How to Prepare for JEE Advanced 2015 Exam in 30 days

JEE Main Exam is now over and its results are expected on April 27, 2015. JEE Advanced 2015 is scheduled for May 24, 2015. It will have two papers and both will be held on the same day. If you are in the Top 20 percentile of your boards in Class 12 and score somewhere 115 to 120 marks in the JEE Main 2015 exam, you are likely to qualify for the IIT JEE exam.

What should be your focus now?

There is about 1 month left for IIT JEE preparation now. Between your Class 12 board exams and JEE Main exam, you must have prepared at least 90% of your JEE Advanced syllabus already. This is not the time to pick up new topics – until you have missed out on a topic that carries a lot of weightage according to IIT JEE and JEE Advanced question papers’ analysis for the last 5 years. In that case, you might want to opt for our topic-wise online study packages.

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If you haven’t covered more than 30% syllabus till now, you have no choice to spend 1 or 2 weeks (till April-end) to cover important topics that are left and then, focus on revision work and solving sample papers.

What to do in next 30 days?

Solve full-length question paper every consecutive day 

Your target should be to solve at least 10-15 full-length sample JEE-Advanced 2014 papers and JEE Advanced previous year question papers over the next 30 days. Ideally, you should attempt one full-length question paper and analyse it on one day, and spend the next day to learn from your mistakes.

To solve a question paper:

• Keep an eye on the watch. Solve the paper at the exact timing of exam sessions. This will train your mind to be fresh and alert at that time.
• Learn time management. Do not take more than the assigned exam duration of 3 hours to solve a paper. Now, it is high time to try and practice for the exam just as you would do it in real life.
• Match it with the given solutions and find out your exam score.
• Make a table to note down the sample paper score, scores of individual sections, number of questions you have attempted, number of questions that were incorrect and number of questions that you did not attempt.

To analyse a question paper: For example, here is the table you can use:

• Work on the topics of questions that are wrong or that you did not attempt over the next day.
• Match the solutions by experts to your solutions and find out the most accurate and quickest method to solve a particular question. Practice the best method to save time and achieve higher accuracy next time.
• Compare scores you get in sample papers over the weeks and see how much your performance is improving. It will help you build confidence for the actual exam.

What not to do in last 1 month before the Exam? 

• Do not try to revise everything at once. Start with topics that carry more weightage in the exam and move to less important topics only when you have enough time.
• Do not try to read full chapters now. Use revision notes, formulae sheets and mind maps to quickly go through concepts.
• Give preference to solving sample papers over theoretical revision. Many students make the mistake of not taking enough mock tests in the last month because they have to go through heaps of revision notes. At this stage, use your study material only as reference while working on topics you are not able to understand clearly. Solving papers will help you to build up speed and fine-tune your exam strategy.
• Give up social media and your friends for a while. We tend to look for any rumours about paper leaks or postpone of exams in the last days of the exam. We talk to our friends and if they are performing better than us, we panic. If their performance is poorer than us, we might become overconfident. So, the best thing to do in the last 1 month of JEE Advanced preparation is to wean yourself off any gossiping and rumour-mongering.

Work hard and believe in yourself. All the best!

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