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I am not able to solve JEE questions in my first try but as soon as I

see the solution I get it, where am I going wrong?

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Chandrajeet Kumar, Faced a lots of problem but asking on Quora in PQ help me lots
Updated May 5 2016 · Author has 632 answers and 2.6m answer views

How to solve problem:- Five Step Learning Approach (FSLA)

Why we need FSLA?

IITJEE is an exam that is totally based on problem solving. Mostly it is numerical based questions. Because
of this nature of IITJEE, students preparing for IITJEE exam should spend most of their time in solving
more and more problems.Its  not only help you in cracking  IITJEE but also help in better understanding of
subject.

Many students who are spending lot of time on problem solving but even though they are not able to score
in exam. behind this there are few reasons:-

This happens because while doing problem solving, they learn things but they do nothing to
retain them in their memory.

They don’t remember ideas/tricks of many questions in exam which they should have solved.

To  learn/memorize, they need to put efforts and time as well as they should follow the correct approach.

To retain and repeat, I recommend a “Five Step learning Approach (FSLA)” to you for doing problem
solving and it will definitely help you in many dimensions like improving your speed, accuracy, problem
solving ability and confidence in the topic.

Here are 5 steps of the approach. Open in app 

STEP 1 –Understanding
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In this step

(a) First Attempt the problem. Try to first see the problem and don’t directly jump to the solution. Try at
least 5-20 minutes and not spend more then 5 minutes, if you don’t understand question properly and 20
minutes maximum if you are getting ideas after that only you should see the solution.

(b) Marking the difficulty levels. After seeing the solutions, you have to  to decide the difficulty level of
the question and always  mark these level in front of each question. There can be 4 levels.

Easy level : Problem is easy if you are able to solve it in less than 5 minutes.

Moderate level  : Problem is moderate level if you are able to solve it by just seeing the solution for less
than 1 minute and get the idea.Or by trying hard and spend more time to solve it.

Difficult level : Problem is difficult if you are not able to do it yourself after spending lot of time and you
have also taken lots of time in understanding the solution But finally able to understand solution very
well.

Very-Difficult : Mark a problem a very-difficult if  you are not able to understand the question and its
solution is also impossible to understand so not waste more time at this stage they are useless and pull
your confidence down.

Step 2 : Memorizing

In this step you have to solve question like that you are appearing for any  test. The questions of the test
would be the average and difficult questions you marked in step– 1. Just count how many questions you
marked average or difficult after counting you should give test of 90 question(it can be collected from more
than 1 chapters) at least and total time is 3 hours

You have to take test very seriously. Taking these tests will improve your following abilities.

Speed : As you have solve these questions earlier,so try to be little fast in solving these questions.This will
improve your speed to write fast.

Accuracy : Try to be accurate as much as possible. If you are doing mistakes in more than 10% of the
questions, focus on it and before you sit for the test try to make in your mind that today you are not going
to do any mistake. If you make it a target that you have to be perfect, after few tests you will start seeing the
results.

Concentration :While doing a test, you level of concentration is much higher. So these tests will help you
in improving your concentration on a regular basis. So when you are doing these tests, make an
environment that should resemble the environment you face at test center. Don’t answer phone, don’t
respond to door bell, don’t get up for water and no music.

So give this test as mentioned above and this will help you in increasing speed,accuracy and also help in
study hanit of studying for long hours.

Step 3 : Strengthening
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After finishing step 2 where you appeared for a test based on the selected questions, you need to review
your performance. If you could not solve most  of the questions(not able to solve 60 to 70 out of 90 ), you
need to repeat what you did in step 2 to strengthen your preparation. Do it after a  gap of 4-5 days. You can
even change some ratings before you take the test like you can re-mark some average questions as easy or
difficult questions as average or average as difficult.

Step 4 :Building confidence

This is the fourth step where you revise all questions orally. This step should come after 4-8 days of the
strengthening step. Keep 30 second for each question to revise . So for 90 questions, you can take 45
minutes.See each question and try to recall the trick/steps/concepts you applied to solve that question. If
you are not able to recall in 15 seconds, mark the question and go to next question.Repeat this for all the
questions. After all the questions are finished, refer solutions to see the marked questions and try to learn
their ideas.

You should be able to recall ideas of 90% of the problems. If it is less, you need to repeat this step after few
days.

After successfully recalling ideas needed to solve the question from your mind, feel like you are a
master/expert of the topic. Do it with interest and full concentration, the way you watch movie or match.

Step 5 :Point to remember

You need to be regular and systematic to follow it. You also need a time table to plan these steps. Without
schedule, it is impossible to remember steps of various topics and subjects.

I am sure you can take benefit of FPA as it helps in proving the knowledge of the topic as well as it prepares
you for exams by improving your examination skills like speed, accuracy, concentration, knowledge.

HOPE THIS WILL HELP YOU

THIS ALL THINGS IF YOU FOLLOW THEN YOU GOING TO GET RANK UNDER 1000 FOR SURE.......

for more  help follow and read  my blog IITJEE PREPARATION TIPS

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