tips from iitjee topper

Tips from IITJEE Topper

Disclaimer.The books provided below are from IITJEE 2006 topper. He rather preferred preparing forexams like Olympiads instead of only IITJEE.So it doesnt mean that you have to strictly followhis choice of books. But yes you can try some books out there.

Here Raghu Mahajan, IITJEE 2006 topper provides a list of books which helped him clear JEEand also win the International Olympiad. Please read it carefully.

The Biggest General Advice from the TopperDO NOT IGNORE NCERT BOOKS.These books are very important for IITJEE and other exams since they act as aconcept building machine.NCERT books are written by some prominent professors of India and not bysometuition wallahs.Please read the text and all exercises. They should be your primary books for all

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subjects.The Blacklist of Publishers.

If you are reading these booksDinesh, Moderns ABC, Krishna, Gupta and Gupta, Pradeeps (ReferPradeep for chilarity, and other organic concepts)Then you are not on the right track. These books are complete trashand should not be read by any one.Here are some books which I followed. These books are also availableonhttp://entrance-corner.blogspot.com/for free. So try them out.PHYSICS

- NCERT(read the text and then solve the problems fromexercise)

- Resnick and Halliday's theory is also good enough forbeginners

- For tougher problems, you can refer D.C. Pandey

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(Arihant) problems, but never look at their solutions.

- Concepts of Physics by H.C Verma (Two volumes. Doonly problems. Do not read the text)

- Schaum's 3000 Solved problems is Physics by AlvinHalpern

- Problems in General Physics by I.E. Irodov (that book willmake you fall in love)

- University Physics by Freedman and Young

Some video lectures from MIT freshman classhttp://entrance-corner.blogspot.com/2009/05/video-lectures-on-classical-mechanics.htmlhttp://entrance-corner.blogspot.com/2009/06/lecture-videos-on-electricity-and.htmlFor Advanced studies (Olympiad, Higher JEE level)

- Mechanics by Kleppner and Kolenkow

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- 200 Solved problems in Physics by W.G. Rees,Cambridge University Press

- Electromagnetism by D.J. Griffiths

- Heat and Thermodynamics by Zemansky and Dittman

CHEMISTRY

- NCERT (read the text and then solve the problemsfrom exercise)

- Chemical Principles: a quest for Insight by PeterAtkins

- Organic Chemistry by Solomons and Frhyle

- Inorganic Chemistry by J.D. Lee (Do only things that

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are in the syllabus)

- Qualitative Inorganic Analysis by Vogel (Do onlythings that are in the syllabus)

Video Lectures (MIT freshman chemistry)http://entrance-corner.blogspot.com/2009/06/important-course-material-for-iitjee-by.htmlhttp://entrance-corner.blogspot.com/2009/06/important-course-material-for-iitjee-by_15.html

MATHEMATICS

- Higher Algebra by Hall and Knight (you need to

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buy that since its not available online.Dont worry itsvery cheap)

- Trigonometry by S.L Loney

- Coordinate Geometry by S.L. Loney

- Calculus by Thomas and Finney

- Problems in Calculus of One Variable by I.A.Maron

- A Course in Mathematics for IIT-JEE by TataMc-Graw Hill. ( Not available on online. Betterbuy it .Older editions that contains subjectivequestions are preferred )

MIT Freshman course on Single Variable Calculushttp://entrance-corner.blogspot.com/2009/06/import

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