Ah. Freedom.
It's been months since I last posted here. To my defence, for the last 4 months, I was thrown into a whirlpool of revision tests, pre-boards, cluster exams, and mock practicals. Not to mention we had FIITJEE classes too in between. Yesterday's physics practicals were a grand culmination of the wake-up-daily-at-3 routine.
In fact, Pandit sir even warned us back then.
Problem is, even when we were given holidays to study (ya know, Sundays and all), I wasted them. I'm not the hard-working type. Not even half of it. So, while my friends used all that time to perfect their NCERT marks, I was preparing for the coding counterpart of INMO , and the GMPs and all those things. Anything but boring NCERT. We had our first Full Test (AITS) recently, and I was one of the only few who wrote it.
Of course, we no longer had the comfort of having our FIITJEE teachers correcting the papers, so naturally, one could only get a 70+ mark with a lot of cramming. I was forced to wake up at 3 in the morning (on the day of the exam) to study. That worked, since I'm 300% more efficient at that time (really... no TV, Computer etc. etc.) for a few exams, but as time progressed, I started to sleep again at 4.
Then, as lazy guys do, I found the ultimate solution to getting good marks in exams with only 2-3 hours of study. The method I employed was a 100% success. The chemistry HOD even wrote 'Good' on my paper. Pandit sir had given us this method.
The secret? I mugged the answers to last year's sample papers. There were 3 for chemistry. My pre-board 2 questions were a linear combination of those questions. My evaluator was obviously impressed by the elegant solutions I had written. Obviously, this is valid for the other subjects too- but they are less theoretical. I don't claim that you can ace any exam by mugging the past-year-questions. I've not done enough research. But PanditJi seems to have done so, and he says the same. They recycle questions from the last 10 years.
Okay, I'll leave all that school stuff, and get to the real deal. Remember I said we had classes too in the last 4 months? Well, almost no one attended them. There were a couple of classes with a record attendances of 8 and 7, that too from both F1 and F2 sections put together. My inner heart told me that I'd rather go to school, than sit at home and laze around, so I did. And I did a good thing, too. Whoever attended wrote a bunch of mock-AITses and a thorough, almost personal, test analysis (Low attendance, yay).
My ranks slowly, gradually started improving in the AITS. On the other hand, that doesn't mean anything, because the number of people writing it became one fourth (12k to 3k) in 4 exams. I can't tell how my performance is relative to my peers, because almost none of them are writing it.
I have one question. Dumping NCERT (I mean getting 470ish out of 500, instead of 485) for JEE Advanced preps is understandable, but the other way around? I don't get it. If you do, please enlighten me.
It's been months since I last posted here. To my defence, for the last 4 months, I was thrown into a whirlpool of revision tests, pre-boards, cluster exams, and mock practicals. Not to mention we had FIITJEE classes too in between. Yesterday's physics practicals were a grand culmination of the wake-up-daily-at-3 routine.
In fact, Pandit sir even warned us back then.
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| Yep, I'm cocky too. |
Problem is, even when we were given holidays to study (ya know, Sundays and all), I wasted them. I'm not the hard-working type. Not even half of it. So, while my friends used all that time to perfect their NCERT marks, I was preparing for the coding counterpart of INMO , and the GMPs and all those things. Anything but boring NCERT. We had our first Full Test (AITS) recently, and I was one of the only few who wrote it.
Of course, we no longer had the comfort of having our FIITJEE teachers correcting the papers, so naturally, one could only get a 70+ mark with a lot of cramming. I was forced to wake up at 3 in the morning (on the day of the exam) to study. That worked, since I'm 300% more efficient at that time (really... no TV, Computer etc. etc.) for a few exams, but as time progressed, I started to sleep again at 4.
Then, as lazy guys do, I found the ultimate solution to getting good marks in exams with only 2-3 hours of study. The method I employed was a 100% success. The chemistry HOD even wrote 'Good' on my paper. Pandit sir had given us this method.
The secret? I mugged the answers to last year's sample papers. There were 3 for chemistry. My pre-board 2 questions were a linear combination of those questions. My evaluator was obviously impressed by the elegant solutions I had written. Obviously, this is valid for the other subjects too- but they are less theoretical. I don't claim that you can ace any exam by mugging the past-year-questions. I've not done enough research. But PanditJi seems to have done so, and he says the same. They recycle questions from the last 10 years.
Okay, I'll leave all that school stuff, and get to the real deal. Remember I said we had classes too in the last 4 months? Well, almost no one attended them. There were a couple of classes with a record attendances of 8 and 7, that too from both F1 and F2 sections put together. My inner heart told me that I'd rather go to school, than sit at home and laze around, so I did. And I did a good thing, too. Whoever attended wrote a bunch of mock-AITses and a thorough, almost personal, test analysis (Low attendance, yay).
My ranks slowly, gradually started improving in the AITS. On the other hand, that doesn't mean anything, because the number of people writing it became one fourth (12k to 3k) in 4 exams. I can't tell how my performance is relative to my peers, because almost none of them are writing it.
I have one question. Dumping NCERT (I mean getting 470ish out of 500, instead of 485) for JEE Advanced preps is understandable, but the other way around? I don't get it. If you do, please enlighten me.
