Hi all, This is my first review ever of anything in life... Will try my best to enlighten the whole process of IIT entrance and then the experience of being there and then finally, what can you expect as return of all these pains... so the story begins when you reach class 11...
You begin with preparing as soon as possible... now, if you are the one who is highly motivated and love to learn on your own, then just take some postal coaching material, and books like TMH for maths which is a MUST, HC Verma or Resnick for physics and believe me irodov is no longer required, and finally, OP Agrawal for inorganic chemisty, one for physical chemistry like RC ( something starting with R I forgot the real name) and finally you may like to study some advanced text like IL Phinar etc for organic but I think it may be too much to ask for... if, you are not that motivated or find it hard to learn on your own, then join some contact program...
For two years study hard and focus only on understanding concepts and solving problems. .. cramming is not a good policy for iit and it does not help either... by the time you are nearing the exams, you should start taking lot of tests also... apart from regular all india level tests which many coachings organize, also take take home postal tests and yes, dont forget good question series like YG file etc... this will equip you well for coming challenge... now, the motivation part... why should you study for iit at all... is it worth the pain...
So friends, placement is one of the best one can get, reputation is world class and getting to US will be cakewalk... beginning salaries may be as high as 12 lakh per annum in rare cases though... you may easily get 3-4 per annum if you are reasonably serious about your studies... and dont forget the fun and frolic at iit...
Probably no other institute in india is as well funded as iits and that reflects in the excellent infrastructure they have... you can play games all nite in computer center if you want to, rooms have an excellent 2 mbps network connection, and there is an intranet which runs on 2 gbps backbone which means that movies take 2 mins to download....
Yes really.... however, food and grils are two things which you will have to forget if you really make it to iits... at iits, beauty X brains = constant and yo ucannot get idiots to iits... so well... that sums it up....