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What are the best books to study for JEE Mains (NOT advanced) without coaching? (i.e. I need both good theory and problems)


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Arnav 8th Jul, 2021
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Yalavarthi Kishita 8th Jul, 2021

DEAR Aspirant,

NCERT is the best book to start your preparation. Make sure to solve it completely first and then move to some refresher you would prefer for your school like SL ARORA for PHYSICS which even has a comptetion section.

Once you are done with all that start solving previous year papers because you would get to know the pattern…

There are n number of books available for jee main so ,which book is not important but how you study is likely to have a greater impact.

In my way :

Books which I used during my times are:-

Maths:- Cennage Learning, NCERT

Physics:- Cennage Learning, NCERT

Physical Chemistry:- NCERT

Inorganic Chemistry:- JD Lee, NCERT

Organic Chemistry:- SN Sanyal, NCERT

Those books were really helpful for me during my preparation days.

Best of luck.

Karamvir Singh 8th Jul, 2021

Hey,

Best books for preparation of JEE Mains includes:

Physics:

  • Concepts of Physics by HC Verma
  • Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker
  • Physics by DC Pandey
  • Problems in General Physics by IE Irodov
  • Problems and Solutions of Physics- Shashi Bhushan Shastri

Chemistry:

  • NCERT Textbooks
  • Modern Approach to Chemical Calculations by R.C. Mukherjee
  • OP Tandon- Organic Chemistry
  • Concept of Physical Chemistry by P Bahadur
  • Organic Chemistry by Morrison and Boyd

Mathematics

  • Objective Mathematics by RD Sharma
  • Plane Trigonometry by S L Loney
  • Elements of Coordinate Geometry S L Loney
  • Algebra- Dr S K Goyal Arihant Publications
  • Complete Mathematics for JEE Mains TMH

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Arhana Chakraborty 8th Jul, 2021
For jee mains
Physics books
Understanding Physics by D C Pandey (Arihant Publications): Set of books for
Electricity & Magnetism
Mechanics (Vol. 1 & 2)
Optics & Modern Physics
Waves & Thermodynamics

Concepts of physics (Vol. 1 and 2) by H.C Verma
Problems in physics by SS Krotov
Problems and solution of physics by Shashi bhushan tiwari

For chemistry
NCERT Textbooks (for Class XI and XII )
Modern Approach to Chemical Calculations by R.C. Mukherjee
Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J D Lee
Organic Chemistry by Morrison & Boyd

For math
Objective Mathematics by R D Sharma
Play with Graphs by Amit M Agarwal (Arihant Publications)
Complete mathematics for JEE Main TMH
Differential Calculus by Amit M Agarwal (Arihant Publications)
Plane Trigonometry by S L Loney
The Elements Of Coordinate Geometry by S L Loney
Algebra by Dr S K Goyal Arihant Publications

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https://learn.careers360.com/engineering/jee-main-preparation-material/

Thank you. All the best. I hope this answer helps you.

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