Twelve Steps To IIT JEE

Call it over confidence, arrogance, or anything you may want to call it, but I know the twelve steps that can get you to IIT JEE, even though I'm still in 12th standard, and I'm not yet admitted to IIT. More than steps, these are precautions, or common mistakes people commit, and which become the reason for failure.

1) There is no formula. None of 'em, not even one. Just terms and their definitions. If you visualise a problem rather than thinking what formula you can stick up over there, you'd do better. People will argue that this wastes time; yes, it does, but if you look at the brighter side, you can get more questions correct, and also be sure of the ones you did correctly. If you do it otherwise, their is always a chance you used the wrong approach. You get this into your brain, you're good to go.

If you can't, then know your formula well. How it was derieved, when you can use it, what are the exceptions, and when you should discard it completely.


2) Maths comes first. This is highly generalised, but my experience says you should study Maths before you do Physics or Chemistry. Likewise in the paper. Attempt Maths first. Then goes Physics and finally Chemistry. That's the order for the paper, you can exchange Physics and Chemistry while studying. Doing this ensures you have a balance (in most cases).

3) Don't study harder, but study smarter. Keeping the above point in mind, when studying one subject, do the things you like first. Yes, you heard it right, I said first. People would advise you to do it the other way round, but my experience says that if you get to learn something new, and you find it interesting too, it boosts your confidence. It also increases the chance you'll get marks on that topic. You'll do the boring parts in the end anyway, you have to do it if you want to finish syllabus. That way you tend to remember only the important parts in the boring chapters/topics and so they don't take up much space in your brain. Thus, the part that interests you remains fresh.

4) Do not overstrain yourself. If you go to an institute after school, and reach home at about 9:00-9:30 p.m., do not study for more than an hour after that, however much syllabus you may have left. That extra time will not help you, but sleeping will.

5) Screw your school. Dump it, forget it, throw it away. Save the week before school exams for school study. Do not touch the school books otherwise.(Of course, NCERT is the book that IIT follows too, so look it up if you have any confusions regarding any topic)

6) Do not buy too many books. This is a mistake I and many other dudes out there commit. One book is definitely not enough, many have mistakes, and different books are famous for different topics. My answer to this is, either get hold of a good teacher, or a decent internet connection. A good teacher or an internet connection will help you out in your studies, and can become an authentic source of info. 1-2 books, combined with institute study material should be enough.

7) Get your doubts cleared well in time. If you pile 'em up, you'll never get the time to clarify them. Do not be afraid of a teacher, or do not be ashamed of asking anything in class. Do not think it will make you look stupid. Ask every single thing you have a doubt in.

8) Don't leave questions in between, or discard 'em if you somehow got the answer. You may have got the answer now, but you won't get the same question in the paper. It's the concept that matters; if that is clear, the answer doesn't matter. Also, if you know how to do the question and the conecpt used, do it till completion, until you get the answer. That way you get to know of common errors.

9) Give practice tests, and solve previous years questions. Doing this gives you an idea of how things work, and how to eliminate options in an objective exam. For example, in some questions, it is quite clear that the answer cannot be 'none of these', or 0 or 1, etc. Or in some questions, in Maths and Physics, you can reverse engineer questions, like put the option values in questions, or likewise. These tricks only come to you with practice, and if you develop a habit to look at a question from different angles.

10) Remember, the paper is designed in a way, so that nobody is able to complete the paper. Do not try to guess lamely in a paper, the consequences will be disastrous. Try to do fewer questions correctly, rather than more questions incorrectly. Spend more time on questions on which you get stuck, but have a feeling that you know how to solve it. There is a fair chance that you'll get the answer.

11) Do not leave any question that you have not tried to solve. There may be questions that may seem monstrously difficult or complex, but if you try to think hard, most of the details are given to confuse you. So try to apply the basic law/definition you know related to that topic, and try to build up that question yourself. Maybe you'll get a clue, or a shortcut to the answer.

12) Finally, remember that IIT is not the end of the world. Most popular and rich guys have not passed out from IIT. That'll make you feel better, and make you take the whole thing in a lighter spirit rather than being tensed all the time.

Mah sch00l roxX!

Here's a BBPS update.

* We have a new vice principal. Mr. R***n has replaced AC (An****a Cho**a) as the VP. Now he'll do his terror work more freely and merrily.

* We have finished our practicals, and have loads of holidays coming up in lieu of Annual Day, Diwali and other crap. We have pre-boards in December.

* The principal is retiring (Yay!) this year [citation needed], and he will be replaced by somebody from another BBPS branch, and not our branch. I just hope BBPS gets free from this dictator soon.

Those bastards have now introduced new rules. As if we f**kin care.

* We earlier had a two minute break between two periods, for which we had two bells. The break has now been abolished.

* To move outside the classroom, we need a class pass. Each class has 2 class passes, which reside with Basal-E, I earlier mentioned her here. If you are found outside the class at any point of time, you will be turned out of school, and your parents will immediately be informed. Bah.

Home Sweet Home

I'm back home after 6 longs days in Kasauli, Shimla and Chandigarh. It feels good to be home! I'm very tired right now, and I will post a long entry on the trip later, with a complete photo album.

7 things I will be...

Since I'm such a fickle minded bastard, I've decided to pen down some of the things I think I'm sure about. That way I'd have a bank of things to laugh at 10 years later, when I read this blog.

* I will remain fat. No matter how hard I try, I won't be able to lose weight. I've seen guys, who remain on a diet 24x7x365, go to a gym regularly, and buy all kinda slimming products, but still remain chubby. I think I belong to that category.

* I will be a bad boss, if I do become one. This is because of my inability to agree that anyone else is right. If I have power in my hands, I will misuse it to my full potential, and make the lives of my subordinates miserable.

* I will be hated far and wide, and people will know me as the sick sarcastic psycho freak.

* I will die early, probably in my late 40s. That will of course be due to diabetes, hypertension, or some other obesity related disease. Or maybe due to an STD. The point is I'll fade away soon.

* I'll have a lot of money, it may be white or black, but I'll have loads of it. I'll splurge it all around, and waste so much of it on fun that I'll get a green aura around my body.

* I will have to go to jail, at least once. People around me get frustrated with me, and me being an extremist, I usually show them the middle finger or threaten to kill them (in my mind). I can be really gross in my thoughts, for example - I once dreamt that I was piercing a girl (whom I hate a lot, she is codenamed Basal-E) in her scalp with two red hot metal needles, and then dropping the burnt skin in her mouth and forcing her to chew it. What is important here is that if I can dream like that, I can do it in real life if I get really pissed off.

* I will get cut off from the society completely, but eventually. It'd start with colleagues, then friends, and finally my family. There will be a point of time, when nobody in the world would be able to stand seeing my face. Then I will cuddle into my underground command center (OK, I've ripped this from Die Hard 4) and will be forced to create a fake online identity to satisfy my socialising needs.

I'm going off to Shimla!

First of all, the updates. I've not been up to anything recently, I was busy finishing my exams at school, and then busy configuring my destroyed PC (I lost all my data while I was trying to install SAM Linux Desktop 2007). So now after all that, I'm a bit free, which means I will now rebuild my movie collection and waste time on watching them! I have a weekly test at Narayna on Monday, though.

I have also spent a lot of time reading other blogs, which has made me a more understanding person (that's what I feel). I have earlier recieved quite a lot of criticism on the grounds of being selfish, self-centred, highly egoistic, and arrogant. I have also been called heartless, insensitive and rebellious by random people. A friend called me a 'very sad person'. So I decided to make some changes. For once I decided to give other people a chance to say what they want to.

But soon I realised that the world - Ok, if not the world, than at least my surroundings is full of lame wannabes. They do not deserve to be heard, and I will not listen to them. If this is arrogance, then I'm proud to be arrogant.

Anyway, I'm going to Shimla for 5 days on Tuesday, 16th October. This according to my family, is not a sight-seeing trip, but a 'break' from work and the tension of Delhi. For me this means 5 long days of travel sickness, puke and stomach aches. I wanted to protest, but I realised that they do need a break. Mom is under a lot of pressure, both at work, and due to her illness. I guess I can take 5 days for her.

English paper

Another English exam, and nothing has changed. I'm going to fail again, I know. Studying for English really depresses me, it reminds me of old days in 9th and 10th when English was a favorite, 'relaxing' subject. When guys came up to me to get my opinion. When I used to score in English without much sweating. By just using my fuckin brain. The days have flown by, and so will these. Maybe I won't get a really cool score in the CBSE examination, but I'll be very, very happy to get out of this hell.

And you say school is supposed to be fun. Check out Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura.

It's funny how songs can seem to be just made-for-you.

Crawling

Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real


There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming.......confusing
This lack of self-control I fear is never ending
Controlling.......

I can't seem to find myself again
My walls are closing in
(without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

Discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me
Distracting.........reacting
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection
It's haunting.........

How I can't seem to find myself again
My walls are closing in
(without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing....... confusing what is real

There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming.......confusing what is real
This lack of self-control I fear is never ending
Controlling........confusing what is real

I just wish I could fast-forward the school part and jump to college.

Migrated, Back and Revamped

After being frustrated by my blog's old, dull and common look, I decided to migrate to Wordpress, for more power features, and more ease of use. Wordpress is quite amazing, considering that they are not backed up by a big company like Google (Blogger is), they have a number of features which make their service very easy to use, while offering quite a number of features too. But I'm one of the guys who just doesn't like living in constraints. Wordpress doesn't allow me to add 3rd party code to my blog, I cannot modify the default sidebar, I cannot modify the code of my template, I cannot add javascript to my blog, and a number of other things that sorta chained me down.

So I decided to move back to blogger, but not get complacent, and work on a revamp. I found some really cool templates out there, out of which I found the current one the best. I had to modify it a bit though, the layout and the font spacing, and header placement.

Plain, simple, and elegant, just like I always wanted it to be :).

P.S. - One feature that Blogger doesn't have and WP has is the convert smileys thing. Blogger displays them as plain text. Not something to cry for, though.


I haven't removed the WP blog, it's there if anyone wants to check it out and comment.

Wordpress Blog


UPDATE : Looks like opinions are like asses, everyone has one. Sure you do, but not about my new blog template. Comments closed on this post.