My IIT JEE Notes and Books
Update: Before you read this post, please note that this was written in the year 2004. I don't have any notes with me anymore. I appreciate your enthusiasm expressed through your comments asking for these notes. I am sorry I am unable to provide anything of help to you, though, you have my best wishes and I hope you "crack" it.
I was cleaning out my old stuff and was going through the various books gathering dust. There's a huge pile of my "I.I.T." books. Yeah, like most students of Science, I had studied for the IIT JEE (Joint Entrance Exam). I had joined coaching-classes which lasted throughout my junior college.
Chinmay Naralkar, Sudarshan K & me attended those classes with great zeal and enthusiasm. Anyone who has done a professional course like Engineering or Medicine would know how these things influence our minds and our sense of humour. A wierd sadistic intellectualism sets up in our jokes and other methods of beating the boredome.
Our lectures used to be 5 hours continuous at times, and it was impossible to concentrate completely for the entire duration, especially since you were attending regular college in the day. I rememberd that we used to sit and translate popular songs into Sanskrit for passing the time.
Now, as I was going through my notes of those years that I had dutifully written down, I found those pearls in Sanskrit jotted down by my pen on the last pages of some of those books.
I will scan them and put them up here in the next few days. It's a wierd sense of nostalgia I felt when I ran my finger over those pages. I could almost feel myself in those classrooms where concentrated knowledge was imparted to the minds to build them into what we are today.
I didn't clear the JEE, and I didn't try again next year. My purpose had been served. I still remember almost everything I learnt in those 2 years, and that knowledge helped me put my future learnings into proper perspective.
My IIT classes in Junior College changed me forever.
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