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AIEEE Preparation: "Questions in AIEEE Are Not Difficult They Are Just Different"

AIEEE is India's premier engineering entrance exam that emphasizes fundamental concepts and their application over rote learning. Questions are designed to test conceptual clarity and reasoning ability rather than difficulty. Most questions have an element of surprise that requires a different approach than board exams. To prepare effectively, students should develop a structured plan with milestones, focus on fundamentals, practice a variety of question types, and build test-taking speed and accuracy through mock exams to simulate exam conditions. Success relies on a good combination of speed, strike rate through intelligent guessing, and selectively attempting easier questions first before tackling more difficult ones.

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AIEEE Preparation: "Questions in AIEEE Are Not Difficult They Are Just Different"

AIEEE is India's premier engineering entrance exam that emphasizes fundamental concepts and their application over rote learning. Questions are designed to test conceptual clarity and reasoning ability rather than difficulty. Most questions have an element of surprise that requires a different approach than board exams. To prepare effectively, students should develop a structured plan with milestones, focus on fundamentals, practice a variety of question types, and build test-taking speed and accuracy through mock exams to simulate exam conditions. Success relies on a good combination of speed, strike rate through intelligent guessing, and selectively attempting easier questions first before tackling more difficult ones.

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AIEEE Preparation

AIEEE is the most prestigious engineering entrance examination and the


students willing to make it to the top notch engineering colleges through AIEEE
have to realize that they need to have the right kind of orientation. In AIEEE the
emphasis is on fundamental concepts and their application in different situations.
This differs significantly from the Board examinations. The questions asked in the
AIEEE seek to test the conceptual clarity and the reasoning ability of the
students.
“Questions in AIEEE are not difficult they are just different”

Yes!
Most of the questions in AIEEE are not difficult but they are just different & they require a different
approach, a different mindset. Each question has an element of surprise in it & student who is adept
in tackling ‘surprise questions’ is most likely to sail through.
In this booklet we have tried to briefly answer questions of students preparing for AIEEE. This
information will help you establish new goals, develop a new sense of purpose and generate new
ideas that will be helpful in your preparation.
Few strategies of Smart Preparation
• Well thought revision plan,
The first & foremost step is to build a sound & feasible plan for your preparation.
Divide your entire time into a reasonable time chart with milestones in between &
plan your studies
accordingly. Do not overestimate the time you have. You are advised to leave
free time in between so that if any module gets delayed you don’t have to change
the plan.
Study the trend of previous year question papers & draw marks distribution of
each subject to find out which topics are most important & which are least. Give priority to important
topics & try to put them in early stage of your preparation to
avoid any possibility of them being left.
Review your plan periodically to find out if there are any lapses & how they can
be covered up.
To summarize PAGE counselors believe that most of the student’s fail not
because of lack of ability or intelligence but because of lack of desire, direction,
proper planning & discipline.

Strengthening fundamentals:
Most of the questions are based on fundamentals & their applications. So, the
first step is to establish a solid base by mastering the fundamentals. For
mastering the fundamentals you have to be focused. Don’t refer too many books.
Decide about the books after discussing with your trainer at PAGE then stick to
them.
When you start a new chapter, the learning curve is slow that you do not
accomplish similar amount of learning every day even though you spend same
amount of time everyday. So even if your learning process is slow, keep studying
day after day without getting discouraged. All the subjects are equally important.
Devote more time to subject/topic you are weak in (remember most of us tend to
devote more time on areas we are strong & often shy away from our weakness).
In most of the examinations minimum qualifying marks are there for each subject.
Hence make sure that you do not ignore any subject & allocate adequate time to
each subject
• Strengthening Application of fundamentals

Quality is more important than Quantity: Doing 100 quality & concepts based
questions is more important than doing 1000 questions which have not been
selected carefully. Remember that the purpose is to sharpen problem-solving
skills. Start with conventional methods of problem solving but improvise
constantly & build you own shortcuts & ways of attacking a problem.
While practicing the problem always try to solve the problem on your own. If you
are unable to solve a problem do not hurry to consult the solution. Study the
relevant theory again, paying attention to the finer points and the problem in the
back of mind.
Experience shows that studying the theory with a definite problem in mind is very
effective and also sharpens the problem solving skills. Remember that directly
going though the solutions is not going to help you at all. The key in problem
solving does not lie in understanding the solution to the problem but to find out
what clues in the problem leads you to the right explanation. In case you are not
able to solve the problem try to find out the reason by analyzing the level of problem & practice
similar kind of problems so that you can master the tricks
involved.
While doing problem solving try to strengthen and develop your conceptual
understanding by analyzing deeply and correlating the problem with real life
situations.
While practicing identify your strong & weak areas (subject wise/topic
wise/question wise). Testing your preparation chapter by chapter can do this.
Through a structured test you should be able to diagnose which chapter, which concept & what type of
problems you need to practice more.

• Strengthening Speed /Strike rate & Examination temperament


Always keep track of your average speed of solving questions.
Participating in PAGE identical test series helps in time & temperament
management during the final exams. It has been observed that most of the
students loose 15 to 20% of their marks not because they do not know the
subject but because they fail to apply the basic concepts correctly. This is
basically due to examination fear & pressure. These marks that a student looses
because of silly mistakes (calculation errors, confusion, fail to apply the right
concepts, solving the problem by long method) can be reduced if a student
regularly participates in test series based on the pattern & level of final exams.
The student can also simulate the exam like conditions through PAGE training
program.
Get a feedback on your preparation by getting yourself tested by a body other
than your College. Testing by PAGE would give you an independent and unbiased feedback about
your performance. It is preferable if these tests give
feedback on National level.
Please remember that both speed & strike rate are important for success.
Continuously develop the ability to do things fast & accurately.
Keep interacting with people who are preparing. Since the competition is on
National level it is important to compare your preparation with other students
preparing across the country.
In short we can say that “AIEEE is not necessarily test of knowledge of basic
fundamentals only but it is a test of application of knowledge to solve surprise
problems with perfect time & temperament
management.
Speed: Speed building comes through the following:
Memorizing land mark problems (remembering standard formulae, concepts so
that you can apply them directly) Being strong in mental calculations (never use
the calculator during your entire preparation, try to do first and second level of
calculations mentally, remember as vocalization reduces reading speed, similarly
doing calculation on paper reduces the speed. Working with choices (see all the options and do not
go for last digit accuracy unless required by the problem)
when you are doing subject wise exercises you can also calculate speed subject
wise.
Here we would like to highlight one more point that just good speed is not
enough because of negative marks, so a high speed with less accuracy may be
harmful.
Strike Rate: This originates the second important factor, the strike rate. Strike
rate means the percentage of correctly attempted questions

Strike rate can be improved with the help of intelligent guessing. Intelligent
guessing means guessing a question you are not completely sure but have some
idea about. Your objective is not to solve the question but choosing the correct
option out of the 4 given choices. So always try to eliminate the choices.
Remember that if one choice is eliminated, chances of your guess being right is
33% (in comparison to a blind guess where the chances of being right is 25%)
and if two are eliminated the chances of hitting the right answer are 50 %
So remember that a good speed or strike rate alone cannot give you success.
One without the other is a good way to mess up a potentially good performance.
So, what is required is a good
combination of both speed and strike rate.
Question Selection: It is very important to understand what you have to attempt
and what you have to leave. There is a limit to which you can improve your
speed and strike rate beyond which what becomes very important is your
selection of question. So success depends upon how judiciously one is able to select the questions.
To optimize your performance you should quickly scan for
easy question and come back to the difficult ones later. Always keep in mind that normally questions in
any competitive exams can be

categorized into 3 areas


Easy: Approximately 25% questions in a paper are easy
Average: Approximately 60% questions in a paper are average
Difficult: Approximately 15% questions in a paper are difficult
The easy and average questions ensure selection whereas the difficult questions
make the merit. You should focus on careful selection of the easy and average
questions and avoid difficult questions in the first and second round and come
back to them once you have completed the entire paper once.
Also remember that cut-off in most of the exams moves between 60 to 70%. So if
you focus on easy and average question i.e. 85% of the questions, you can
easily score 70% marks without even going to difficult question. Try to ensure
that in the initial 2 hours of the paper the focus should be clearly on easy and
average question, after two hours you can decide whether you want to move to difficult questions or
revise the ones attempted to ensure a high strike rate.

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