JEE (Main) results are out!

Today is an important day in the life of all JEE aspirants. The JEE (Main) examination, 2013 results are out (Paper I). About 10.5 lakh students appeared for JEE Main - 9 lakh students opted for the pen-and-paper test while 1.5 lakh students took the online test. The JEE (Main) has replaced the erstwhile All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) this year.

The JEE (Main) is conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education. How much a candidate scores on JEE (Main) will determine admission to the National Institutes of Technology (NIT) and the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) and some deemed universities.

Class12 board marks will carry a 40% weightage and JEE scores will carry 60% weightage for admissions. The JEE (Main) scores will also determine a student’s eligibility for the JEE (Advanced) – a test an Engineering aspirant will have to take if he/she is seeking for admission to the undergraduate programs offered by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian School of Mines Dhanbad. The 15 IITs which will provide admissions via JEE advanced are: IIT-Bhubaneshwar, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Gandhinagar, IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Hyderabad, IIT-Indore, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Madras, IIT-Mandi, IIT-Patna, IIT-Rajasthan, IIT-Roorkee and IIT-Ropar.

You can check your results by clicking on the link below. http://cbseresults.nic.in/jee/jee_cbse_2013.htm

To know more about Meritnation’s online courses for IIT JEE click here

All the Best!

Praveen Tyagi

IIT JEE Expert

Meritnation.com

1 comment May 7th, 2013 15:07

Don't forget to take your class XII roll number to the JEE( Mains) exam centre on April 7!

JEE (Mains) is merely 4 days away. How is your preparation? Have you arranged all the necessary items that you need to take to the exam hall on the 7^th? Add one more very important item to the list.

Your class XII Board exam admit card.

According to the latest update from CBSE, JEE aspirants will have to take their class XII hall pass along with the JEE (Mains) admit card to the exam centre on Sunday.

The decision was taken keeping in view the fact that many students have still not been able to update the correct details of their class XII roll numbers on the CBSE website. A lot of students had also requested the board to let them change the information and put in correct data on the roll number sheet.

CBSE believes that the hall ticket procedure will ensure that students do not make any istakes while submitting the details.

On the day of the exam, examinees will be provided with an authentication sheet to verify their roll numbers. The class XII board admit card has to be submitted to the invigilator.

Students who cleared their XII the standard boards in 2011 and 2012 will also have to submit the photocopy of their final marksheet tot he invigilator. Students who passed in 2011 and 2012 but sat for improvements in 2013 in all subjects must submit the copy of their new board admit card for 2013.

All the Best!

Team Meritnation.

11 comments April 3rd, 2013 12:33

Get the Meritnation edge for IIT-JEE 2013

Hi folks!

Hope your preparation for the JEE (Mains) 2013 is getting along in full steam. Well, on the 7th of April you face your first hurdle. We wish you the very best! Hopefully, some of you will go through this to face your next hurdle- the JEE (Advanced) 2013 on the 2nd June. We wanted to help you in your preparation by bringing you something that will give you an opportunity to test yourself in real time, along with other aspirants and help you strengthen your weak areas.

To help you do this, Meritnation has brought out a battery of live tests for the JEE (Advanced) exam. Beginning from the 4th of April and going right up to the 26th May, each of these eight power-packed tests has two papers of three hours each, each mirroring the JEE (Advanced) pattern. Both papers have to be finished on the same day. In the JEE (Advanced) 2013 examination, there will be a gap of 2 hours between Paper 1 and Paper 2.

The two test papers in our LIVE test series can be attempted at any time in the day though we recommend that you do not take more than a 2 hour break between the papers. This will help you simulate the ‘real’ thing and let you effectively analyze your time management strategy over the various sections.

So, guys log on to Meritnation.com on the 4th of April to take the first of the Live Tests based on JEE (Advanced) absolutely Free! To know more about these tests, click here

Good Luck!

Praveen Tyagi – IIT JEE Expert

Meritnation

3 comments April 3rd, 2013 10:44

IIT JEE soon to be completely online..

According to the latest IIT-JEE official buzz, students appearing for the IIT JEE might have to take the entrance exam completely in the online mode from 2014.It has been decided by the Human Resource Development Ministry and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) jointly to do away with the pen and pencil format under the a move to computerize the important centrally conducted entrance exams.

It has been confirmed that the ministry is looking for a firm that can audit the progression to the shift. If the audit deems the board and the government fit for the change, the switch will be implemented as early as 2014.

However, before all you aspirants raise your hopes - the online pattern will be of no respite as the test is unlikely to be easy or simple

The need of the hour therefore, is to switch to practising for IIT JEE online with experts who will be able to not only help you understand your concepts better with attractive and completely engaging multimedia tutorials, but can also help you continuously monitor and assess your understanding of the topics in a rigorous manner. Having easy access to topic intensive tests, quick revision notes to help you revise better and online model test papers to check your preparation at all times can indeed go a long way to boost your preparedness for the online format of this test

Meritnation's specialised online courses for IIT-JEE consists of a rich mix of multimedia tutorials, real life examples, succinct revision notes, practice intensive chapter tests and model test papers. You even get access to LIVE strategy sessions with our IIT JEE guru, Praveen Tyagi! Get immediate reports on how you have performed in the LIVE test series and compare your All India Rank with other meritnation students across India!

To know more about our IIT JEE online course click here

Wishing you the best,

Team Meritnation

8 comments March 19th, 2013 15:54

Tools to measure IIT-JEE preparation – Self Assessment

Hello again!

In my last post I spoke about how you can plan and assess your study schedule effectively through an Activity tracker that I had shared. Now it is time to review your exam preparation through a simple test.

Self Assessment: Assess and mark yourself on a scale of 1 to 5 on your level of preparedness for each topic, where 5 is very good and 1 is very bad

You should give yourself a score of 5 when you are among the top 5% in your peer group.

You should give yourself a score of 1 when you are among the bottom 50% in your peer group.

In order to get a good rank in IITJEE, you should target a score of 5 in every topic.

You may notice that the topics where you have scored 3 or less are the ones where you have not completed the activities as per the plan.Prepare a new plan to study the topics, where you have scored 3 or less. Identify sub-topics, concepts which are causing problems. Work on them consistently and I am sure you will not miss the bus to the IITs!

Write in to me at expert_praveentyagi@meritnation.com

Praveen Tyagi

VP Academics

Meritnation.com

4 comments February 1st, 2013 19:25

Tools to measure your IIT JEE Preparation- An Activity Tracking Checklist

So, how is your preparation for the Boards and IIT-JEE going? I am sure you have taken some tips on how to plan your schedule from our previous blogs.

After the planning has been done and the studying is in full swing, I suggest that you should keep a track of the work done.Measuring your work in this manner will give you a sense of achievement on a regular basis. This will also give you a continuous view of the work that is remaining.

We have pasted, for the benefit of the students, a sample checklist or activity tracker.Students realize after filling this table that the topics where they are weak, belong to the category where the required activities have not been done.

Activity tracker: Please put a tick mark in front of all the activities you have completed.

Please note this is a sample checklist.

So, how many chapters are you confident about? Continue this exercise till you have covered all the topics and see the difference in your preparation!

Write in to me if you have any queries regarding your preparation at praveen.tyagi@meritnation.com

Best Wishes,

Praveen Tyagi

VP- Academics

Meritnation.com

9 comments January 23rd, 2013 18:15

Recognize your learning style and score more!

With exams looming large in the horizon these days, we expect that all you students out there will be busy gearing up for the challenging month ahead. After round-the-year study sessions, the time has now come to refresh all the topics so that they can be on your finger tips during exams.

To make your learning effective you can add a customized touch to your revision notes by tailoring it as per your own learning style.

Are you wondering what ‘learning style’ means?

Learning Style refers to the characteristic ways in which an individual acquires, perceives and processes information. It is therefore important to note that there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, ‘good’ or ‘bad’ learning styles, but only preferred learning styles. Thus, in simple words, a dominant style that helps you process and learn information faster and in a better manner can be classified as your learning style.

On the basis of their learning styles, learners can be broadly classified into three types i.e. Visual learners, Auditory learners and Tactile learners, each with their respective learning styles.

Which category do you belong to?

Here are a few points that will give your some more insight on the prime characteristics of the different types of learners and help you customize your revision notes according to the style that suits you the best.

• Visual learners:

  These learners grasp a concept best by looking at graphics, watching a demonstration, or reading about it. So, while preparing their revision notes, visual learners are advised to supplement their learning with pictures, charts, maps, graphs etc.

• Use bright colours to highlight important text in the revision notes.

• To speed up the pace of revision and make learning effective you can also try visualize the given information as a picture or an image.

• This will help you retain information for a longer period of time and will aid in better recall value during the exam.

• Auditory learners:

  Such learners prefer listening to concepts being explained rather than reading about them in text books.

• You prefer classroom discussions over individual study sessions.

• You feel the need for an absolutely quiet place for attempting to process key information into the memory.

• You feel uncomfortable in handling distractions created by noisy surrounding.

• You can listen to pre-recorded lectures on a tape recorder to process your learning effectively.

• Try creating musical jingles, using mnemonics, and discussing ideas verbally to aid speedy revision.

• Tactile learners:

  These learners process information best through a ‘hands-on’ experience. If you think that actually doing an activity is the easiest way to learn information then your dominant learning style is that of a tactile learner.

• While preparing revision notes, a tactile learner is advised to write or type his own notes.

• While studying these learners may want to hold the revision notes in their hand instead of keeping it on the table.

• To further make learning effective they can even prepare flash cards for each step in a procedure based concept and regularly challenge themselves to arrange the cards in the correct sequence.

• These learners should also include a lot of real life examples and case studies in their revision notes.

• To strengthen your learning, we suggest you to play your way through concept-based puzzles and games available on meritnation.com.

So which style suits you best? Write in and tell us how your exam preparation is faring!

All the very best for your exams!

Cheers!

Team Meritnation

19 comments January 16th, 2013 19:18

Beating those exam blues - A Preparation Guide

So, it is that time of the year again when exams loom large on the horizon and you are gearing up to face them confidently in the next few months. We know you have a very hectic schedule after which you probably have very little time left to spend on focused studying. Worry not. A planned and organized approach in which you systematically tackle all your weak areas while continuing to polish your strong areas, will soon get you feeling in control again.

Here are a few tips that can help you prepare better for those exams and help keep stress at bay. Get set to aim for an outstanding performance this exam season.

• If you haven’t started studying yet, remember that panicking will not get you anywhere. You need to start organizing all your study resources subject wise and begin planning your study schedule. Get down to making a study schedule right away!

• One of the biggest problems that students face while making a study routine is that they set highly ambitious daily targets for themselves. Plan and manage your time according to your exam date sheet. Start with the topics/subjects where you need to focus more.

• Remember, it is important for you to understand a concept well before moving on to another one. Take some time out for periodic breaks, but make sure you stick to the time-limit!

• When you sit down to tackle difficult chapters, try to study them through a video tutorial. It has been proven that something learnt audio-visually stays with you for longer . After watching the videos in the chapter you can revise how much you know by taking the chapter test to assess how much you have learnt.

• Revise Revise and Revise. You must have quick and concise revision notes handy so that you can refer to them any time.One of the most effective learning practices that you can and should adopt in addition to studying by yourself is group studying. Collaborative studying allows you to discuss your problems regarding any concept with friends. It also helps you assess your own understanding of the concept when you explain it to another person. You can also sit together for a mock test paper and evaluate your performance later. Needless to say, group studying can also be an effective stress-busting mechanism.

• Be particular about your eating habits. We know you feel hungry while studying. Opt for healthy snacks like a bowl of your favourite fruit, nuts, puffed rice etc. Avoid starchy, oily, sugary and processed snacks. They make the body lethargic and the mind sluggish.

• Take a walk or talk to friends and family when feeling a little stressed. It helps:)

• Do not stop pursuing your hobbies because they help you relax. But remember to not get carried away by them!

Follow these simple tips and charge ahead of others in the upcoming exams! Do write in to let us know how you are faring in your preparations, or simply if you need some encouragement when you feel 'stuck'! You can write in to me at expert_payalkrishnan@meritnation.com

65 comments January 11th, 2013 11:23

Up-close-and-personal with Pavan Chauhan!

Dear Students,

Welcome to 2013! In the context of academics, it can eventually turn out to be like any other year, that is, if you allow it to. But of course, you and I will not let that happen.

At Meritnation, we have made a commitment - to bring great and engaging study resources to you. We are committed to make school easy for all you students. We want you to not only excel in school, but also develop the ability to think and reason. We do not want you to just get 'good grades' at the end of the school year; we want you to become flexible, self-motivated learners who can take on the 21^st century bravely. Most of all, we want you to become life-long learners. Push your boundaries a wee bit more with every attempt and set newer records of excellence. I assure you that you will surprise yourself!

Today, technology is a friend that we can't do without. And the impossible is waiting to happen when technology joins hands with specialist humans. Our subject experts have worked long hours pouring over difficult topics – simplifying and then adapting them into the digital medium, so that understanding a concept never comes in your way of seeking knowledge. Today our study resources have been able to make a difference to the lives of over 3.6 million students!

Some of the best lessons that you will ever learn, academically and otherwise will be from your friends. There is a huge power in learning together. The 'Ask and Answer' section on the site is testimony to that. In last one year alone, there have been over 15 lakh answers given by students like you! Our experts have painstakingly gone through lots of these answers to filter out the best ones, in addition to answering lakhs of questions asked on the site. Use it to your advantage.

Times are highly competitive today. We at meritnation understand that. We wanted to help some of you realize your cherished dreams of cracking the engineering and medical exams. So we launched the online IIT-JEE and NEET preparation courses for students in classes XI & XII. The response that we received saw us smiling from ear to ear:) Thank you for your support. Your encouraging response makes us want to work harder & harder....! We have some more surprises lined up for you in 2013 as well.

We will continue in our efforts to make studies interesting and engaging for you. And that's a promise.

Undoubtedly, school years bring with it their own challenges – be it academic or personal. There is truth however in the saying that 'tough luck' helps develop resilience & strength of character. Strive to create strong supportive friendships and remember to balance studies with play. We hope that with Meritnation.com as your study partner, you are able to reach out to the stars with a spirit of excellence. The confidence that comes with a good performance in school will help you face the competitive world and give you wings to become global citizens.

Finally, set high goals, work hard and be ready to face the challenges.

You can reach me directly at expert_pavanchauhan@meritnation.com

Best Wishes!

Pavan Chauhan

CEO-Meritnation.com

440 comments January 4th, 2013 10:52

Meritnation launches IIT-JEE Strategy Sessions with IIT Guru Praveen Tyagi

Still wondering how to tackle the upcoming IIT-JEE exam in 2013? Are you looking for quick tips on how to effectively understand Coordinate Geometry and seal some brownie points in the engineering entrance exam? Your search ends here.

Meritnation has launched a power-packed IIT-JEE STRATEGY SESSIONS series with IIT guru, Praveen Tyagi where you can learn how to energize your entrance exam preparation and effectively understand difficult topics by 'watching' them being answered LIVE on the 27^th of December, 2012.

In this session, Praveen Tyagi will take the stubborn bull called Coordinate Geometry by the horns and tame it down for you! You can put up your queries and questions regarding Coordinate Geometry here, 'promote' and watch them being answered LIVE by Praveen! You can also promote questions by other friends if you feel they are relevant. In addition to this, get valuable tips on how to effectively prepare the topic and grab those additional marks in the IIT-JEE entrance exam. In the end, you may choose to be a a part of the LIVE quiz based on what you have learnt in this session. You will then get  a percentile score and a customized report on the basis of your performance in the quiz.

Hurry! Only the TOP 10 questions in the list will be answered.

Hop on and understand Coordinate Geometry better!

Team Meritnation

16 comments December 19th, 2012 10:31