many successful people are iitians.A little rumination isn’t going to help you. IIT is not a heaven , not at all.
This is a kind of phase that occurs in everybody life and you are no exception.
But,you have to give jee because you really don’t have any other option.Your parents, teachers,neighbours, the entire society and maybe somewhere down the line you yourself wants to be in IIT , but who the hell cares if I couldn’t make it. There’s nothing to lose. The juice is worth the squeeze, so it’s better to choose the easier road ie to prepare without thinking too much what IIT and its success is all about. And if I am giving it a try then why not whole heartedly?
Many students are often confused of setting up their priorities.
One simple exercise to set up your own priorities is to ask just a simple question '' Is it going me to land in IIT”'' or “Which of these two things will help me getting closer to IIT?” You will wonder that how such a simple question works and you will yourself do the important topics first than anything else.
Now let me tackle the parents issue. These are the species who can stimulate you or even have worse effects on you. So, I would advice not to take your parent’s comments seriously ( please don’t take me wrong).I mean our parents love us and they want our success. But sometimes they say some things which really disturbs us(BETA PAD LE, NAHIN TO IIT NAHI HOGI or your mom to your neighbour IIT ME JANA TO BAHUT HI MUSHKIL HAI, 2 LAAKH ME SE 2-3 HAZAAR LOG HI JAATE HAIN, neighbour-PHIR TO IIT ME JAANA PAHAD CHADNE KE SAMAN HAI)
What I am trying to say is that, actually your parents are proud of the fact that you are preparing for the jee , but they worry about your failure. They unintentionally create a doubt in your mind and it acts as a poison. And some other parents praise their child in front of everybody.You might develop a sort of complacent feeling about yourself by hearing all these things. So, it’s better to hear and let it pass from the other side, atleast about studies for these two years. I hope you understand me.
I know that many people will think that I am trying to delude this point upon them. But I can’t help myself saying this. Well, I think that you should better stay quite. You shouldn't discuss (questions and related things) too much with your friends.(Yaar yahan koi ek dusre ki baat sunne ko tyaar nahi hai).Tell me honestly,that when you explain something to your friend (or your friend to u), you both are trying to show that you knows the best.(your friend to u--- tujhe itni chhoti si cheese bhi nahi pata).
The real effect of doing so is that both of you are harming each other.This creates insecurity and dissatisfaction in you.You may begin to think that your friend knows better than you and you have to mend your ways(or revise the topic again).Indeed, I believe that you should talk something else (atleast not studies)with your friends(may be about fashion,,your hair cut, or girlfriends).Remember that you are going to gain nothing from discussions.(YOU KNOWS THE BEST).If you have a problem, try to figure it out yourself by trying it again and again or maybe ask the teacher or do the best thing….just leave it.
So, indeed solitude is a better thing to bet upon.
I would also like to state that there is nothing really big to worry about even if you have not done the syllabus well.Actually iitjee is half studies and remaining half “Temperament test”.So feel confident even if you haven’t done 20-30% syllabus(or say inorganic chemistry).But that doesnt mean that you have to try for 70%(I am now more concerned about the last time preparations ,say only 1 week is remaining).Actually You have to give your best on the actual day and that’s possible only if you are cool and are not nervous.
To choose questions in paper have a look at 3-4 Qs and ask yourself “which one is best to ensure your selection” A voice will come from inside and you will select the right question. Finally focus on one question at a time and don’t ever get discouraged if you are not able to do a question which you have solved previously at home.It happens in these kind of exams but the best part is, it happens with everybody.
In the initial period of 40 min(in 2 hrs of paper) if you survived(survival means that you selected right ones for yourself) then in the last half an hour or so you will feel immense energy and you can even solve a few difficult questions
Take one example:-you may have given any mock test.Now think seriously, how many marks you could have scored, if you would have done only the easy questions from the topics you know and wouldn’t have wasted your valuable time and energy on the so called vague Qs.
There are some Qs which nobody can solve in exam(I mean in EXAM) You can yourself see by looking the previous year’s papers.(especially chemistry).If you are not able to solve such few ques, then please don’t think that you are not prepared with the topic,actually you are having no problem but the problem is with the question itself. So, be careful and have confidence in yourself.
CONCLUSION---- Nobody in this world knows that what is right or wrong for you, no one can make a success plan for you, I mean JUST NOBODY IS GOING TO HELP YOU, instead of one person that is right now sitting in front of this computer finding out ways to succeed in iitjee, right it’s YOU my friend.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE.
Now think who can do better---
a friend of you who have done 90% syllabus but worry about remaining 10% (yaar mene matrices achhi tarah nahin kiya,pata nahin ac circuit kya Q kaise hoga, inorganic yaad nahin ki)and on the exam day trying to do all of the paper(i mean attempting) do a lot of silly mistakes(beware ….. there are no silly mistakes, they are just blunders)
or
You , who haven’t done any great things but take exam as a platform where you can show, who you are and do the questions from the topics you have done but CORRECTLY.
Think over this
(SORRY TO THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME)
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