How Hard is India's Toughest Engineering Exam? (JEE) 

Long story short: step 1 Get a degree at MIT. step 2 Try to pass the JEE.

JEE is not a selection exam bro, it's a rejection process.

I am currently a first year student in Civil engeneering department at IIT Delhi , one thing is that the concept asked in exam are framed in such a manner that in first year proff don't waste much time on such concepts and can move to more advanced version of them as quickly as possible

Considering how many people give the JEE exams, having strict and legit EVIL marking is necessary, simply because of the number of students who take the exam. It's meant to eliminate people, and only have the very best remaining.

I thought that it was normal to have negative marks for wrong answers on multiple choice questions. Here in Belgium it's pretty common (almost the standard). Wow

I'm a jee aspirant in 12th grade and when you were flipping through your physics mid sem paper I knew what the question was without reading it and just by looking a diagram and knew how to solve it, that makes me happy and sad at the same time

In my country Mozambique, they evaluate fundamental Maths, Physics and Chemistry for entrance exams to the toughest universities. But this indian exams... It's like studying actual Calculus before even starting Engineering course. Insane!!!

In IITs, our first semester mechanics course started with tensors. Vector algebra, basic calculus etc wasn't even talked about. Prof came, wrote "Tensors and Invariance" and said we're supposed to know scalars and vectors, it's school thing.

In india most of the students consider chemistry as best subject to score high marks in jee (mains/adv) Maths on other hand is considered as tough in jee(adv)

Someone from an IIT here, the mechanical engineering curriculum is the same as it is internationally so we have a lot of free time in our college to do other things we like!

Marks are not distributed according to chapters, Also Total Number of Questions and Marks are not pre specified. You got to know about all the details when you sit for the exam.

This is one of the easier papers I think. The difficulty of JEE papers made me never start my prep for JEE like every other 11th grader around me. I'll simply write CET and go to a nearby engineering school. Yes I'm Indian and not writing JEE

As a recent chemistry graduate from the University of Waterloo, the questions in the Chemistry Section of this JEE are things I can answer now... AFTER studying chemistry for the past 5 YEARS... there's no way I would have been able to accurately identify the concept(s) each of those questions was looking to address going into my University studies (let alone answer the questions correctly). I find it interesting that in India, high school students are required to know this level of knowledge going into Engineering, especially if you consider that after studying for this exam, they may never use half of their accumulated chemistry knowledge, depending on what kind of Engineering they want to pursue. Wild... NOTE: In my degree, I focused on Physical & Organic Chemistry, Chemical Synthesis, and Polymer Science (with some practical experience in Inorganic Synthesis and Transition Metal Chemistry); I am currently pursuing a Master's in Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering focusing on Materials Engineering and Processing. I think it's fair to say that as a high school student, these questions would have been brutal...

It's ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL.... I actually have got PTSD from my JEE experience....tho I have cleared all rounds and managed to get a place in my dream engineering college....I literally do not want to pursue engineering anymore, as I have started to hate and fearing maths and physics :( P.S: I am not writing this in order to discourage anyone from giving JEE....I am just sharing my experience.

Jee paper you reviewed is one of the easiest paper came till now 🤣

Honestly, I'm very grateful that I live in the states. Had my parents not moved, my life in Asia would have been brutal af. Ppl in the U.S or Canada should really be grateful.

The only reason it is difficult is because of our student population. India is the youngest country in the world with highest population growth rate. The exam is designed to fail a student because admission is on the basis of their all india rank. Another such country is China with their GaoKao exam is similar to the JEE. The exam already has engineering concepts which wholly defeats the purpose of going to college. Also, the general mind set in India is that engineering will give you a secure job makes millions of students take these exams therefore the government has to make tough exams otherwise they won't be able to rank the students. It is sad that students in India have to suffer along their best years in life. An education is supposed to be a learning experience not a rat race that supposedly defines the whole life of a person. But this is the sad truth Indian students suffer along the way whereas students in the west don't have to worry about doing science classes because they have minimum wage because of which even a truck driver can lead a happy life, whereas in India a truck driver barely gets through everyday in life. I believe if students get their freedom to choose their undergraduate education there will be less stress competition in the JEE examination and can make it less stressful because I have seen students literally mugging up answers to questions because they didn't understand the concept. MCQ's can't really show the true potential of a student but we have to succumb to it because of our student population to which there are no immediate solutions.

If you have a Nice and well teacher for all the PCM subjects, then you'll definitely fall in love with subjects. Most of the students have that privilege while many of them not. Your performance in exam is about whom you have as a mentor too.... All The Best for All JEE aspirants 2022 👍💪

Every math or physics video that I come across on RU-vid, there are always one of these people in the comment section who brag about JEE advanced being tougher than (insert country)'s curriculum. Like dude, we get it and honestly I respect that but is advertising humble bragging really all that necessary? It sometimes feel like a dick measuring contest ngl Edit: omg this thread is one hell of a mess :(

I love the point you made about why go to engineering school when the JEE has all of the applications that are taught in engineering school

The math section was tough but I have seen similar questions in calculus, linear algebra, and intro to real analysis. This type of exam is doable with a ton of practice. You just need to get comfortable with using certain techniques and formulas by doing many practice tests.

You should check the paper 2 of this exam, which was a lot more difficult than paper 1 of 2020. As a matter of fact , the topper of that year scored 196 out of 198 in paper 1, while he scored only 156 out of 198 in paper 2

You just missed the most difficult aspect of this exams. ”The pressure of giving the exam in the exam hall”!! .It’s one thing to criticise the question while sitting in your room (I am not bashing you at all) and giving the exam .The level of pressure an ‘ASIAN’ student face while giving this kind of exam is unimaginable.This is well known by now that Asian parents pressurise their children thousands time more than a European/American parents.It doesn’t end here ,In Asian specialty in India,Bangladesh,Pakistan students just not get pressurised by their parents but by their whole family .Everybody in their family(Uncle,Aunts,their children) have high hopes for the student as a result the student has the burden of their hopes too.Again, after all the pressure you get from your relatives and family there is the pressure that you put on yourself.In europe and America their is a culture that ‘if you don’t go to college,it’s okay.You can be successful in other ways’ .But in Asia,the society has made it mandatory that everybody must attend college and not just any college,the best college and if any student fails to get into a prominent college ,the society sees him as a failure and thinks he can’t do anything in life . So ,Jee aspirants gives the exam while having all these thoughts and pressure in his mind and on top of all this things the questions are this hard . Now realise how hard it is !

Only Indian know how to slove it in 3 hours 😢😂

We Indians sure like to gloat about the difficulty of our entrance exams. But the fact is except for the top colleges which maybe 3-4% of the students get into, the quality of engineering education in India is very bad.( I implore you to compare the textbooks of fluid mechanics by Bansal and the one by Frank White. Most mechanical engineering programmes do not have a seperate course on dynamics, just the engineering mechanics course) The average engineering graduate from Canada or USA would run circles around an average indian graduate. Only the best succeed in Jee advanced, a better standard to gauge the level of most students are the CBSE physics exams for class 11 and 12. And coming to whether a highschool student would find the exams at university of waterloo easy, I'd say maybe the calculus part is doable as we do study single variable calculus and first order differential equations in highschool but certainly not any other subject. Even though we studysubjects like thermodynamics it is only the fundamentals and even the topper cannot solve questions on Rankine cycle or Control volume system because they are not in the syllabus. Same for engineering level fluid mechanics etc.

The biggest thing to consider is that you have to do each exam (JEE Main, Advanced Paper 1, Advanced Paper 2) within 3 hours, when you compared it your Physics Chemistry Mathematics university exams, all those combined together should be around 9 hours long (if the time limit for exams are the same as it is in India) but each paper of JEE is only 3 hours long.

You can't really compare a single physics midterm to the entire JEE. You get a few weeks to prepare for it, and you're studying 5 or so other courses alongside that physics class. The JEE is more equivalent to doing first years engineering exams back to back instead of a couple days apart. You get a year to study for both things, its just that in Canada you have more frequent testing which makes it easier. The marking, pacing, and length is what adds the difficulty, the concepts are fine.

The fact that it has to be compared to engineering college exams and still college exams seem easier.....proves the fact that you really have to be a genius to get into IITs.

This exam was never mean to give admissions only rejections . I mean for a 17 year old that leaves a scar for life and takes years to come out of it . I hate this system

I wonder what will be his reaction once he sees the 2016 version which is the MOST HARDEST JEE EVER.

Gave the same question paper in 2020 and believe me the second part of this exam literally brought tears into my eyes during the exam. PS: anyways landed into an IIT and I never ever want to go back to that phase of my life again.

I read somewhere that there was one student who failed in Gaokao test in China but when that student transferred to US, she was able to get a PhD in Harvard.

The reason why the exam is extremely difficult is because of negative marks.

Review the paper of jee ADVANCE 2016 😂😂

You're inspiring to future engineering students. Making engineering relatable and demystifying is much needed!

I came to Canada to do my masters in mechanical engineering. When I attended the very first lecture of maths, I was like is he professor? And how did he get his PhD degree and who allowed him to teach students? And that too master level? ....I was like I could have taught students way more easily and effectively than they way he taught us. And I am not even IITian. I cleared JEE main but not advance. By this video and comments, I am just imagining the level of toughness of JEE advance!

In india there is a complete city KOTA,Rajasthan(Quite Famous) which is dedicated to study for this exam. Thera are a lot of coaching institues situated there and students come from all over to india for specially studying for this exam. They spent nearlly two complete years of their high school nearly 8-12 hours per day to get in 1% of this exam.

And the worst part is students killing themselves after failing these exams thinking they're not good enough.

omg this is hard af. It is just more than what a high school student can take.

Due to intense crowd and less college,they have to increase toughness level of exams to eliminate people's.Thats why one goes upto studying upto 4-5 years before jee exam.Like they know 12th grade concept in 8-9 th grade.Although this isnt all at beneficial but it evolves them a lot.Being an iitian is like an celebrity in India,that's where they get motivation from.These determination will power at such young ages makes them successful later in life. Most of them who get in colleges know alrdy what they are being taught and have some ample of time.Some utilise this time to make their startups whereas there are some who get indulged in illegal activities.

you know ,that is the reason why many IIT graduates are hired from several foreign companies across the world . sundar pichai is an IIT graduate and now the ceo of google . and if you feel this exam hard then think thousands of students in india every year gets above 80 to 90 percent but still could not get their desired institutes like IIT,IIIT,IIST etc.

While you were skimming through the paper, my brain just automatically pulled a sheet of paper and tried to solve it. Like, wth, I'm already done with this exam.

he said " I can solve half ", lol... Man if you can solve half you are ranked pretty darn high JEE Adv looks easy, feels easy but when you start solving this you don't know where its going, on that note I gave the JEE paper you are reviewing and trust me buddy even after studying for 3 years I did clear JEE adv but couldn't get a decent rank, all the hard work for nothing And also easy ques are there obv but mostly everyone solves them because you can give adv only when you clear Mains soo already all the students who are giving the exam are filtered, so its not just about scoring its about solving the most ugliest of ques and on top of that after giving this exam I have to say this, it is not the exam of a cllg or school its something entirely different its like a make it or break it situation even if someone is going with the attitude okay I Dont care whatever happens he / she knows its matters a great deal Because you wanted that thing that IIT tag for 3 years you practiced relentlessly you sacrificed enough and then when you didn't get it its just soo heat breaking ..... AHHH All the emotions coming back 🤣

apparently u pass not to have a better life in india, but instead to move to another country

Indians think that memorization and solving quicker means you're 'smarter'. The true purpose of an exam is to assess your knowledge about a concept, and your ability in applying that concept. Consider a real world scenario - it is not the limitation of material or resources, but it is the limitation of the brain's capacity to critically think and breakdown a problem. It seems as though the 'education' system in India has totally lost that purpose. This style of examination doesn't promote engineering. It promotes an individuals ability of being monotonous. The world doesn't need robots, the world needs intellectuals.

as a former jee aspirant ...I can say that jee is more of solving problems rather than learning concepts (I am not saying its entirely bad as problem solving also helps you understand the concepts )

You are a college graduate who has studied around engineering for around 3 years and you say that the paper is "doable" ....now think of the exam form the POV of a 17 year old high school student 😄

i would love it if you make a video about Ecole Polytechnique's entrance exam, you'll see that it is a whole new level of complexity

funny thing here is even after finding those students who can solve these questions India is still behind in every aspect by huge margin which proves this is not right direction and the worst part is the college teachers who r supposed to teach this can't even solve these problems u must join coaching class for clearing this exam why would a computer or mechanical engineer ever need to study organic chemistry in such details and so on

I have a feeling that once you get accepted into IIT, your life gets a lot easier, and you don't study as hard as you did in high school. In countries with high education systems in Asia like South Korea, Iran, and Singapore, getting into prestigious Universities is extremely difficult. Still, when students get accepted, school becomes a piece of cake for them because they don't have to work as hard as they did in high school. It's the total opposite here in Canada and the United States. In North American high schools, everything is a lot easier, and getting accepted into good Universities is definitely easier. But once students start studying at Colleges/Universities here, it becomes very challenging for them, and they can't handle the pressure. I'm not sure if this is the same case with India, but that's what my foreign friends from those regions have told me. Anyways, for anyone whos doing the JEE, I wish you the best of luck, and hopefully, your the top 1%!!!

The time factor also plays an important role. Without knowing the concepts, shortcuts, details of every topic it's impossible to solve even 70% of the questions even though you know how to solve more than 90% of questions. Also in engineering classes the syllabus mainly concentrates on practical applications, so it's important to know the theory beforehand.

Any exam requires a dedicated preparation, students in MIT are not preparing for it , so people commenting that makes no sense, ask JEE students themselves to solve jee after passing from IIT or NIT, then see how many passes it , you will get your answer.

Many of the question are much more difficult when actually try to solve them and get to the answer.Many times there is an expectation involved in chemistry,loop holes to fall in,Sometimes you need weird math tricks to solve equation efficiently in time and do approximations,understand properly what the question is asking you. And have 60+ chapters done and in your head.

This is the problem of Indian Education System brother. We are stressed very much to study until we couldn't do it. I think there is no place for an average student in India. Students in India really have to suffer a lot...

there are 90 chapters and 900 topics

JEE advanced and gaokao are the most brutal, depressing and heartbreaking exams in the entire world.

7:09 If you do that here in India, I think they would put you in jail 😂

Just going through these questions makes you feel that they are doable but doing it in 3 hrs and in-question catchy concept makes it super super tough.

I wish I could do this coming out of high school, it would save a lot of time. What people don't understand about the US schooling system is that, education before university is EXTREMELY unadvanced unless you are in the upper class paying for private schooling. When you get to Uni however, they expect you to learn these topics in days or weeks, but it is so much time wasted before getting to the real coursework. Upper division Uni work is extremely demanding however and you are studying with and under top professionals worldwide in the field. It is immeasurably more difficult than high school. In high school I did an entire year's worth of calc studying/exams in 3 days but in Uni I might spend 40-80hrs a week on coding projects. Also we have this ruleset of negative marks for competitive academics called UIL. It is a very good system that really moves the distributions of test takes apart.

This is a good video, thanks for your explanations.

He: If you spend a lot of time on learning all the concepts you can do it... Droppers: umm knowledge of wisdom...

wasted 0.5 M indian ruppes on coaching institute for this particular exam.

Imagine being a high school student and answering these questions without calucaltor and within less time limit. The best part is that you have no idea how the question paper will be. So if you consider these then i would say that these are one of the very difficult question papers around globe and also many say that,if you take a random guess out of 10 choose the best answer you would probably get two right answers out of luck ,but that doesn't work here.. so if i have to choose the answer by random guess then i would literally fail

First question of physics can be solved in one line just by applying the concept of toppling

Sounds like a breakdown of India's engineering program is in order

Can't believe you included a scene from 3 Idiots. LMAOO

Awesome, I agree, India has a tough education system! Good Luck to indian students

Bro , thats because in INDIA , this is the most basic of engineering that you have to know about , thats why the world demands indian brains , remember mr Ramanujan?? In IIT , we go to even deeper level than that , thats where the actual engineering starts

Him saying 'grading system is just ridiculous' is the most truthful insight over Indian Education System Edit : What if there's no Grades or marks based on direct Answer and would be more about the whole concepts and equations students has done with critical thinking and knowledge. There would be no anxieties, depression or Psychological Mental Pain for them to go through. More positive and Open minded they can feel to think out of the box to solve complex problems.

Compared to IMO questions, JEE math exam is like a piece of cake.

My bro don't realize one thing , in JEE looks are receiving even easy looking qns make u struggle

In Morocco : mechanical engineering start after 2 years after high school bac+2 and it take 3 years of study to get your degree , to get in engineering national school, you need to have bac+2 on DUT, BTS, DUST, CPGE or you can study the bac+2 in your national school as "General classes" after that you chose your Division. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DUT, DUST, BTS as "genie mécanique" CPGE as "TSI, MPSI, PCSI" (sooooooo hard) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DUT : diplôme universitaire de technologie DUST : Diplôme d'Etudes Universitaires Scientifiques et Techniques BTS : Brevet de Technicien Supérieur CPGE/TSI : technologie et sciences industrielles CPGE/PCSI : Physique, Chimie et Sciences de l'Ingénieur CPGE/MPSI : mathématiques, physique et sciences de l'ingénieur bac stm : Sciences et Technologies Mécaniques bac ste : sciences et technologies électriques bac sm : sciences maths bac sp : sciences physiques * Me : bac stm > DUT > Cycle d'ingénieur "genie mécanique" GM first year now :)

And the thing is students study this high level P,C,M just to study computer science in college 😂

That exam have ruined more students self confidence than a war could ever be able too Literally , every serious kid that took the exam and was not able to score high , was into enough depression for atleast next 3-4 yr of his life , that he could have not gained even in a war , facing enemies

aspirants themselves over hype the exam over 4 or 5 un doable questions that appear, the exam is not that difficult if given enough dedication and also this is not high school syllabus for us, high school syllabus is comparatively very easy, this is for those who want to do engineering

fun fact is that university of waterloo is and always will be better than any IIT ever.....so just stay proud on how difficult the paper is because IITs are not in comparison with good american university, P.S. I am an IITian and I hate my college for the stupid hype it has.

this exam is to filter the best out of the best. as you said, you dont need to know all these concepts before engineering and normal engineering colleges here have easier entrance exams

bro's definitely gonna die after seeing jee advanced 2016 (rotational motion supremacy)🙃

I am a first year student in iit bhubaneswar. Gotta frankly say, that ptsd of jee is too hard to bear. I don't even want to study anymore. Jee is too ruthless... Not going to discourage juniors, but our education system is truly ruthless....

I’m india students choose their stream after completing their grade 10th (basically limiting the subjects they need to study) which can allow a student to focus on those specific subjects, those who appear for JEE only study math chemistry and physics (sometimes biology…because you know…DoCTOR) for the entire year and then spend like a month preparing for the rest two subjects for their school exam. So I guess it is pretty fair to be proficient in these subjects as they are the only one you are studying.

Negative marks are there to test the confidence of the student regarding his/her answer, so it's made sure that his concept is 100% perfect and no bluffing is there. And they want 700 800 students out of all million students for IIT so... Plus we are not allowed to have calculators in exams, so here in Canada also, I do many calculations in mind and other students are like, wait a minute. And JEE Advanced, both papers are done on the same day, 3 hours + 1-2 hour break if I recall correctly and then Paper 2 for 3 hours. So basically its a day long marathon

If its so competitive and engineering is so important, make some more better engineering institutions in india instead of ruining students lives with the competition ye?

i am a hindi medium student , qualified jee advanced in 2019 at age of 17 without any guide through coaching institute and graduated from iit BHU in mechanical engineering.

2:58 you also have to keep in mind it's a high school exam haha, so it's obviously hard for them. Still a great video! Absolutely loved it!

Bro please check Question paper of The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE Mechanical) examination conducted in India which is primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in engineering and science for admission into the Masters Program and Job in Public Sector Companies.

Goated video. just curious, did you do any of Waterloo's math competitions in high school before going into engineering?

That was a great vedio ... in india ... we unfortunately have a higher education system which serves only the rich privileged students. In order to appear and qualify this exam , it is important to take coaching which is really expensive. Thus, it makes a path were only rich kids gets quality education.

I am myself in NIT Trichy one of top 10 eng. clg in India. We also have Other top colleges like IITs , which accept jee main score like NITs, and top IIITs , but still if you just consider total seats in NITs and IITs its just 45k ig at max, and applying ones are in millions , so ya its pretty hard to get in , in any top engineering college.

see heres the thing- JEE is an elimination exam where they want to test you on how good youre understanding of all concepts overall is; and it is an exam meant to fail the less studious students. You also have to consider the fact that while writing the exam in the center you as a competitior are sitting amongst a group of equally talented equally hard working aspirants and that pressure is what crushes youre confidence in anything you do... thats the unseen side of jee seen only by us aspirants

Great job tamer, Mashallah brother

Doubt ? Brother we are not even allowed to bring our own pen

You should do a video on the engineering entrance exams for Cambridge and Oxford University.

I've cleared JEE Mains exam but i want to study abroad.

I do not think Indian admissions have any entrance essays and they do not consider extracurriculars. In Canada, prospective engineering students have to stress about extracurriculars. Apparently, in 2024, having independent research projects, multinational awards, a 97+ average and various leadership roles isn't enough to get into UWaterloo. In India, you're only focused on academics and thus, the scope of concepts is justifiable. Canadian and American students are definitely more well rounded.

You're looking at the toughest part of the Indian College Entrance Exams. If 1% of the students qualify, then the remaining 99% have to go somewhere, right? There are plenty of colleges in India with much easier exams that provide the same opportunities as the IIT's do. Many, go do their masters abroad to make up for the merit. But yes, going to an IIT implies that you're surrounded by the smartest people in the world.

I'll be honest, as a neet aspirant I cleared Mains, and I feel that this was the easiest advance exams compared to previous years, one of the major screening part is done section 3

I am preparing for JEE Mains and Advanced for 2023

IIT is nice but it will never compare to north American and European schools. The simple reason is that it's focus is all theory and no practical. This is more focused in the western world which is what you actually need to succeed in the real world.

One thing you guys need to understand is that the Jee advance exam is exclusively designed for admissions into the 22 IITs, indian institutes of Technology, out of which only the top 10 IITs hold water. Pretty much all other colleges in India require you to just take the jee mains exams, and although the syllabus is the exact same, the level of difficulty is manageable. And also, some great private institutes like BITS Pilani which are comparable to the top 5 IITs have thier own entrance exams, like BITSAT, which is wayyy easier than jee advanced and the career prospects are nearly identical to some prestigious IITs.

ur analysis was on to the point. jee advanced is a rejection process and not a selection process