I am in X standard and am preparing for IIT. I will share my experiences at Achievers Academy, in Bombay, (Chembur, dadar, nerul) which I have joined from IXth itself. The class is run by an IITian, who has over 20 years of teaching experience.
Before joining the class, all students were told the methodology which the academy will use to prepare them for the IIT-JEE. They also shared some tips which are given below :
At the start of IX, we have about 48 months left, which is just about 15000 hours using abt 10 hours a day. This time has to be optimized very well to extract the best results.
Those who start after X have a tough time, since they have to adjust for college in XI , and then study for XII etc
Hence, start early, target practice of atleast 1.5 hours every day in IX and X.
Solve as many different variety of problems, both objective and written type. Question banks with more than 30000 problems will be provided by the class.
Take frequent tests and ensure that whatever are the weak areas are covered quickly and in depth. Interact with other students and solve each others problems, that will help in better understanding.
Always solve each problem by clearly writing down what is given, what is required, what are the possible options and finally solving it.
Systematic and daily practice is a must, sporadic problem solving will not be rewarded.
In the class, each topic was covered in depth, examples from real life were included, connections between maths, physics and chemistry were explained, 1000s of problems are given for practice. I solved all of them. Till 8th, I was mediocre in maths and science, now I help my teacher in solving Group D problems as well.
From XI, we will be spending 3-4 hours a day, everyday for furthur practice.
Since our problem solving and analytical abilities have developed considerably, we find the going for X very easy. We have students from SSC, CBSE and ICSE boards and healthy competition between us have improved our ablities furthur. We are even able to solve problems from XI papers easily.
All in all, it has been a wonderful experience and very good for my board exams as well. Anybody who wants to know furthur can write to me here.
Abbu