10 Mantras for IIT JEE 2006

1. Read the instructions given in the paper carefully. Nothing has officially been announced about the no. of questions that will be asked or about the difficulty level or about exact nature of negative marking or even about pattern of questions. Be mentally prepared for any surprises.
2. Do the easy questions first. Leave the difficult ones at first go. Reach the end of the question paper this way. If you still have time, try to do the more difficult questions that you had left in the first go.
3. Wild guessing should not be done. However, if at least 50% of the options have been eliminated, then intelligent guessing may be done. This decision needs to be fine tuned after looking at the penalty factor. (If some questions do not have negative marking then this rule is not applicable for them. Any questions not having negative marking should not be left unattempted.)
4. Reach the examination hall well in time. It may be a good idea to visit the place in advance, so that you do not have difficulty in locating it on the exam day in case you are unfamiliar with the location.
5. If the paper is very tough, don't feel nervous. Remember that it is relative performance that counts. Others may find it tough also.
6. Do not mark in hurry. This may spoil all the work you have done. Remember that this is the only thing that is examined.
7. Take care of your health. The most important thing in this respect in exam season is drinking water.
8. Do not study a new topic a few days before the exam. Strengthen the topics you are good at.
9. Do approximations in calculations keeping an eye on the error.
10. There is no need to write all steps in objective type tests. If you have the habit of showing all steps, then it is time to do away with it at least in objective type tests to save time. Also, there is no need to follow conventional methods to solve questions. Many ways like elimination of options, boundary conditions, variable substitution, dimensional analysis etc. may be employed.

Q & A (Topic priority)

Sir,

Pl. I wanted the topic-wise weightage of PMC. I wanted to revise as per the weightage.

Thank you!

Satish Morampudi
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There is no official weightage in JEE. However, past trends go in favour of the following topics:

Physics: Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism
Mathematics: Calculus, Algebra
Chemistry: Physical, Organic

Hence, the priority may be given to these topics while revising. Priority only means doing them first. Other topics may be done after these are done. Note that it is not advised to start a new topic near the exam days. It makes more sense to concentrate on your strengths near the exam days rather than getting bogged down by the new topics / your weak topics.

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If you think achieving great heights of success will be easy, you either don’t understand at all how the process works or you have your sights set too low. Reaching the top of any field is difficult, time-consuming, and often tedious. The reason it isn’t crowded at the top is that most people won’t do the things that are necessary to achieve success. They are all too willing to give up when the going gets tough. If you need inspiration to persevere, read the biographies of men and women who have achieved greatness in their lives. You will find that they prevailed because they refused to quit. They continued to toil alone long after the masses had given up and gone home.

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Only those who have the habit of going the second mile ever find the end of rainbow.

It is a fact of life that most of us try and fail many times before we ultimately achieve the level of success that we desire. You can expect to travel the extra mile many times only to find fool’s gold at the end of your rainbow. But you will most certainly miss out on the great riches that await you if you quit trying. A superficial commitment to doing more than expected based only on what you expect to receive will not sustain you in the long term. Great achievement results from a commitment to do the right thing regardless of the consequences, and that commitment will ultimately lead you to the pot of gold at the end of your rainbow.

Courtesy: Napoleon Hill Foundation.