Study Plan for Droppers to Crack JEE Main and Advanced 2022

Count Your Blessings – Advantage for the Droppers

People must be demeaning you for being a dropper to retake the IIT JEE exam but you should consider yourself lucky without an iota of disappointment. Since you have already taken IIT Mains last year, you are ahead of others in the severe competition, because your experience counts.

You are already aware of facing a real-life exam unlike the first time takes and there is where you are in a more advantageous position than the others. Secondly, you are also free from the pressure of the 12th Board exam which is also very good news for you.

The first time takers have to juggle between their 12th Board exam and IIT JEE preparation, but you are free from that pressure and you can dedicate your whole time towards the preparation of the IIT JEE examination.

In this article, we will discuss the way the droppers can motivate themselves to work hard and follow the excellent strategy to retake the IIT JEE Mains and JEE Advanced exams and come out with flying colors grabbing the seats in either IITs or in the NITs respectively.

Opting for a Reliable Coaching Institute

If you are a dropped-out candidate and want to retake the IIT JEE exam, getting into a good coaching institute will help you align towards your goal. FIITJEE is the best option and they also provide a discount of 30% for the retake candidates if they had taken tuition at their center earlier.

If you are an inhabitant of South India, then Narayana JEE Coaching Classes can be more suitable for you based on your location and schedules. This apart, if you are poor and needy, and you come from lower strata of the society, you can sit for Super 30’s admission test in May-June of the year.

They will provide you free lodging and free quality tuition in Patna. These apart, AskIITians and Toppr provide excellent online IIT JEE preparatory services customized for the droppers and retake candidates. They skip going into details of the chapters and just touch upon the basis for revision. In the end, they also arrange for online mocks.

Gear Up and Proceed Again with IIT JEE Preparation

1. Preparation for Physics

It is assumed that you remember the texts of basic NCERT books and you are done with problem-solving from the Concepts of Physics by H. C. Verma Volume I and Volume II. Then proceed with I.E. Irodov’s Problems in General Physics.

Then you can brush up on the theoretical knowledge by applying the formulae to practical problem-solving examples. For this purpose, S.S. Krotov’s book is a good choice to get a wide range of aptitude test problems in Physics. If you have forgotten the concepts of class XI, then please take the help of a book by Resnick, Halliday, and Walker.

You can also consult Nelson and Parker’s book in your free time to develop a genuine interest in Physics. It has in-depth details on Wave Optics and Electrostatics. Another book on Quantum Physics and Thermal Physics written by Feynman is also recommended for reading.

A.A. Pinsky’s Problems in Physics is a great book to opt for. L.A. Sena’s book – A Collection of Questions and Problems in Physics by an eminent Publisher CBS is also there. It is an excellent compilation of all past IIT JEE question papers along with solutions. These two books have got a brilliant rating from the past IITian candidates who qualified for IIT JEE Mains and Advanced exams.

2. Preparation for Chemistry:

Once again it is assumed that even if you dropped out, you still remember the core text reading from the NCERT books. If you are not up to date with that, kindly revise. Then for in-depth studying of Inorganic Chemistry, the book by J. D. Lee is excellent.

The students who find studying Inorganic Chemistry is boring or uninteresting, might have a look at O.P. Tandon’s Inorganic Chemistry book. It is far more useful than Lee’s. J.D. Lee’s book. As you know that the patterns and chemical reactions of Organic Chemistry are different from understanding Inorganic Chemistry, you need to study the Organic Chemistry book by Morrison and Boyd.

Then consult a book named Numerical Chemistry by the author P. Bahadur. And for clarifying further the concepts of Organic Chemistry, there is a best-selling book by Paula Bruice Yurkanis published by Pearson Education India. This book is exceptionally great for covering a whole lot of IIT JEE Advanced past paper questions and their full solutions.

In their free time, they can consult another book by the author I. L. Finisar. His Organic Chemistry book is quite a good book for the preparation of the complete IIT JEE exam, both the mains and the advanced.

3. Preparation for Mathematics: Re-start solving the important problems marked in the NCERT books again. This is indispensable for your revision. Then solve the book named Higher Algebra by the author duo Hall and Knight.

The next book to count on is named “Problems in Calculus of One Variable” written by the eminent author I. A. Maron. After completion of these couple of books which cover almost most of the IIT JEE mains and advanced Mathematics syllabus for higher algebra, differential calculus, and integral calculus, only geometry and trigonometry would be left out.

Afterward, the students need to take care of geometry and trigonometry. Hence, solving co-ordinate Geometry and Trigonometry by the eminent author S. L. Loney is quite irresistible if the students really want to go in-depth in these particular areas. Once the students complete all these above-mentioned books, then it comes to go through another consolidated IIT JEE preparatory books for the subject Mathematics.

This is reputed Tata McGraw Hill publication’s book named “Complete Mathematics for IIT JEE Main“. Then revision of R.D. Sharma and M.L. Khanna’s book is advisable for the retake candidates if you are not in touch with the basics for more than one year.

Taking the Mocks on Real-Time Basis

The students can download all past years’ IIT JEE Mains and Advanced question papers. To get full solutions of IIT JEE Advanced, some books should be considered. For Physics, the Arihant Publisher’s last 35 years’ IIT JEE Advanced question papers along with solutions are available in the market.

For Chemistry, the students are recommended to consult Tata McGraw Hills publication’s book that has all previous papers’ solutions for both Inorganic and Organic portions. Finally, for Mathematics, M.L. Khanna is the only Bible.

Firstly, the students should try solving the full mock tests within the stipulated time. Thus both time management and stress management would be well-practiced.

Then they can attempt solving a full IIT JEE past paper within time and track their progress by checking their answers with the given answer key and full solution set to get to know how many marks they have secured. This will give a clear picture of where they are currently standing now, and approximately how much they can score in the actual IIT JEE Mains and Advanced exams.

Follow the Timetable

When the dropper students are retaking candidates, their pace of preparation usually gets hampered if they do not follow a rigorous routine or timetable. They should be extra cautious so that they do not miss out on progressing at the proper place.

Maintaining a proper timetable for the IIT JEE Mains exam first and getting stuck on it helps a lot. After that, they should make proper planning for the IIT Advanced exam and stick to it.

Stick the List of Formulae on the Wall

If you enroll in good coaching centers, they will provide you with the list of formulae or the cheat sheets. If they do not give you that, you need to prepare those short notes and formulae cheat sheet on your own and stick it to your room’s wall. This way you forget being nightmarish about the IIT JEE Mains and Advanced exams.