Dedicated Focus & Extensive Prioritization

I was able to crack JEE with school in my first attempt due to two reasons: dedicated focus and extensive prioritization.

I was extremely focused on clearing JEE during the last two years of my school life - so much so that I could not even imagine a life without clearing JEE. I used to attend my coaching classes sincerely, and go through my preparation material multiple times. In fact, I read each module at least seven times for the JEE preparation. I took each mock JEE exam as seriously as I would take the actual JEE exam, and closely analyzed my performance after each mock exam. I remember I had severe fever on the day of one of my mocks, but I still traveled to the exam center to take the exam, even though it would not have mattered a bit had I skipped that mock.

While others in my class were busy partying, I was immersed in the preparation. While my friends went on trips to celebrate the end of school days, I was busy revising my material for the hundredth time. During those two years, I did not attend a single family function, hardly saw any movies, and did not go out with my friends. Those two years of my life were completely dedicated to JEE preparation.

I also ensured extensive prioritization during those two years to manage my time. I attended school only once a week, and that too so that I could appear for the weekly tests that happened every Monday. I ensured I appeared for the school tests and exams, so that I would not lose out on any marks, while focusing the rest of the time on JEE preparation. I knew that if I prepared well for JEE, the school exams and the CBSE Board exams would be a cakewalk, but it would not be true the other way round. As a result, I ended up scoring 94.2% in my Board exams in class 12th, even though I had attended school only once a week!

The two years of dedication resulted in the coveted All India Rank 279 in IIT-JEE (now called JEE Advanced), and All India Rank 94 in AIEEE (now called JEE Mains).

JEE had become such an integral part of my life for those two years that I never considered JEE just as an exam. It was a part and parcel of my life.

In fact, to be frank - for those two years, JEE was actually my whole life.

-Rohan Jain,CSE IITK'15, IIMA Batch of 2015-17