JEE MAIN 2020: Application Correction, Syllabus, Exam Date

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JEE authorities rectify the mismatch in aspirants name on admit cards

JEE authorities rectified the confusion caused by the difference in names as typed out in the JEE Main 2016 admit card and board exam hall ticket. JEE authorities also changed the landing page for downloading the admit cards to make it easier for aspirants.

The admit cards were released on March 10, 2016 but aspirants who forgot their passwords were unable to download it. Moreover, few aspirants were shocked to see that their names did not match with their board exam hall ticket and panicked.

JK Yadav, Deputy Secretary, JEE Office, said, "Some students called at our office and complained about the mismatch in their names. We noticed that there were no spelling errors, but the order in which their names were written on their board exam hall ticket mismatched with the JEE Main admit card. We have rectified it by giving an option to aspirants to change names on the admit card."

To download the admit card, candidates were required to fill in their application number and password. But many of them forgot their passwords. Yadav added, "We noticed that students struggled to download their admit cards. Many students sent us requests to retrieve their passwords. So now we have provided the aspirants to download their admit cards by entering their date of birth."

Aspirants can download their admit card by filling their application number and date of birth on the JEE Main website. However, if a student fails to remember the application number, JEE has provided a way out for that as well- students can click on 'Forgot Application Number' and fill in the asked details to retrieve their application number.

The JEE Main 2016 offline examination will be conducted on April 3, and online examination on April 9 and 10.

PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.

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JEE Mains 2016; Solve theoretical questions first

PaGaLGuY spoke to Prof. R.L Trikha, Director, FIITJEE about the topics that IIT aspirants appearing for JEE Mains 2016 should revise when the exam is just 22 days away.

Here are some statistics, the syllabus has 45% content from class 11 and 55 % from class 12. 25% of question asked in the exam are easy, 50% are average and 25 % are difficult. If students study by paying a little more attention, they can score well. The trick to solve the paper is by attempting theoretical question first and then move to those involving calculations. This is because if a student gets stuck with the calculation part, he/she could lose out on answering the theoretical part which he/she knows.

Quick Revision: The questions which one found difficult to solve during year-long preparation should be revised again. Formulas of all three subject- Physics, Chemistry and Maths should be reread in the last two weeks before the exam. 2 or 3 days before the exam, run through formulas in a chapter-wise format.

 

Speed test: To gain accuracy and speed, students should solve mock papers as many as they can. Mocks should be done in an exam-like environment. Go through areas which you found difficult once again.

 

Important topics for JEE Mains which students must revise

Physics: Electricity, Magnetism, Mechanics and Modern Physics.

Maths: Differential equations, Indefinite Integral, Progression.   

Chemistry: Organic, Inorganic and Physical have equal weightage.

 Aspirants should not aim to attempt the whole paper, rather they should focus on whatever they attempt, is correct.

PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.

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JEE Main 2016: IITians bring you 'Tip of the day' - 2

Kanakvi Aggarwal, First year B. Tech, IITKGP

Almost all coaching institutes give us short-cuts to remember formulas but that is not the strategy to crack JEE Main paper. I agree one has to know all the formulas, but then again till the time you don't understand the formula, no point in learning. While you are sitting in the examination hall, it is easier if you can identify the formula rather than figuring which short-cut it most relates with, one simply doesn't have that much time.

When I was preparing for JEE Main, I made a list of important formulas from every chapter of all the subjects. That notebook helped me reach IIT-KGP. I would advise you to make a formula notebook, and revise it a day before the big day. This exercise will help you save time in exam. If you know your formulas then as soon as you see a problem, you can identify what formula to apply. If you are able to understand all of them, you are sorted.

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In the coming days, PaGaLaGuY will bring to you what's on the JEE 2016 aspirants' minds.

If you are an aspirant too, read on, might just help you fine tune your prep strategy. The first  of the lot, PaGaLGuY spoke to today, discussed Physics and the route to crack

PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.

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Smart selection, not speed solving, the key to cracking JEE

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One of the many questions lingering in the minds of young JEE aspirants is selecting the questions to solve first in the exam. If you don't make smart choices, you may end up hassling over a single question and wasting precious time. PaGaLGuY spoke to Vipul Mehta, professor at IITians PACE, Mumbai to know which questions to select and attempt during the JEE.

JEE paper is majorly based on application of concepts, practicals and numericals, whereas a small number of questions are theoretical. However, it will be faster and much easier to solve the theoretical questions like, 'if the temperature rises, resistance increases or decreases?'

Ideally, students should scan through the paper at the beginning and mark the questions they think are easier. Every question in JEE has to be solved. There is no question which can be answered directly. Hence, it is advisable to start solving the subject which you have a stronger grasp over. Ideally, you should give 45 minutes to Chemistry, 1hour to Physics and 1.15hours to Math. But that need not be the staple rule. If you think you are able to solve more questions correctly in Chemistry, then you must go ahead and solve those. The trick is not to solve the most number of questions, but to only solve limited questions correctly. There is no point attempting questions that you haven't studied.

Other than that, there are also certain topics that students study during their 12th board exams or in school. These topics can be easier to solve and less time consuming as students have been practicing them since lower classes. However, these topics like Wheatstone Bridge, Calculation of Least Count, use of Significant Digits, Practical Organic Chemistry, Salt Analysis, Inorganic Chemistry, etc, are the ones that students take for granted and tend to ignore while preparing of JEE. The best way to learn how to make the right selection of questions, is to solve the JEE papers from 1980 to 1990, the period when there was only one JEE exam to get into an IIT.

No aspirant, not even the JEE topper, is able to solve all questions in the exam. In fact, even solving all the questions may not guarantee you a high score, as incorrect answers have negative marking. Thus, the key to cracking the JEE is not speed solving, but to identify simple questions and answer only a limited number that you are confident of. 

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Process of normalisation decoded for JEE Main 2016

One thing that many JEE aspirants find difficult is the process of normalisation. It is difficult to understand, because of its technicality. PaGaLGuY spoke to an expert to decode this process.

Kapil Gupta, Faculty, Bansal Classes- Kota

As per the notifications from the JEE office, board exams are given a 40% weightage while calculating the ranks during admissions in NITs or Centrally Funded Technical Institutions under JEE Mains. It is a statistical process which looks complicated in understanding. But it is the key to secure a seat in a good college.

Normalisation is calculated with the number of candidates in the group with aggregate marks less than the candidate divided by total number of candidates, and multiplied by 100. Here, students from CBSE board are at a loss, and state board, and ICSE board have an advantage.

If CBSE board students score below 90%, then after normalisation there percentile will further decrease. On the other for state board students, their percentile will improve. The only reason for this difference is the fact students from CBSE board are more as compared to those from state board or ICSE board.

For example, a student from CBSE board with 90% might end up with a percentile of 82, whereas a student from Rajasthan board with 76% can come in the range of 92 percentile.

To sum up, even if a student from CBSE board is scoring good in Mains, he/she might not get in the top NITs, due to normalisation. This is why we ask our students to score above 90% in their board exam, to take full advantage of this process.

However, JEE Main scores are equally important. It is of 360 marks in total and the cut-off for Advance in 2013 was 113, but to secure a seat in the top NITs, aspirants should score 200 in Main. When our students are thorough with their class 12 syllabus, scoring above 200 in Mains doesn't feel like a difficult target to achieve.

PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.

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This is the third in a series of articles giving last minute tips to JEE aspirants to efficiently crack the exam. Every day, PaGaLGuY will bring to you a tip of the day from first year IIT students sharing their experiences and mistakes of JEE 2015

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Anuj Agrawal, First year Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay

The best thing to do 15 days before the JEE is to revise NCERT books. As NCERT books are the best for JEE MAIN. Also one should solve previous year's question papers as some of the question are repeated. As we have very less time to solve the given question one should take Mock tests in order to increase their speed and accuracy. This can be done by clocking the Mock tests and also by analysing the attempts.

I prepared brief notes of NCERT books which I read during the short span of time between my boards and JEE. I also made Flash card notes which helped to revise important topic while travelling. The least one can do to clear JEE is remember formulas. I made separate Flash cards for formulas. I would like to suggest my friends to be calm and pour everything that you have in those 3hrs.

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In the coming days, PaGaLaGuY will bring to you what's on the JEE 2016 aspirants' minds.

If you are an aspirant too, read on, might just help you fine tune your prep strategy. The second of the lot, PaGaLGuY spoke to IIT aspirants today, discussed Maths and the route to crack the JEE main 2016.

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Jeemains

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In the coming days, PaGaLaGuY will bring to you what's on the JEE 2016 aspirants' minds.

If you are an aspirant too, read on, might just help you fine tune your prep strategy. The second of the lot, PaGaLGuY spoke to IIT aspirants today, discussed Maths and the route to crack the JEE main 2016.

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Tips from JEE Main 2015 topper, Sankalp Gaur (AIR1)

Sankalp Gaur has been in the limelight since the JEE main 2015 results were declared last year. To his surprise, his love for Science and systematic hard work of 2 years had earned him AIR-1 in the exam. Sankalp who is now studying Electrical engineering at IIT Bombay shares his experience to help other engineering aspirants to sail through one of the toughest competitive exams.

Which section did you attempt first in the JEE Mains 2015 paper and why?

My strategy for JEE main was to attempt Chemistry section first because of the fact that it has less amount of syllabus when compared to other sections. If Chemistry is attempted last, the possibility of losing out on questions is high. As Physics was my favourite section I was comfortable to solve it after chemistry and then I went to the Maths section.

What was the subject-wise breakup of your JEE Mains score?

My score for JEE main 2015 was 345 out of 360. I scored 115 in Physics, 120 in Maths and 110 in Chemistry. My All India Rank for JEE main was 1.

Did you make use of internet or social media for your preparations?

I restricted my use of social media only to the context where I could keep a tab on my preparation. It gave me the assurance that I was on the right path of my preparation.

What was your approach for JEE Advanced? How did you relax from the hectic preparations?

I focused mainly on the topics which I had not done thoroughly during my JEE main. I practiced previous year's question papers. I solved time bound mock tests. I also kept a tab on my health. I refrained from indulging into intense physical activities. My dog has been a major stress buster for me. Whenever I wanted a break I spent an hour with my dog and I was refreshed to continue with my studies.

What is the difference between JEE Advanced and Mains according to you?

The difference between JEE main and Advanced in terms of the attempting pattern is that JEE Advanced is more rigorous in nature. Focus should not be on attempting all the questions but to be more accurate. Presence of mind plays a pivotal role while attempting JEE advanced because the questions are not direct in nature.

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JEE Main 2016: IITians bring you 'Tip of the day' - 3


This is the fourth in a series of articles giving last minute tips to JEE aspirants to efficiently crack the exam. Every day, PaGaLGuY will bring to you a tip of the day from first year IIT students sharing their experiences and mistakes of JEE 2015.

Aditya Rathi, First year production and industrial design, IIT Roorkee

In the last 15 days, it is important that you don't lose focus. One shouldn't lose the tempo in the last few days and relax with their preparation. The thought of getting into a premier engineering institute was my sole motivation and I didn't let that dwindle. So it is important that you should not slow down in the last few days just before their exams.

 What is important is to ensure that you concentrate on your weakness first and then focus on your strengths. This was crucial for me because I could dedicate enough time to strengthen my weakness. Often I used to wonder if I should study during the day time or night, but then I realised that it doesn't matter. Since I had a younger sibling, I preferred studying during the night. This helped me manage my time and ensured I wasn't distracted while studying. I tried to stick to this schedule till the end.

PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.

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JEE Main 2016: IITians bring you 'Tip of the day' - 5

This is the fifth in a series of articles giving last minute tips to JEE aspirants to efficiently crack the exam. Every day, PaGaLGuY will bring to you a tip of the day from first year IIT students sharing their experiences and mistakes of JEE 2015.

Anmol Mishra, First year, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay

I studied topics which coaching classes tend to skip. Topics like Semi-conductors, transistors, communication systems in Physics; Environmental Chemistry and Polymers in Chemistry. The best part about these topics is they require comparatively less time to prepare and are scoring. I scored well because of this strategy.

I went through NCERT textbooks properly about two weeks before the exam. I also practiced calculation-intensive questions to get into the groove of the exam. To get into an IIT, one cannot do without solving mock papers.  

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Voices - JEE Main 2016 Aspirant Speak (5)

In the coming days, PaGaLaGuY will bring to you what's on the JEE 2016 aspirants' minds.

If you are an aspirant too, read on, might just help you fine tune your prep strategy. The fifth of the lot, PaGaLGuY spoke to IIT aspirants today, discussed about the importance of having basic concepts cleared as the route to crack the JEE main 2016.


PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.

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Code to crack JEE Main 2016 Karthik's way

Karthik Mahesh, a native of Pune, was sure what he wanted to pursue after class 12. To get into an IIT was what he aspired for. His passion for Physics, Chemistry and Math led him to be the state topper of Maharashtra in JEE Advanced 2015. Today, he is a first-year student at IIT Bombay (IIT-B), pursuing B.tech in Computer Science. PaGaLGuY spoke to Karthik to decipher his study methods to help you crack JEE, one of the toughest engineering exams.

With a score of 404 in JEE Advanced, he had been declared the Maharashtra state topper in 2015. "I had never expected to be the topper, not even in my wildest dreams. I gave my everything to JEE, so that I could fulfil my ambition of being an engineer," said Karthik.

JEE is a tough nut to crack, but for Karthik, the journey was made easy, thanks to his passion. He continued, "The fact that I enjoyed Math and Physics, was an advantage in my case. Because  somehow I always found Chemistry to be my weak point. I tried to make it up by revising as much as possible. The only way to tackle a weakness is to face it and conquer it, not avoid it," he says. He goes on to add that there are no easy ways to solve the papers. "One must find their own tricks to ensure that their exam is smooth sailing."

His study pattern was not very stringent. He ensured that he had enough time for both studies and his passion for Karate. "It is helpful and important to have a good friend circle. Both of my closest friends are also in IITs today, one of them is my batch-mate in IIT-B itself. They act as a constant source of support and inspiration," further added.

His passion for engineering was nurtured from a very young age. His parents come from an engineering background as well, and this only ensured that he got the best possible resources to fulfil his ambitions. He ended with, "My parent's encouragement played an important role in moulding my passion. They are engineers as well, and this acted as a big support for me during my preparation."

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JEE Mains question paper; 'Attempt questions which you are '

How important is it to solve the entire question paper in an exam? Unlike board exams, the JEE is not an exam where students should aim to complete the paper in time. 'Solve little, but only your best', is what some JEE professors advise their students. PaGaLGuY spoke to Ajay Nagar, Assitant Vice President of Resonance Coaching Institute on how to attempt the JEE Main paper. This is what he has to say,

"An average student may only be able to solve 35-40% of the paper. In a bid to attempt the entire paper, students may hurry through solving questions and in turn, make several silly mistakes. Hence, it is important to attempt only those questions that you are confident about and give full concentration to solving them correctly.

A student getting as low as 140-150 out of 360 in the JEE Mains, may also qualify to give the Advanced. However, in order to get admission in one of the top IITs like IIT Bombay or IIT Delhi, a student needs to score 300-320 in the Mains. To secure such high scores, students tend to rush through the paper. My suggestion is to not focus on speed solving, but rather on accuracy. It is not advisable to solve questions that the student isn't sure of. But at the same time, if the number of questions that you are able to solve will fetch you marks only less than 100, then it is advisable to solve more questions that you are unsure of. This is because, with such a low score, you may not even get admission in any of the main IIITs or NITs. So the idea is to calculate your estimated marks while solving the paper so you can gauge how much more is needed to be solved.

Ideally, one should be taking mocks about 5 days before the exam. Last minute solving may reveal weak points on which the student doesn't have enough time to improve. Students need to have confidence in their ability. What you haven't mastered in the past 2 years of coaching, you can't learn it in the last 2 days.

Thus, only solve what is required, because in a relative marking scheme, you don't need to score full marks, but only score better than most other students.

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Parent Speak

Anagha Deshpande, Mother of Ashwin Deshpande, IIT Aspirant, Pune

"Ashwin had decided quite early in life to pursue engineering. He has had a liking for core subjects like Mechanical. He wants to pursue advanced research in the same field", said Anagha Despande.

About the choice of his career, Anagha said, "As a parent, we have always supported his choice. Rather than burdening him with our wishes, we have provided him the freedom to pursue his dream."

Ashwin's preparation days have been a rigorous exercise for his parents too. The Deshpande's reside in Pune. Ashwin decided to prepare in Pune itself. He made this choice as it would allow him to dedicate time properly without worrying about accommodation, food etc.

 Anagha said, "He recently suffered a bout of Dengue, which had us worried." However, after a month of recuperating, Ashwin is back to his routine trying to cover the time lost. Anagha, proudly said, "I feel happy about how he is fighting back to cover the syllabus to achieve his dream."       

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Kota coaching institutes reign supreme at Indian National Olympiads

Continuing the winning streak at the Indian National Olympiads, once again the c oaching capital - Kota has proved its

While Resonance institute of Kota claimed a selection of its 9 students in the OCSC round of different Olympiads, 47 students from ALLEN have been selected for the Orientation-cum-selection camps of 5 Indian National Olympiads.

Chief Executive Officer of the Resonance Eduventures Private Limited of Kota, Ashish Sharma informed that his list of victorious students include Vishwas Lathi and Utkarsh Gupta in Indian National Physics Olympiad and Prakhar Mangal, Vishwajeet Agarwal and Devansh Shringi for International Astronomy Olympiad . From Resonance, Kanishka Singhal, Jatin Goyal, Pawan Goyal , Utkarsh Guptawill represent India at International level ," Sharma said.

Allen Career Institute has also claimed success in Olympiads. Brajesh Maheshwari, Director, ALLEN Career Institute said that total 47 students were selected for the OCSC round of Indian National Olympiads where 16 students got selected in Junior Science Olympiad, 14 in Biology Olympiad, 8 in Chemistry Olympiad, 5 in Physics Olympiad and 4 in Astronomy.

These camps will be organized in Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai. The top students selected after these camps will represent India in the International Olympiads. As per the results, 36 students have been selected in Biology Olympiad from around the country, 38 in chemistry, 35 in JSO, 29 in Astronomy's group A and 31 in Group B, for the selection camps.

12 year old Jeevesh outperforms 12th class students

Jeevesh who studies in class 7 is just 12 years of age but has set national record with his achievement. He competed with the students 5 years elder to him in the 2nd round of International Biology Olympiad 2016. He accepted the challenge and scored 187.5 marks out of 297 and bagged a position amongst the top 10.

According to him, his scientific thinking developed while studying in the Pre-Nurture Division of ALLEN since class 5

He has also successfully bagged AIR 4 in International Mathematics Olympiad and AIR 16 in National Cyber Olympiad. He prepared for IBO with the reference books of 12th class. He couldn't appear for IJSO because only 9th and 10th class students are eligible for it.

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The only way to excel in the Mathematics section of JEE main exam is possibly by practicing it. With less than two weeks in hand and over three subjects to be revised, it is not viable to venture into unknown topics. Though it is necessary to revise all but it is more important to lay emphasis on what previous year's analysis has to say.

PaGaLGuY spoke to Prof. Alok Jha of Vidyamandir Coaching, New Delhi, who shared his analysis of Mathematics section of JEE main in order to help JEE aspirants.

 If we look at the previous year's question papers, we will see that there are certain topics which have been repeated several times. This derives us to the most important topic of Maths section in JEE Main, that is Co-ordinate Geometry. There have been 50 question on this topic over the past 8 years, making it the most important topic in the maths section. Circle and conic sections are very important sub topics in co-ordinate geometry.

Limits, Continuity and Differentiability, 28 questions have been asked from this section over the past 8 years.

Integral Calculus, 27 questions have been asked over the years of which 3 questions were asked in JEE main 2015.

Statistics and Probability, 25 questions have been asked of which 2 were asked last year.

Matrics and Determinants,24 questions till 2015.

Apart from these, there are certain topics which are asked in intervals. Mathematical induction has been one among them, on which there have been questions in interval of two years.

Logical reasoning and Statistics are two topics on which every year there is one question each.

PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.

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Time to go back to the NCERT books for JEE MAIN 2016

 

Aspirants have started with their last rounds of preparation, as the Maharaja of exams -JEE Main 2016 is just two weeks away. PaGaLGuY spoke to an expert to understand how their prep work should be.

Rahul Yogi, Faculty, Allen-Kota

If students give the exam under pressure, they might end up attempting a lot of questions, and be marked for many more negative questions.

Today itself, a student came to me asking how to go about with the revision and I told him not to solve any questions. In my opinion, students should take up their NCERT books and start learning whatever they can. Probably try get a strong hold on their basics and revise theory topics. All the questions in JEE Main paper will require only basic knowledge, not even a single question is out of the box. 

Because CBSE conducts JEE, and they usually prefer only NCERT books.

Even while studying it doesn't matter, if you are able to complete 100% syllabus. Students should not start with new topics at this point in time. Even if they know only 60% of the syllabus, they should stick to it. Even if they attempt the questions based on that 60% of the syllabus, they will score good. There is one more benefit of this, they can completely avoid negative marking.

Also, it is better not to study anything a day before the exam. On the exam day, stay calm, and just revise two-three formulas which you think are important and give your best shot.   

PaGaLGuY wishes all aspirants good luck for JEE Mains 2016.

Students can ask their doubts regarding the JEE exam 2016 in the Comments section below. We will get the experts to answer.