I’d advise you to start from NCERT books. Read NCERT textbooks thoroughly. Do the practice questions, exemplar questions. You should know them inside out. If you are from CBSE board, this will also help you in your boards.

Even if you are not from CBSE board, it’ll help your board preparation because most of the syllabus would be a repetition. There might be only few extra things which you need to study. Maybe different experiments and all.

Now for a score 250+ in Mains, once you finish NCERT books you should practice questions. Lots of practice! Start chapter-wise and later you can move to complete mock tests. Get to know your weak areas. Work on them by revisiting the books. Repeat the exercise until you get better.

When you practice, ensure that you do them accurately. Mains is one exam where getting one question wrong might lead to an “effective 5 marks” deduction. This is not to scare you but to make you aware. Practice solving questions quickly but correctly. Avoid silly mistakes. (It’s difficult, but minimise it to the most)

You have 3 hours and 90 questions. You can spend a cool 2 minutes on each question. Sometimes you might have to take short-cuts. Option elimination may sometimes do the trick. *This is not always effective*

Attempt questions only when you are sure. Consider this scenario, One guy attempts 75 out of 90 questions and gets 5 wrong leading to score 275 and then another guy attempts 85/90 and gets 15 wrong scoring only 265. Both got same questions right but number of incorrect questions were the deciding factor. I hope you get the point.

Dear Piyush,

JEE Advanced is one of the competitive level exam. It is a dream of many students to get into IITs.

In order to acheive your aim you need to be dedicated and self motivated.

First, you need to get good hold on your subjects. Take help of NCERT books it will help you to make your concepts clear and to build your fundamentals strong.

Give extra attention to the topics which holds more weightage in the exam.

Apart, from NCERT books you can go through HC Verma, Halliday, Resnick & Walker and I.E. Irodov for physics, OP Tandon and Paula Bruice Yurkanis  for Chemistry and RD Sharma and SL Loney for Mathematics.

Refer previous year papers to know the exam pattern and to know the level of the questions asked in the exam.

To score good marks you need to do lot of practice Speed and time management is very important in JEE. It tests your pressure handling skills and how quick you can think so you should solve as many as mock test series for your practice.

All the best for your preparation and exam!!