Tips for JEE and NEET exams

Prepared by Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, BE (University of Mysore ‘61), MS (Caltech ‘62), AeE (Caltech ‘65), PhD (Cornell ‘67), MBA (New York and Rider ‘75), PE (California), Chief Mentor, RankStudent.com

Every student aspires to be a topper.
Here are a few tips that are useful in making this dream come true.

1. Start Early.
As the saying goes, “slow and steady wins the race”. Start preparing for the competitive JEE and NEET exams the moment you register for the 10+1 (1st PUC) course. You will have two years to get ready for the final exams. Use the RankStudent.com Learning System as a study aid.

2. The JEE and NEET tests prepared by RankStudent.com
After you complete each chapter in the classroom or at your coaching center, be it Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Mathematics, take the JEE and NEET tests selected by RankStudent.com. These tests are a collection of questions from JEE and NEET exams for the last 10 to 20 years.

Studies have shown that 70% of learning in human beings takes place through doing. Watch a child and observe how many times he/she falls before he/she learns to walk. Observe a swimmer. Does he learn by watching cartoons? You must get in the water before you swim.

We have used these insights in designing the RankStudent.com system. In our system, the student is engaged through a tablet, a PC or a hand held device.

3. Analyze 
After you complete a test, RankStudent.com provides you with an analysis of which questions you answered correctly and which questions you answers incorrectly. It also provides you with the correct answers for each question and your ranking in the class.

4. Review chapter
The ideal time to review a chapter is after you have taken a test. Once you have understood which areas you missed in your test, go back and review that chapter. Underline the important points. Understand the areas that you missed. Master the chapter.

5. Take chapter by chapter tests
Now, take the section by section and chapter by chapter tests provided by RankStudent.com. These tests have been carefully selected to ensure that you have not skipped any section or overlooked any chapter.
After each test, RankStudent.com software will analyze your performance and guide you to overcome your deficiencies.

6. Review and remember the chapter
RankStudent.com has prepared essential points to remember in each chapter. Underline these points in your books. Master them and remember them.

7. Repeat the test
Experiments have shown that a subject must be reviewed ten times before it becomes firmly fixed in the brain. If you start early, you will be able to take each JEE and NEET exam for each of the last 10 to 20 years multiple times until the answers become second nature.
Taking the exam multiple times will remove anxiety about the exams. Practice will enable you to face the actual exam with confidence.

8. Don’t waste time
Time is the greatest blessing given to humankind. Do not waste it. Use it effectively to learn.

9. Keep good company
Keep the company of those students who are similarly interested in their studies. Avoid the company of those who are not interested in their studies.

10. Avoid distractions
The 10+1 and 10+2 years are perhaps the most important years in your career. This is not the time to engage in distractions and worry about issues that are not of concern to you. This is the time to study and move forward in your lives. For instance, it is not important for you to know how many inches of snow fell in western Iceland last year.

Focus
Learn to focus when you study. Remember the story of Ekalavya in the Mahabharatha. Focus leads to perfection.

The RankStudent.com system, when used in combination with a Tablet or a laptop enables you to study even when you are surrounded by distractions. For instance, you could be studying the RankStudent.com subject content or take an exam even while you are taking a ride in a city bus.

12. Be disciplined
Great men and women achieve greatness through discipline. Well known professors, artists, writers, musicians, athletes, soldiers are all highly disciplined. This is also true of those who achieve first rank in the entire state or first rank in the entire country or indeed when you compete in the world market. Be disciplined. Prepare a long term plan and stick to it so that you too achieve the highest rank.

Good luck and God speed to all of you!

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RankStudent.com offers you a powerful method that is a game changer in exam prep. It is based on Learning by Testing used by NASA and uses one of the most sophisticated algorithms to analyze the performance of students. It offers immense benefits to both teachers and students.

Experiments have shown that 70% of learning in humans is through doing. Only 10% is through cartoons, TV, animations and other sources. The RankStudent.com method is therefore built upon student engagement, testing, measurement and continuous improvement. It is shown to improve exam scores by 20 to 50 percent.

Testing

Testing is the most effective and unbiased method of evaluating performance.

We have used the method from the best institutions in the world such as Caltech, Cornell and New York University. In our method, the students use Tablets, PCs, laptops or hand held devices to take their tests and know the results immediately. In some applications, smart phones can also be used to access our tests

Standardized testing levels the playing field between urban and rural areas, between the advantaged and the disadvantaged.

Research has shown that non-standard testing can lead to wide variations in evaluation. The same paper that is rated excellent by one teacher can be rated average by another teacher. In the absence of comprehensive standardized measurements, some teachers may skip certain topics or sections and prefer other sections or chapters.  

Standardized testing enables school administrators and state level agencies to measure teacher effectiveness and school performance. If there are deficiencies, remedial steps can be taken.

Engage student

We engage the student through the use of Tablets, PCs and in some cases mobile phones.

Tests have shown that engagement and active participation is a key to content retention. Students tend to perform better with active learning.

Help for the teachers

We use digital technology to lessen the burden on teachers for testing and evaluation so that they can focus on their core function, which is teaching.

                                                                                                                                      

We use the NASA method

We have used the NASA method where complex systems are broken into simpler ones, built and tested, and reintegrated to produce the complete system.

For instance, in the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, on which our Chief Mentor Professor Ahmed was a Chief Scientist, the Optical Telescope Assembly was divided into a large number of subsystems.

         

In a similar manner, RankStudent.com breaks down complex questions into simple ones.  We show the student how to analyze the complex questions that appear in JEE, JEE Advanced and NEET exams.

Measurement: The "scientific" method is based on measurement. We measure the student's performance to obtain quantitative data on how he learns.  

Analysis: We use one of the most sophisticated analytics layer in the world. We perfected it from our work for the National Women's Business Council in Washington, DC. This is not available elsewhere.

                    

Continuous Improvement

Based on testing, measurement and analysis, we guide the student step by step, section by section, chapter by chapter towards continuous performance improvement.                 

Repetition and Pattern Recognition

Digital technology enables a student to repeat a test, or a combination of tests as many times as possible so that learning process becomes subconscious, question pattern recognition becomes easier and taking an exam becomes "routine". Exam anxiety is eliminated. Scores go up.

 NASA drills the astronauts during their training so that functionality in space becomes "routine" and "subconscious" for the astronaut. Similar is the case whether one is training a pilot, a cricket superstar or a rank student. We have adopted this NASA methodology.

                    

                

Every student learns at his/her own speed

Digital technology enables each student to learn at his/her own pace. A student may repeat an exam question any number of times until he masters the subject

Ask Questions

Our learning system enables a student to ask the teacher specific questions without the embarrassment of exposure in a classroom. The teacher tracks the questions to see learning patterns and focus on those areas where maximum attention is required.

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The colloquium on “Learning by Testing Methodology by NASA Scientist “ conducted on 21st July 2013 at hotel The Monarch Luxur , Bangalore. Delegates from 60 + Esteemed PU colleges across Karnataka participated in it. It was organized by Rankstudent Soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. Chief Mentor of RankStudent.com Professor Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, retired scientist from NASA projects, highlighted onto the importance of technology in education and Learning by testing methodology for students, which helps students to identify their academic weak areas, work effectively on them and improve the scores. Dr. Ahmed's goal is to close the performance gap between rural and urban areas as well as between India and the United States. The emphasis is on excellence in performance and producing rank students who will become leaders of tomorrow.

Hon'ble Dr. Nazeer Ahmed explaining RankStudent.com 

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