maths analysis

MATHEMATICS
'Calculus' accounts for about 30% of the total marks in JEE Screening. Students can score a high percentage of marks by firmly grasping the fundamentals of Calculus. More emphasis should be given in preparing 'Functions', 'Increasing/Decreasing Functions', and 'Maxima/ Minimaof Functions' .
In Integral Calculus , students must practice problems on 'Definite Integral' with a proper understanding of the use of their properties for evaluation.
In 'Area of Regions Bounded by Curves' , students should take care to draw figures for obtaining the limits of the integrals to be evaluated.
'Algebra' has a weightage of about 23% of the total marks. Students should emphasize practicing only those topics that have been well understood by them. Since problems on Algebraare trickier, students must practice solving as many different types of problems as they can.
'Analytical Geometry' has a weightage of about 20% of the total marks. It is also a conceptual topic. Before solving a problem, students must draw figures of the given curves to understand the problem.
The topics of 'Vectors and 3-D Geometry' and 'Probability' have a weightage of approximately 6% each. These also have to be thoroughly prepared.
'Trigonometry' carries a weightage of about 9% . It has been observed that this weightage was as high as 17% in JEE Screening 2001 and as low as 4% in JEE Screening 2003. Students, anyways, must be thorough with the topics of 'Inverse functions', 'Solutions of Trigonometric Equations' , and 'Solution of Triangles' . The formulae and standard results oftrigonometry must be learnt by heart in order to do well in the Mathematics paper.
Please note that the JEE is not about scoring 100% in a subject or the examination. Your aim should be to attain anoptimal score in each subject, depending on your strengths and weaknesses. Remember there is an individual cutoff of each of the three papers, so you must concentrate on all the three papers.