How to make your jee preparation fun as well as effective

Fellow IIT aspirants, I am not going to give you conventional tips on how to study for the jee. Those have become old now, and anyways, everyone has their own ways of studying. Anyways, preparation is a lot more than study. Preparation can sometimes be even more important than study. The right preparation is fun for the body as well as brain. Ok, coming to the point. I am giving you some tips for the right preparation for the jee which might be original, copied or some may even be weird. But I believe these are the best.

1. The first and the foremost thing you have to do is to have a single encouragement technique for cracking IITJEE. It doesn't matter if it is true or false. It should be really encouraging for you. It is best if it is true, but then, the false statements are better. For example, mine is, "The monthly package as an IITian will be equal to the annual package as a non-IITian", "I can't watch TV right now. If I do, I will gain few months of my TV viewing time but lose few decades of it simultaneously", "I'll be playing games for 4 years if I don't play for these few months". Repeat to yourself these sentences whenever you are distracted from your goal because of TV or Computer games or success in another field. They are all fatal to you.

2. Do not lessen your time of sleep. This is a really important tip. Many coaching institutes and people will tell you that you should not sleep more than 6 hours per day or you should not take naps. The fact is, a doctor(a genuine one) would tell you that if you have been sleeping 9 hours all your life, do not lessen it while you prepare for jee. Teachers misguide students into thinking that sleeping is a waste of time. But it is, in fact, sometimes more important than your preparation time. The human body has been made by nature to sleep with dusk and wake up with dawn. But modern lifestyle goes against it. We hardly sleep 6 hours today, which is not enough for our bodies and our brains. Again, a nap is also important after long hours of studies. It transfers all you have studied to the Long term memory, which would otherwise have been evaporated if you would have sitten in front of the TV. Few of the greatest brains of the 20th century were regular nappers. Albert Einstein is the only name I can remember right now. Isn't it enough? The point is, you should always take a nap if it doesn't disturb your night time sleep.

3. Never take someone else's study tips. For example, if coachings tell you to study 6-7 hours a day and after you try doing that, you face a problem which may be either of loss of concentration, forgetfulness or something else, then don't do it. Everyone has their own way of studying. Few people study two hours a day and still top in class and some study 6 and still lag behind. Thats what is relativity. What is 6 hours for one is 2 for another. Besides, JEE is not a moon mission that you would need to study for it 6 hours a day for 2 years. So, manage your time the way you are comfortable with it. If your coaching forces it on you, lie if it helps. But still, try to give it your maximum.

4. Kota style does not always work. Undoubtedly, Kota style works wonders for some. But a more careful look at the statistics shows that it is not that wonderful. There are people from Kota who get top ranks in JEE but I myself have not met one. In contrast, I know several who went to Kota only to ruin their career and life there. Kota is like Mumbai. You never know what will happen to you there. So if you are not sure it will work for you, don't even try it because you have better chances of clearing JEE the normal way if you are not a brilliant and gifted child.

5. Rehearse the JEE day, but not until your preparation is complete. Rehearse everything from your waking time to giving the exam at the same timings as the actual exam under strict examination conditions, to eating(Try to keep your diet full of natural foods and remove the artificial ones) to sleeping. Do it for at least 10 days before the exam.

6. Have fun. This may seem like a useless tip and some serious students may be skipping it, but it is, I think one of the most important. Having fun, or being relaxed, is really important, because if you take stress, your brain tries to handle things differently. It enters into a panic, or a multitask mode. Research shows that the multitask mode is not good for you. In this mode, the brain does not store whatever you give it. It throws everything out. While, the normal mode is effective in storing whatever you give it. So the age old saying "Be cool" is valid here too. And for those who say, "A little stress is good for you", come on man, you are preparing for the JEE. There will be a little stress whether you want it or not.


If you follow these tips, you are sure to get into IIT no matter what. But number 2 and number 6 are very important. If you can't follow these, don't prepare for JEE. Thats because if you don't prepare for JEE, you'll ruin your chances of being an IITian. But if you prepare for the JEE and leave these two tips, you will ruin both your chances of being an IITian and your life.