JEE Prep Started Late: Should I Solve PYQs Now?

Ans: Hi,
Since you are a dropper you have ample time with you. Appear for regular testing, identify your weak areas and work on them. Go with PYQs and check your prep level

Ans: You have NOT mentioned you are a dropper or you have just entered into 12th Standard this year, preparing for JEE-2025 & whether you have joined any Coaching Center or simply practicing from Online Test Series?

Anyway, I ASSUME, you have completed your 11th & this year you are in 12th. Here are the 15 Factors to be Kept in Mind & the Strategies / Steps / Tips you should follow:

1) You should be able to score above 96% even in Mock Test.
2) Once you finish the Mock Test(s), analyze about 10% mistakes / wrongly answered questions.
3) Which all chapters you are weak in? Which subject has the lowest marks always, out of PCM?
4) Immediately note down in a separate note-book about the wrongly answered questions & keep revising them frequently.
5) As you have entered into 12th now, be thorough with NCERT books of PCM (both 11th & 12th).
6) If you feel that you are weak in any particular chapter of PCM, keep revising them/take further notes/practice frequently.
7) If don't have already, you should prepare your short-notes for each chapter with formulae, wherever applicable.
8) If you have joined any coaching center, keep asking for doubt clearing sessions / classes to get your doubts cleared then and there.
9) At home, always study for 45-minutes and then have a break of 10-minutes & continue your study for 45-minutes to get more concentration power / maximum output.
10) Avoid comparing with other students.
11) To keep yourself physically & mentally fit, you should involve in some physical activities (yoga/meditation/indoor-outdoor games something) for 30-40 minutes daily either morning or evening whichever will be convenient to you.
12) Avoid taking too much pressure at any cost to get admission into any top NITs/IITs. It is not that you will be successful in your career only if you join IITs/NITs. Nothing like that. Your health (both physical/mental) is also equally important.
13) Though you have entered into 12th Standard, you should keep revising/practicing 11th standard syllabus also at least 20-30% daily.
14) Try to finish 12th Syllabus maximum by November-end to start revising both 11th/12th Syllabus from December itself.
15) Download 2024 JEE-Main / Advanced Syllabus which will be more or less same for next year also. Just check which all chapters you have already studied/practiced and which all chapters/topics need to be improved/revised/practiced more?

Most IMPORTANT (which I always recommend all parents/students): Please avoid relying only on JEE/JOSAA/IITs/NITs. Appear for 5-7 Entrance Exams (State Engineering Entrance/Private College Entrance Exams) apart from JEE to have a lot of options open for you to choose the most suitable option for you.

All the BEST for Your JEE-2025 / Other 5-7 Entrance Exams.

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Ans: Clear the basic and fundamental knowledge of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Unless your fundamental concepts are cleared you can't go ahead. Best of luck. Professor.....................:)