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New IIT JEE pattern – JEE (Main) & JEE (Advanced) 2013

Monday, November 12th, 2012 by

In 2012, Ministry of HRD simplified the engineering admission process by introducing further changes:

  • There will be two exams, the JEE (Main) followed by the JEE (Advanced) in 2013
  • JEE (Main) will be  equivalent to AIEEE (for admission in colleges other than IITs). It will be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
  • JEE (Advanced) will be equivalent to the IITJEE (for admission in IITs). It will be held by the IITs.
  • Admission to IITs will be based on the rank in the JEE (Advanced) exam.
  • Only top 150,000 candidates (including all categories) from the JEE (Main) will be qualified to appear in the JEE (Advanced) examination. However, only students who are among the top 20 percent in their respective boards will be considered eligible.

Before 2006, the IITJEE 2nd stage examination (Mains) was of much higher difficulty level than Class XI/XII. Students had to prepare for IIT JEE with the help of coaching classes. Class XI/XII students could not cope up with the dual pressure of school and ‘IIT JEE coaching’. As a result, students started neglected their school studies in trying to keep up their preparation for IITJEE. This caused irreparable damage to their careers. In IITJEE 2006, JAB made the changes in the pattern to deal with these problems.

New IITJEE Pattern Old IITJEE Pattern
1 Single Stage Two Stages – Screening & Mains
2 Objective type only 1st Stage: Objective2nd Stage: Descriptive
3 2 tests of 3 hours each 1st Stage: Single test (3 hours)2nd Stage: 3 subject tests (2 hours each)
4 Only 2 attempts allowed Multiple attempts allowed
5 Closer to Class XI and XII in difficulty Much more difficult that XI and XII

These efforts were fairly successful.

  1. Most students now prepare along with Class XI – XII. Students cant afford to neglect school studies or drop an year.
  2. Now, almost 70% of the students who get through, are 1st timers.

However, a large number of students were still traveling to destinations like Kota, Delhi etc. to join coaching classes. School studies were still getting neglected as their was no direct linkage of school performance with admission to engineering colleges.


Tools for measuring IIT JEE preparation: Activity tracking checklist

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 by

After the planning has been done, we should keep a track of the work done.

Measuring our work in this manner will give us a sense of achievement on a regular basis. This will also give us a continuous view of the work that is remaining.

We have pasted, for the benefit of the students, a saI didmple checklist or activity trakcer.

Students realize, after filling this table that, the topics where they are weak belong to the category where the required activities have not been done.

Activity tracker: Please put a tick mark (?) in front of all the activities you have completed.

Reading from text book Power Coaching Theory Solved examples Exercises Chapter Tests
Mathematics
1 Complex numbers

2 Quadratic equations

3 Logarithms

4 Progressions

5 Permutations and combinations

6 Trigonometry

7 Straight lines

8 Circles

9 Conic sections

10 Binomial theorem

11 Functions, Limits and Continuity

12 Differentiability and differentiation

13 Application of derivatives

14 Indefinite integration

15 Definite integration

16 Area under the curve

17 Differential equations

18 Determinants

19 Matrices

20 Probability

21 Vectors

22 Three dimensional geometry

Physics
1 Units, dimensions, vectors and calculus

2 Kinematics

3 Laws of motion

4 Work, Power and Energy

5 Center of mass, linear momentum, collision

6 Rotational dynamics

7 Elasticity, fluid dynamics and properties of matter

8 Gravitation

9 Simple Harmonic Motion

10 Wave motion

11 Heat and Thermodynamics

12 Electrostatics

13 Electric current and resistance

14 Magnetism

15 Electromagnetic Induction and AC

16 Geometrical Optics

17 Wave Optics

18 Modern Physics

Chemistry
1 Basic concepts of chemistry

2 Structure of atom

3 Periodic properties

4 Gas laws

5 Chemical bonding

6 Chemical energetics

7 Chemical equilibrium

8 Ionic equilibrium

9 Redox reactions

10 General organic chemistry

11 Hydrocarbons

12 Alcohols and ethers

13 Alkyl and aryl halides

14 Solutions

15 Solid state

16 Chemical kinetics

17 Electrochemistry

18 Nuclear chemistry

19 Functional groups containing nitrogen

20 Aldehydes and ketones

21 Carboxylic acids and their derivatives

22 s-Block elements

23 p-Block elements

24 d-Block elements

25 Metallurgy

26 Qualitative salt analysis

27 Coordination compounds


Questions with negative marking

Monday, October 4th, 2010 by

—    Questions with negative marking

When there are questions with ‘negative marking’, the first thought that comes to mind is, SHOULD I TAKE A CHANCE? If you are not 100 per cent sure of the answer, then you will not consider answering it at all, lest you get negative marks. But that is exactly what you need to avoid.

Though random guessing is thoroughly discouraged, it may still be prudent to eliminate options and get to probably two likely answers so that your probability of getting it correct goes up. This is possible in all questions, which have Multiple Choices. However, if there are no such choices given (as it was the case in two sections last year), then it is better to leave such questions alone.


Questions with no negative marking

Monday, October 4th, 2010 by

—    Questions with no negative marking

There are two types of questions, which have no negative marking.

1. Integer type: Students have to “calculate” down to the finest value and then indicate that value in the OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) sheet. This is where the test really lives up to its definition — “objective”. But not multiple choice.

For example, if the answer to a particular problem is 112, then the students have to arrive at the correct answer. In the answer grid that contains four columns of numbers running from 0 to 9, they have to darken 0, 1, 1 and 2. The OMR reader would read the answer as 112 and only to that answer, marks would be awarded.

2. Match the following: The students are asked to match the items in the left column with those in the right column.

A seemingly simple proposition, if you were to exercise ‘fix a couple’ and ‘eliminate one possibility’ kind of techniques. However, it would not work here.

Let the left column have (A, B, C, D) and four options in the right column be (w, x, y, z).

The final marking would look something like this: A- x,y; B- x; C- w,z; D- w,y,z.

You would have to mark exactly like this in the specially designed grid in the OMR sheet to get any credit for this question. If you were to mark all others correct and then D-w,z, no marks would be awarded for this question.

If you were able to get out of the compartment mode of thinking and look for applicability of concepts across subject areas, you would do well. For example, when you look at an area in Mechanics, you should also realize that the same concept may be present in five other topics, viz., Motion in one dimension, Motion in two dimensions, Work Energy Power, Rotational Dynamics and Laws of Motion. Which means you should be able to use one concept in different areas to get these type of ‘Match the following’ questions.

Well, that is what the JEE intends to seek in young aspirants – can you ‘size up the situation’?


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