JEE 2013 Preparation – Week 2

Anyone who followed my previous week’s schedule must be feeling sleepy. Do not worry because things will be a lot easier this week with respect to your sleep.

Following is the plan for this week :

MATHEMATICS :

Take 4 more hours to finish pending portions of Coordinates & Straight Lines and working out solved examples of Circles. These 4 hours should be allocated in the first 2 days of the week.

This week, you should complete the chapter on Circles. Solve all the subjective questions except the “Prove that” ones. In such questions, notice just the result and do not go about solving them. In the exercise too, you will find a few questions that are similar to the ones you must have already seen in the worked out examples. In such questions, just make the geometrical figure for the question and try to find out the method you would use to solve. Write out the equations and leave it at that. There is no need to fully solve such questions. Why I am asking you to not fully skip such questions is because with a slight change in data, there might be some complications introduced into the same questions.

Solve all the new pattern questions from the book. There is no need to solve new pattern questions from any other source unless you have finished the above material on Circles within 12 hours that I would earmark for it. This time can be distributed in the remaining 5 days of the week.

Go through the “Summary of Results” of Conic Section – Parabola (only) from the same book. This will hardly take an hour’s time.

CHEMISTRY :

For Physical Chemistry, you should try to wrap up Atomic Structure from G. R. Bathla’s Numerical Chemistry by Prof. P. Bahadur, if you have not been able to. Also read through Chemical Bonding from your Coaching Classes course material, NCERT books and any foreign author book. You will face a lot of conceptual issues with this chapter on Chemical Bonding. If you have any doubts, it is advisable to clear them at once, preferably with your teacher. Do not worry much if your problem with the chapter persists, and move on.

The above should take away about 14 hours of your time (2 hours for Atomic Structure and 12 hours for Chemical Bonding).

Also finish the chapter on Nuclear Chemistry that is very simple and interesting and should take not more than 5 hours to complete. Solve only the worked out examples from Numerical Chemistry and not the exercise. Give yourself 3 hours to practice new pattern questions on this chapter from your Coaching Classes course material.    

In Organic Chemistry, finish off Hybridization of carbon, sigma and pi bonds, Structural, Geometrical and Optical isomerism, Newman projections, resonance and hyperconjugation, keto-enol tautomerism and determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds. You can study the above from your Coaching Classes material and from Morrison and Boyd. Take 7 hours for it distributed over the first 5 days of the week.

Solve questions on the above topics from your Coaching Classes material and from past 10 years IIT-JEE during the last 2 days of the week. Earmark 4 hours for it.

For Inorganic Chemistry, you should finish isolation/preparation and properties of boron, silicon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulphur and halogens from your NCERT book and from your Coaching Classes course material. Allocate not more than 8 hours for it.

PHYSICS :

This week’s target in Physics will be to wrap up Modern Physics. The chapters involved are very simple and scoring. Most of the students keep procrastinating Modern Physics and end up taking Entrance Examinations without any knowledge of it.

Go through the worked out examples from H. C. Verma’s book and solve each question from the exercise.

The load will be less in Physics this week because you would have already covered the same chapters in Physical Chemistry. If you can get hold of a book on Modern Physics by Dr. Anil Verma – Patna University, it will be great but even if you cannot (since that book is rare), try solving questions from any possible source. I know that at your Coaching Classes, your teachers might be teaching you Mechanics, Current Electricity and Magnetism, etc. but not Modern Physics and you would first want them to teach you the theory so that you could practice the questions. Remember one thing, you do not need a teacher to study. So start on your own. Set aside 12 hours for your Physics this week.

You work on the above topics while I will work on preparing a couple of mock test papers to help you score more at JEE Main and Advanced.

Until next week, all the best !