JEE 2013 Preparation – Week 1

There are still about 26 weeks left for JEE Main and about 34 weeks left for JEE Advanced, and we will try to make the best use of these weeks. While you should not expect to become a Scientist in the chapters you study in the coming weeks but yes, you can expect yourself to qualify the concerned competitive examinations.

Each day has 24 hours and I am going to divide these 24 hours into – School time, Coaching Classes time, Sleeping time, Eating, Freshening up and Leisure time, and Self-study time at home.

The basic break-up of these times for the weekdays should be :

School time : 6 hours

Coaching Classes time : 2 hours

Sleeping time : 5 hours

Eating, Freshening up and Leisure time : 2 hours

Self-study time at home : 8 hours

And for the weekends, the basic break-up of these times should be :

School time : 0 hours

Coaching Classes time : 2 hours

Sleeping time : 5 hours

Eating, Freshening up and Leisure time : 2 hours

Self-study time at home : 15 hours

The only time that can differ above for students is the Coaching Classes time because some students are enrolled for the weekend classes and have to take classes of 6 hours each on Saturday and Sunday, while other students are enrolled for a ‘4 days per week batch’ having 3 hours of classes each day. In either case, the average time for Coaching Classes is 12 – 14 hours per week. Many students and parents would be worried about the sleeping time. I know the students are going to find it a challenge to just sleep for 5 hours a day but trust me, this will be difficult only for the first week. From next week onwards, you will be comfortable with 5 hours of sleep but you have to make sure you keep awake for 19 hours a day for the first week even if you are not able to concentrate properly on studies. Human body and brain will condition themselves to your way of working. When people around you tell you that a minimum of 7 hours or 8 hours of sleep is essential, tell yourself and them that it is all in the head.  

So coming back to our case, we will have about 70 hours per week for our self-study at home. For these 70 hours, I am going to keep things light the first week so that you adjust to the new schedule.

Following is the plan for this week :

MATHEMATICS :

The most important topics first, we will hit Coordinates and Straight Lines before anything else. You must have already covered this chapter in Class XI. Do not worry if you think you have forgotten everything. Jump directly to Section II of Eduwiser’s Coordinate Geometry by Prof. K. C. Sinha. First go through the “Summary of Results” of the chapter - Coordinates and Straight Lines, after which you should try to SOLVE the worked out examples without looking at their solutions. Also solve all the subjective questions and the new pattern questions based on JEE Main and Advanced. If there are any subjective questions that you are not able to solve by yourself, skip them for the time-being. If there are any new pattern questions in the exercise that you are not able to solve, mark them for attempting them later. Do not ask any of your teachers/friends for solutions to them at this point of time.

You should be able to complete the above in 10 hours. Distribute these 10 hours across 5 days of the week so that you do not get bored. Set aside 3 hours of time for the last 2 days to solve only new pattern questions from the course pack that you might have from any of the Coaching Classes.     

In addition to Coordinates and Straight Lines, start Section II of Circles from the same book. Be thorough with the “Summary of Results” and go through the worked out examples (preferably solving them without looking at their solutions). This should take 8 hours of time that you can distribute across the week as per your convenience.

CHEMISTRY :

For Physical Chemistry, you can start with Atomic Structure from G. R. Bathla’s Numerical Chemistry by Prof. P. Bahadur. Try solving the worked out examples but do not panic if you are not able to solve any question; just read through it. Once you are done with it, you should solve the worked out examples of Bharati Bhawan’s Physical Chemistry by Dr. R. C. Mukherjee. Allocate a total of 9 hours to complete the chapter from the two books. Use another 3 hours to solve new pattern questions from your Coaching Classes course material.

For Organic Chemistry, take not more than 4 hours to read through and practice Nomenclature from your Coaching Classes course material.

PHYSICS :

In Physics, you must have already covered Motion in 1-D and 2-D, Newton’s Laws of Motion & Friction and Work, Power & Energy. Revise these chapters from Bharati Bhawan’s Concepts of Physics – Vol. 1 by Dr. H. C. Verma. Pick questions at random to practice but do not skip the questions you found difficult and/or could not solve earlier. Just in case you are unable to solve any question, discuss it with your teacher at your Coaching Classes or your school right away.

Devote 4 hours to Motion in 1-D and 2-D, 4 hours to Newton’s Laws of Motion & Friction and 4 hours to Work, Power & Energy. You can distribute the above among the first 5 days. You will also have to practice new pattern questions from your Coaching Classes course material for a total of 9 hours (3 hours each for the three sections mentioned above). 

The above schedule is only for 58 hours this week instead of 70 hours to give you time to adjust. When we are back next week, I do hope the above topics are covered and you are geared up to take up more each week.

Until next week, all the best !