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With the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced (JEE Advanced) 2025 set to be held on May 18, the countdown has finally started. The last two days can make all the difference in your performance. Rather than panicking or attempting to cover everything at once, a concentrated and intelligent strategy can give you a confidence boost and maximise your preparation.
Below are some practical last-minute preparation tips to get the best out of your time.
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1. Practice previous year papers and mock tests: Practicing the past 5-10 years of JEE Advanced papers familiarizes you with the pattern of questions, difficulty, and time management. It is also a wonderful way to refresh. In these last few days, practice at least 2–3 full-length mock tests under actual exam conditions. After every test, review your performance, pinpoint silly mistakes, and avoid repeating them.
2. Revise selectively, but not comprehensively: This is not the moment to learn new things. Hold on to what you already have. Work on reworking important formulas, ideas, and earlier noted key points from your notes. Devote time to high-scoring areas such as electrostatics, thermodynamics, coordinate geometry, and organic chemistry fundamentals. Examine your summary sheets and error notebooks if you have kept them throughout your preparation.
3. Strengthen your good areas: It is better to enhance your good subjects rather than waste time correcting poor areas at this point. During the exam, you will benefit more by confidently cracking questions on subjects you are already proficient in. Make sure you are absolutely clear with the basics of these subjects and can apply them immediately and precisely.
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4. Practice your exam technique: You need to think about how you are going to approach the paper, which subject you will start with, how long you need for each section and when you will move from a question. Work through the exam plan during your mock tests and amend it when you need to. This will save you time and panic on your exam day.
5. Apply the 1-2-3 rule for rapid revision: Adhere to the 1-2-3 rule so that your revision remains organised and tension-free. Spend one hour on revising major formulas and concepts, two hours on solving past year questions or mock tests, and three hours on working on your strong subjects. This intelligent time-split ensures all relevant areas are touched without overloading you.
With only a few days remaining for JEE Advanced 2025, remain calm, assured, and steadfast. Do not cram new subjects and instead, concentrate on intelligent revision, mock papers, and mental preparedness. Believe in your preparation, trust yourself, and go to the exam with a clear-cut strategy and an optimistic state of mind.
(Sandeep Mehta is the co-founder at Vidyamandir Classes and an IIT alumnus)
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