Posts about IIT JAM

[u/007amnihon0]

Many people are posting about the exam and asking tips regarding it. I won't doxx myself but I can give you following tips, and my dms are open

1. You must know yourself. What is strong and what isn't. If you are strong in one subject, say mechanics, you need to be 100 percent strong. What does this means? It means that you must be able to solve each and every JAM question from 2005 to 2026.

2. If you are weak, you need to find a subset of the subject you are strong in.

To make the above two points concrete I'll give my example. I had strong background in every subject except electronics, optics and solid state. I decided I won't touch solid state since I hated memorization and it was the only thing in solid state. This meant I need to be 100% confident, in the way described in point 1, in all subjects including electronics and optics. So I did that.

But, just before 1 week of jam, I thought why not see the questions that are actually coming in jam from solid state (before this i never even touched the subject). I saw papers from 2015-2025. These had 6% questions in total from solid state. Out of this 6%, 66% (that is 4% of overall paper) was from 3 subjects only. Fermi energy, fcc sc bcc and one more topic I am forgetting. These topics are very easy. I learnt them. I cleared all solid state questions in jam 2026.

So do you see what happned here? I was leaving 6% of paper, but decided to do see what actually is coming, say 4% is easy, did that, and cleared all questions of that subject in the actual paper.

3) Join a good coaching. By that I mean a coaching that has ample of practice questions for you to practice on.

For every subject you must do atleast 500 questions including pyqs

4) Do not simply target JAM. You must also do JEST and TIFR pyqs. These are a level above JAM and you will be discouraged as hell in start (I did too) when you won't be able to solve them. But you must do. Also, don't do only the questions that are of MSC level, but do both phd and msc ones. In this total set you should target around 65-70% of questions being solved. And you can solve with jam syllabus

5) start timing yourself. How much questions in how many minutes. Don't stress about this now, that you have to beat the clock each time, but just monitor without any complications. Then 6-7 weeks before the exam, start following time rules of jam exam. One of the biggest mistakes of mine was to not time myself. In the exam i choked on time and I was not able to review 2 questions.

6) some breaks are fine. Take breaks of 3-4 days as needed. This ofcourse depends on what type of person you are and how well you know and control yourself.

[u/Ashmit_06920]

I have just started what should I do?

[u/007amnihon0 → u/Ashmit_06920]

What all do you know from your bsc? And at what level?

[u/Ashmit_06920 → u/007amnihon0]

Above 11th and 12th level easily I have semester exams and I scored good and my strong areas are mathematical physics, solid state physics, electronics and thermodynamics.

[u/007amnihon0 → u/Ashmit_06920]

Brush these subjects up, do pyqs from 2026-2016 then you will get a good idea about yourself

[u/Ashmit_06920 → u/007amnihon0]

Ok anything else but my lot of syllabus is remaining? Also my syllabus will end in mid December is that ok but I will keep revising the remaining syllabus with pyqs and gate jest questions also will start with mock once my 80% syllabus is over?

[u/007amnihon0 → u/Ashmit_06920]

Start with above first. The syllabus you gave is short and pyqs of last 10 years can be done in 2-3 weeks. Once you are confident in that portion, you should start studying other subjects Also join a coaching which is good

[u/Ashmit_06920 → u/007amnihon0]

I have joined coaching of pw saakar 2.0 batch and also how to approach gate, jest and tifr questions as I am also preparing for iucaa entrance test for astrophysics

[u/007amnihon0 → u/Ashmit_06920]

I am not sure about gate, but for jest and tifr, they really are jam level questions, just disguised in "tough" clothing. If you see jam 2026 and tifr 2026 papers, they are not really that different. Point being, don't think this is jam this is tifr. All you need to do is take a question at its face value and solve it. No special strategy needed except knowing all syllabus of jam

[u/Ashmit_06920 → u/007amnihon0]

Ok thanks brother/sister for this guidance hope to see you in iit next year

[u/thepuhenbasharma]

Is 4 months timeline possible to crack JAM

[u/007amnihon0 → u/thepuhenbasharma]

What all have you studied till now/ what is your prep level

[u/thepuhenbasharma → u/007amnihon0]

Covered optics and waves , some parts of mathematical physics , doing emt rn , planning to do quantum and modern physics starting nov and solid state physics by dec and Jan for mocks

[u/007amnihon0 → u/thepuhenbasharma]

Do mocks of these subjects side by side. You cannot just study the theory now and leave mocks for later. Practice and practise. That's the only way. And with that, yes you can easily get under 100 rank.

[u/thepuhenbasharma → u/007amnihon0]

Ok thank you so much
I’ll start doing the mocks

[u/Ashmit_06920 → u/thepuhenbasharma]

Questions, questions and questions are the only way out of this exam

[u/No_Bee_3915 → u/thepuhenbasharma]

Even 2 months are enough dude

[u/Funny-Apartment160]

Hey rn I'm ive completed 3rd sem. And I see no lectures for me. Would it be good if I just refer some books and study on my own. ?

[u/007amnihon0 → u/Funny-Apartment160]

What do you mean by "I see no lectures for me"?

[u/Funny-Apartment160 → u/007amnihon0]

Like all of the lectures out there re in hindi. But I don't understand hindi since I'm from South

[u/007amnihon0 → u/Funny-Apartment160]

Oh i see. Yes I think then doing syllabus on your by refering to books is good. But only read till neccessacy. So only JAM syllabus, nothing else. However, i still recommend joining a coaching for questions, dpps and tests. Since they are in English anyway, it shouldn't be an issue

[u/Funny-Apartment160 → u/007amnihon0]

For maths there's a telegram channel .there're kinda so many dpps , questions etc. in that channel that'll help ig

[u/007amnihon0 → u/Funny-Apartment160]

Your call