Saturday, December 08, 2012

JEE 2013 Preparation – Week 5



Following is the plan for this week :


MATHEMATICS :

Conic Section – Parabola, Ellipse and Hyperbola is a huge chapter in terms of volume but is the most important of all chapters in Coordinate Geometry. Maximum number of questions is asked from this topic. So I hope you have not ignored it. Take six additional hours to finish off anything pending in Conic Section.

Do not undermine the importance of Coordinate Geometry in your preparations. It is the low risk, high reward section of the JEE. If you are thorough with Coordinate Geometry, chances are high that you will be able to solve all the questions asked from this section in JEE.

Once you are done with Conic Section, start off with Eduwiser’s Vectors and 3-D Geometry (Eduwiser Publishing Group). Go through the theory part and worked out examples of the chapters – Vector Algebra (Ch:1), Dot Product of Two Vectors (Ch:2) and Cross Product of Two Vectors (Ch:3). These chapters are based on +2 Board Examinations and should be very easy to brisk past. This will take about ten hours of your time.

After you are done with the above, start the chapter – Competition Section. This chapter has a summary of results for previous chapters (which you must be thorough with) and has additional theory for topics like Scalar Triple Product, Reciprocal System of Vectors, etc. specifically for JEE Advanced (not JEE Mains). You must also go through the worked out examples from this chapter thoroughly. Skip “Prove that” questions that are more than a page long but for shorter ones, keep the results to be proved in mind.

Solve all the subjective exercise questions except the “Prove that” ones (again, keep their results in mind). Also solve all the new pattern questions except the “Straight Objective Type Questions”. This should take another ten hours of your time.


CHEMISTRY :

In Physical Chemistry, Energetics will be our target for this week. Go through each of the topics – First law of Thermodynamics, Internal Energy, Work and Heat, Pressure-Volume work, Enthalpy, Hess’ Law, Heat of reaction, fusion and vaporization, Second law of Thermodynamics, Entropy, Free Energy and Criterion of Spontaneity from Dr.  P. Bahadur’s Numerical Chemistry. The chapter is very simple and short but if you have problems understanding the concepts, ask for help from your teachers at School/Coaching Classes. Try to get hold of Prof. A. K. Ghosh’s book on Physical Chemistry from Good Books publishers. This book is available in Patna but I am not sure about availability in other cities because the publisher is a local publisher. Understanding the concepts in this chapter is more important because you will read about the same thermodynamic laws in Physics and then it will get slightly confusing because of the positive and negative signs used in the equations.   

Solve worked out examples from both Numerical Chemistry by Dr. P. Pahadur and Physical Chemistry by Dr. R. C. Mukherjee. No need to solve the questions in the exercises from Numerical Chemistry but solve all the exercise questions from Dr. R. C. Mukherjee’s book.

Also practice new pattern questions from your Coaching Classes material. All of this should take not more than ten hours.

For Organic Chemistry, we will finish off Preparation, properties and reactions of alkanes – Homologous series, Physical properties (melting points, boiling points, density), Combustion and halogenation, Preparation of alkanes by Wurtz reaction and decarboxylation reactions. You can go through all this from your Coaching Classes course material. One other book that I found useful for the reactions, etc. was Organic Chemistry by Prof. S. Lal that was again from Good Books publishers (so you know where to buy it from). This should take you another ten hours. Practice questions from the book/material you read your theory from, for the time-being. Allot the remaining four hours for the same.

You can skip Inorganic Chemistry this week. If you happen to get even an hour free, revise previous week’s portion.


PHYSICS :

In Physics, we will cover Gravitation and Electrostats this week from Prof. H. C. Verma’s Concepts of Physics – Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 respectively. There are a lot of formulas and results to be memorized in these chapters and I would suggest you write them on flash cards and keep looking at them whenever you get the time. Why I am asking you to complete these two chapters simultaneously is because the concepts in both these chapters are almost the same. The difference comes in the formula constants. The difference also comes in the variables (in Electrostats, you have the charges whereas in Gravitation, you have the masses) but the basic concept is the same.

After finishing the theory from Concepts of Physics, go through the worked out examples and solve all the exercise questions. Try solving the Objective I and Objective II questions. You should keep in mind the answers of these objective questions because they help you understand the concepts better. Get rid of any doubts that you have in exercise questions at once. Do not leave it for the future.

Also try solving new pattern questions from your Coaching Classes material. This week, Physics will take up about twenty hours of your time.

For this week, in all the chapters, if you are not able to solve any question, do not keep it for later. Get your doubts cleared at once.

Until next week, all the best !

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