Saturday 12 December 2015

Statistics

No, this post isn't on the chapter on statistics. This post will talk about statistical data of my life during the 2 years of JEE. Many of you have been asking this and I think it would be worth to dedicate a post to this.

  • Number of study hours (I was enrolled in a dummy school):
    • Class 11th - around 5-6 hours on non coaching days, 7-8 hours on coaching days (including 4 hours of coaching)
    • Class 12th - around 10 hours per day, irrespective of coaching/non coaching day
  • Test scores:
    • Performance in first national level test - 153/240
    • Performance in FIITJEE phase tests (once every 3 months): top 20 ranks, 13 being worst, 1st being best
    • Performance in FIITJEE open test at the end of standard 11th - National Rank 6th
    • Best performance in FIITJEE AITS - National Rank 2, 99.9 percentile
    • Worst performance in FIITJEE AITS - National Rank 51, 99.7 percentile
    • Average performance in FIITJEE AITS - Top 50 ranks, 99.8 percentile
  • Number of sleeping hours: 8 hours on non coaching days, 9 hours on coaching days (general time used to be from 10 pm to 6.30 am)
  • Number of books used: Around 10 per subject. Instead of using books per subject, I preferred books per topic (chapter)
  • Number of weekly coaching hours: 4 per subject (12 hours a week overall)
  • Number of girlfriends during JEE days: 0 :P
  • Number of friends during JEE days: almost 0
  • Number of family functions attended during JEE days: 2
  • Number of hours wasted: I used to waste around 4 hours a day in 11th standard in playing cricket :D
Some people might also want to know other non-statistical data which may be useful
  • I owned a smartphone during JEE preparation, with full internet access. I had immense control over myself that I do not misuse the mobile and waste time. I believe technology helps a lot in better development and so, I used the phone a lot (in my non study hours). DO NOT SHOW THIS POST AND ASK YOUR PARENTS TO BUY YOU A SMARTPHONE. You can achieve everything in your life without a smartphone as well!
  • I had an active Facebook account during JEE days and I used to post a lot of bullshit :P
  • I was an active cricket player in 11th standard. However, I did not waste any time during 12th standard
  • I also owned a laptop, which I believe helped me to download ebooks which aren't easily available. (PS - do not ask me to post links, find them yourself!). However, laptop isn't really needed for JEE preparation. You can purchase it once you formally join engineering.
I hope the above facts and figures will help you to understand that IITians are no super-humans. I am sure other authors (Karan and Shobhna) will agree.
If you want to know any more facts and figures, feel free to ask, but please don't be as silly as - Aman how many hours did you spend in shitting?

31 comments:

  1. hey aman, i want to know how did you use those 5 hours after 10 hrs studies and 9hrs sleeping during class 12.I can usually study 12hrs without stressing myself out too much and after 8 hours of sleeping i find it uneasy to waste the rest of the 4hrs.I'll appear for jee in 2016.

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    1. How about taking a break?
      Meet friends, talk to your mother, play a sport, watch television. There are countless things to do!

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  2. Bhaiya I am studying in a cbse school school in Kanpur and currently in class 10.I have joined fiitjee 4 year class room programme please help me in choosing the right optional subject apart from pcm please help in making a choice between computers or arts.physical education not available please consider that I am motivated to get a good rank in iitb with cs and I don't have any experience with programming but I have focus on science to. Advise needed urgently. Please reply.

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    1. Any subject is fine at this stage. Choose whatever you enjoy.

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    2. ok thanks for suggestion

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  4. Hi Aman would you like to make a post about off things you do such as speedcubing (saw that video of yours it was pretty amazing :D). I am sure you're excellent in many other things. I would like a post on stuff like that. :)

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    1. Well, there isn't anything significant that I can write. I am good at speed cubing and maybe cricket, that's it!

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  5. You have written in the article that you used play cricket 4 hrs a day in 11th and in the same article you have written that you had zero friends during JEE days. With whom did you play cricket ?

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    1. I hope you understand what a friend means, do you?

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  7. I have fiitjee on weekends.So six hours of coaching. Any suggestions on how I can make more out of the day?

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  8. Did you used to watch cricket matches during those 2 years?

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  9. when u first started 11th syllabus did u develop interest then and there or was it ur constant studying and practising which made studies fun 4 u (and JEE toppers)... coz u said u enjoyed the subjects... even i like PCM and always try to apply them in real life(rotational, organic etc) but i never feel like actually doing problems and studying.. i never gain that interest.. pl help

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  10. Finally! You've started to make sense.
    Until now, I just thought that you were a socially awkward geek.
    And I used to tell myself, "YE SAALA KUCH ALAG HI BREED KA LADKA HAI!"

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  11. Aman is it wise to bunk classes of topics which i have studied thoroughly as i feel a lot of time is wasted ?? Or should i still attend those classes?

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  12. Aman bhaiya, what was your rankings in foitjee aiits?

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    1. Hello Aditya,
      My ranks often varied, but they mostly remain within top 50.
      My percentile used to be above 99% in all the exams

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    2. Bhaiya, can you please tell me your best and worst rankings in fiitjee aiits

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    4. Best: 2
      Worst: 54 (If I am not wrong)

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  14. Bhaiya you used to study for 5-6 hrs in 11th, how did it drastically increased to 10 hrs in 12th , is it your desire , or it just happened(due to upcoming syllabus).

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  15. Bhaiya i had just started my coaching in fiitjee kalu sarai integrated batch
    I face difficulty in the class room my class mates are very fast as comapared to me
    I understand physics theory taught by our teacher and when he gave some numerical to solve i become puzzled how to solve it . I am slow in chemistry as compared to my class mates and i m ok in maths .

    I m m in 2nd batch of my program in fiitjee out of 8.

    Please suggest me how i can improve .

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  16. Is AIR 300 in JEE advanced possible in one year?

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  17. During online classes, our Teacher does not allow us to write notes along with the class. Due to this we have to write notes after the class which consumes our self study time. (Like if we have a class of 1hr 20 min then the other 1hr goes in writing notes.)
    What should I do. Please tell if anybody has any solution to this.

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