So Many students cross ways the country are appearing for the major engineering entrance exam – JEE – for securing admission in the IITs, NITs and other Centrally-funded institutes in India.
About 14 lakh students in over 1500 centers in India and abroad are predictable to take JEE this year.
About 1.5 lakh top candidates will be short-listed to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2015 basis their performance in the JEE (Main) 2015 (Paper 1) (including all categories).
“A systematic approach when preparing for it will help students cracks it. The cut-off for JEE (Main) is usually around 60% for NITs and IIITs,” says Ramesh Batlish, Noida centre head, IITJEE.
Complexity Levels of Subjects
The tough chapters include chance, variation and combination and integral calculus in maths; rotational dynamics and geometrical optics in physics; solid state and inorganic chemistry in chemistry; 3D images in engineering drawing; and logical reasoning in aptitude. Revision of Class 11 and 12 syllabus and practicing the last 10 years’ question papers of the previous paper’s helps a lot. For rational reasoning, solving GRE questions is a good idea.”
Thing You Should Avoid
“Avoid writing lengthy solutions for troubles — mainly while doing your preparations. Do not worry if the first two hours of the paper prove to be average for you. Make sure that you do well in the third hour. Your target should be to solve one-third of the paper to be able to make it to the top 1.5 candidates,” Kumar suggests.
Last-Minute Tips
Experts say that trying conservative methods can help at the time of exam. In case they don’t work out, one should try to appreciate the questions again and find clues that can lead to the solution of the problem.
“Go through the concepts connected to the problem once again and see how they can be applied to the problem at hand. Try to relate the problem to real-life situations. It will help you to analyze it better. Refer to the solution, only when you have tired your limits. See what you had missed earlier. carry out similar problems. Doing 100 quality and concepts-based questions is more important than doing 1000 questions, which have not been selected cautiously. Devise your own shortcuts and ways to tackle particular kind of problems.
“The aptitude test is designed to check a candidate’s mind, creativity, observation, architectural awareness and perception. The drawing section has two to three questions involving sketching of scenes and behavior from memory of urban-scrape (public space, market, festivals, street scenes, monuments, recreational spaces etc.), landscape (river fronts, jungles, gardens, trees, plants etc.) and rural life.