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Hello. Firstly id like to preface this by thanking all the educators on this platform. Lots of help was received by me in the past one year.
So im from India, and in 12th grade. At the end of 12th grade we have a final exams(BOARDS) which we take and are recognized as students who have successfully passed high school. Post this either we can use these scores to get into a college or give an entrance exam specific to a different college we want to go to which doesnt take the 12 th grade scores into consideration and just recognizes you as someone who has passed class 12th successfully and is eligible to sit for the entrance.
I had made myself and my family believe that I was preparing for both of these exams since the entrance syllables(JEE) overlap with the 12th grade exam. The entrance questions are asked of a specific topic differently, like more application of that topic than you'd see in the 12th grade exam which is relatively considered easier and just basic application.
So I focused a lot on some topics for the entrance but I realised from my school scores that this was affecting my ability to cover all the chapters as was asked by school standards. I started doing what was needed for school and not practicing by entrance standards and moving on with the syllabus but then the entrance mocks showed that I didn't know any application of these concepts properly and its a time constraint exam you have to do about (75×3) questions in 3 hours.
I had some back and forth with this and now im at the level where my entrance first attempt is in 10 days. My school class 12th exam is in a month (from 14 feb)
And there is nothing I can do. Im taking immense amount of time to solve mocks for the entrance as i only know enough to derive the formula needed for tht sum through first principles but this is counterproductive since I don't have much time and 80% of this paper is just different types of formula application which youre supposed to sort of memorize by doing tons of problem throughout the year which I slacked on. The other 20% is where you might need to derive here or there.
And this is only physics
The exam asks physics chem and maths.
I have only done physics a little to still be at this level. Maths I have only done enough to pass in school exams and anything which required hard work or practice (integrals determinants) I never did.
For chemistry I have not done a single organic chemistry chapter and in my chem mock for school yesterday im scoring 15/80( which is below passing)
At this stage what should I do?
Should I just focus on my 12th grade exams which requires just re doing a certain book many times to score good percentage in the exam. In this case I would have to take a drop for the college entrance this year. I would have to stay at Home and study the whole syllabus of class 11/12 with sucifficent practice. I have the second attempt of the entrance in april and their are many exams of other colleges I can try which is in may.
But I know I will run away from hardwork in my drop year and thinking about a drop is just another way of procrastinating.
Whenever I sit with a problem from the previous year sample paper of the entrance I feel very dumb and I stop doing it. Now also there are 10 days and I can do just the high weightage topics to secure atleast a 100/300 in this exam but I Still am running away from the situation and living in an utopia. How do I fix myself? I had dreamt of going far into academia but right now I probably will not even pass high school.
So im from India, and in 12th grade. At the end of 12th grade we have a final exams(BOARDS) which we take and are recognized as students who have successfully passed high school. Post this either we can use these scores to get into a college or give an entrance exam specific to a different college we want to go to which doesnt take the 12 th grade scores into consideration and just recognizes you as someone who has passed class 12th successfully and is eligible to sit for the entrance.
I had made myself and my family believe that I was preparing for both of these exams since the entrance syllables(JEE) overlap with the 12th grade exam. The entrance questions are asked of a specific topic differently, like more application of that topic than you'd see in the 12th grade exam which is relatively considered easier and just basic application.
So I focused a lot on some topics for the entrance but I realised from my school scores that this was affecting my ability to cover all the chapters as was asked by school standards. I started doing what was needed for school and not practicing by entrance standards and moving on with the syllabus but then the entrance mocks showed that I didn't know any application of these concepts properly and its a time constraint exam you have to do about (75×3) questions in 3 hours.
I had some back and forth with this and now im at the level where my entrance first attempt is in 10 days. My school class 12th exam is in a month (from 14 feb)
And there is nothing I can do. Im taking immense amount of time to solve mocks for the entrance as i only know enough to derive the formula needed for tht sum through first principles but this is counterproductive since I don't have much time and 80% of this paper is just different types of formula application which youre supposed to sort of memorize by doing tons of problem throughout the year which I slacked on. The other 20% is where you might need to derive here or there.
And this is only physics
The exam asks physics chem and maths.
I have only done physics a little to still be at this level. Maths I have only done enough to pass in school exams and anything which required hard work or practice (integrals determinants) I never did.
For chemistry I have not done a single organic chemistry chapter and in my chem mock for school yesterday im scoring 15/80( which is below passing)
At this stage what should I do?
Should I just focus on my 12th grade exams which requires just re doing a certain book many times to score good percentage in the exam. In this case I would have to take a drop for the college entrance this year. I would have to stay at Home and study the whole syllabus of class 11/12 with sucifficent practice. I have the second attempt of the entrance in april and their are many exams of other colleges I can try which is in may.
But I know I will run away from hardwork in my drop year and thinking about a drop is just another way of procrastinating.
Whenever I sit with a problem from the previous year sample paper of the entrance I feel very dumb and I stop doing it. Now also there are 10 days and I can do just the high weightage topics to secure atleast a 100/300 in this exam but I Still am running away from the situation and living in an utopia. How do I fix myself? I had dreamt of going far into academia but right now I probably will not even pass high school.
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