JEE 2013 Preparation – Week 10

Following is the plan for this week :

MATHEMATICS :

Start Permutations and Combinations from Eduwiser’s Algebra by Prof. K. C. Sinha. It will help to go through the Section I of this chapter first. Go through the theory and “Worked Out Examples” thoroughly. You do not need to solve each question from the exercise of Section I here.

Once you are done with it, start Section II. Go through the “Summary of Results” first. If you have any doubts understanding the results, refer Section I theory again but be thorough with the theory and concepts involved. Each book in the market has a different way of solving the same question. What I have noticed is that, in other books, the methods explained are not general and cannot be applied to most of the questions. That is why things become a little difficult and confusing in this chapter. But with the book I have suggested, you should be able to find general methods of solving different types of questions. Going through the “Worked Out Examples” will help you clarify and brush-up your concepts of the chapter and the methods you would have learned from the same book. You should then solve all the questions (including “Prove that” ones) from the book. Lay emphasis on new pattern questions. If you fail to solve any question, give it a try next week but in case you still are not able to solve the question next week, get help from your teachers.

Also try to solve new pattern questions from any source possible. You will also be able to get abundant questions from this chapter on the internet. Try solving them using the concepts you have learned from the book.

After you are done with Eduwiser’s Algebra, work out questions of the chapter from Eduwiser’s Mathematics for AIEEE. Here, you should again try to take timed tests of yours to build your speed. The entire Permutations and Combinations should eat up about twenty hours of your time.

CHEMISTRY :

In Physical Chemistry, we will cover the following topics of Nuclear chemistry:  Radioactivity: isotopes and isobars; Properties of α, β and γ rays; Kinetics of radioactive decay (decay series excluded), carbon dating; Stability of nuclei with respect to proton-neutron ratio; Brief discussion on fission and fusion reactions.

You just need to refer to “Worked Out Examples” from Dr. P. Bahadur’s Physical Chemistry and “Worked Out Examples” with exercise from Dr. R. C. Mukherjee’s Physical Chemistry. This chapter becomes very important because of two reasons. One, there is minimal risk with this chapter. If you have sincerely solved all the questions from the books suggested, chances are high that you will be able to solve the questions of JEE Mains and Advanced. You can test this by trying to solve questions asked in previous years’ IIT-JEE. Two, the same chapter appears in Modern Physics. With the same theory, you should be able to solve questions asked in Physics from the same chapter.

Also try solving questions from previous years’ IIT-JEE and new pattern questions from various sources. This chapter will take approximately ten hours of your time.

The target for Organic Chemistry will be to finish Carboxylic acids: Formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis. Follow your Coaching Classes notes or Prof. S. Lal’s Organic Chemistry along with Morrison and Boyd for concepts that you do not understand. Try to justify each reaction of the chapter as you study.

Also solve questions that have been asked in previous years’ IIT-JEE and clarify your doubts as soon as possible. Organic Chemistry should consume about eight hours of your time.

In Inorganic Chemistry this week, you can cover Sulphur: hydrogen sulphide, oxides, sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate; Halogens: hydrohalic acids, oxides and oxyacids of chlorine, bleaching powder; Xenon fluorides from your Coaching Classes course material or NCERT books. At this time, you should also solve questions asked in previous years’ competitive examinations. This should take nine hours.

PHYSICS :

For Physics this week, we will get rid of the following topics from Thermal physics: Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of convection and radiation; Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (C_v and C_p for monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases); Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.

Needless to mention, all this topics should be covered from Dr. H. C. Verma’s Concepts of Physics – Vol. 2. All the topics of Thermal Physics are high scoring, low risk topics. You have to be thorough with them. If you are thorough with them, there will be no question of JEE Mains and Advanced from these topics that you will not be able to solve. Special hint for the chapter on Heat Transfer from Dr. H. C. Verma’s book is to compare it to Current Electricity.

Try solving previous years’ questions from IIT-JEE, new pattern questions from Coaching Classes material and objective questions from Prof. Deb Mukherjee’s MCQ. Physics will take about twenty-three hours this week.

Until next week, all the best !

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