In the modern world, students pursuing different courses are exposed
to exams of competitive nature like JEE Exam on a regular
basis. Most of the aspirants are pursuit of the ideal strategy to crack the
exams and hence tries different approaches to approach the exam in the best
possible manner. One of the time tested strategies to crack the exam is to
attempt previous year question papers. From our own witnessed experiences, past
question papers have been nothing short of a blessing due to the below
mentioned reasons:
Exposure to exam questions and Examiner’s
Perspective: While attempting the past question papers, one thing you might have
realized is that you would have started to pick the perspective of the examiner
in various ways. Rather than writing what you know, you will have to craft the
answer to match the examiner’s expectations.
Understand how an ideal answer would look
like: Most booklet of past question
papers would have answers provided with them to give you an idea of how an
ideal answer would look like. These answers would be the benchmark for students
to follow suit. Practicing with these answers would make you a master in
writing answers without much thinking while catering to the examiner’s
viewpoint.
Helps you to manage time smartly:
Students often complain about the lack of time while they write a
challenging exam. The problem could be attributed to the lack of practice with
past year questions. Doing the same would help students to prioritize
attempting questions according to their level of difficulty viz. easy medium
and hard.
Provides Direction for Revision:
After working with last year practice questions, you would be able to
know the major sections from which most questions are drawn for drafting the
question paper. Thus a sense of purpose or direction comes to your exam
preparations.
More focus on topics with higher weight
age:
While preparing for the exams, it is the natural tendency among
students to give importance to the topics from NCERT books and so on which
has the higher weightage of marks. Practicing with the earlier question papers
gives students an edge against their competitors.
From the above discussion, it could be stated without doubt that past
question papers would be helpful in taking the aspirants preparation to an
advanced level. This is the sole reason
why they have been used by students everywhere and would be used extensively in
future.
About Author
Being a writer, Anirudh believes in writing as nothing short of an
art. Hence the passion exists only to develop stories make articles while
penning blogs in an artistic fashion. For him ideas could be expressed and
shared only when you are able to put
into writing. Travelling, visiting exotic locations, trying new food recipes
and playing cricket are his main areas of interest.
