What should be my last 15 days strategy for JEE Mains to maximize my score ?

Dear Aspirants,

 JEE MAIN  2020 January attempt is now just 15 days away . To help you in making your strategy for these last 15 days, below are the few suggested guidelines from my side for your help:

1. Previous year papers: Well instead of trying the available mock tests of famous institutes or books it is wise to practice the previous year papers of actual JEE MAIN. You have more than 10 papers of JEE MAIN 2019 available on official website and almost all other sites.  Try to attempt them like the actual examination. Even you needn't attempt all papers if you have time crunch.This will help you in getting a feel of the examination, what to expect, how much to attempt, how not to waste time. 

Since this year the pattern has changed and now you have numerical response questions , so you should try solving some subjective numeric questions plus brush up the concepts of significant figures.

2. Identifying Your Scoring Areas: After practicing these papers you should have an idea about which topics you can and should focus to score marks. Roughly the three subjects have 90 odd chapters and you can easily leave 10-15 chapters without hurting your performance.

3. Work on Strengths: Frankly speaking you don't have much time now to build up confidence over a topic which you have hardly studied till now so smartness suggests that instead of working on your weaknesses it is more wiser to work on strengths. Remember there's no sectional cutoff here, so if you feel you love Chemistry work harder on it and try to score say marks above 70 in chemistry by devoting 55-65 mins of examination time. Ultimately the total score counts.

4. Positive Attitude and Self Belief: Irrespective of how much you have studied and prepared till now, you have to maintain a positive attitude because worrying too much about what you haven't done won't improve your performance. Remember JEE MAIN in not tough but a tricky examination. The bravery is not in attempting all questions, sensible candidate must select the questions which are in his range and devote maximum time only on those questions which are going to fetch you marks.

Mostly XII appearing students because of Board examinations feel themselves not connected with objective pattern and many negative thoughts starts creeping in. Avoid all such negative thoughts and just believe in yourself. Remember these magical words "I CAN AND I WILL"

Good Luck!!

JEE MAIN RESULT DECLARED

Finally NTA has released the JEE Main All India Ranks today on www.jeemain.nic.in .
The cutoff scores for JEE ADVANCED are as given under

Prominent Colleges accepting JEE Main Score For Admissions

JEE 2018 Report Highlights

So finally JEE has released its report for the exam conducted last year. In this post I have tried to give a summary of this report which will help the aspirants to understand the examination and be realistic in their aspirations.

Like all these years, it again summarizes the fact that JEE is very different from the normal school board examinations in terms of testing pattern, syllabus, depth of application of key concepts and the marks distribution.

To understand these points, first look at the data regarding the minimum marks needed to land up in the Rank List of JEE Advanced

The JEE Advanced 2018 was of total 360 Marks and to get into the rank list you just need 25% marks and that too for an unreserved category student. The barrier is further reduced for the reserved categories. You might be wondering that this must not be a difficult task. Let’s explore

So  to be able to feature in top 17597 students out of approx 12- 13 Lakh students you need to solve approx 1 out of 4 questions correctly J.

Let’s now look at the Ranks vs Marks Data for JEE Advanced 2018

AIR-1           337 Marks (93.67%)
AIR 101       272 Marks (75.55%)
AIR 501       233 Marks (64.72%)
AIR 1001     213 Marks (59.17%)
AIR 2501     184 Marks (51.11%)
AIR 5001     158 Marks (43.89%)
AIR 10001   130 Marks (36.11%)
AIR 15001   113 Marks (31.39%)
AIR 24101    90 Marks (25%)

For OBC- NCL
AIR 1          319 Marks
AIR 101      213 Marks
AIR 1001    152 Marks
AIR 2001    129 Marks
AIR 5001      95 Marks
AIR 6901      81 Marks

For SC category
AIR 1           278 Marks
AIR 101       148 Marks
AIR 501       104 Marks
AIR 1001       83 Marks
AIR 3001       45 Marks

For ST Category
AIR 1            266 Marks
AIR 101        124 Marks
AIR 501          68 Marks
AIR 901          46 Marks

Now lets explore the raw marks scored by the candidates in the JEE Advanced 2018

So you can clearly see that there are many candidates whose scored less than ZERO marks and do remember Advanced is given by the candidates who have first passed the filter of JEE MAIN.
 Now look at the data of qualified and admitted (i.e. those who gor into IITs) students

Lets look at the same data for individual subjects. First see the performance in Physics

Next have a look at the data for Chemistry

Its quite interesting to note that the mode (maximum number of students scoring that particular mark) is ZERO. I have seen students last years clearing the overall cutoff but failing to clear the Chemistry cutoff and the graph explains this clearly.

Last is the Mathematics

So candidates scores the most in Physics in JEE Advanced 2018.

Now lets compare the marks obtained by candidates in JEE MAINs and JEE Advanced

So you can see the difference in the marks in Chemistry in JEE Mains and Advanced, Chemistry is the easiest to score in Mains but most difficult in Advanced.

So all those who are preparing or thinking to prepare for JEE Advanced should be mentally ready for the fact that when they will give practice tests for JEE Advanced scores would be very different from what you are used to see in your school exams.

Good Luck!!!

Seats in IITs to increase in order to implement EWS

As per the media reports, IITs will , on average implement around 4% EWS quota this year.

“With the introduction of EWS category in 2019, IITs are going to offer around 500 seats to EWS candidates, which is approximately 4%. The increase in the total number of seats will be less than 9%. Thus, the total number of seats will cross 12,500,” said Prof A K Chaturvedi, IIT Roorkee director who is the chairman of the Joint Admission Board of JEE (Advanced), 2019.

According to an information brochure for JEE (Advanced) 2019 uploaded by IIT Roorkee on its website on Saturday, the top 2,45,000 candidates from the JEE (Main) would be eligible for the JEE (Advanced) this year. This includes 9,310 candidates for the General-EWS category and 490 for the General-EWS-PwD (physically disabled) category.

In 2018, out of the 2,31,024 candidates shortlisted after the JEE (Main), only 1,65,656 students registered for the JEE (Advanced). A total of 11,279 seats were offered by the IITs in 2018, an increase of 291 seats from 2017.

Siddharth Pandey, chairman of JEE (Advanced) 2019 IIT Delhi said: “This year, IIT Delhi will be implementing 5.6% EWS quota. We will have an overall increase of 105 seats. For this, we are already constructing a girls’ and a boys’ hostel. We have also explored accommodation outside the premises.”

JEE ADVANCED BROCHURE RELEASED BY IIT ROORKEE

IIT Roorkee has released the information bulletin for JEE Advanced 2019 on www.jeeadv.ac.in. This year, 2, 45,000 students would be shortlisted for JEE Advanced 2019 examination.
To see the brochure click here.

How to select the right coaching institute for JEE/ NEET preparation?

The X CBSE exams are now over and the students aspiring to become Doctors/Engineers are in the process of zeroing in on the coaching institute they should opt for JEE/ NEET preparation. With so many advertisements and claims of different institutes, it has becoming a challenging task to sort out this issue.This short video is aimed to help them decide on this important subject.