JEE/NEET – the right guide

I’m writing some articles in view of my observations for the students whom I teach Physics. After 6-7 years of teaching and my own experience of preparation, I am intropecting and trying to dig out what will help our students and students in general.

The major challenge which students face these days is overexposure to content namely

• Various good books by many experienced and renowned authors.
• Different coaching modules
• Youtube guides and lectures
• Almost free online coaching packages (more for publishing ranks and bussiness)
• Relatives
• Google and AI bots (though have a lot of reliability issues till now)

While there is no doubt that the content over here is laudable, but the question is

Do you have the time?
Is is helpful for JEE/NEET?
Am I keeping my balance in all subjects?
Are my doubts getting cleared?
Do I feel confident going ahead?

So, we need to focus on the fundamentals always first and then their application. For example, The Laws of Motion do not change with different sources. So studying the same law by listening in class, reading a book, again seeing another video, another reference doesn’t help much. I have seen students who every week in the doubt clearing slot bring a different book. DCP, HCV, module of Sarathi, module of some coaching, Irodov…. And when I asked the student, he tells that he has completed everything. I was little skeptical about that, as the class performance and test result doesn’t show a similar output. The meaning of completion by such students, means that they have memorized the different common patterns being asked in the exams.

There are two issues with this approach:

1. We have got limited memory – Unfortunately, due to the influence of age of Kali, the memory power of people is diminishing rapidly. People are not remembering even the basic things. So, from my experience its not possible to just by brute force memorize all the different patterns of questions. And even if you memorize for some time, will it possible to hold it for two years and on the day of exam? Difficult, to say the least.
2. Questions don’t repeat, Concepts repeat – The 1st attempt of JEE Mains 2026 has shown that those who went by the above method of memorization, faced lot of difficulty as the pattern of questions were new, thoughtfully made, so only those who were conceptually sound were able to do well in the exam.

The questions mentioned above are very very personal and need mature guidance to handle! Most students just keep running here and there with no proper direction. And on top of this chances are you may lose blessings… A teacher who is working day in and day out to teach you, think about you, is concerned about you finds out that you’re roaming around and not following their instructions then obviously you lose that place in the teacher’s mind. Every teacher has a soft corner for students who try to follow them. This induces that extra effort, that extra concern, that extra prayer and that extra blessing. And at the end of the day this is what counts. There is a beautiful verse in the Gita saying

Bg 4.34 (The process of learning)

“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.”

Here Lord Krishna is telling Arjuna, that the proper process to receive knowledge is by approaching a proper person, inquiring from him how to go ahead, and rendering service by following their guidelines. If this process is followed, then progress is sure.

So, as a student, we need to honestly introspect whether I am following the process properly or not?

Most students don’t introspect, but just keep going around thinking that doing more questions, seeing more solutions will help. But that won’t help. With little humility, if you approach your well wishers, then the path ahead becomes clear.