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Students with the passion to pursue engineering in
the top notch AIEEE colleges of India
must crack AIEEE, the most prestigious
engineering entrance examination. In AIEEE
2012 the emphasis is on fundamental concepts and their
application in different situations. This differs significantly
from the C.B.S.E Board examinations. The questions asked in the
AIEEE seek to test the conceptual clarity
and the reasoning ability of the students. |
Most of the questions in AIEEE are not difficult but they are just different
& they require a different approach, a different mindset. Each
question has an element of surprise in it & student who is
adept in tackling 'surprise questions' is most likely to sail
through.
In this lesson I have tried to give smart AIEEE preparation strategies for the students
preparing for AIEEE 2010. This
information will help you establish new goals, develop a new sense
of purpose and generate new ideas that will be helpful in your
preparation. |
| AIEEE Tips &
Tricks for smart AIEEE
preparation |
AIEEE Tips 1:-
Well thought revision
plan: The first & foremost step is to build a
sound & feasible plan for your AIEEE
preparation.Divide your entire time into a reasonable time chart
with milestones in between & plan your studies accordingly. Do
not overestimate the time you have. You are advised to leave free
time in between so that if any module gets delayed you don't have
to change the plan. |
| Study the trend of AIEEE
previous year question papers & draw marks distribution of each
subject to find out which topics are most important & which are
least. Give priority to important topics & try to put them in
early stage of your AIEEE preparation to
avoid any possibility of them being left.Review your plan
periodically to find out if there are any lapses & how they can
be covered up. To summarize I believe that most of the student's
fail not because of lack of ability or intelligence but because of
lack of desire, direction, proper planning & discipline |
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AIEEE Tips
2:-
Strengthening
fundamentals: Most of the aieee questions are based
on fundamentals & their applications. So, the first step is to
establish a solid base by mastering the fundamentals. For mastering
the fundamentals you have to be focused. Don't refer too many aieee
books. Decide about the books after discussing with your trainer
and then stick to them. When you start a new chapter, the learning
curve is slow that you do not accomplish similar amount of learning
every day even though you spend same amount of time everyday. |
| So even if your learning process is slow, keep
studying day after day without getting discouraged. All the
subjects are equally important. Devote more time to subject/topic
you are weak in (remember most of us tend to devote more time on
areas we are strong & often shy away from our weakness). In
most of the examinations minimum qualifying marks are there for
each subject. Hence make sure that you do not ignore any subject
& allocate adequate time to each subject. |
AIEEE Tips
3:-
Strengthening Application of
fundamentals: Quality is more important than
Quantity: Doing 100 quality & concepts based questions is more
important than doing 1000 questions which have not been selected
carefully. Remember that the purpose is to sharpen problem-solving
skills. Start with conventional methods of problem solving but
improvise constantly & build your own shortcuts & ways of
attacking a problem. While practicing the problem always try to
solve the problem on your own. If you are unable to solve a problem
do not hurry to consult the solution. Study the relevant theory
again, paying attention to the finer points and the problem at the
back of mind. |
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Experience shows that studying the theory with a
definite problem in mind is very effective and also sharpens the
problem solving skills. Remember that directly going though the
solutions is not going to help you at all. The key in problem
solving does not lie in understanding the solution to the problem
but to find out what clues in the problem leads you to the right
explanation. In case you are not able to solve the problem try to
find out the reason by analyzing the level of problem &
practice similar kind of problems so that you can master the tricks
involved.
While doing problem solving try to strengthen and develop your
conceptual understanding by analyzing deeply and correlating the
problem with real life situations. While practicing identify your
strong & weak areas (subject wise/topic wise/question wise).
Testing your aieee preparation chapter by chapter can do this.
Through a structured test you should be able to diagnose which
chapter, which concept & what type of problems you need to
practice more. |
AIEEE Tips 4:-
Strengthening Speed, Strike rate and
Examination temperament: Always keep track of your
average speed of solving aieee questions.Participating in aieee
mock test papers helps in time & temperament management during
the final exams. It has been observed that most of the students
loose 15 to 20% of their marks not because they do not know the
subject but because they fail to apply the basic concepts
correctly. This is basically due to examination fear &
pressure. These marks that a student looses because of silly
mistakes (calculation errors, confusion, fail to apply the right
concepts, solving the problem by long method) can be reduced if a
student regularly participates in aieee test series based on the
aieee pattern & level of final exams.
Get a feedback on your aieee preparation by getting yourself tested
by a body other than your College. Testing by expert faculty and
training institutes would give you an independent and unbiased
feedback about your performance. It is preferable if these tests
give feedback on National level. Please remember that both speed
& strike rate are important for success. Continuously develop
the ability to do things fast & accurately. Keep interacting
with people who are preparing. Since the competition is on National
level it is important to compare your aieee preparation with other
students preparing across the country.
In short I can say that "AIEEE is not necessarily test of knowledge
of basic fundamentals only but it is a test of application of
knowledge to solve surprise problems with perfect time &
temperament management. |
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AIEEE Tips
5:-
Speed: Speed building comes through the
following: Memorizing land mark problems
(remembering standard formulae, concepts so that you can apply them
directly) Being strong in mental calculations (never use the
calculator during your entire aieee preparation, try to do first
and second level of calculations mentally, remember as vocalization
reduces reading speed, similarly doing calculation on paper reduces
the speed. |
| Working with choices (see all the options and do not
go for last digit accuracy unless required by the problem) when you
are doing subject wise exercises you can also calculate speed
subject wise.Here we would like to highlight one more point that
just good speed is not enough because of negative marks, so a high
speed with less accuracy may be harmful |
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AIEEE Tips
6:-
Strike Rate: This
originates the second important factor, the strike rate. Strike
rate means the percentage of correctly attempted questions.Strike
rate can be improved with the help of intelligent guessing.
Intelligent guessing means guessing a question you are not
completely sure but have some idea about. Your objective is not to
solve the question but choosing the correct option out of the 4
given choices. So always try to eliminate the choices. |
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Remember that if one choice is eliminated, chances
of your guess being right is 33% (in comparison to a blind guess
where the chances of being right is 25%) and if two are eliminated
the chances of hitting the right answer are 50.%
So remember that a good speed or strike rate alone cannot give you
success. One without the other is a good way to mess up a
potentially good performance. So, what is required is a good
combination of both speed and strike rate. |
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AIEEE Tips
7:-
Question Selection: It is
very important to understand what you have to attempt and what you
have to leave. There is a limit to which you can improve your speed
and strike rate beyond which what becomes very important is your
selection of question. So success depends upon how judiciously one
is able to select the questions. To optimize your performance you
should quickly scan for easy question and come back to the
difficult ones later. |
Always keep in mind that normally questions in any
competitive exams can be categorized into 3 areas
Easy: Approximately 25% questions in a paper are easy
Average: Approximately 60% questions in a paper are average
Difficult: Approximately 15% questions in a paper are difficult
The easy and average questions ensure selection whereas the
difficult questions make the merit. You should focus on careful
selection of the easy and average questions and avoid difficult
questions in the first and second round and come back to them once
you have completed the entire paper once. Also remember that
cut-off in most of the exams moves between 60 to 70%. So if you
focus on easy and average question i.e. 85% of the questions, you
can easily score 70% marks without even going to difficult
question. Try to ensure that in the initial 2 hours of the paper
the focus should be clearly on easy and average question, after two
hours you can decide whether you want to move to difficult
questions or revise the ones attempted to ensure a high strike
rate. |
All the
best….
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