JEE ADVANCED 2019: Do’s and Don’ts

Hi readers, Mudassar Husain here !

This post is mainly intended for those who are appearing for JEE Advanced 2019 to be held in the CBT Mode on 19th May 2019, however, should serve the purpose for all upcoming aspirants for their coming AITS and ultimately JEE. I won’t waste a lot time of the readers and as there’s already a “What to do in the last 20 days before JEE Advanced” already on the blog, I won’t replicate those points all over again. This editorial post is a universal instruction on how to approach the paper, what to do while solving the question paper and what not.

Fundamentally, it is the collection of mistakes my student made in JEE Advanced 2018 and ended with such a unsuccessful AIR. So let’s get back to several historical aspects of what my student likely after the paper and what happened.

So let’s see what to do this time and whatnot:

1. Stay cool and positive during the paper. 

The paper require not be tough always. Yeah, Dont wasted a significant amount of time thinking how come JEE Advanced be so painless, there must be some catch, but no, there are times when the paper setters don’t test your understanding of PCM but test your anxiety and pressure handling capabilities.

This question featured in the Paper 2 of JEE Advanced 17. You don’t see such questions in school papers but this is where keeping your head cool comes into the picture. The early you realize that JEE Advanced these days is not a test of your knowledge of PCM, but of your “Problem selection ability, Temperament and Calmness”, the better you are.

2. Be ready for any and every type of question. 

Never skip a topic thinking it may not come in the JEE exam.

(JEE ADVANCED 2017 PAPER 1)

Now who reads IUPAC Nomenclature, it’s scarcely asked, lets read other stuff but the ones who did the former well took away a generous 4 marks while others (including me) kept wondering what the hell complete the paper setters give this question.

3. Read the question and options very-very carefully. 

You lost around 15 marks here itself due to carelessness in reading the questions and options properly.

(JEE ADVANCED 2017 PAPER 2)

Is this question complex? In no way isn’t it but you very confidently got this wrong, cause you didn’t read the molecular formula of the reactants and 3 options satisfied the reactions but only 2 did it along with the molecular formula, resulted in a crying me with a big -2 out of nowhere.

(JEE ADVANCED 2017 PAPER 2)

Now, who solves the question right in the paper but “ticks the wring options” in it and bubbles the same. You did just to kill yourself with another -2.

So the  termination conclusion is, keep cool, don’t be to excited to see an easy  paper. If there’s no trick in the questions there must surely be something and here is where your “reading” comes into play

      4.  Don’t do any OMR Mistakes

 Be it filling your information or bubbling answers. Although you didn’t lose any marks in this category it’s really heart-breaking to see a question you solved correctly after so much struggle go wrong due to a minor shift of the bubbles in OMR.

      5.   Finally a word of advice for the online mock paper.

 Although I am not used to them it's sure that solving the paper won't be that easy as it used to be in the offline paper, not for one or two but for everyone, so no need to panic over the changed exam mode.
   
       I came to know that there is a question panel displayed on the top showing all questions at a go but without options. Make sure to have a look at the questions before jumping to problems solving.

       Also no need to be shocked to see a very very funny marking scheme like +5/-3 or something like +3/-2 or multiple answer integer or 4 digit integers or anything out of the box. JEE is full of surprises and “you must be surprised only if there is no surprise”. Well, that’s never going to happen. The paper setters are well versed how to make you sweat in the exam hall with all level of papers ranging from an utterly easy to a very tough one.

Chill out, try to enjoy those 6 hours of paper as a standard problem-solving session, keeping out all worries of outcome and you will surely ace the paper.
   
All the Best!