Just Five Days for JEE 2009

Relax, Relax and Relax

Plan to keep your body physically fit. Mind agile.

First believe in your two year effort. You have done your best. Feel happy about it. You are going to demonstrate the competence that you built over the last two years.

Think of what works for you. Is it studying intensely for the last five days? Is it more relaxed study? Is it going through core principles of each chapter? Is it solving old difficult problems? Is it solving new problems?

You are the best judge. Anything you do now must make you feel more happy, more confident and more engergized. Go to the examination with hope, and answer the question paper with hope. Answer every question with hope.

When you are answering a question focus on that question. Don't worry about the rest of the paper. Don't worry the about the result. Think you will get the seat. Till the last second focus on the issue at hand and solve.

Remember you have to write more examinations like AIEEE. Don't feel run down at the end of the examination. You should complete the examination with strength and energy and continue your enthusiasm for the next examination. Be cheerful. Learn from the experience to do still better at the next examination. Improvement is the objective. Not dejection.

Believe in your effort, believe in your effort.

Last 3 weeks Preparation for JEE 2009

My suggestion:

Take 6 chapters of a subject each day.
Spend half an hour on principles and formulas for each chapter.
Revise 30 problems of a chapter in an hour. It will be good if you marked difficult problems in your earlier study. Revise those problems now.

That way in 9 hours you can complete 6 chapters in a day.

You can complete all the three subjects before the examination.

I think this last 3 week preparation will add a lot to your earlier effort and make you do your best in the exam.

All the best.

Write tests conducted by your coaching institutes. If they tell you to read some chapters in more detail based on those tests, read those chapters. Remember it is time that you put in 12 to 13 hours effort for JEE. So you have lot more time to think your own ideas as well as to follow ideas of your coaching institutes.

Preparing for Board and IIT JEE

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Now you have to think of Boards as well as IIT JEE. Your good performance in Board examination is stepping stone for IIT JEE. There is no conflict between the two. Every concept that you use for board examination is useful for JEE also.

Some suggestions

If you are academically bright student, the next couple of weeks is the time for you to concentrate on concepts that you have not revised earlier. Don't waste time revisiting waht you alread know.

Weaker students have to revise what they know and perfect that.

If you have to appear for competitive examinations, devote 20% of time to prepare for these examinations until mid-February.

5 R's for success: Reorganize, Revise, Rest, Relax and Reassure

Reorganize: Collect and organize you study material for each retrieval.


Connect the course content to everyday ideas to have a greater recall. Try acronyms, mnemonics, rhymes that associate with the concepts.

I personally advocate somebody in the family asking some questions everyday. When you are not able to answer, revise the topic and natural association between that event and the topic will be there.

First understand and then memorize. If you memorize without understanding, examination anxiety may prevent you from recollecting it.

Practice writing answers and attempt some mock tests. It will tell you how much time you are taking to write answers.

Have a timetable for a day, but be flexible around it. Don't get stressed. You may stretch on a day or slightly relax on another day. Stay refreshed and start everyday with enthusiasm.

Strategy from December 2008 - April 2009

Many have to learn some new materials/chapters. Some institutes have completed the full syllabus.

If you have not yet completed full syllabus, you have to learn daily some new materials by sitting in the class, studying at home and doing problems in these chapters.

Revision: Have a plan to complete one full revision of all chapters by December end.

Mastering chapters: Have a plan to master at least one chapter for day. I earliest said five point revision per hour. Do five point revision for the chapter you want to master on a day.

Pursuit of Goals - Motivation Essential

Bonnie St. John Deane

Winner in Disabled Olympics, Harvard and Oxford Degree holder, White House Official on National Economic Council

Who or what motivates you?

Her answer: "I motivate me."

Her method: Five step exercise.

Five steps

1.What are your payoffs? List down the benefits or rewards from achieving or completing the task.

2. Find deeper meaning in your goals. Find compelling reasons for completing your goal.

3. Get your dreams at half price. Find more goals which can be reached with the work that you are putting in for reaching this goal. Work with a friend. Develop a plan to achieve the goal efficiently with less cost.

4. Stop underestimating your odds for success: Underestimating your odds to succeed can stop you dead in your tracks. Believe in your success till the end of the task.

Err on the side of optimism. Spend less time with people who discourage you on the task or goal. But don't just believe in positive thinking. Investigate the odds, have a real confidence that they are within your teach and always work on improving the odds.

5. Change your real odds or winning or improving odds: Learn from people who have succeeded in reaching the goal before.

http://knol.google.com/k/kvssn-rao/pursuit-of-excellence-and-success/1zb6eis38d7or/8#

JEE 2009 - Get ready to increase your effort

In the last lap of the preparation you have to put in more intensive and focused effort.

13 hours per day from 1st January to 31 March 2009.

12 hours per day December

11 hours per day in November

10 hours per day so far.

Targets: Complete study of all the chaters one more time before 31st December 2008.

From January: Every day

Revision of important points 3 chapters 1.5 hours
Problems and questions from 3 chapters 5 hours - target time for each question 2 minutes
preparation for the board examination 3.5 hours

Attending the coaching class 3 hours (if coaching class is not there additional preparation in studying the details of the three chapters/revision of difficult problems in the chapters)

By 15th February all chapters revision of important points and formulas to be over.

TIPS for JEE

The IIT/JEE : there is a difference between your preparations for CBSE exams and IIT/JEE. Here what matter most is not the quantum of books one has grasped or gone through. But the no. of correct answers, he gets. Students must change their mind sets while appearing for IIT/JEE.Here you have to clear the section cut off of the subject.Trends in the last 2 years show that the section cut off for Physic, Chemistry and Maths stands at 30, 35 and 25 percent. If a student gets this percentage of the questions correct, they have all chances to get a seat.

Never give priority to any section during preparation. While Maths, physic and Chemistry stnd in the hierarchy of difficulty.Students must not ignore chemistry. It may seem boring nd but it is a rewarding section.

Source:

http://fromprincipaloffice.blogspot.com/2008/01/tracking-cracking-engineering-entexams.html