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The largest competitive examination in the world that is conducted on a single day”. This is the description of AIEEE 2009 as per CBSE, the body that conducts the examination. Well, CBSE does not officially have a Guinness World Record ™ for that claim, but the statement is very likely to be true. With close to ten lakh students appearing for the examination on Sunday, 26th April 2009, AIEEE has really come of age. Much larger in size of participation compared to the much elder IIT-JEE, this examination is the vehicle for selection of students into NITs, Deemed Universities etc.
Our Faculty members met with the students just after the examination at 12:00 noon at different exam locations to find out about the first cut reaction. Sure, many of them were stumped – by the lower number of questions, different patterns of questions, differential marking etc. But those test-takers who had prepared well for the examination season – including IIT-JEE, AIEEE, State Level Exams, BITSAT etc. were much less surprised. To many of them it was like the same old wine in a new bottle – because essentially the exam did not deviate from the objective of checking the strong subject knowledge and its application in problem solving.
If you plot the number of questions in AIEEE across the three-year period from 2007 to 2009, you would be staring at a negative slope. Form 120 questions in 2007, to 105 questions in 2008, the number of questions in AIEEE 2009 got reduced to 90. That is just 30 questions per subject – Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. We have classified 53%, 50% and 57% of the questions in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry as those with “Medium Difficulty Level”. Do spend some time on the classification of the questions when you go through the analysis. This “Medium Difficulty Level” questions plus the “Easy” are two sets of questions a well-prepared student is expected to crack. With our experience in tracking the AIEEE across the years, we feel that one can get a good All India Rank by focusing on these sets of questions.
In Physics, the age-old theory of the domination of Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism still holds with more than 53% of the questions appearing from these areas. The trend of Physical Chemistry getting more than the average share among the three –Physical, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry continued in AIEEE 2009. Algebra and Calculus accounted for more than 60% of the questions in Mathematics.
We urge you to spend at least 2 hours with the analysis and the solution provided here. You have reached a phase- after months of preparation and with BITSAT and other State Entrance Exams in the pipeline – where incremental score will come not from accruing new knowledge by from simply recognizing your strong and weak areas and then aligning them as per the requirements of the examinations..
We wish you good luck for all upcoming examinations..
Faculty Team – IIT-JEE & AIEEE
T.I.M.E. Pvt. Ltd
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