Hello Sir, I soon will be pursuing ug course starting late july/early august. I am also very much interested in NDA, Pune and have filled the application for the same to be held in September 2025. I am in a fix whether to take online coaching or not, owing to the tough selection rate. Please help me with your advice.

Ans: Hello Shakti
Online coaching is okay. You need to appear for regular tests for checking your preparation level so that you can work upon your weaker areas.

Ans: Vishal, You have already spent 60K. Instead of joining PW again, join 1-2 Online Test Series like Allen's & one more. If you have any doubts on any particular topic, you can easily get the Free Videos in YouTube itself, uploaded by various reputed Coaching Institutes and / or refer the recommended books for JEE by your offline Coaching Faculties. Some Important Practical Tips / Strategies / Steps you should follow for your JEE Preparation which 2-3 times I have already uploaded in 2-3 answers. I am reproducing BELOW the same for your ready reference instead of searching for it.

(1) Whenever you study at home, study for 45-minutes. Then take a break of 10-minutes when you can move away from your study table, walk, have some water & relax. If you continue studying beyond 45-minutes, your concentration power will go down, resulting to low output. Most students commit this mistake. (2) On daily basis (morning or evening whichever will be convenient to you), do yoga or meditation or physical exercises or play any games / sports for at least 30-45 minutes. This will further reduce your stress / distractions. (3) Study tough topics / tough subjects (applicable to you) early morning with your fresh mind. (4) Eat a lot of green vegetables / fruits which you can afford for & Avoid soft drinks (5) Every day night, before going to bed, revise whatever you have studied during the day. (6) Also, revise every week whatever you have covered till date (here your short-notes which you should prepare will be helpful). (7) Keep practising questions on topics which you have covered either offline or online (8) Give utmost importance to wrongly answered / difficult / complicated / tough questions and have a separate note-book specially for this for each subject (PCM) (8) You might be aware that JEE rank is allotted on the basis of highest score in Maths, followed by Physics & Chemistry. Practice more and more in Maths, till you reach Speed & Accuracy (9) By the end of 12th standard (December-January), attempt a number of fully syllabus online test series, evaluate and analyse your performance such as, (a) which topic / unit / concept you are weak which needs your revision and improvement as this will disturb you when you appear in actual JEE exam (b) abnormal time taken to attempt any question which you can come to know from Online Test Series which you should reduce (c) which questions you skipped and why? Keep getting your doubts cleared then and there at your Coaching Class and within a day or 2 after each topic is covered (10) Please AVOID studying under pressure that you should get admission only into IITs/ NITs. Never advisable. Any one can be successful, even if he / she studies in NON-IIT / NON-NIT Colleges also. (11) Have Plan B & Plan C for other Colleges Entrance Exams / Disciplines-Streams. (11) Avoid comparing yourself with other students. (12) Also, it is highly ideal to appear in / attempt minimum 5-Entrance Exams (for both Govt & Private Engineering Colleges). You will have a lot of options (easiest method) to choose the best and most suitable one, keeping in view a lot of factors such as, College | Location | Your Interest | Stream Preference | Placement Records | College Culture | Your Short & Long Term Goals | Pressure You Can Go Through | Your AIR & Job Market Condition when you apply for your BTech & Even after. I hope I have answered to your question with value additions. All the BEST for your Bright Future, Vishal.

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Ans: Hello Dharsha.
You used the words success and online coaching for Jee. Success never depends upon joining either online or offline coaching. You have to study on your own and consistently. There are many online learning platforms. To list some of them are, Allen, Vedantu, Byju's, PW, Aakash, and many more. It is better to visit the NTA website for a free online test series and test all the platforms from a teaching and test series point of view. Everybody's test is different. Hence, first, check and then decide which is suitable for you. We can't recommend a particular name from a success point of view. Join any suitable platform, study hard, appear for tests regularly, finish the syllabus in time, revise it at least 2-3 times, do calculations at lightning speed, and collect the material in hard and soft copy form. Success will be there.
Best of luck for your upcoming JEE exam.

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