IITJEE - During & After

I, myself, am studying in BITS, Pilani. However, the IIT-JEE has left its footprints on my path of life. It's taught me many things & I can never erase that period from mind. Although I didn't get a rank good enough to get into any IIT, I have gained a lotsa invaluable experiences & learnt from a lotsa mistakes, which I am glad of, & wanna share with you'll.

     The MIT of India is a series of T-schools called the Indian Institutes of Technology, (or simply IITs) dotted on the national map at 7 places. To get into one of the few meaningful courses of the scores of redundant courses offered in these institutes (yes, in IITs), you have to be in the top 1000 or so of all the hundreds of thousands who take the JEE(Joint Entrance Exam, or simply Joint Effort for Existence). 

      I think you must have been rather irked reading about the lives of IITians, (& also their deaths). So, if you wish, I can provide you with a refreshing change talking about the pre-IIT-JEE period. But
before I take you on the odyssey towards the JEE, take a glance at the predominantly 3 types of non-IITians: 

WORSHIPPERS – Those under the misconception that "IIT is heaven & IITians are Gods". Nevertheless, their constant eulogizing can get on one's nerves sometimes.

PERSECUTORS – They are the "just missed IIT" types, in short, who will spend the rest of their academic life in vain, trying to reason out with themselves their failure& convince themselves how their college is better than IIT in some respects, as if they are thankful of not getting IIT.

ATHEISTS – Those who cant distinguish between IIT, IT, & ITI. A species to be as much ignored as their ignorance.

Now, the life of the pre-IITians. The grounding for IIT starts from the end of the mind-numbing 10th Boards. It mainly consists of countless hours of gruelling coaching, immersing yourself in corpulent books, cursing IIT every morning after seeing your figure getting podgier day by day due to lack of physical activity, keeping your attendance in colleges alarmingly low, inventing novel excuses for the same (also keeping track of the earlier ones lest you repeat them), preparing for weekly mock tests, & solving thousands of brain-racking problems in each of the hundreds of topics in each of the subjects(P, C & M). All these, 2 years long, (if you are lucky at the first attempt).

  So, why does the number of these nerds who take the exam, after enduring 2 years of absolutely assiduous training, reach about lacs? Aren't these teenagers nuts to slaughter their so-called "precious college life"? These attain knowledge mostly in their physics, chemistry & math. They are very familiar with finding x, or tackling intricate electric circuits, or understanding reaction mechanisms of chains of hydrocarbons… but they scarcely are sapient with latest gizmos, automobiles, in-vogue clothes, or bikes, which a teenage boy be normally would.
  The reality is these youngsters are, in fact, dudes, not duds, as they seem. They just want to grow from a dreamer to an achiever. A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. A goal properly set is halfway reached. But again, a goal without a plan is just a wish. This does not mean one should cease to dream. The only way to make a dream come true is to wake up and live it. (Recapitulate the previous words slowly to grasp the idea)
  These serious aspirants of the JEE have one thing in common, but its not the PCM syllabi of JEE, it's their zeal & zest, their vim & vigour, their endeavour in life to "MAKE IT BIG".   You know, it seems like barmy when somebody studies day in & day out for 2 years in a row, but it actually isn't as difficult for him as is conspicuous to a layman's eye. This is because those types of
somebodies have a different perspective of life. They will do few things, but whatever they do, they want to make it big. And actually that is what the funda of life should be. "No matter what you do, but
make it big". Therein lies the real excitement, the real sense of success, the real passion that makes life worth living. Just visualize, wouldn't a brook lose its song if God removed all the
rocks? If you got this, you got it.  Look at success in this way: It can be the ability to go from one
failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. It might be viewed as a paradox, but its true, that you will agree, & for success, the starting material is "SELF-CONFIDENCE".
  Know what? People laugh at me because I'm different; & I laugh at them because they're all the same! This is self-confidence. You know, your self-confi becomes 2-fold after success, but then you even require some amount of self-confi in the course of your success. But the real test of
self-confi is actually failure. It should not decrease your self-confi, instead should also multiply it 2 times, simply because failure is a major symptom of success. And let  me tell you, this
self-confidence can't be obtained overnight; it has to be cultivated & nurtured. In the path of arming yourself with self-confi, you may have to, in fact, you definitely will have to face internal hindrances such as inferiority complex, covetousness, seclusion… but just believe in yourself, believe in what you are doing & do everything within your scruples….things will definitely go right.
      And then secondly, the material that you should make thick friends with & plead with it to accompany you in your journey towards your goal is "MOTIVATION".   You know, even thinking of JEE without any kind of inspiration within you is incongruous. It's like driving a car without petrol.
Motivation is the driving force for any success. The motivation could be anything that can influence you, before which your mind stops functioning & your heart wins over. Just keep your focus on that
motivation. It will automatically lead you to your goal. Automatic, in the sense, that you won't refrain from working hard, & your pressure will be somewhat relieved just by recalling your motivation time & again.