I have dedicated 4 years of my life to prepare for a single exam called JEE advanced. I never had to prepare for anything else in my life for such a long time. At the end I am going to solve all the questions that I got wrong at the exam, which I have procrastinated to do for 6 years.

Intro

My experience

Life in Chiana batch.

No ground to play. just 2 adjacent buildings one where we sleep and have the rooms, the other where we have classes.

6AM.

I used to sleep a lot between 6AM to 8AM.

Its free but there is a lot of pressure

Our batch was called the worst batch.

Exam experience.

In India there are very few good universities unlike in the US or Europe. So the competition for these few good universities is just insane. Only Chinese people can understand this comeptiotion to some extent but even in China it has become decently rich and their government can fund more universities and they have more decent universities than India. So, even their competion is actually not that bad.

Every we generally had 2 exams one is JEE mains type which means it more about

I wanted to get top 60 rank because I am an OC¹ and my parents back then were telling me I should get into IITB CSE. Back then I wanted to only do physics at IISc because people told me it is better for IISc.

I wanted to join physics and IISc but I didnt fill in time because phones were not allowed in our coaching centre and I couldnt open any email. Neither of my parents have done any undergrad education and they dont know how to check emails so I couldnt have told them. I didnt expect the deadline to be as easrly as it was. My father and me went and waited for a long time to meet the director of IISc.

«IISC image infront of that building from facebook»

IITB is considred the best institute for engineering in India and IISc is consideered the best for pure science. IITB is generally much more popular than IISc. Even for applied physics like experiemental condensed matter IITB was as good as IISc. But things like quantum gravity, string theory, quantum field theory which were things I already wanted to work on even before I started my undergrad were not very good at IITB.

Dirac biography the stragest man caused me to take EE. Dirac brother suicided and Dirac felt guilty.

EE was like a compromise between me (physics) and my parents (CS). Oh boy my life would have been a disaster if I didnt change back to physics at the end of first year of my undergrad. I would have been doing some boring things related to ic 8002a datasheet.

I didnt dip my mind too much intro electrical engineering, I just hated it with a passion from a single course and left to physics.

In my undergrad one mistake I did was just working cosmologists and phenomelogists. There was

I am such a procrastinator that after the exam that I prepared for 4 years I never did those questions that I did wrong and instead was watching anime nonstop in that summer and after my udergrad started in

Ironically I did better in chem than in maths.

Problems with the system

1) Too much pressure on children. Elsewhere in other coutries children aged 13 to 18 are a lot more chill. I think the system will improve over time inevitably as India gets richer because the government can build more “decent” universities. The population of course wont significatly increase. Currently its 1.4 billion it will max out at 1.6 billion and then start decreasing.

2) Retaking: You can retake the SAT as many times as you want.

3) Absolute: If a person did a lot of maths and got internation recoginition in olympiads take them even if they dont do good in chemistry.

4) Burn out:

Physics

Do all the qestions that I have actually got wrong.

Maths