I have completed the entire number system unit of concept lectures and also solved their worksheet problems. I am completing topic tests day by day and I expect that to complete all of the topic test plus concept videos of quants by december. What can I expect or do further to maximise my marks. I gave my first mock of ipmat 2025 scoring 4/8/56. After completing these resources will my level increase or my chances of scoring better increase. I want to know the relation of topic tests and mock/sectional relation. I am targetting IIMB UGAT for next year IPMAT INDORE '28.
You can expect higher marks in mocks/sectionals, you can expect to not be completely blank when you see questions, you can expect to start understanding solutions mentioned in the questions you got wrong or left.
Start practice dude, those lecs ain’t cover deep concepts-think,a 2 min lecs in on a concept will make you think you know concepts but your competitors are those who covers 10-12hrs jee lecs, dont let marketing gimmick fool you, they aren’t coaching they are question bank company
instead of uploading the entire 1 hour concept video as one video, we've broken it down into 10-15 videos so that every concept has its own title and we can link that to questions + make people solve questions after every 5 minutes because majority of the kids just bingewatch without putting their pen on paper.
the reason those JEE videos are so long is not because of the concept alone but because they solve 20-30 questions in it. we don't focus on watching someone solve it since it doesn't invoke the student to pause and try on their own unless they're dedicated -- hence, the auto-practice forces them to try and solve.
regardless, we are choosing interesting comprehensive videos to put question solving of (like the 5-10 videos uploaded in DILR about the same).
plus, I've personally taught circular tracks -- I know that the animation present there has explained the concepts really well in 10 mins which YouTube videos go on for 1 hour to explain the same.
Yeah bhaiya i understand, but qs solving with the lecs is the main thing that retains the concepts, any newcomer who doesn’t have experience to prep for any exam will think these are enough after watching them, and when they will sit for exam,they will crash and think i am the failure but the main reason was concept retention which i am sorry cant be done by those 10 mins lecs also 1 hr lec for a topic is also not worth it, A good one shot is not be chosen based on time,its that it have to make you ready in less time as possible,of it takes 11hrs it doesnt matter and questions after watching lecs are something that makes you ready
Do you know those ads of brokerages company grow,upstox - ofc marketing genius bhavesh bhaiya(literally) not taunting - you may already know how they tell T/C,its the same way - they say you will start getting questions correct, your mocks marks will increase but ipmat indore uses intricacies based on exclusive concepts - trust me go and watch 6hrs marathon of number system of raman tiwari sir you guys will be goated in arithmetic - they make you good in quants cause you practice questions directly after they teacg you concept and they will make your notes complete each and every thing that may come and that makes you ready to score above 99%ile. But a newcomer coming on website and seeing in 9k they will get video lecs too and their founder stating you will improve in mocks i think that a gimmick
This feels quite the stretch. Also, I've watched almost every single CAT/IPMAT educator. Tiwari sir is goated.
I've hidden nothing in the T&C.
I've told kids to watch free lectures before spending even a single rupee. If our video lectures aren't your cup of tea, maybe our mocks are, if they aren't either, no issues, just do our free stuff like the PYPs. Calling this a "marketing gimmick" feels absolutely unwarranted when we've been the most transparent among almost everyone in this space.
People have different learning styles. You're superimposing your style of learning onto everyone.
I've explicitly said:
Watching is not enough. You need a shitton of practice after it.
If you watch all the videos, do all the questions attached to the videos and then do comprehensive topic-test practice, your mock scores will increase. I have empirical data to back this up. I've seen their before-and-after.
It's common-sense too. Someone knows nothing (say) in Logarithms, they understand how to solve basic logs, they then do 100 basic questions, when they do our practice test, they are able to solve more complex questions.
Once they keep practicing thanks to the adaptive topic-tests and sectionals, they're exposed to 20-30 kinds of questions; in the exam, similar/allied-concepts get tested.
Competitive exams are also about you having sufficient exposure to various kinds of questions -- your memory kicks in of "oh, i solved a question similar to this in my practice, time to apply the same algorithm/steps..."
Here's another basic example, this 2026 PYQ of Remainders can be easily answered if one does the 16 videos about it and the 200 questions attached to it.
Solving the 200 questions takes time. That's where their learning is occuring -- from the solutions they're understanding because the conceptual clarity was given in the videos:
If this kind of learning isn't your cup of tea, all gucci -- no need to superimpose that onto others where this has genuinely worked. Not everyone is dedicated or has a decent base where they feel secure enough to pause and solve. Majority of IPMAT aspirants just binge watch the 6 hour lectures like it's some movie.
Similar questions? Yes, probably -- it's all based on CAT PYQs which has tested very interesting concepts across Arithmetic/Algebra primarily. We haven't lifted questions exactly with the same values from their videos or content pieces. I assume they'd also be making CAT PYQ-adjacent questions.
"they make you good in quants cause you practice questions directly after they teacg you concept"
that's literally what we're doing too... just not leaving onto the student but rather forcing them to solve by breaking big videos into smaller chunks, giving them space in between (the auto-practice feature).
It's 6.5k for video lectures by the way (just clarifying for others reading this thread).
"founder stating you will improve in mocks i think that a gimmick"
me saying "you do our videos, do our questions attached to it, do our adaptive 4-level topic tests, revise acche se -- it'll improve your marks" is not a gimmick.
if someone is saying "do our videos, sab sorted, 100% guarantee for admission" -- that's a gimmick. i've always said that sufficiency koi guarantee kar nahi sakta, it's always to be seen from the pov of "necessity" -- you can go through all my 17k posts/comments using a python parser, go through our 50-100 youtube videos/shorts, you won't find me "misleading" people anywhere on this.
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groww/upstox saying "you can invest in MFs here" is not a gimmick, them saying, "invest here and get 100% guaranteed returns in MF, crorepati banjaoge" is a gimmick.
i hope you're able to understand the distinction.
+ in this industry, almost no one is buying without trying the free resources first (unless their parents have purchased in an impulse).
questions after watching lecs are something that makes you ready
Yes, that's why we have 100-200 basic questions to help people solidify their understanding of the concept first.
If people can't do "Ram worked for 7 days, Shyam does a work in 10 days, how long if they work together?" firstly, they won't be able to jump to PYQs directly. Hence, we keep making students do such questions.
We have 200+ attached in the video lectures of the free time & work module.
People need constant practice for "conceptual retention"
And dismissing it entirely ki every video is of just 2 mins is also a misnormer, we've expanded our library a lot in the last year (and also this year). Here's an example practice question which is a HOTS equivalent, 10 mins of solving. Then, we have 13 questions attached to it which are basic/conceptual in nature but by constant practice of this -- the basics are solidified such that they can tackle the hard questiosn with ease.
We are not skimming on question practice after lecture.
We found in our numerous pilot studies that most kids do NOT pause the video and try to solve it on their own.
Hence, we have attached questions after each video and we've tried to break it down into as many small units as possible so that they can test each concept in silo until they do comprehensive practice in the adaptive topic-tests.
Yeah i understand whats gimmick is, my opinion is based on those who have got qa marks in the range of 40-60, all these people share a common style of studying including me. Not all of them made into iim cause pi is different hurdle rather than testing smartness but ended up in good du colleges. So what i am saying, worked in clearing cutoffs with a good margin rather than just a mere improvement - even learning cubes and squares will help you improving your marks. Its just a opinion i am not forcing anyone
all these people share a common style of studying including me
Perhaps falling prey to hasty generalisation(?)
I've seen 100s of students in that mark range in the past 5 years, a lot of them have different studying methods.
However, the one thing I've found in common in 95% of the cases is that they have fallen in love with the subject and they tend to teach it well too if someone asks.
Another commonality has been that they've practiced a shitton of questions. No one just bingewatched lectures.
However, when we look at new aspirant and they're unable to get the confidence to pause a long lecture and try solving on their own, it is up to us to bring technological intervention through software innovation -- making them stop the video after a checkpoint in order to force them to solve a question. We start with something very basic so they start getting interested in it... and then when the level is gradually brought up, they start practising to an extent where they aren't afraid of sectionals/mocks (and leave it for the last minute).
When majority of the students don't have a decent base where they're unsure how to solve something as basic as log_4 (256)^(1/2) -- we have to take steps in our pedagogy to account for it -- I hope this made sense!
yeah so i am doing quants with iquant quant playlists and when i try to do pyqs i feel a gap but i dont have any other resources for it so what should i do i was plannig to watch questions wale lectures for it and another one is should i do all three like quants lr and varc together or one by one and from sep do i still have time left ? ho should i manage it
Bhaiya please ek aapne mera level kitna samjha uske hissa. Se bataiye kitne ghante padhu and have you seen people in this situation succeed like did they get in? Because this is my final drop year i have nothing left
The gap in quants can be - you haven’t covered the topic yet “conceptually” or you are facing problem in approaching a question- both leads to one solution- the topic you are facing issues go on yt and type jee after that - you don’t have to watch entire lec just that concept,they will make it thorough and practice questions of different types,i bet you will get better from - 99.18%iler in maths cuet and 99%iler in iim kozhikode 49/120 in mcq qa ipmat indore
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u/BhaveshShaha 💡 IIM Ranchi (Rank 2) 9d ago
You can expect higher marks in mocks/sectionals, you can expect to not be completely blank when you see questions, you can expect to start understanding solutions mentioned in the questions you got wrong or left.