All You Need to Know About Board Exams

Board exams are knocking at the door! I know pressure must have increased a lot. Mains 1st attempt maybe went smooth or maybe went rough, but I hope the post-exam hangover is all gone now and everyone's focus is now on the boards.

To be very honest, you might feel like board marks are not at all important as far as JEE or NEET is concerned. But you also need to know that they will again act as a factor to boost your confidence or down your morale just like JEE Mains did (Apart from the fact that its marks will only be valuable for your relatives and not for your admission to colleges).

Here's what I will discuss today:
  • Smart Strategy: Use Boards to Boost JEE/NEET Prep

  • 3-Day Physics Preparation Plan

  • Important Points to Keep in Mind 

  • Manifestation and Confidence: The Secret Sauce to My Journey

Smart Strategy: Use Boards to Boost JEE/NEET Prep

Now, most of the students consider board exams to be a time waste for their JEE or NEET preparation. Here is where the trick comes. You have a great chance to prepare NCERT thoroughly. Study NCERT in great detail.

Study each letter of Chemistry NCERT, each word of Physics and each sentence of Mathematics.

Solve the examples given in the maths book. They might seem trivial but remember that if you don't have a practice of "writing" a solution, then you will be facing problems in your board exams. So better sit with a pen and paper and write down the solutions to even the easy questions. 

Do the same with Physics and Chemistry (especially). Prepare NCERT thoroughly and you will be done with class 12th syllabus of JEE Main and JEE Advanced too (partly).

In this way, you aren't wasting your precious JEE time. Instead, you are utilizing it smartly.

3-Day Physics Preparation Plan

Considering 3 days are remaining

18th Feb, 2025 :

First prepare a notebook and write all the derivations twice - First by seeing the class notes and NCERT, understanding the process and writing by seeing the class notes. Once you get hang of the process, then close your notebook, and write it again but now write it in a way as if you are writing it for boards exams, with all the steps written precisely.

Here is a list of important derivations that I have prepared for you all.
Important Derivations for Class 12 Boards

Once done with the derivations by 18th evening, now open the PYQ of 2022 and attempt the questions in exact examination temperament.
Sit for 3 hours and write every answer in detail since by now you all have lost the practice of writing and are only accustomed to objective questions.
Writing in detail is highly important and you should not skip this by any chance.
I hope within 9 PM you will be done with the paper.

Next comes the very important part.
See the type of questions that are asked in board exams by analyzing the paper, cross-check your answers with the question bank and see how you should frame your answers. There are certain keywords that you should not miss by any chance in your answers since board examiners look for those keywords in your answers. Also, make a note of the topics you need to study effectively that you were not able to answer in the paper.

19th Feb, 2025 :
Start with the topics that you were less prepared for in 18th Feb's test and focus on the completion of those. Go through NCERT once and see the questions that are frequently asked from those chapters from the Question Bank.
Once the revision of these topics is done till afternoon, revise the derivations copy.
Write the ones that you think you are forgetting again in a rapid fashion and again in the evening sit for the paper of 2023.
Write those in detail and try to incorporate the learnings in writing of 18th Feb on 19th Feb's paper. Repeat the same process again.

20th Feb, 2025:
In the morning, prepare yourself as if it's the day of the board exam and sit for a mock at the exam timings by attempting the paper of 2024.
Once the mock is done, repeat the same process of analysis. Finally, you need to mark the topics that you think need further revision and focus the entire day on the revision of those topics and learning how to write answers from the question bank, especially on questions that are frequently asked.

Revise the derivations copy and write them again in rapid mode to ensure that you are now an expert in the derivations and you will miss not a single derivation-based question.

Important Points to Keep in Mind

  1. You should remember the answers to at least the last 5 years' definitions of questions asked in previous years by heart.

  2. Focus a lot on handwriting since in boards, presentation matters a lot.

  3. Maintain an average speed throughout the exam, as the physics paper might get lengthy. So don't waste time at the start by writing long answers or focusing too much on presentation.

  4. DON’T FORGET TO WRITE UNITS. You need to write units everywhere possible.

  5. Draw diagrams wherever you can, label them, and use pencils for drawing.

  6. Maintain the order of questions, leave some blank space if you didn't get the answer at that time. As examiners might not like juggling between question numbers and your answers. One heck of excelling in board exams is to write in a way so that the examiner needs to put less effort into understanding your answers so that he/she can focus more on giving you marks.

  7. If possible, at the start make proper borders to the copy as it really helped me in presenting the paper in a great way.

  8. Write P.T.O and all, also mention page numbers properly if extra pages are taken so that the examiner doesn't miss any part.

  9. Even if you don't know the answer, write at least something as 1 mark is even better than none.

  10. Don't forget to write steps, and reasonings in brackets (beside steps) and answer at the end to give a nice closure to your answer.

5. Manifestation and Confidence: The Secret Sauce

Above all, manifestation is really important. I remember putting 95 everywhere during my board exams, let it be my phone wallpaper, poster before my wall, or laptop wallpaper so that 95 never left my sight. Even though boards' numbers didn't matter much, it was a test of mine to check how well I have prepared for NCERT and 95 was a bare minimum that I wanted in PCM Subjects.

And guess what, manifestation does work, I ended up having 99 in maths, 95 in Physics, and 95 in Chemistry making it 96.33%.

JEE Preparation with 5-6 days of practice of writing, remembering definitions, and focusing on derivations is alone sufficient to make you excel in board exams.

Good luck, champions! You've got this! ✨





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