ThePMTBlog crosses 10000 views!

Greetings Readers
I have not been able to post for a long time, since my 1st Semester exams are going on in college and I am pretty busy with them.
Keeping that aside, we have some great news - 

ThePMTBlog(thepmtblog.blogspot.in) has crossed the 10000 views milestone and it’s certainly a great moment for me as a Blogger, who has been trying to help Pre-Medical aspirants since the past 7 months. 
I started the blog in July 2016, inspired from people like Aman Goel and Roman Saini, who helped JEE and UPSC CSE aspirants,respectively,by using internet as a medium to share their knowledge and experience. The first post came out on 6th July, 2016, and the journey hasn’t stopped since then. Starting with hardly 5-10 views per day, the response and the growth has been amazing, with I getting a chance to interact with so many medical aspirants, and having helped them with my experience. 
It’s been a quite satisfactory thing to help you all out, as once I had been in your place and know what’s the importance of getting proper guidance and tips at the right time.
Wish to keep blogging in future, and interacting with you all via Blogger and Quora( have crossed 50k views on my answers there). Thanks for all the support and faith you have shown in the blog.
Do post your suggestions for the blog and for any blog post you want me to write. Will work on that once my semester exams get finished and I get free time.
Till then
Bye!

Motivational Video by Roman Saini, AIIMS Delhi alumnus

Greetings Readers
While I am working on my next blog post, I would like to share a quite motivational video posted by Roman Saini on Unacademy’s YouTube channel.
Chanakya Neeti (चाणक्य नीति) for students - Shlokas for studying/knowledge acquisition - Roman Saini
In this video, Roman Saini Sir, through the shlokas of Chanakya, the well known strategist of ancient India, encourage those preparing for competitive examinations to keep continuing their efforts and emphasises on gaining true knowledge, as success will automatically comes behind those who are chasing knowledge.

Board Exam Preparation along with NEET Preparation : The Way to Do It

Greetings Readers
First of all wishing all the readers a Happy Republic Day. Whatever we do in our lives, our nation should get some benefit too from our efforts, and the medical profession is something that has a great contribution to the development of our country.
Getting back to the topic, Board Exams are coming near as the time is moving, although due to State Elections, CBSE has postponed the Boards which will now begin from March 9,2017 somewhat later as compared to last year's 1 March,2016. Although this means they will end later too with Biology on 5th April,2017 and Physical Education on 12th April(changed as of 27/10/2017)
This schedule changes a few things for your study schedule. If NEET 2017 is held on 30th April or 7th May, your available free time post all Board exams decreases. Last year I was free from PCB and English on 21st March, with only Physical Education left that too on 28th March, so I shifted to NEET preparation back in March itself. Many friends with Bio-Tech, Hindi had boards finished on 21st March itself. They too got free and resumed NEET preparation right away. So, the thing you need to know is that you have to utilize the time very cautiously as negligence can lead to loss in either Boards or NEET, although in Boards it's not that problematic even if damage occurs(although everyone wants to score good, I know) than in NEET, which can make you drop one whole year.
I am not trying to scare or depress you, but while preparing the Boards keep in mind your NEET preparation too, and don't just go blindly at getting 90+% in Boards. That ain't getting you admission in a medical college.
Now I will discuss about exactly how to prepare for Boards in a way that will help in NEET too, as NEET is also based on NCERT pattern, especially the Biology part.
DISCLAIMER: I will give most of the suggestions based on CBSE Board pattern and papers, although some of the general tips may help students from other Boards too.

• First thing, that Boards is a Subjective paper unlike NEET which is an objective paper. Here, it matters HOW you solved the questions,unlike NEET. You have to write a presentable answer sheet, so that the examiner doesn't get too uncomfortable checking it, resulting in loss of marks even with correct answers. You have to get your writing and the speed of writing in line with the time allotted. I know radical changes can't happen, but practice will surely help you improve it which will give an extra edge to you in the Boards, so that at least you can finish and write out whatever you know, leave aside the questions you got wrong or couldn't solve.
• Next, coming from objective NEET preparation, students can't remember lengthy definitions, and also the derivations in Physics, which are asked quite a lot in Boards. For definitions, I recommend you to stick to NCERT for all the three subjects, although in the case of Physics, 'S.L Arora Class 12 Physics' has got some quite simplified definitions, so you can prefer them over NCERT ones. Also, for derivations of Physics and the diagrams related to them, S.L. Arora is the book to go for, which gives Physics derivations in the clearest way, also concise enough for remembering and with connecting statements. Do write the derivations and try to learn them, to be able to write them without seeing anything.
• Subjective questions are quite different as they need to be solved in a particular manner and steps, so you definitely need to practice them using pen and paper. For question practice , you need to complete only one thing : Past year papers; nothing else is needed. I did the Arihant papers which had solved past 8 years papers, and trust me 80% of questions in Boards are either same or just with different numerical values as compared to past year papers. So, completely solve them with pen and paper, although you can avoid simple definitions or repeated questions, to save time. If you do this diligently, nothing's stopping you from acing the Board exams.
• If you are not thorough with some concepts, you can definitely refer your coaching notes to improve them. I too revised entirely the coaching notes of Class 12, which helped me get a strong conceptual base for Boards and simultaneously helped for NEET, acting as a good revision too. Do read the NCERT book completely once too for Chemistry and Biology, as the questions directly come from between the lines of NCERT book.
• Also, amidst this Board preparation if you get time, since the Board dates have been postponed, this time can be dedicated to NEET exam stuff, like revising coaching notes, completing left over topics of Class 11, solving questions from books. Utilise this time efficiently as post-boards you are hardly left with one month for the whole syllabus, therefore it's better to get a head start before hand.
• Keep giving objective tests once a week(before Boards), provided your coaching takes them, which will prevent from "breaking of link" from NEET pattern.
• Don't panic too much about how will the Boards go and what will be your result, just give the Boards peacefully and get back to NEET preparation.
• No one's gonna ask your Board marks in Medical College, as they don't matter there. Also, the CBSE is very lenient in marking most of the times, so even if any blunder happens, don't let the stress affect your NEET preparation. I myself messed up Physics badly and had literally left blank questions worth of 11-12 marks. Still got 60/70 in theory! In English too I felt very nervous about my answers,feeling that I would get 80-85 only, although later landed with a 95/100. I don't know it happened, may be my answers were genuinely very good and the examiner was delighted with them.God knows how it happened. That's typical CBSE! Numerous funny incidents of CBSE being lenient exist so chill out.

This is it for today's post. Will write my next post on strategy for preparation for individual subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and even English and Physical Education.

Also, thanks for all the support you people are giving on the Blog and Quora. I am quite overwhelmed with the positive feedback and this motivates me to continue my efforts to keep helping you for NEET and AIIMS preparation.

Till then

Bye!

My Quora Answers

Greetings Readers
Quora has been a great platform to communicate with NEET/AIIMS aspirants like you. I have received several questions and have answered a lot of them too, and am trying to answer new questions everyday continuously too. I also have received personal messages and have replied to almost all of them, with the advice I can offer. Blog posts have been also an integral part of this campaign. Helping aspirants like you in the free time I get feels great. For those of you who are not on Quora, I am providing links to some of my answers there, so that you don't miss out on anything.
Will keep updating the post with new answers,too.

Is it possible to score 300+ in Biology in NEET-2017 if I solely learn NCERT by heart?

How do I prepare GK for the AIIMS?

What is your 'height' of AIPMT/AIIMS preparation?

Is NCERT for Morphology of flowering plants sufficient for NEET?

How do I study well in morphology for AIIMS?

What is the correct way to read NCERT for AIIMS assertion reasons?

What is your success story for NEET aspirants?

Are the excercises given after the chapters in NCERT important for AIIMS and other competitive exams?

What is the key to learn anything present in NCERT for NEET?

How should i prepare my self notes for AIPMT / AIIMS?

Is it useful to do HC Verma's exercise questions for AIIMS aspirants?

What would you, as an AIIMS qualifier, like to share with an AIIMS aspirant (which you feel you should have known when you were an aspirant yourself)?

What are the biggest mistakes you have done during NEET/AIPMT/AIIMS preparation?

Approximately 5 months from now, NEET & AIIMS 2017 would be there. What should I take care of now and keep doing?

I'd dropped this year to prepare for NEET 2017. Unfortunately, I'm now extremely depressed and unable to do anything. How should I help myself?

How was your NEET result?

What should be the best preparation technique for final revision of PMTs like AIPMT, AIIMS be like?

Should I care about AIATS scores?

How can I increase my score in Biology for NEET 2017?

When should one finish his first round of study, and start revision for the NEET/AIIMS?

Will anything happen if I use old NCERT books (2007-12) for the NEET and AIIMS, 2019? Should I discard them or is the content the same at present?

What should a person do when he feels stressed out and puzzled, 1 month before a vital examination?

How were you feeling one day before your AIIMS and NEET exam?

What is different about the AIIMS syllabus compared to NEET? What should one do in the last 2 weeks?

Wish that these would answer some of your doubts and confusions going on in your mind. Be free to ask your doubts regarding your preparation,both on the blog and Quora. I will try my best to answer them.

Revision Strategy : Class 12 Physics

Greetings Readers

First of all a very Happy New Year to all the readers, wish you are doing good and your efforts give you the result you had been aiming in the past few years of preparation.
2016 is over now and you all must be busy finishing your course and revising what you have done throughout the year. Those who are in Class 12 have the additional load of Board exams, with their school pre-board exams having been started too.

Continuing in the series of posts on Revision Strategy, today we would be discussing about the class 12 part of Physics.

Having already described to you the way you need to see and study Physics as a subject in the previous post Revision Strategy : Class 11 Physics This time I would be writing directly about individual topics.

First topic that most of us study is Electrostatics. Electrostatics, initially seeming easy, works it's way to toughness and complexity as the chapter continues. Electric field, forces involved, combined electric field and force due to several components, Electric Potential, Electric Potential Energy, the infamous Gauss Law, Electric Dipole,Equipotential Surfaces and many more.

The first thing to do is get your basics right. Have very clear idea about which term means what and get the formulas and their applications very right. Next do a variety of questions, to see and learn where which formulas is needed and if there is an easier way of doing a question. This will help you get the right approach 'click' in your mind as soon as you see the question. Get some special concepts like concept of flux and change of potential along electric field cleared out which would help in some tricky questions. Apply law of conservation of energy in some questions of potential energy and velocity to simplify the solution.

Also, Gravitation has a lot things analogous to Electrostatics, and many institutes teach them together, so you should also try to learn them together, so as to reduce efforts and save times

Next comes Current Electricity. We learn first about current and voltage and their dependence on various factors like drift speed and consequent formulas. Get them clear as some tricky questions can be framed. Also, you have to learn to calculate resistance of any arrangement of resistors, so get the formulas and tricks clear in your understanding to avoid silly mistakes. Be vary careful with Kirchoff's Law, as one mistake and the whole effort goes in vain. Although lengthy questions of Kirchoff's Law don't come, but the concept of Kirchoff's Law helps a lot in questions of Capacitance and Inductance. The different devices like Voltmeter, Ammeter, Galvanometer and their conversions are quite important too. Meter Bridge and other concepts involved along with it can get some good questions too.
Capacitance, a topic included with Electric Potential is quite analogous to current electricity, only that the equation of charging and discharging are different. Questions on charging/discharging ,combination of capacitors and change of medium are quite important and probable to come, so get them right.

Another important topic is Magnetism and Magnetic Effects of Current. Magnetism itself is easy, just get the terminologies like Intensity,Field, Dipole clear in your mind to have a clear understanding of the topic. Some tricky questions of SHM, especially of Time Period can be framed too, so try to relate the concepts correctly. Formulas of Magnetic Field in various conditions are to learnt( do see the derivations to have a clearer understanding too), with the concept of direction and positive/negative being and area of silly mistakes so be very particular about it too. Concept of Magnetic Dipole and Ampere's Law can make good questions too, so do focus on them. Force due to Magnetic Field has a large amount of questions that can be framed, which test your concept of NLM and SHM at the same time too, so be aware of them. Magnetic materials and properties of magnetic materials too have some classic questions that can't be missed so do complete them too.
Electromagnetic induction is a chapter based on concepts from Magnetism, although once you get the idea of induction and inductors right, you can ace the chapter by simple formulas, a good understanding and ample of questions practice.
The next big topic is Optics which includes Ray Optics and Wave Optics.
For Ray Optics, I can say it's a lengthy chapter involving a lot of concepts and formulas. This chapter can be aced only by practicing a lot of questions on various concepts and continuous revision. You need to get the concepts of Mirrors, Lens, Refraction, Prism, Slab set in your mind very clearly, so that you easily know that to do in a particular type of question.
Wave Optics is a bit different and related to Waves, a concept of Class 11. You just need to understand Young's Double Slit Experiment and Diffraction and do all the questions related to them, nothing more is required for NEET. Although for AIIMS A&R questions, you need to clear theoretical concepts,although that can be done after NEET too, if time is short currently.
Modern Physics is quite related to Atomic Structure of Chemistry, although X- Rays and Nuclear Physics are new. Get the concept of X-Rays and Photoelectric effect clear and just do the past year questions available as there isn't much scope to make very conceptually tough questions here, only that the calculations may get lengthier.
Semiconductors is also something that gets easy when you understand it, although it takes more time and attempts to do so. 3-4 very easy questions can be asked, so this the topic that you can't afford to ignore. The main concepts from which questions can be framed are the relation number of holes and electrons of an impure conductor, concept of transistor and its working and the logic gates. Theoretical part isn't that important for NEET but may come in A&R questions of AIIMS.
Communication Systems is a topic that comes only in Boards and AIIMS exam (NEET doesn't include it and I don't know about JIPMER). Its actually very small and more of theoretical, with the various modes of communication, their limitations etc. AIIMS can ask some conceptual questions although this can be covered by DC Pandey (JEE edition) which has given all the relevant things you need to study.
Till next time
Bye!

Revision Strategy : Class 12 Chemistry

Greetings Readers

Time has been passing quickly and the year 2016 is going to end soon. Those of you in Class 12 or droppers must have wrapped up doing the syllabus and must be busy revising and improving upon your mistakes. Continuing with the series of posts on revision, today's post is about Class 12 Chemistry.

Having briefly described about the way each part of Chemistry viz. Physical,Organic and Inorganic is, I would directly come upon the particular topics with this post.

Physical Chemistry - 

Class 12th part has a lot of important chapters like Solutions,Electrochemistry ,Chemical Kinetics and even Solid state which give a lot of scope for good numerical questions,even the most calculative ones.

For these I would suggest you to be very thorough with the theory part,formulas and the typical questions that can be asked.Practice questions, see the time you are taking,improve upon your concepts. Electrochemistry has a lot of formulas, which are quite easy to forget and also to mix up or be confused in. So write them down before doing any question and proceed with the question keeping it in mind. Once you are thorough with them, you just have to do the solving part. Chemical Kinetics questions are derivation type so practice them first writing down the whole solution and once you feel comfortable, you can skip steps to increase your speed. Solid state has some typical examples to be learnt at, and also topics like telling the type of voids according to the radii ratios, so be careful with them.

Organic Chemistry - 

Class 12 is where the real organic chemistry steps in. GOC was just the ABCD(although very important) . Reaction Mechanism,Haloalkanes,Alcohols,Ethers,Aromatic Compounds,more reactions of Hydrocarbons, Aldehyde, Ketones and Carboxylic acids - Class 12 has everything to offer. Your basic focus should be on learning the mechanism, thinking and making the product yourself and matching with the answer. Avoid the mugging of A+B gives C approach as questions in NEET and AIIMS aren't that easy. You have to see through their tricks of putting the questions. Even I got deceived in two very tricky questions in NEET 2016. AIIMS Chemistry also had the best Organic Chem I had seen in two years of my preparation. So have a conceptual approach to this subject. Read your notes, practice questions from your coaching modules or books like MS Chauhan(AIPMT/AIIMS edition not the JEE one). Ask doubts, write down mistakes you can possibly do in your notes. Revise again and again so that you don't forget the reactions. The biggest problem I had was that I used to forget which reagent did what reaction. So I put special focus on that and began linking reagents with products. Similarly, you have to solve what bothers you the most. Biomolecules also has some important reactions, so do cover them and don't ignore Polymers and other parts of Chemistry in Everyday life. 2-3 very easy questions are sure to come and I don't want you to lose marks in them. Learn the important points from NCERT itself.

Inorganic Chemistry -

Now comes the 'rattu' or 'maggu' part. Coordination Chemistry and Surface Chemistry are the conceptual ones. Co-ordination Chemistry involves good questions and you need to have strong concepts regarding the nomenclature, type of hybridization and the isomerism questions especially. One the other hand, the chapters of p, d and f blocks (the PDF blocks!) are quite boring. For p-block, I can say that reactions and properties can only be learnt by writing them down once (in rough not fair) and practicing questions on the same from the modules. Do as much questions you can do, but limit yourself to the NCERT syllabus. Don't try to get too deep with these topics. For d and f block, in depth study is not required, but you must knot special points like atomic radius trend irregularity, special chemical properties, abnormal electronic configurations, comparison of elements in a single period. One trend I have been observing in the four papers of the past 2 years is that they pick some random element from f block and ask its electronic configuration. No one of us remembers and also can’t remember atomic numbers till the f-block, but there is a trick to solve these. Actually the main thing to note is that the sum of electrons is same in all the options they give so no need of atomic number at least. The difference comes in the distributions in the s-p-d-f orbitals. The options can be eliminated by simple application of Aufbau rule. Once you get the correct order of filling of electrons, the question is done. I myself didn’t know this before NEET. Observed and applied it in the paper itself! So although the pdf blocks are bulky to memorize, there are tips and tricks that can help you ace the questions. So keep looking for them.

I know this time is very crucial for those giving NEET 2017, but have patience, don't get depressed, your years of hardwork will pay if you believe in yourself. Don't get demotivated by test scores. Rather keep a watch on your mistakes and timing and battle out to imporve yourlself. Post on Biology and Physics Class 12 revision are also coming up. Boards are also coming up before NEET. So will be posting on how to maintain balance between board and NEET/AIIMS preparation too.

Till then

Bye!

Revision Strategy : Class 11 Biology

Greetings Readers
Continuing with the series of posts on Revision Strategy, next up in the series is - Biology. This is a subject which is although loved by all Medical aspirants, gives them trembles and fear due to it's bulky and descriptive nature, with the difficulty of memorizing all the fine details. Biology may take up a lot of time of yours to fit it in your mind properly but everyone knows it's worth it. Still, I aim to help you make an efficient revision strategy where each second,each minute,each hour invested in churns out a good output.
Basically learning Biology can be divided into two parts - 

• Understanding dynamic concepts like life processes, biological cycles , reason of various fundamental activities occurring in nature, connecting various statements to teach other. The main thing is that this part is easy to understand than all that memorizing part but to understand it you have to pay proper attention and concentration and AVOID mugging up such basic concepts. Understanding may take time and you may still be confused, but it's way better than mugging up for long term.
• Second is the memorization part which consists of Animal,Plant and Biological Diversity Chapters;Morphology of Plants and Animals;Some parts of Plant Anatomy. These parts although aren't highly conceptual but still many small concepts may help you link all the facts and information involved in these chapters. So for these chapters,you need to have all the necessary information in a condensed form so as to help in revising it periodically, if you feel you have forgotten it.

Biology being a mix of above two divisions is quite variable in nature but easy to master once you pick the right way of studying it.
For understanding concepts,which should be your first priority as memorization can be done later on, attention in class is important. Whenever your teacher slows down explains something with patience repeats it, you should know that it's important. Try to get his/her words and then note it down with some coloured pen like red/green in you notes, to highlight it from other information. This will help you in making a concept map of the chapter. You know this chapter involves all these concepts and if you understand them, the reason giving and statement type questions of NEET/AIIMS are done.
You can practice such questions from Dr. Ali Objective Biology which has very carefully carved out all the conceptual statements from NCERT into such type of questions. In this way all your NCERT concepts will be covered up too. Additional conceptual questions may be given in your coaching modules, so cover them up too. If still problems persist, you can read out Biology by Campbell and Reece(PDF from the internet) as it has explained out very difficult seeming concepts in the easiest language possible along with colourful diagrams and flow charts.
Next up is memorization part. This is a bit tough part as not each one of us(including me) is an expert in memorizing large chunks of information so easily. But,take my word,it's not impossible! The problem of memorization comes with the presentation of information. Plain Black and White modules of coaching institutes with all the boring fonts wouldn't fascinate you in learning so much information.
This problem can be solved by various methods. First, if your teacher is helping you make readable and specific notes, that's well and good. If not, you yourself can make notes in your own handwriting and using various coloured pens like red,green,pink,violet along the blue and black. This will make the notes more readable and appear picture like and everyone can remember pictures better than plain text. Make some diagrams separately on your own, label properly and you will have a very clear understanding of those in your minds. Also, remember that it's not necessary to make such notes for all chapters, but only the ones you feel difficult to remember in order to avoid wasting time.
Also to fit all of this information in your mind,you need to practice a lot of questions.Yes,you heard that right - a lot of questions. The reason behind it that these questions will help to stimulate your brain again and again to put stress and remember that piece of information, which with continuous practice will shift it in your long term memory. Once it goes in your long term memory, it would be difficult to get forgotten than earlier. So do a lot of questions from your coaching modules, test papers, DPPs, Dr. Ali,MTG etc. The key is distributing all this information in form of separate questions and then fitting it in your memory.
Coming to the individual topics - 
Animal Diversity - The main thing is to remember the various taxa and their characteristics along with the examples. If you are able to connect examples with characteristics, most of the questions which can come are done. Also, for out of NCERT stuff, you can do Aakash/Allen modules but don't go too deep in learning useless classes and examples but stick to the pattern of the 2013-2016 papers rather.
Biological Diversity(including plants) - The pattern to be followed is similar to Animal Diversity but additionally you should make comparison tables of like sub-categories of a single category.For example - Comparison of Red,Green and Blue Algae in the topic Algae. Such questions may come as the plant and fungi and even bacteria contain quite directly comparable categories.
Plant Morphology - Pretty much memorization only but prefer learning NCERT examples and their characteristics rather than going in depth with the stuff given in coaching modules. Do more and more questions and then stuff will automatically click in you mind.
Plant Anatomy - This topic has conceptual part so do them carefully. Learn the characteristics of various tissues along with proper diagrams so that if the picture comes in AIIMS/NEET exams you can identify it easily.
Cell Biology - As such it's an easy topic so whatever you are doing at coaching is sufficient.
Plant Physiology - Many intricate concepts are difficult to understand at first sight, especially in Respiration and Photosynthesis, so take time and understand them clearly. Flow charts and good reference diagrams made by yourself can help here too.
Human Physiology - Again quite conceptual like Plant Physiology. So do it similarly. Also, do pickup additional concepts aside from NCERT to ace all the question that can come.
So,to end,basically Biology has to be done in a fun and interesting way to keep your mind focused to it and avoid getting bored.
Till next time
Bye!

Revision Strategy : Class 11 Physics

Greetings Readers
You may think that I have been highly irregular in making blog posts these days, but you know that medical college asks for a good amount of dedication as well, hence my irregularity.
Anyways, today I will be continuing with the Revision Strategy series and today it is about - Physics. The subject that majority of the aspirants worry about a lot, and don't seem to be very comfortable with it, although they want to give their best to it,too. So will be highlighting on how to extract the best out of your revision time.
See Physics,unlike Biology(and even somewhat Chemistry) is not a memory intensive,but more of a highly conceptual, intensive thinking and analytical skills involving subject. You can't mug up 45 questions and be done with it. The questions are well.....................infinite.
But, the one thing that sets Physics a class apart is that you CAN,yes YOU CAN do all those infinite questions with a finite range of well-tuned concepts. In Biology, you don't know what questions can come from a topic that the CBSE guys pick up from random books that you don't even know, but in Physics you know that if a question comes from Kinematics, you know the formulas , you know the procedure and let it take 1 min extra, you can get the right answer.No guessing, no confusion. This was a source of motivation for me while preparing for Physics. I knew if once I was clear with the concepts, let them throw any question and I will force them to give me a +4 marks. They simply can't  give me -1(or -5 rather) uselessly.Either I leave the question or get four marks. It was my hard work, my marks! They can't run away saying NCERT mentions this therefore this is correct.
So, be motivated for Physics as this is a subject which will fetch you "assured marks".
Next up is the question,"OK I am motivated to do Physics,but How do I improve my concepts to such a great level that NEET/AIIMS paper can't stop me with literally ANY question?"
Answer lies in being thorough with the smallest to smallest,basic to basic concept that exists. You should know that although teachers making you emphasize on important topics is good, but "coverage" of the syllabus is quite important. Topics like Surface Tension,Properties of Matter, Fluid Mechanics, Kinetic Theory of Gases,some concepts of SHM,Semiconductors even Communication Systems which were being looked upon as topics to just go through once are bringing the best new questions in NEET/AIIMS papers. In AIIMS UG Physics,the weight-age of  both the book 2 of Class 11 and 12 is more than the book 1 along with the increased negative marking, thus the difference in merit lists of the two tests(except top 100 although).
Coming to the topics,class 11 consists basically the topics Kinematics,Newton's Law of Motion and Friction,Work Energy and Power,Center of Mass,Rotational Motion,Gravitation,Thermodynamics,Kinetic Theory of Gases,Properties of Matter,Thermal Properties of Matter,Fluid Mechanics,Surface Tension, Simple Harmonic Motion and Waves. All topics are very fundamental to understand and none involves any gross memorization.
Looking at any normal student, he/she is first taught a particular topic at coaching, he/she makes notes in the class, then the teacher makes do some important questions in the class, which most students(including me) aren't able to do in first attempt. Anyways, we listen to the solution and note it down. So, first - NOTE DOWN all what your teacher emphasized on using special highlights like a red pen or a fluorescent highlighter. That will help you get important things "bounce" straight to the mind while revising.
Try to grasp important approaches and concepts by writing down the solution once by seeing and the trying to solve it by unseen approach. This will help your brain trigger a path to pick and solve that particular type of questions.
Once you are done with the teachers notes and whatever concepts you have learnt, it's time to apply all the concepts with a variety of questions. You can solve some 'marked important' questions of your coaching modules or DPPs that you would have marked while doing them for the first time. Also,you can take up new books(only if you have time) like DC Pandey(till JEE Main level). If any doubt,even the smallest one comes, do go and ask your teacher don't hesitate. This fine tuning of your concepts will make you different from others and will give you a leading edge over all other aspirants.
Taking about specific topics, Kinematics first, requires more of solving a variety of questions and learning several approaches of solving questions especially in Projectile and Relative motion parts. NLM and friction require sound concepts from theory, and the skill to apply them in quite different questions using the same NLM equations and coming to the answer.
Center of Mass and Rotational Motion involve first understanding basic concepts, solving some basic questions and then reducing all the complex questions to typical questions using some fixed approaches of solving the equations.
Gravitation is more formula specific so practice of standard questions would suffice. Properties of Matter has some tricky questions, otherwise the topic is simple once done with proper attention. Fluid Mechanics and Surface Tension have intricate concepts to understand, so do take time,understand them and solve the different types of questions.
SHM is highly fundamental and you need to have crystal clear concepts to solve the best of its questions. It took me at least 3-4 attempts to even understand what SHM was and how it's simple equations are involved in a lot of different questions. Waves is important too,but once you understand what a wave is and how the wave equation is represented, simple formulas will help you tackle the questions and the Doppler Effect too isn't much difficult too.
To end, I would like to say that Physics is something that's quite dynamic and it must be learnt and revised dynamically,not statically. Thinking,doubts,questions,discussion must go on to polish your concepts so that you excel in the NEET/AIIMS exams.
Till next time
Bye!

Happy Diwali!

Wishing all readers a very happy and prosperous Diwali.Wish that God gives you the energy and patience to battle out all the odds,work hard and fulfil your dreams.

Revision Strategy : Class 11 Chemistry

Greetings Readers
First up in the revision series is Class 11 Chemistry - 
Physical Chemistry - This part although quite conceptual and not involving much mugging up becomes a problem when you forget basic formulas and approach to solving the problems.Topics like Equilibrium and Thermodynamics(which are the main weighing topics of Class 11 Physical Chem) give you the most problems.I myself used to struggle with Keq and concentration problems in Equilibrium and Entropy,Work calculation in various processes etc. in Thermodynamics.But,you know you can solve these problems with quite a simple approach. Choose a topic,focus your mind and extract all you can from your class notes,solve the problems again which the teacher made you do.Do the questions again in which you had got doubt or were unable to solve(A very good concept for efficient revision in future is that mark all those questions with like a box or circle or red pen,that you felt were "achha questions" or good or tough or teaching some important concept).
If coaching modules are not sufficient,take up Narendra Awasthi Physical Chemistry book,solve the new problems.Generate doubts and go to your teacher and ask them.The best thing revision does it to make you generate new doubts and once you separately got o the teacher and clarify them,you will never forget that concept/question. Our teacher used to say,"Ye jo tum doubt puchh rahe ho na, ye hi aayega asli exam mein,baaki normal questions to sab solve kar lete hain" or "The doubts you are asking are quite probable to come in the real exam,as common questions can be solved by all".
Summary for Organic Chem : Teachers notes,coaching modules and practice more and more questions.Ask doubts freely and improve upon your concepts.

Organic Chemistry - One of the most interesting parts of Chemistry which can be made uninteresting if the way of teaching or learning is not conceptual,explanation giving rather plain,boring and mugging up type.As such there is not much of Organic Chem in Class 11 as compared to Class 12,but still basic concept chapters like IUPAC Nomenclature,POC,GOC and even Hydrocarbons are still there. GOC is like "ABCD" of Organic Chemistry and once you master that, you can even do some questions indirectly using its concepts.Anyways,for revising Organic Chemistry the best way is to read,understand from you teacher's notes the mechanism,the "why this is happening" part of all the reactions and other basic concepts.
Organic Chem is more about concept building rather than mugging up.People who mug up often fail in the final exam if the question is asked in a slightly different way,as those people remember the reaction like A + B gives C and not that what to react with A to give C as major or like C can be made by which reactions.These twisty questions can be conquered only by thorough practice,which can be done by coaching modules,DPPs and also Organic Chemistry AIPMT/AIIMS of MS Chouhan.MS Chouhan contains a lot of questions to quench you thirst of Organic Chemistry.Doing it while revising is recommended.Also,regarding doubts the stand remains the same.Ask doubts,make concepts,ask more doubts and make more concepts.
Summary for Physical Chem: Teachers notes,coaching modules,understand the underlying mechanism and concepts of all reactions,practice and ask doubts,improving you concepts gradually.

Inorganic Chemistry - Probably the most dreaded part of Chemistry felt by most of the students.S-block,P-block and what not?But wait,two very interesting and conceptual topics of 'Periodic Table and Periodicity" and the greatest - "Chemical Bonding" are included in it too.For the conceptual part,revising those concepts that your teacher has taught and practicing a good amount of questions is sufficient.For the more mugging up part,I can say that have 2-3 good reading of NCERT, try to link if their is any underlying concept or even popular mnemonics that can help you learn those series and orders of reactivity,boiling point,melting point,stability etc.If not try to write down again and again to remember them.Do all possible questions so that no important fact/concept/order is left.Stick to NCERT book rather than going in much detail
Summary for Inorganic Chemistry : NCERT book for theory,writing down to remember,making self concepts or mnemonics and practice a lot.
Post for Physics and Biology Revision is coming up in the next few days.
UPDATE : I am back on Quora.
Till then
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Revision Strategy : Class 11

Greetings Readers
I am back to blogging after being a bit busy for Mid-Sem Exams at college.Anyways, this post is also dedicated to the demands of readers who wanted me to write on a revision strategy,which is workable and realistic.As such all of you must have completed quite a good stretch of the syllabus and those in Class 12 must be reaching the end of the whole syllabus
I am gonna explain this taking my own example.
First of all,basically all of us including me,were taught few chapters in all subjects,then weekly/monthly tests were taken,we scored and then again new topics,new tests and the cycle goes on.The problem arose at the end of the year(Class 11) that I couldn't solve many problems from Kinematics,forgot a lot of Chemistry formulas and didn't remember any examples from Animal Diversity and Plant Diversity.Did you too?
Now,next problem comes,the time.Everyone knows it's pretty difficult learning new topics at coaching that day and covering up old ones simultaneously.But, you have to inculcate this habit.This will help you even more in Class 12,where you have to revise the whole Class 11 syllabus simultaneously with Class 12.
For a broad plan,I would like you to make an index of topics(according to the sequence you studied them) for each subject,make a few columns to check/uncheck the facts that you covered NCERT, coaching modules,coaching notes,solving DPPs and even write a comment at the end that you are confident about it or not.I used to do the same to keep a track of topics that I was strong in and ones I needed to improve upon.Also,best time for first concise revision of  Class 11 is the ending of course around November,December,January and even Febraury. Plus, a final shot can be given in March post your Class 11 exams.Also,if possible,do revise in parts in like August and September what you were taught in April,May,June.It will help you maintain a continuity and picking up the initial topics again won't be so difficult at the end.
I am making individual posts for each subject.First up today is Class 11 Chemistry.

Race against Time : The Solution

Greetings Readers
All of you are in the middle of your preparation phase,right?Those in Class 11 must be doing Rotational Mechanics and Center of Mass in Physics and those in Class 12 must be busy with revising the complete course efficiently and repairing their somewhat broken concepts.
In my last post,I highlighted some issues that you all must be facing in some form or the other due to lack of time for preparation.This post aims to help you with those problems, as suggested by own experiences with these problems.This ain't gonna be any normal do or don'ts post.This will be in a way that's completely relatable to all of you as normal students.
First of all,the problem was "Time" and "Time Management".See,you don't need to do any course in Time Management to manage time.It's something that you have to build in you,yourself.
Firstly,this post is for regular school going students(as students in coaching institutes like Allen Kota have a different schedule,so will address their issues in a separate post).
Yours is a hectic schedule,robbing you of a lot of precious time needed for study and practice for NEET/AIIMS. Plus,these school people take a lot of assignments,practicals,file work,half-yearlies,term exams and the most hyped "Preboards"!
Those people just try to steer you away from NEET/AIIMS preparation to getting 90+ % in Board Exams(bitter truth).Yes,the only goal of majority of schools is making more and more students to get more than 90% marks in Boards,so that they can put up your picture in ads to attract more students. I and my batch mates witnessed it with almost all big schools in our city.Also, Boards marks will not get you anywhere except like B.Sc admissions in some State/National Universities,and those are places you don't want to go(definitely I think!).So first break the hype that Board marks matter.
For NEET(as off 2016) you need 50% in PCB and individually passing all the three PCB subjects along with only passing marks in English.For AIIMS, you need aggregate percent more than 60% of PCB and English combined.See you need barely 60% for even AIIMS,leave alone NEET. Although if you study conceptually for NEET/AIIMS and just work hard with derivations and presentation style in last 2 months of Boards, 85%+ is automatically assured.
So my first message to you is,"Stop worrying about Boards,rather lay stress on making each and every concept of your NEET/AIIMS syllabus strong,don't leave out on anything."
Next,avoid extra-curricular activities in these 2 years at school,which though may be good, waste a lot of your time. Avoid becoming prefects or monitors of class,as unnecessary burden is to be avoided in these 2 years. Do DPPs and coaching modules in school when free,even if teachers scold you or catch you sometimes. Don't be scared at all. A friend of mine did DPPs and modules only in school and also slept in the school bus rather than at home,to get rest along with saving time to study at home.See the determination! Today that guy is in SMS Medical College,Jaipur.
Also,I think minimum attendance required is 75% or 80% in most of the schools in the country.Try to take holidays on days you expect go useless in schools. Make a notebook and keep a track of your own attendance,yourself.Take holidays on days which come in between other holidays like yesterday,where Monday came in between Sunday and Dussehra-Moharram holidays.It will give you long stretches for undisturbed studies.Delay school written work till the last moment,don't become the "First to Submit the File" person, otherwise teachers will expect you to give the file first,each time.The main point is that you need to extract time from school to make your career,fulfill your dream and avoid wasting one more precious year of your life dropping for entrance exams.Those 'school wallas' will not remember you once you are gone after giving them a board percentage and a photo,when you drop for your preparation.
If you can get a "setting"(you know what I mean) done for attendance in school,atleast in Class 11 if not in Class 12,please go for it and study as best as you can in Class 11.The reason behind this is that if you make strong concepts in Class 11 itself,you will not carry the stress of it in Class 12 and revising topics will be way easier.I have seen fellow students spoiling their Class 12 time in learning Class 11 again and also those who completely forgot Class 11 in Class 12.So be very particular in Class 11 to improve your learning skill,solving skills and speed so that your Class 12 sails smoothly.
Next thing is that don't get depressed if you don't understand some complicated topics in one shot.Telling about me,I took at least 6 tries and revisions to make Diversity in Living World strong as a topic,learnt Plant Morphology properly only 1 month before NEET(AIPMT),did Rotational motion some 8-9 times to be able to solve all the type of questions and topics like Waves were something I completed properly only 2-3 weeks before AIPMT. So you understand some things just at the time you need them!
That's it for this post.Will update this post,if I get more "jugaadu" ideas or hear some more problems from you all.
You are FREE to comment your problems in the comments section. ThePMTBlog is for you,I will definitely reply(not just try) to your comments,provided I have the resources and experience to help you.

UPDATE(NEW) : I had deleted my Quora account about 18 days back,but with some efforts, things have worked out with Quora finally and I am back on Quora. Although I am still a bit angry on Quora banning me earlier but still a larger audience of the blog was from Quora and I had to get back to them, in case they couldn't visit the blog.I wish they don't ban me again(for useless reasons), but the risk has to be taken to reach out a larger number of students.

Anyways the blog, which is the main platform,will be remaining at the forefront.I will continue to post and write blog posts on various issue and topics exclusively here @ ThePMTBlog.  Quora will remain more as an interaction and communication platform rather than a content platform,because no one knows when those Admins get freaked out again.

Till next time

Bye!