What are some ways to score the best on the JEE exam?

Let me start by providing you a few General Tips.

Study Plan: It is extremely essential that the student formulates a study plan which improves and covers all areas of his/her weaknesses and also play a role in polishing his/her strong points. We would later be covering the priority-based topics for JEE.

1. Time-Management: Time-Management is the fundament recipe for clearing JEE or anything in life. The student needs to adopt a proper time-management method in which he doesn’t even miss out on his daily recreational activities and also his academics. They need to take proper time from their schedule for self-study and not just allot all the time to coaching classes and college.
2. Practice, Practise, Practise !!- Practice is the key to clearing JEE. More questions you’re exposed the better. IIT-JEE questions are never straight-forward, they are extremely conceptual and the students need extreme expertise for solving the problem or else he/she would suffer from the consequences of negative marking.
3. Tests: The students need to appear for tests consistently as they are an important tool for evaluation. The important point to note that is it fully doesn’t depend on how much you study but how well you perform during your examinations.
4. Coaching Classes: This upon the discretion of the student. The students can check for the best coaching classes in their vicinity and make sure they spend the least time in commuting. Coaching Classes, generally fill the void what traditional schooling system is unable to fulfill and provides an additional academic push.

Acing an exam largely boils down to whether you had planned the schedule in the right way. Determining your approach is as crucial as the process of actually studying. The chapters for JEE are mentioned in a decreasing priority order, which means the ones at the top have the highest priority and priority level decreases as you go through the list. Hence, let us now discuss the preparation strategy for each subject.

• PHYSICS

Physics requires you to have a strong hold on concepts. Once the concepts have been mastered, they are very easy to retain. Some chapters for JEE in physics have a heavy weightage in the exams. Here’s the priority sequence you can follow chapter-wise.

Mechanics

Mechanics is probably the most important topic any engineer should know. This invariably makes it the most important part of the paper. Indeed, the bulk of questions in JEE are either directly mechanics questions or require you to have considerable skill to solve compound problems.

Rotational Mechanics is the most important topic in mechanics. But in order to master that the student needs to have considerable expertise with the previous chapters.

Any JEE level mechanics problem can be solved by a combination of one or more of these:

• Newton’s laws
• Work energy theorem
• Law of conservation of energy
• Law of conservation of momentum (linear/angular)
• Equation of continuity
• Bernoulli’s theorem

These are probably the most important chapters for JEE and have applications in other chapters for JEE Physics too.

Also, do not ignore the chapter on elasticity.

Electricity and magnetism

A lot of questions are asked from the applications of Coulomb’s law and Capacitance. Stick to the JEE syllabus because this topic is diverse. Use Kirchhoff’s laws, series-parallel reduction, and such tricks. Do not ignore the theoretical aspects of the topic. There are quite a large number of standard formulae in electrostatics and magnetostatics. Make sure to remember them all (with directions involved) because you won’t have enough time to derive standard results on D-day. Motional EMF is also one of the most asked topics and should be among the top priority chapters for JEE, so ensure that you practice ample of questions from it.

Thermal physics

Familiarize yourself with calculations of work, internal energy and heat in various processes.

Fluids and waves and sound

A lot of questions are asked from waves and sound; the most common ones are from Doppler Effect. Practice sample questions from fluid mechanics as well.

Potentiometer-related experiments

JEE contains questions involving error analysis pertaining to potentiometer-related experiments, so make sure to understand them.

Optics

This chapter isn’t as difficult as it seems; it is indeed it is one of the easiest topics for JEE. Practice many questions, and you’ll be able to master it. Do not ignore Huygens’s principles.

Modern physics

It is mostly theoretical; in this, the focus should be on understanding the nuances of Bohr’s model. The common formulae should be memorized.

• CHEMISTRY

One must understand that it’s very important to read as much as possible in order to learn chemistry. Also, revision is crucial as there’s a possibility of forgetting things. Take chemistry as seriously as mathematics and physics. Do not ignore this subject just because you feel chemistry is purely “cramming.”

Physical Chemistry

Chemical Equilibrium and Ionic Equilibrium are the most important topics in Physical Chemistry but in order to master that you need to have an excellent expertise in Mole Concept and Volumetric Analysis.

Mole Concept:

The most important and central concept in physical chemistry is the mole concept, which lies at the heart of the subject. Hence, it is indeed one of the most important chapters for JEE chemistry. You should read this chapter thoroughly to gain a firm command over the entire chemistry subject. It is also important to understand the application of mole concept to various types of reactions, especially redox reactions. Several questions of physical chemistry in competitive examinations like JEE Main and JEE Advanced can be solved easily if one is well-versed with the mole concept.

Electrochemistry is also an important topic

Atomic Structure

This is the only chapter whose contents do not seem to have a direct correlation to Mole Concept. Questions from Atomic Structure are regularly asked in JEE.

Other topics

The rest of physical chemistry is essentially derived from mole concept. Other concepts like Chemical Thermodynamics, Chemical Bonding, Chemical Kinetics, Gaseous, etc. have nearly equal weightage. So, they can be revised in any order, but remember that a few questions are guaranteed to come from this section. Student needs have a basic idea of Surface Chemistry and Nuclear Chemistry.

Organic Chemistry:

Nomenclature is the most basic concept in organic chemistry, it is essential that the student has an excellent mastery over it.

General Organic Chemistry and Isomerism:

The key to understanding the entire organic chemistry is being thorough with the general organic chemistry section – electrophiles, nucleophiles, types of reaction, acidity, basicity, etc. The remaining organic chemistry is just the application part.

Named Reactions

A large part of organic chemistry consists of the standard “named” reactions and students are expected to know these reactions along with the mechanisms. It is always good to know the mechanism of a specific reaction so that you can solve a similar new problem. Solomon and Fryhle’s Organic Chemistry is one of the best books for learning organic chemistry besides other available books.

Organic Synthesis:

The Student needs to gain mastery over reaction mechanics to proceed with organic chemistry as the mechanism is very important for the entire chemistry. This is the part of the organic chemistry where things don’t need to be mugged up and can be understood and analyzed as JEE usually twists the questions on the basis of analysis.

Aldehydes and Ketones are very important chapters of Organic Chemistry. Major chunk is asked from this chapter.

Another important aspect of organic chemistry is the portion of organic synthesis, which involves writing a sequence of steps to synthesize a given compound from a given set of reagents with as little effort as possible. Quite a few problems of organic chemistry in the competitive examinations are based on organic synthesis.

Please do not miss out on Biomolecules as it is the simplest and very scoring.

Inorganic Chemistry

All of Inorganic Chemistry is on equal footing. No chapter can be considered ‘Unimportant.’

There are a large number of compounds, and you are expected to know about them (methods of preparation, chemical reactions, uses, etc.). So, it’s a good idea to not divert much from the syllabus.

Many questions of inorganic chemistry are asked from p-block elements, and it becomes important to understand this chapter rather than just cramming it. A good knowledge of periodic table and the trends in the properties of atoms (ionization potential, atomic radius, electronegativity, electron affinity, the electrode potential) will help you to understand the reactions.

• MATHEMATICS

For mathematics, you need rigorous practice. The more problems you will solve, the better will be your speed and accuracy.

The mathematics syllabus for JEE broadly consists of the following topics:

• Trigonometry
• Algebra
• Differential Calculus
• Integral Calculus
• Coordinate Geometry
• Vectors

The topics for preparation of Mathematics for JEE Main & Advanced should be chosen wisely in order to ensure that pre-requisites for each topic are met completely. Hence, even though the priority of differential and integral calculus is undoubtedly the highest among any other chapter, calculus needs to be done after trigonometry and algebra.

Calculus

Calculus includes chapters on functions, limits, continuity, differentiability, differentiation, application of derivatives, integration, definite integrals and differential equations. Each of the above topics is important, and the calculus section covers around a third of the paper. So, you must be well-versed in every standard formula and technique used in calculus.

Co-ordinate Geometry

This topic is usually taught in high school as well, so students are already familiar with the basic concepts of the slope, the equation of a line, etc. Solving plenty of problems (subjective as well as objective) from geometry helps in scoring better in JEE.

Vectors (and 3D Geometry)

Having done the coordinate geometry portion, most of you will find the 3D geometry portion relatively hassle-free and do well in this section. It’s primarily easy-breezy because JEE contains numerous problems pertaining to vectors that require standard formulae as in the case of a parallelepiped, etc.

Algebra

Algebra questions in JEE are a bit hard, and most students struggle with the chapters on permutations and combinations and complex numbers. However, practice is the key. The chapter on complex numbers greatly depends on the coordinate geometry portion. At times, a hard question from complex numbers can be solved if one can smartly correlate it to a coordinate geometry problem.

Trigonometry

The formulae of trigonometry appear everywhere in JEE Mathematics exam paper. Very few questions are purely based on trigonometry, but there are always questions that involve standard trigonometric identities. Remember that an important aspect of the JEE Mathematics preparation is memorizing standard formulae. Make sure you are thorough with them to avoid last-minute anxiety.

To master JEE Mathematics, all you need to do is to practice a large number of questions and you will surely perform well.

Hope this helps!