Quick tips to ace Class 12 Mathematics board exam 2014

Hi Guys!
The CBSE class 12 board exams will begin next week and a lot of you have been sending us SOS emails for the Maths exam on the 20th of March. We believe that worrying unnecessarily will get you no where. We suggest you follow these simple tips to breeze through the exam.

Prior to exam:

1. On priority, revise all the NCERT questions including the solved examples. Solve additional exercises from reference books or meritnation.com once you are thorough with NCERT questions.

2. Practice all the Board questions asked in the last five years (that comes under current syllabi). You can evaluate your answers by looking at the Board paper solutions provided here

3. You are advised to take a mock test on your own by randomly selecting a sample test paper. Stick to the exact duration of the test. Don’t take a break in between. Try to emulate the exam conditions as far as possible.

4. On the eve of the exam, go through the revision notes available at Meritnation.com. You can write down all the formulae/identities/results to speed up recollection of the same during the exam.

During exam:

1. Proper planning is the key to success. Use the initial 15 minutes to scan the entire question paper and keep on tick marking the questions that you find at your grip. First attempt these questions then move on to the rest.

2. In case you get stuck while solving any question, don’t panic. Leave appropriate space and don’t even cross out some of the steps that you may have written. This will ensure that even if you don’t find time to solve this question, the examiners will give some marks as step wise marking system is followed during the evaluation of papers.

3. Ensure that graph/figures/diagram/tables vis-a-vis the solution be neat and clean and on the relevant page. It is always better to shade the area under the curve.

4. If you do not have any clue as to how you can solve a question but you still have some time left on your hands, then, try to show your effort by writing down the introductory steps and even sketch out figures/diagrams/tables if relevant to the questions. Who knows. You might just figure out a way to solve the question!

5. Do not forget to write the unit in the questions involving dimensions.

6. Always draw lines for rough work on the right hand side of every page. This would minimize the chances of error in noting down the numeric value from rough calculations done on some other page of the answer sheet.

7. Manage your time in such a way that you can have time to check your solutions as it reduces the chances of error.

Some general tips:

1. Extra sheets should be tied in proper order.

2. Enough space should be left in between solutions of two different questions.

3. In questions having two choices, solve only one part.

4. Try to avoid crossing/ scratching out wrong spellings/ digits etc in the answer sheet (especially on first page). If you must, then just cut out the word/numeral with a single, clean horizontal line.

5. Remember to carry the required stationery items like scale, protractor, pencil, eraser etc. with you.

6. We advise you to take proper sleep, avoid junk or oily food and take breaks while studying at a stretch.

Best of Luck,

Team Meritnation