JEE Preparation: Mistake 1 - Neglecting the Basics

In an huge enthusiasm of cracking IITs and of being the part of these dream engineering institutions of India, overzealous students commit huge mistakes in his/her first three months of studies. Some basics of preparation are supposed to be looked after. If these basics are missed in first few initial months, they it is very difficult to cope up in later stage.

When one is preparing for JEE (Advanced), one has to understand that he/she is in the process of preparing for all Engineering Entrance Examination [JEE(Main), JEE(Advanced), BITSAT, MHT-CET, etc]. The toughest hardworking consistent students shall make it to IITs or qualify JEE(Advanced).

JEE Preparation, as such, is divided in 6 steps. Step 1: Board Preparation (Descriptive), Step 2: Descriptive, again, more than Board Preparation, Step 3: Objective Simple Questions, CET topper or JEE (Main) Cracking Level; Step 4: JEE (Main) top scores or JEE (Advanced) cracking level, Step 5 & 6: JEE (Advanced) top ranks.

Basically, students need to start from basic level i.e. step 1 first. But many students superficially prepare step 1 and 2, and directly jump to step 3 and step 4 or even higher. As the basic foundation of descriptive practice is not good, they end up in frustration when they cannot solve these questions effectively killing the dream to reach step 5 and 6 and thereby IITs.

Sincere students, however, go stepwise,. They reach comfortably step 3 and 4, and then fight for step 5 and 6. Even though, they may not end up solving step 6, they can still score 250+ (99.90 percentile) in JEE (Main) and get JEE (advanced) rank around AIR 2500.

So guys, keep cool. Work Stepwise, Start writing descriptive steps 1 and 2, build the basic foundation with patience, and then go ahead for objective steps 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Team ICAD