the iitjee aspirants are getting ready for the dday which is on may 25 they are in an advanced stage of preparation for the mains examination which will decide the fate of all those who have qualified for this stage and aspiring to book a coveted seat in one of the seven indian institutes of technology division of marks the marks are divided in two major categories based on the syllabus covered under class xi and xii this division gives a clear view of the weightage of concepts covered under class xi and xii this is obvious from this table that emphasis is given on class xii syllabus one more hidden fact is many of the concepts of class xii are based on the concepts of class xi the iitjee questions are multidisciplinary in nature and most of the questions involve concepts of class xi and xii both stepwise marks are awarded in iitjee and each of the step involve a concept the detailed calculation shows that marks division for class xi and xii is 5545 on the basis of iitjee screening 2003 this is predicted that the ratio will be 4060 number of questions previous years has seen vivid changes taken place in iitjee mains paper the trend can be seen with the help of following table there is no fixed pattern of iitjee mains this leads to the fact that iitjee aspirants must be confident enough to implement the concepts of physics chemistry and mathematics in unseen situation ways of implementation concepts are implemented either independently or in derived way independent implementation refers to the use of the given data data is either substituted in the straight forward mathematical relation or gives physical specification derived way of implementation involves manipulation of data other expressions are derived from these data this implementation way leads to solution of a multidisciplinary problem which is unique characteristic of iitjee in the last five days take a mock test daily and analyse your performance never go for the classroom session discussion with experts or colleague is preferred in the examination hall aspirants should not leave any stone unturned in order to make sure of their successful participation in examination this refers to avoidance of common mistakes ie taking admit card pen and pencil the first step is to read instructions given on the answer sheet this is necessary because iitjee may implement new rules without any prior announcement similar to the case of screening examinations time management skills the whole duration of examination is divided into three slots survival slot winning slot and ranking slot in survival slot one has to go for solving the easier problems one has to approach the cutoff mark in this slot in the winning slot one has to make sure that cutoff score has been passed and he is sure for a rank in the merit list the ranking slot refers to struggling with high graded power packed problems appeared in iitjee papers even one additional mark