Unit 1 Getting Ready For Chemistry: Fill & Download for Free

Hey,There’s no need for you undertake any kind of stress, anxiety or anything if you go in a synchronized way.Your session has just started so I would advice you to attend every class regularly. Moreover, be attentive in the class and note down and underline the important points that your subject teachers might tell you.Generally, students takes off from school in order to study at home but believe me it’s no good missing school as then they have to compensate for it in the end of the session by coming to school when everybody else is at home studying (THEY REGRET IT)Teachers of class 12th (specially science section) are very serious regarding teaching and are going to be very supportive.DO NOT be dependent on tuition (if you have any) as it might affect your class performance badly because going to school then from school to tuition might make your routine hectic and will not give you enough time for self-study (KEY TO SUCCESS), which is MUST during boards.This is the best time for you to start everything afresh and keeping in mind to not repeat the blunders you committed in class 11th. Make a mind map and stringently follow it.Class 12th is easy, in fact very easy if you keep your focus on the main 5 subjects from the VERY BEGINNING.WAYS TO STUDY :-ENGLISH :-1)English syllabus of class 12th is all about social challenges and consist of poems which can make you feel good.2)Do Not merely study English for the sake of studying it as it gives us lessons for life too. Enjoy it.3) All you need to do is pay attention in the class. Understand each and every line and make you own notes. Clear your doubts on the spot. (REALLY GOING TO HELP IN MARCH 2018)4) Ask your teacher to give you question bank.5) Once you are done with the syllabus, work upon your SPEED OF WRITING (MANDATORY) as a large no. of students loose marks in English for not attempting questions due to lack of time.PHYSICS :-1) Physics is all about understanding the concepts and derivations (nature’s principle); which will get into your head only with PRACTICE.2) Make a rough copy for formulae , graphs, important diagrams and derivations chapter wise. It’ll help you in good revision during exams. (IN CASE YOU ARE LEFT WITH LESS TIME)3) Study physics daily in order to score FULL(100/100) in boards (not a big deal, YOU CAN DO IT WITH A LITTLE INPUT OF YOURS). It’s indeed a very interesting subject.4) Get ready for an investigatory project before hand so that no time is wasted later. Complete your writing portion of the project during summer vacations. YOU’LL NOT FEEL BURDENED LATER AND YOUR TOPIC WILL STAY RESERVED FOR YOU ONLY. (IDEAS FOR PHYSICS PROJECT :- RAIN ALARM, FIRE ALARM, HYDRAULIC CRANE, RECTIFIER ETC. )CHEMISTRY :-Chemistry is based on reasoning and numerical which will ,again, be understood by you if you practice regularly. (ONLY NCERT)Keep on practicing till you feel confident about it. (SUMMER VACATION IS THE BEST TIME FOR THIS INDEED)NCERT is your bible. Practice each and every intext and exercise question. (PROVIDES ENOUGH VARIETY OF QUESTIONS)Get yourself prepared for ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (BOOK 2-CHEMISTRY) before hand so that when your teacher teaches you the latter you are not left blank at that moment. Understand it instead of cramming.Write down chapter wise equations and conversions in your practice copy as it will help you in revision during exams.Get ready for an investigatory project before hand so that no time is wasted later. Complete your writing portion of the project during summer vacations. YOU’LL NOT FEEL BURDENED LATER. (IDEAS FOR CHEMISTRY PROJECT :- BIOPLASTICS, AMOUNT OF NICOTINE IN PAAN MASALA, ADULTERATION, ASCORBIC ACID CONCENTRATION ETC. )MATHS :-Maths is infamous for being one of the trickiest and toughest subject, which is a myth. All you need to do is PRACTICE AND PRACTICE, again, that to the very beginning. (AFTER ALL THE STUDENTS SCORING 100/100 ARE TOO HUMANS)Focus on application based questions and HOTS. (Practicing high standard questions will give you advantage when you’ll appear for board exam)Make a separate copy for identities and formulae.WORK UPON YOUR SPEED OF SOLVING QUESTIONS SO THAT IF THE EXAM IS LENGTHY IT DOESN’T MATTER MUCH TO YOU.BIOLOGY :-Class 12TH biology is very interesting as well as easy. Also, the syllabus is not at all vast.All you need to do is concentrate in the class, read NCERT well, solve question banks.Do focus on diagrams as well (5 MARKS QUESTION DO COME BASED ON DIAGRAMS)Do not take the unit “ECOLOGY” lightly. Prepare pyramids well. (5 MARKS QUESTION DO COME BASED ON PYRAMIDS)Get ready for an investigatory project before hand so that no time is wasted later. Complete your writing portion of the project during summer vacations. YOU’LL NOT FEEL BURDENED LATER. (IDEAS FOR BIOLOGY PROJECT :- HYPERTENSION, CANCER, HEART DISEASES, HEMOPHILIA, STAGES OF PREGNANCY ETC. ). CHOOSE A TOPIC FOR WHICH YOU ARE ABLE TO ARRANGE A CASE STUDY.COMPUTERS:-COMPARATIVELY, AN EASY SUBJECT AND A SCORING ONE TOO ONLY IF YOU UNDERSTAND IT WELL.PRACTICE APPLICATION BASED QUESTIONS AND PROGRAMS.Get ready for an investigatory project before hand so that no time is wasted later. Complete your writing portion of the project during summer vacations. YOU’LL NOT FEEL BURDENED LATERThat’s it !YOU HAVE GOT A LOT OF TIME AND LOT OF WORK TO DO.SO BUCK UP, DO NOT WASTE A SECOND AS BOARD EXAMINATION IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO PROVE YOURSELF AND OUTSHINE TOO.BE POSITIVE AND BELIEVE IN GOD. :)“Work hard and give your best, leave rest of the things in god’s hand as he’s up all night anyway.”GOOD LUCK (Y)

I’ve served in 2011–12 in Air Force in Central Russia as a soldier.General life:You basically get up at six o'clock, have 1 hour to get ready for breakfast, i.e. to make a bed, to exercise (was cancelled in winter, but still we did run for 20–30 minutes in T-shirts and pants only during +5C). Then we wash up. Breakfast at seven o'clock, usually some kind of salads, porridge, salami, omelette. Breakfast ends at 7:40 a.m., followed by marching to the main square to run up the flag and listen to the commander of aerodrome at eight o'clock. Then we march back to the barracks. Some go to work on the aerodrome, such as cutting grass, painting something, fixing wire fences. Some may do something for other units, like digging rows, helping with demolishing old buildings on the aerodrome’s territory, working at the supply depot recounting food items, restocking it from new supply, throwing something out. Kind ladies who manage the depots always gave us juices, apples, oranges, or something delicious to cheer us up in our work.Work outdoors was my favorite during summer, actually! Not a lot of things to do after very quickly cutting grass or painting walls — no one watches you. Sometimes we just did some kind of that work and waited until dinner at 1 p.m. — leaning in the grass (in a zone not marked to be cut that day). Back in the barrack we did report to officer on duty upon returning back. It was always like "Oh, we worked so hard there! Almost got late for a dinner!” Aerodrome territory was huge. Some places, I believe, haven't seen a man since the `80s. No one bothered to come and see what we do. Sometimes it took 20 minutes by car to get to the place we were working — or one hour of walking back to barracks, if not more.Dinner: soup of the day, mashed potato/pasta with meat or chicken, salad, boiled eggs sometimes. And a one hour sleeping time then. I was lazy to go to bed and to make it back in perfect formation back after just one hour. But with nothing to do, everyone needs to lie down with closed eyes in bed. A preparation for 24-hours duty with AK-47M then — reading manual on guard duty, answering officer’s question related to it, filling out documents, tests at the open- air Guard plot.Then there was a changing of the guard procedure at six o'clock in the evening at the main square. A 24-hour guard of the armory rotated in groups of three. One is on duty with calls to the position every 15 minutes (point 1 without interruptions); the second guard mans the emergency phone for reports every 15 minutes; the third sleeps for an hour. The guards change every hour: The third, who was sleeping, gets up and goes with a driver to the armory with his AK, the second warrior waits for the first one to return from the armory because he, the second, goes to sleep, and the first one changes with the third, closes him, wishes him a nice sleep (and good luck, of course) and returns with the driver back to the guard’s position. That position is like a fortified area with a house in the middle, and equipped with a kitchen (food is delivered from the canteen; a driver picks it up between his “guard deliveries” to the armory, equipped with a satellite TV (ha-ha!), toilet, wardrobe, sleeping room with a few bed-like sleeping places, and our guard officer is with us, watches TV, talks to us, sleeps at night, whatever. The atmosphere is like, you know, a summer camp, but with AKs and some restrictions on using phone or going outside.24-hour duties are very exhausting. You basically sleep in snatches. Sometimes they organize a Terror attack emergency, a Red alert, whatever. Half night is spent to guard the position in an inside court. I wish, that duties would be switched to 12-h long to increase productivity and shorten recovering time (you are 24 h free of work enjoying your time in barrack after your duty is ended). On a third day after previous Guard duty, you go to the armory again.If soldiers are not on duty, we watch TV in a special room in the barrack, or read some book, or chat with each other. When the time comes to 7 pm, we go to canteen for a supper. In all army, a fish in many varieties is served. A free time in the barrack till 21:30 then. We got a superb gym in the barrack, with all the equipment, with a ping pong table, with a martial arts room, most of free times was spent there. Phones to give a call and check the web were distributed for one hour. They were kept at squadron commander office. Those who were detected with second phones kept in secret needed to nail it to special “cellphone” tree in a yard. There were plenty of phones nailed. Haha. 21:30 - an evening soldiers checklist. Who is on hospital, who is on barrack. A shower for those who didn't get it in a free time then, and other hygienic preparations. Bedtime is 22:00.Maneuvers:Gunfire maneuvers were held every f*****g week. In any weather, in mud with snow, in rain, in fog you get your AK held in your barrack’s arms room and run in your helmets, belly, fire blanks on another groups while getting to your shooting area. When there, you fire on targets. Check your targets then, get points. I was firing well, but other guys with worse physics couldn't get points, what was disturbing for them and officers. There was a joke about them - these soldiers must be good in a close knive combat. Haha!I remember my very first shootings. It was hot as hell in August, we were in forest learning different poses for shootings from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. Ate true field ration from the those card-boxes, drank from a massive bowel we took with us. I loved that experience.When officers were in a specially bad mood, all the shootings from the beginning were done in a chemical and radiation protection suit, with goggles, respirator etc. This was disgusting, haha!Many fatties lost so much kilos during first months, they needed a new set of clothes. Both huge physical work and a day-to-day menu (each variation for every day) on a special time contribute to that. We rarely went to shops, on duty officers weren't happy to escort us. May be, we went there once in two weeks to stock our personal items, buy some sweets, send/get letters or package in a post office. Some bought cigarettes blocks, some bought goods for gym, or gainers, or some items from chemistry.If someone got ill, there is a hospital in aerodrome. I got there for a month with a quite hard cold. Got frozen on duty during one of those -25C nights. There are other ill soldiers, there is a canteen, a large club room with books and tv, phones were allowed. Each has a room for two. Almost like a club. A summer camp, but everyone is sorta ill. A night nurse went to sleep to her special room circa midnight and we could walk from ward to ward, laugh, chat as much as we wanted It was a relief after standardized life in barrack. There were “serial ill” soldiers who were escaping the service being in the hospital. They could return from there, spend 3–5 days in barrack and say “I feel so awful, I got to get to a hospital!” They weren't treated well in soldiers community either. Stay brave, young man.Bonus track:A unit based near us specializes in cars and everything four wheeled. Those guys were kindly called “masut men” among us, almost white collars. Those fuels, oils were impossible to wash out from hands, nails, clothes, it even occurred on faces, like a tan. What I really liked is their almost freedom of movement - they went to smoke in a yard whenever wanted, returned to barrack after official bedtime, didn't come to main square every morning to hear from commander, didn't report to an officer on duty where they were going (because they were going either to garage or to canteen), didn't need to maintain an official army attire - a jacket tuck in your pants, not hang open, a pants tuck in your boots, not free etc. Overall, those guys knew how to fix anything in four-wheelers and enjoyed that freedom as an appreciation for that knowledge. And everyone of them knew how to swear like a sailor.

Exams were pretty easy, yet I wasn’t able to score as I expected. Why did NTA set such an easy question paper? At the end of the day, Its NTA’s fault that I could not crack an easy question paper (as I had expected) because I was only preparing for the questions with a difficulty level far greater than the common masses. These are not my words. This is the discourse about the NEET 2020 paper on Quora. People are hell bent on playing blame games. Either its the NTA or the Ministry of Education or even our Education Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal who is responsible for them losing their marks.Disclaimer: This is going to be a long answer. So, bring your cigars out and get ready for some scrolling.Last year, After NEET 2019, a case was filed in the Madras High Court pertaining to the multiple cases where impersonators were paid and used to pass the NEET for undergraduate medical courses. During the proceedings, a unique, yet true statement by the court started doing rounds. The statement was -NEET disadvantages poor who cannot afford coaching: Madras HC[1]NEET has benefitted only students who spend lakhs on coaching classes: Madras HC[2]A Bench of justices N Kirubakaran and P Velmurugan was informed by the Tamil Nadu government that only 48 of the 3081 students who passed the exam had not undergone private coaching for the exam. The court reportedly asked why the present central government, which rolled back the programs of the previous government did not scrap NEET? On learning that private coaching institutes charged anywhere between Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh for coaching, the judges observed that the doors of medical colleges were closed to poor students. Further, the judges said that medical education should be equal for all students. On the recent medicos strike that Tamil Nadu witnessed, the court expressed shock that doctors, who work round-the-clock, were only making Rs 57,000 when government teachers made more. But the question still remains — How does this relate to the NEET PAPER being easy or tough?The fact that I wanted to make clear was that it is not easy for students from all sections (economically) to compete at a paper which has very high and unimaginable standards.Do I want to be a Messiah for the poor? NODo I say that coaching institutes should shut down? NODo I say that that people should not go to coaching even if they can afford it? NODo I say that the paper set by the NTA should not include tough questions? NOBut, what I do want to convey is that the paper set by any exam conducting body should cater to the GENERAL PUBLIC and not to those 0.1% alone who claim to have solved each and every question available in the market.And how do you achieve that? By keeping the paper as limited to curriculum (NCERT) books as they can.Now, coming to the NEET 2020 paper (I will try my best to not let my perception and knowledge of questions to affect the standard of the original paper.)—As per the detailed analysis released by the reputed institutes like ALLEN KOTA[3]and AAKASH and many more, it is safe to assume that NEET 2020 paper was an overall easy paper with very less controversial questions(an upgrade from previous year).SUBJECT WISE ANALYSIS —Physics - Out of the 45 questions asked, only 5–10 match the criteria of being difficult. YET, there was an overwhelming dominance of those topics (like units and dimensions) which are generally ignored by students. Also no questions from the most renowned topics like Collision, SHM and Wave Motion seemed to have drastically affected students. FINAL VERDICT: EASY TO MODERATE.Chemistry - The chemistry paper was straight out of NCERT. No nonsense except the one question related to the periodic table. Organic and Inorganic were from the book. Also, there was a sheer lack of complex, mind-boggling calculation based questions in the physical portion. FINAL VERDICT: EASY TO MODERATE.Biology - The much awaited biology questions were a sight of heaven for students who had graced NCERT throughout the year. Maximum no.(Almost 85–86 out of 90) of questions could trace their origins back to the prescribed NCERT books. The lack of diagram based questions and the abundance of matching-type questions made biology a cakewalk for the weakest of students. FINAL VERDICT: EASYBonus point to those students who marked ‘Lysine’ in the only question to be repeated in both Biology and the Chemistry sections.EXPECTED CUTOFF — Overall, the paper could qualify to be one of the easiest papers of all time. Thus, there is sure chance for the cutoff marks to rise upto 610–615 for an ALL INDIA QUOTA candidate. State wise cutoff would be on the same trends with a predicted increment of 10–15 marks on the 2019 cutoff.Congratulations to all those who have appeared this term. The tremendous mental pressure over students due to postponement and uncertainty of exam dates cannot be denied.Kudos to those who kept their patience up till the the last second and have cracked the exam. For those who are thinking for a second chance/drop, they should start their preparations now. No further delay should be done.NEET 2020 exams are done and dusted now. Its a thing in the past. We should learn from our mistakes made in the past, try to strive hard in the present and have a clear path to follow in the future. No amount of blame games and cursing can overturn the past. Thus, its better if we introspect ourselves and accept our result (whatever it may be) with a proper attitude.Although this is written by me, I have tried my best to be neutral and not let my opinion overshadow the actual paper.I am open to constructive criticism on any of the points mentioned above.Till then,Adios Amigos!!Regards,Vanshaj ‘Gautam’ SinghFootnotes[1] NEET disadvantages poor who cannot afford coaching: Madras HC[2] NEET has benefitted only students who spend lakhs on coaching classes: Madras HC - Times of India[3] http:// https://myexam.allen.ac.in/neet-ug-2020-complete-paper-analysis-by-allen-career-institute/