importance of old question papers in aipmt/aieee/iit jee

Cracking old question papers is a very good exercise and every student should do it regularly.
It not only gives you an idea about the trends in the exams,
it also gives you a lot of confidence.
Solve the questions in the specified time only and try to score as much as possible.
After doing the papers look for the common mistakes (I call it silly mistakes).
Every student has a peculiar way of repeating these type of mistakes like not reading the whole question,
confusion in questions having "all except",
confusion in similar looking words etc.
By good practice of solving papers again and again you can win over these silly mistakes and mind you by only minimizing these mistakes you can score a lot more in entrance tests
i give you an example .........
if you divide the types of questions in any entrance test like aipmt/aippg/iit-jee/aiims/afmc/aieee etc .
about 60 -70% questions are very easy questions and even an average student can crack them easily.
nearly 20% are the tough ones which only some extra ordinary students can answer
and rest 10 to 20 % questions are only for very brilliant or topper students
but if we consider the cutoff merit or selection range of marks its always somewhere near 60-70% which means
even if you are not a brilliant student or a topper you can crack the test with just minimizing your silly mistakes......
my dear selection never depends on very tough questions .
merit always decides on the easier ones ..
So try to get more and more old papers and solve them. if you have some old papers please send it to akskhanbl@gmail.com. so that i can publish them here

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