Dear Aspirant!

Dear Aspirant...

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."

- Anonymous

As more and more engineers are churned out every year from the scores of colleges in the country, the one name that commands immediate attention and respect is that of the IITs, which represent the dreams and ambitions of thousands of young students, who hope to be one of the select few to pass out with the tag of an 'IITian'.

But what is it that makes the IITs so special? And why is there, this frenzied rush to get into IIT?

The IITs were established with the goal of providing quality education in engineering and the sciences - an education that would train its engineers and scientists to be innovative and inventive and rank among the best in the world. As the premier technological institutes of the country, the IITs have always endeavoured to keep our country at the forefront of technical advancement and have contributed richly to research and development. The education at the IITs compares with none other - and this possibly explains why so many youngsters dream of being an 'IITian'. And to choose the best among these many thousands of aspirants, is an intensely competitive selection procedure, held each year - the JEE and for B.Tech., GATE for M.Tech. and individual subject entrance tests for M.Sc. admissions.

JEE - the Joint Entrance Examination for admission to the B.Tech. programme, is held annually in two stages - a screening test in December and the main examination in May. Students are tested in three subjects - Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. JEE enjoys the reputation of being one of the most fairly conducted examinations in the world and is extremely competitive as well, attracting over 1,50,000 candidates every year. Its papers are famed for their 'difficulty' levels - questions in JEE are not run-of-the-mill, seeking mere plugging in of values into formulae. What the JEE paper looks for in an examinee is a thorough understanding of the fundamentals coupled with the ability to think laterally, a powerful combination that can subdue even the most ominous -looking problem with an elegant solution.

And yet, all this doesn't mean you need an IQ of 200+ to make it through JEE! These skills are the result of plain hard work and are developed over time; tempered and honed by diligent, determined and concentrated effort. Not all the 4200 students who make it to the IITs every year get in by virtue of their 'brilliance' or 'genius'; it is by sheer dint of hard work that JEE can be tackled and without this dedicated effort, even the best minds can meet with failure. Of course, such work needs guidance and coaching and that is probably why there has been this proliferation of countless coaching classes, tuition centres and correspondence courses , vying with one another to train their students to make it through the JEE! But the most popular and time-tested method is to seek the help of teachers who can train you to adopt the line of thinking necessary to attack JEE questions. This personalised form of teaching has been found to work the best; the numbers of such students who have made it to the IITs year after year is proof enough. So, check with your friends and relatives about such teachers in your city, who train candidates for the JEE.

You may be wondering if the IITs themselves provide any coaching. The answer to your question is a qualified "yes". IIT does not provide any instructions as coaching for students who will be taking JEE. Students belonging to the reserved category are urged to take advantage of this preparatory course.

The IITs organise JEE jointly and publish notices in leading newspapers, calling for applicants. They also send brochures to hundreds of schools and institutes, to increase awareness about the examination. Of course, your friends, schoolmates and relatives will also be of assistance to you in this regard, sharing with you the knowledge that they possess about IIT and the JEE. And the best source would probably be an ex-IITian who has experienced it all himself/herself! It has been observed, however, that such sources of information are not always accessible to students from the rural areas. Statistics show that a majority of students who join the IITs are from metropolitan areas; the number of students from rural areas is very small, mainly because of the lack of information.

IITs have a very low acceptance ratio; (Ratio of number of students selected and number of students applied) nearly one and a half lakh students sit for IIT JEE every year & merely 3000 can make it to IIT, but this doesn�t make it a very tough competition to crack. Try to understand me, to quote figures�. in JEE 2003 my total was 92/180 in the mains & I got AIR (All India Rank) 406 where as my roommate having total of 95 got AIR 235 (JEE gave individual marks in 2003) that means getting marks nearly 55% will give you a good rank in JEE. Think a while you have to solve just half a paper to get through JEE!

First general funda is...�Don�t suffer with �excusitis� (cf. appendicitis). Don�t give arguments like I�m a Gujarat board student, belonging to a city from where no one has got selected in this particular exam till date�..So how can I think of?

Trust me you are unique; every one is unique, it is matter of fact that we can�t compare people. Imagine a situation, you aspire to become CEO of a company like �Infosys� , if you will tell this ambition to your friends imagine what their reaction will be? I don�t think any of them will give you a sound suggestion to achieve this goal, rather it is possible some of them may laugh on you. But if you ask any company CEO, he will tell you the way to achieve that, certainly he won�t laugh on you.

Just a second! you remain the same�when you ask the same question to your friend or from CEO but one time you got appreciation with suggestion and once you got laugh on you. Why? Simply because your friend can�t think as ambitiously as you can. Believe me you can do every thing, JEE is just a thing.

To clear IIT JEE you need a conceptual approach I think you might have heard this sentence hazzar times. But what does this conceptual approach means?

Conceptual means you have to know how you actually proceed while solving a problem, you must know why you have adopted a particular approach while solving and why not one you had just learned. JEE is not going to be �eat & vomit� examination. You can�t crack the examination just by cramming the formulae.

You will find some students in IIT who started there preparation for JEE right from there class 9th,some preparing since 11th ,and to your surprize you will find some who actually never prepared for JEE. Confused? The reason of this ambiguity is word �preparation�. Preparing for JEE doesn�t mean joining coaching classes nor it means reading bulky books containing plethora of information for 10 hours or so, but it means reading whatever you read with a purpose in mind��.purpose being how this information can be useful, purpose being how they can ask this in JEE, In short using your time most efficiently, thinking of JEE also apart from your class XIth or XIIth preparation.

After spending one year at IIT, I found there is not a 100% rigid formula for success in JEE. So to make any rule about way of study or numbers of hours to study for JEE will be worthless, but the thing which is certain is hard work only culminates in success.

I Believe that people have there own learning speed for a particular topic. Time taken by one person to learn some thing is very special to that person.

I mean, if student �A� takes 2 hours to grasp the concepts of one chapter, student �B� may take 3, on the other hand I wish to add it is also quite possible while reading another chapter �A� may take 3 hours where as �B� could take 2.So it is unfair to compare study time of any to students, rather I suggest you to compete with yourself, after all it�s your own career and you have taken challenge to be a part of a family which has world recognition and where every member is determine to blaze somewhere.

So the conclusion is you have to do your best, I remind you, your best means giving your full efforts for doing hard work every day till JEE.

The best policy is being steady with studies. So the smoothest way (Note that I haven�t used phrases like best or easiest) will be to study topics simultaneously for JEE and your class XIth & XIIth. Whenever you think you have finished a particular portion then solve JEE level questions on that topics and surely do further reading to make clear concepts, Remember you are aiming for the best, so your understanding for each topics should be best, you shouldn�t compromise on quality of understanding. There shouldn�t be any doubt about how you will proceed in a particular type of problem. So we have concluded some of the crucial ingredients for your success for JEE

The admission to the IITs is however , only the first step that a student takes towards becoming a good engineer. Getting here is in itself an achievement, but what is more challenging is to sustain the academic excellence thereafter. Considering you are now in the company of the 'cream of bright young talent' from all over the country, it is critical that the sincerity and enthusiasm that brought you here must not wane. Many students heave a sigh of relief when they make it to the IITs, with an attitude of 'thus far and no further', wrongly believing that they have accomplished their ultimate goal. It is ironical that the academic responsibilities do not hold even a fraction of the interest that they once evinced to get here. As a consequence, they do not utilize completely, the wonderful opportunity given to them to become a master in their field of study. The IITs represent the finest contribution of our country towards meaningful technical education. You too belong here - but you may have to run a small race to get to this place!
Source: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/

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