NEET 2018: MHRD Says No To MCI Order Barring NIOS, Open School Students

In a major relief to the class 12 National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and state open school students, the centre has decided to revert the Medical Council of India (MCI) decision which prevented them from appearing in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). In a major relief to the class 12 National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and state open school students, the centre has decided to revert the Medical Council of India (MCI) decision which prevented them from appearing in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). According to a news report published on The New Indian Express, sources in Health Ministry told the daily that a decision had been taken in favour of the students after the Ministry of Human Resource Development opposed the move. An official notification in this regard is awaited. According to the daily, HRD Ministry told the Health Ministry that the MCI order was against the government policy on equal learning and career opportunities for open school students. "On many occasions, when students fail the Class XII boards or get a compartmental in one or more subjects, they choose open school to clear their boards. It won't be justified if they are denied the opportunity to take the NEET," and HRD official told The New Indian Express.

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Anyone can learn something new, but how do you keep it from slipping out the back door of your brain?

For Math, the key is to practice. One should practice at least 15-20 problems on each sub topic of a chapter and then previous years’ questions. If you’ve practiced enough number of questions you’ll remember the formulas and the concepts. There is no point in sitting down and try to by-heart the formulas as exam problems will not ask you to write down the formulas but how to apply it. Hence the key for Math is solving a lot of problems.

For Physics, remembering the formulae or a particular concept does not guarantee that you can solve the problem. There are thousands of concepts and very few formulae. Every new question that you come across seems completely different. Hence for Physics one should concentrate on the concepts more than the formulae. You cannot solve all types of problems of a chapter in Physics because there are too many different types of problems, so concentrate on how the last problem was solved, remember the concept and go through each step very carefully and try to understand the approach for the step instead of the calculation.

For Chemistry: The major problem one faces during an exam is trying to remember Chemistry topics, especially Organic Reactions and Inorganic. Chemistry concepts are easy to understand but incredibly tough to remember because of the sheer quantity. A common mistake that most students do here is their approach to revising a concept. What students do is that they keep their notebooks open, read something (like a reaction), and say it in their heads and keep re-reading it multiple times. This approach is extremely time-consuming. The best way to learn reactions is this – Read a few reactions (say 5-6 Carbonyl Reactions), try to remember them and then keep the notebook away. Now whenever you have 5-6 minutes free during the day (like when you are travelling or sitting and watching TV), take a piece of paper and try to write the reactions (with the steps) as much as you can. You obviously won’t get everything correct. Even if you don’t have pen and paper just try to remember it in your head. The key is to not use the notebook at all. When you are done, get the notebook and see where you went wrong. If you do this 3-4 times, the next time you’ll be able to write the reactions (with their names) easily. This way you will not waste hours and hours of precious time in trying to remember and your brain will have enough time to freshen up, as anyone can tell you that you can’t learn 100 reactions in 2 days.

Vamsi Krishna, Faculty

CONCEPTREE Learning

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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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