I am PALAK PRAJAPATI, I was a JEE aspirant. Last year I scored 64.7 percentile in JEE main, and you all know this score means nothing for admission in any govt or top private colleges. I hadn’t prepared for JEE in my 11th and 12th, and that’s why I was scared and in doubt to take drop, thinking like will I be able to cover up the things other students do in 2-3 years? I haven’t prepared earlier, so how will I be able to cope up? Kya me bare minimum bhi score kar paungi ya nhi?
Then I decided to take the drop. At start I wasn’t even thinking about the mains (advance toh dur ki baat hai). In the beginning mine goal used to be like that, lets first understand the course and try and do well in weekly exams. But then I used to score way below than average in tests. Like in exam of 300 marks my score used to be below 100 only…….
And this is an obvious thing for a student and also for parents to get flustered, that if I can’t score average marks in these 2 or 3 chapters how will I cover up the whole syllabus?!
My weakest subject was physics, I was able to cover thing little by little but not in this subject, like I never have understood physics properly , and in school also I used to just cram things up and remember them and never have understood them….this also resulted me in the not able to study the subject properly, there was a moment where I thought of giving up on physics and thinking lets only do this exam by studying maths and chemistry only, but you guys also know this that it’s not right to skip one subject and focusing only on two subjects can only be sufficient if you are acing them, which I wasn’t……… and then with all these things I gets demotivated a lot and it is a thing that every JEE aspirant feels for at least once. When I was in my that period I some how managed to figure out to ask teachers and our mentor for help, which I think was the most accurate decision I made at that time. I have talked to jainam sir. He really helped me a lot. Like from boosting my confidence, to making me stand the situation, then helping with the guidance of how to deal with academic issues. The TAB thing he told me was amazing. I still believe that I am able to study properly again and majorly able to learn physics properly because of him, he really ignited that flame back in me.
With time I started to learn physics not to just study it…..and it started seeming understandable. And my perception for the subject and myself changed. With time I started learning that I can do it, it’s just that I have to be sturdy and not to lose hope after looking at bad results over and over again. I am frankly saying till this date I have never gotten 200+ marks in any of the exam, neither in weekly tests, nor in my mains, or in the advance.
But still losing isn’t going to give anything, so I chose to keep trying….at least I should do my best, that’s all tried to keep in my mind. I know that all the overthinking and bad thoughts comes in our mind, during these pressure full journey….but things are controllable only until you are controlling the negative side.
At start of these changes here wasn’t much of progress, but with time it was visible, I started seeing the progress little by little, but it was there. I would like to say a thing ‘don’t always mark your high jumps, notice those little jumps and movements, they will show you the result you have never expected ‘. I majorly noticed these pushes at the end of syllabus, at time of mock test and in the revising period, and in mock test also the slope started to increase a little by little.
By the time of January attempt, I actually wasn’t able to complete the whole syllabus, but still with right composure and practicing, I scored 94.6%ile. Which was I now think was quiet a jump.
I Knew it isn’t a good score with respect to mains, and I don’t have much of options open for me. So then was the first time I started preparing for advance, before that I never even gave any mock test or other test of advance.
I am not like those genius who can just learn and practice and solve very quickly. I am a little slow at solving question, and I was always worried about it, then I thought to use this drawback of mine well in advance as we know in advance, we get to have more time on a question that compared to mains. With all the worries and consistence. I prepared for advance and honestly saying except for PYQs I haven’t done any other book or exercise, neither for mains nor for advance, its reason was also because I didn’t have much time to solve much of things.
In advance mock tests my beginner targeted used to be to first clear the cutoff and with some tests I managed to do that, I started increasing my score little by little. And on D-Day I started solving question with expected cutoff from last some years, but while solving it I realized cutoff will go up this time……
Then the exam went well, result came, my first fear was that will I be able to clear the cut off. But not only I cleared the exam I cleared with a nice score…..
And now I am in IIT DELHI, writing this for from here only…….
So, I just want to say it that …… You can do it ,it doesn’t matter for how long you prepared for how long you have studied, you can ace the exam when you decide to study with compassion and consistency….then you can ace the exam only in one year also……..IT IS POSSIBLE GUYS!!!!!!
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