How many hours should I study ?

Some of you out there must be toppers of your class or among the top 10% of your class.
But once you start preparing for IIT-JEE, the competition is huge!


Students seriously need to scale up their efforts to face the competition.

You need to prepare yourself mentally as well as physically to face this competition.
Remember that you have to compete with unknowns so you have to put in maximum efforts to excel.

You may have scored well in your school level examinations by not even spending 20 hours on studies at home.
But this is not going to be enough with such a huge competition!
You need to scale up your efforts and set a target of 50-55 hours studies at home every week.

You cannot start studying 10 hours a day suddenly when earlier you were studying for only 3 to 4 hours.
Increase your study time from 3-4 to 6-7 hours and in next week or after 2 weeks scale up to 9 to 10 hours.

You have to study with full concentration, no disturbance, and continuously for 3 hour sessions.
The idea is to simulate real exam conditions.
While studying, you have to create an atmosphere as if you are sitting in exam.

Avoid doing following during a 3 hours session:


  • Avoid studying while lying down on a bed. Sit on a desk.
  • Don?t get up from your desk during 3 hours of study session. Even not for drinking water.
  • Don?t listen music during studies.
  • No phone calls and no SMS during studies.

Study with 100 percent concentration as if you are sitting in exam.


All the best!!!