How to Prepare for IIT with your Board Exams?
Author: Sai Prasad
There’s just less than a month left for the students to appear to appear in the two most important exams in their career, the 12th Board Exams, and the IIT examination. The competition level is literally rising up and some students start to underestimate the pressure of exam as both of them would be back to back. Most of the times, it has been noticed that students shift their focus from one exam to the other without understanding the fundamentals of each. In the journey of preparation, IIT coaching classes in Mumbai play a vital role in helping the students to understand each topic in perfect manner.
So, exactly how to prepare for IIT along with the board exams, here are a few tips.
- Smart Planning: Preparing a strategy is the first thing that you should do. You should prepare a time table and give time to each and every subject. It will help you in formulating a schedule that will push you beyond your abilities. Also, take short breaks after studying for at least 6 hours and refresh your mind.
- Understand the Fundamentals and Theory: By having clear understanding of the fundamentals that are in the chapters will help you in both IIT as well as in board exams. For bridging the gap between fundamentals and tricky questions that appear in the exams, always refer the NCERT books. Also, prepare a formula notebook and refer them while studying for IIT.
- Cover Every Topic of the Syllabus: Don’t take a chance and miss out leaving a single topic. By taking a brief look at the previous year’s question papers will give you a hint of what all topics are being covered in the exams. Also, you can consult official website for IIT for ensuring the syllabus.
- Revise Well: No preparation is complete without revision. Leave enough time for revision before the exam. Thus, planning of subjects should be made according to the time.
- Get Acquainted With the Latest Exam Pattern: Preparing for IIT and board exams simultaneously can be challenging. Thus, practice more of the application based questions for IIT and be more theory-oriented for board exams.
- Practice Mock Papers: Almost every IIT coaching class in Mumbai provide a series of mock test papers for judging the preparation level of the students. Mock tests actually proof to be effective as it helps in strengthening the weaker areas.