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Keep your wits about you
ABDUL LATHEEF NAHA
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With just a few days to go for IIT-JEE, here are some last minute tips.
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With hardly a few days to go for this year’s Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which will decide admissions to engineering degree courses offered by the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), thousands of candidates across the country are into their last-minute preparations. The JEE on April 13 will test the candidates’ knowledge in three areas — physics, chemistry and mathematics.
A recent change has reduced the number of papers to two from three. The examination, coordinated by the IIT, Roorkee, will be spread over six hours. The first paper will be between 9 a.m. and 12 noon, and the second between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Even when the students are worrying about covering their portions thoroughly, teachers have soothing words for them. The JEE, they say, is not about scoring 100 per cent in a subject or paper. But the students should strive to attain an optimal score in each subject, depending on their strengths and weaknesses. The students will face questions that demand more analytical and reasoning skills, they say. The questions may always be unique in their context and solving them often will require a combination of concepts from across various chapters, the teachers say.
Though all questions may not carry negative marks, the students have been advised to keep away from wild guessing. The focus will be on reasoned and correct arguments. Teachers warn the students not to second-guess the paper-setters by picking specific parts of the subjects to study. As the students enter the final phase of preparation, trainers advise them not to attempt lengthy questions. Instead, they should concentrate on objective, numerical questions to practice as many types as they can.
Students have been advised to revise all important concepts and formulae, so that they come to them without any effort. Students should not start reading any new subjects just before the examination, as this will be a waste of time and they may lose the information they have already grasped. Teachers warn the students that attempting to solve all questions in haste will increase chances of error. It is better to solve fewer questions faultlessly, some of them say.
Never attempt two questions at the same time, but concentrate on one question at a time. The students have been advised to give all three subjects equal time.
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