Dear Readers,
The JEE Advanced 2015 is scheduled to be
held tomorrow, i.e. on the 24th of May. At this stage, you must be
wondering about how to increase your scores in this exam. In this article, we
will look at the right strategy for attempting the exam so that you can increase
your score. Thus, this article will help you increase your scores in the JEE
Advanced 2015 and would help you get selected to your dream IIT.
In order to help you understand what you
need to do in the JEE Advanced 2015, let us quickly take a look at last year’s
exam pattern and cutoff. After this, we would discuss the right strategy for
maximizing your performance in the JEE Advanced.
JEE Advanced
2014 paper pattern and cutoffs:
The JEE Advanced 2014 exam had two Papers, Paper 1 and
Paper 2, each containing three parts, Physics,Chemistry and Mathematics. Each part in each paper had
20 questions each. In Paper 1, each part had two sections, the first being
multiple choice questions with one or more options correct type and the second
being questions with only one integer correct type. The two sections had ten
questions each.
In Paper 2, each part had three sections: Section 1
consisted of multiple choice questions with only one correct option (10
questions); Section 2 comprised comprehension type questions with only one
correct option (6 questions) and Section 3 comprised questions of matching list
type with one correct option (4 questions).
In both papers, all questions carried 3 marks for the
correct answer. In Paper 1, there was no negative marking for wrong answers
whereas in Paper 2, wrong answers carried -1 mark.
Thus a candidate could have scored anything
between 0 to 180 in Paper 1 and -60 to 180 in Paper 2. Thus, the total marks
obtained by a candidate could have been anywhere between -60 to 360.
Qualifying
marks: For general category candidates, in order to
be considered for the common merit list, the subject wise and aggregate cutoffs
were 12 marks per subject and 126 marks overall respectively. For OBC category
candidates, the corresponding subject wise and aggregate cutoffs were 11 marks
per subject and 113 marks overall. For SC and ST category candidates, the
corresponding subject wise and aggregate cutoffs were 6 marks per subject and
63 marks overall.
Target
scores: Do note that clearing the above cutoffs
only meant that a candidate was deemed to have qualified the JEE Advanced 2014.
In order to get into the best IITs and get a desired branch, candidates needed
to score much more than the qualifying marks. General category candidates
should ideally have scored around 190+ marks, OBC category candidates should
have obtained 155+, SC category candidates should have scored 120+ and ST
category candidates should have obtained 75+ marks in order to get into the
best IITs.
JEE
Advanced 2015 tips and tricks:
The JEE Advanced 2015 exam also comprises
two separate papers. It is expected that the composition of these papers will
be similar to the composition of the 2014 papers. Based on this, the following
strategy would help you increase your score in this exam:
1) First of all, read the instructions
carefully and identify all those questions that have no negative marking. This
is extremely important. In JEE advanced 2014, Paper 1 had no negative marking.
So, students should have attempted all questions in Paper 1. Similarly, in JEE
Advanced 2015, first of all identify all those questions that have no negative
marking.
2) Ensure that you attempt all those
questions that have no negative marking. Even if you are not sure of the answer
to a question with no negative marking, you should try to make an intelligent guess
and should mark some option. Do not leave any question un-attempted if it has
no negative marks.
The logic behind this is quite simple. If a
question has no negative marks, then even if your guess is wrong, you will not
lose any marks. On the other hand, if your guess is right, you would get the
full marks for that question. So, you can only benefit from attempting such
questions; you cannot lose.
To understand the importance of this, do
note that General, OBC, SC and ST category candidates need to score only about 190,
155, 120 and 75 marks respectively in order to get into the top IITs. But,
Paper 1 alone accounted for 180 marks last year and had no negative marks. So,
if a student had attempted all questions in Paper 1, even if got only 50% of
those questions right, he would still have managed to score at least 90 marks
through Paper 1 alone. These 90 marks would have gone a long way towards
ensuring that the student got into a good IIT.
3) Be very careful with those questions
which have negative marking. Read the instructions carefully so that you have a
very clear idea of those questions that have negative marking.
4) Do not make random guesses in questions
with negative marking. Such questions have a heavy penalty for incorrect
answers. So, if you try to randomly mark answers in such questions, there is a
very good chance that you would end up losing some marks.
5) For questions with negative marking, if
you are not sure of the answer, leave the question quickly and move on to the
next question. For questions with negative marking, you should first attempt
all those questions where you are confident of getting the answer. In case you
try to solve a question where you are not very confident, you may end up
wasting some time and you may miss some easy questions. So, for questions with
negative marking, first of all, attempt all of those questions which you are
very confident about. After you have finished all such questions, if you still
have some time left, you can then move on to those questions where you are not
very sure of the answer.
These tips and tricks will definitely help
you increase your scores in the JEE Advanced 2015 exam and would help you get
into a top IIT.
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All the Best!