Last Minute Tips for JEE Advanced 2020

Ramesh Batlish

Students are eagerly awaiting the JEE Advanced Exams scheduled for September 27, 2020 to be organised by IIT Delhi. The time duration allotted to each paper remains 3 hours.

As per the exam pattern of JEE Advanced 2020, the examination will be a computer-based test. There are questions of multiple-choice type with either a single correct answer or multi correct answers. There could be comprehensions followed by two or more objective type questions with single or multi correct answers.

The matrix-match type questions may involve matching two columns or even three columns.

The Integer type questions involve a subjective type question with the answer an integer or could be asked correct to two decimal places. Students are advised to be careful as the paper has negative marking.

The strategy during the exam should be built with effective time management and subject-wise planning.

Keep the following points in mind as you take one of the toughest engineering entrance tests.

1. Do sleep for 6 to 7 hours in the night a day before the exam.

2. Remain focussed and don’t discuss anything with friends outside the exam centre.

3. Remember to read all the instructions on question paper carefully.

4. Solve the paper in two rounds. In the first round, start with the subject in order of your comfort level to maximize attempted questions with not more than 45 minutes on each subject.

5. Use the last 45 minutes to solve remaining questions in the second attempt and for revision.

6. Do not spend more than a minute on any question if you find that you are not nearing a solution. Go to the next question.

7.  Do not guess if you are not sure in a question with negative marks assigned to it.

8. You must attempt all questions which do not carry negative marks.

9. Remember it is the relative performance that counts, so believe in yourself and give your best shot and you will ace JEE Advanced 2020.

 All the best !!!

The writer is FIITJEE Expert