The bond between IITJEE and Chemistry

IIT JEE!!

For some it is fearsome, for some it is a dream but a few achieve it. The exam is like a war, it will show how hard you have trained yourself for that day. Along with depth of your knowledge and broadness of your understanding the analytical ability to approach the exam will also be tested. To achieve this you need a full proof preparation beforehand.

Chemistry have a big role to play in this examination. It is a high scoring subject and consumes a minimum amount of time(two birds in a bullet). This gives you a clear upper hand in the exam where time is the first constraint you have.

Physical Chemistry: These concepts are very basic fundamentals of Chemistry which will be implemented and studied along with inorganic and organic chemistry. They explain all observations in chemistry in a broader way. This designs the theory behind every event happening in a chemical environment.

Inorganic Chemistry: It is the building blocks of Chemistry. The subject Chemistry exist because of them. In this you study the behavior of the elements and compare that with the respective period and group of elements. This helps us on selection of elements for a specific purpose. 

Organic Chemistry: This is the most experimented and creative branch of Chemistry because of our heavy dependency on it and need to modify as per our requirement. This deals with analysis of reactions involving Carbon containing Compounds. This is central to economic growth related to rubber, plastic,fuel, cosmetic, detergent industries. The use of organic chemistry in pharmaceutical and agricultural industry makes a direct impact on the human community.  This is the foundation of biochemistry and biotechnology.

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Inorganic Chemistry Plan for JEE Advanced

It is always a hazy area on what to cover in Inorganic chemistry for JEE
Advanced for good number of students. 

Should we just do inorganic NCERT?

or cover reference books too? 

which question banks to cover? and so on...

Based on my experience of JEE Advanced paper trends, this is what I
would like to share with all the serious aspirants for JEE Advanced.

Inorganic in JEE advanced is strictly on the NCERT reactions and
questions are related to the content given In the NCERT. The following
points must be understood to know how to prepare for inorganic for
advanced.

    * All the chemical reactions given in NCERT must be learnt or
understood. In advance the 2–3 reaction based questioned are asked e.g
. A road map type question, identification of compounds based on
characteristics given, possible reactions, and properties exhibited by
compounds etc. These questions are strictly based on the reactions given
in the NCERT.
    * In JEE advance there are questions describing or asking the molecular
characteristics such as bond angle, bond length, shape, order of
solubility, stability, melting boiling points, planarity, polarity,
colour, solubility in conc HNO3, NH3, KCN, NaOH etc, of different
compounds. Such questions often inquire the above mentioned
characteristics for compounds given in NCERT but not always. because the
JEE don't expect you to cram all these but instead deduce using
theoretical concepts or correlation.
    * The JEE have been asking at least one question strictly outside the
NCERT but 90% of them can be solved but only by potential AIR 1
candidate (extremely intelligent) or a very well learned intellectual
inorganic faculty. Though there are 10% chances that even the above
mentioned faculties might need to refer some university level inorganic
books (reference books)

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For Students,
Jyoti Behra (JBR Sir)
B Tech- Chemical Engg
IIT KGP

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Is "FLIPPED CLASSROOM" model a real solution to address the issues of unexpected breaks in school schedules for Chennai students?

Last two weeks I have been observing my neighbour's son Manoj (Class X) sitting at home often spending lot of time in front of his laptop browsing through mail to check if there is the occasional mail from school with assignments in attachment. For some, it might not be a really noticeable thing. But Chennaites will better understand what is the situation I am talking about. This is not the first time I am seeing Manoj like this, if my memory is not bad this happened during rains and Amma incident last year and even during 2015 heavy rains.

Being a consultant, I sat down to dissect the problem in hand. Rain is a natural phenomena and as it is the case with some of our other Indian metros, poor drainage facilities have been the cause of waterlogging and the associated dangers with it in low lying areas as well as city. As it is we are in an age where there is lot of pre planning and foresighted thoughts from experts being available. Some schools in Chennai have already completed their standard X and XII syllabus (not to comment about the depth of coverage) with only revision pending as per their claims. Students sitting at home during such long breaks would get their daily dose of assignments with limited or no support available for them to solve the same. Is it the right way to address this issue or can there be better alternatives?

Flipped classroom model (in true sense) is a method of delivery where we expect the student to complete basic learning part of concepts and even workout some problems with the help of lecture videos/ ppts and other questionnaires supplemented by detailed video/written solutions. This would give teachers a chance to make sure that kids would utilize this time to cover up the relevant topics before resuming the sessions after the break. Since most of these holidays are unexpected with often changing weather scenarios, teachers/trainers will be best placed to make sure that this time is used in productive manner instead of merely dumping loads of assignments on already covered topics or at times even new topics with students.

Having understood the benefits of this model, what care the challenges in implementing this model?

First and foremost obstacle is right kind of initiative from the school management side. Further schools would require the quality content for leveraging this opportunity along with adequate training for the instructors to implement the same. While there are many tools like Khan Academy for Schools available free of cost, customization to CBSE and Samacheer syllabus is a challenge which the regional educational organizations should see as an opportunity and work upon. This may be one such occasion where technology would really be able to impact the challenges in education (Referring to Steve's quote " Technology alone cannot address what is wrong with education")

Looking forward to concrete steps from education enthusiasts and technology leaders to take some steps considering the larger benefit that our next generations would be able to realize from these initiatives.

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