Saturday, August 3, 2013

What should i do If I failed in jee ?

 First Thing:



For those who still have to give their exam
Everyone will tell you about how to crack jee and you will surely do it.
But let me be honest and tell you the Truth most of you will FAIL !!   so be prepared for it .
You will suceed only when you are prepared completely and by that i mean you are prepared for failure  as well .

Here is a something i would suggest you to read if you didn't make it .
I found it on the Internet ( so its not my story )and I think this will help you :

We used to reside at R.K. Puram, Sector - 2. It's about 300m from IIT Delhi. I was in class 11th and one day when I woke up, I had this great urge of visiting IIT-D, since I had never been there.

My father dropped me at the main entrance of IIT-D. I saw a few students coming out of there and I was just thinking that these are the brightest of brightest student of the country. Just after entering through the main gate, IIT-D has this lush green surroundings, and for a few meters all you can see is a straight road ahead. After about 50 meters suddenly the Insti Building of IIT-D appeared, which was earlier hiding behind the trees.

For a moment I was just breathless and mesmerized just by the look of the Insti-building. I came back to my home and told my father that I wanna prepare for JEE.

Now after about 1 year I was in the examination hall and had this JEE paper in my hands and all I could see was these dreadfully tough questions in the question paper. I am not sure that I would have attempted even 20% of these questions.

After the exam there was I, knowing that I am not going to make it. So, I decided to take drop for the preparation of JEE for next year. I got admitted into Narayana Coaching at KaluSarai. And the next few months were like the most memorable period of my life.

This time I was really determined to get into IIT-D, so I started my preparation well in advance and in my first test at Narayana, I was ranked 3rd in Physics from whole India. Definitely that couldn't be counted as a really big achievement like JEE, but that was a sign for me that I am on the right path.

So, for next couple of weeks I was doing really good with my coaching classes and securing a descent rank. But after that things started to change at my home(I better not include all that here). But in very simple words I was not able study at my home. So, I asked my father to get an another room for me, but he said he couldn't afford it.

I used to study whole night at my roof-top and was somehow trying to gain the momentum for my preparation. Whenever I felt down I would ask two of my other friends to meet me at IIT-D and we would just roam here and there inside IIT-D and that roaming really used to motivate us to pursue our Btech. from such a wonderful place like IIT-D.

Everyday in the morning I used to go to District Park near my house and there was this tomb like structure where I used to sit for about 1 hour and would just stare at IIT-D, insti building. That was more of an obsession and I guess that was a time when I loved IIT-D more than my girlfriend ;).

After a few months, again I was in my examination hall, having my JEE question paper infront me and I did really good in my first paper. But when the second question paper came to me, I don't know what happened and after solving a few questions I was simply numb, I was not able to even find the value of tan(theta). And when I came out, I know that I have messed everything I worked for in last two years.

For a few days I was like in dilemma about my life so I messed up with my AIEEE exam too and ended with "You are not qualified for JEE" and "40,000" rank in AIEEE.

I had to take admission at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu through AIEEE, That's the best that I could get with my rank. I always had to take CSE so here I am at SMVDU, pursuing my Btech. in something I actually love to do.

And what I have came to realize in past couple of years is that, the place or institute doesn't matter a lot if you are doing something of your interest. (Although it would be best to get into IIT and having the branch of your choice).

But even after not getting there, I knew that I would have to do something different from mainstream to avoid a mediocre life. So I started to learn Web technologies and developed the technical and cultural fest website when I was in my first year only, and again when I am in second year. We participated in ACM-ICPC 2012 and even after having all 3 students from 2nd year we qualified for Amritapuri regionals and performed up to our expectations there.

Right now I am an official web developer at an online startup, co-founder of another online startup. Working on another website that will be launched later this year. And an active participant at websites like TopCoder, Codechef, UVAonlineJudge, etc.

So, overall I did messed up a lot, but lately I am happy with what I am doing and I actually love it. Maybe if I would be in IIT then I would be focusing more on having a job at Google or Facebook, with a fat salary package. But right now, I am definitely in no mood of getting orders from someone else.

With all this I realized that "Everything happens for a good reason", you just have to find that "good" in it. :)

Was preparing for the JEE worth it?


First - there are many people who'll end up cursing wasted time (like me :P ) if they don't make it to IIT. Let me tell you this early on - such a mentality isn't healthy. You always take away something from anything you do, failed or otherwise. Some will say you shouldn't attend coaching unless you're dead sure you'll make it. Hogwash. Nobody is dead sure of making it. I know people who got like 96% in CBSE class 10 boards and didn't clear JEE. I also know people who were in 70s and 80s before class 11 who cracked the JEE. School Boards and JEE test very different things, so class 10 marks aren't a perfect measure of aptitude by any means. If you like math/science, and have the interest to learn more, go for it!

Second thing to be made clear early on - if you're serious about cracking JEE, you have to do some back-breaking work. No other way. Coaching is a must these days, for the drilling more than anything. Ordinary people can beat the JEE with just pure drilling over 700 days. They will beat the talented people who don't work. So coaching is kind of a must, no way around it. Think of it as a 2-year training session for a World Cup Final rather than a weekly chore, and use it to sharpen your skills for the big game!

(Of course, one can get as many resources as they need online right from class 1 textbooks to IMO question papers, and put them to full use at home with zero coaching and ace the JEE. But what are the chances of that when Facebook is just as easy to access? :P )

Now, to the question you asked.

JEE coaching/preparation could be the best time of your life provided the attitude is right. You will meet similar people, and find yourself enjoying things you never thought possible. While Bollywood masala was the spice of class 9-10, you might genuinely enjoy a discussion about the Binomial Theorem!

You know the joy you feel when your favourite football club scores a goal, or when your favourite cricketer hits a sixer? You'll feel something like that when you crack a tough question. You will want more. From start to finish, you'll feel like you are constantly levelling up in an RPG (except that you are playing you). You will struggle and then easily solve the basic questions, then struggle and soon easily crack the medium ones, and so on. When you crack them, you will feel joy, just like when you see "Congrats! You have cleared this level!" in your favourite video game. You will want to keep levelling up, and you should. Don't play the same level over and over.

You pick up several useful skills in this time. You will pick up MCQ-specific tricks (which are quite handy in college too). You will pick up analytical skills. The instructors will equip you as well. Coaching might teach you a bit of humility as well - If you were near the top of your class in school till 10th, being put in a classroom full of class toppers (and then realising there tens of such rooms in the same building, and that are thousands of such buildings) can be a real eye-opener ;) But that shouldn't discourage you. Two years is a long time.

Don't think the time has been wasted in preparation. Don't be the type to chant "JEE, IIT, JEE, IIT" and go mad if you don't make it. IIT is not the be-all and end-all of life. Whether you get IIT or NIT or a good private college, you will find that this preparation would've made life much easier for you than if you hadn't undergone it. You will almost begin to take some of the things you learnt for granted (only when I look back, I realise just how many things I picked up when preparing, academic and otherwise, and indeed how I take them for granted now).

In short, it's a good character-building experience. You learn many things in a very short couple of years (believe me, they do fly by). Some academic lessons, some life lessons, none less important than the other. There's never every chance of making it to IIT, and there's never no chance of making it to IIT. Go for it! And enjoy it :)


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