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251 to 633 marks in NEET in just ONE drop year 🏆| My NEET journey

Main summary

Key takeaways

Educational

Main ideas, concepts, and lessons conveyed

Personal results and framing

  • Charvi says she is not presenting this as a “success story.”
  • She scored 251 marks in her NEET first attempt.
  • She scored 633 marks in her second attempt (described as “in just one drop year”).

Emotional turning point after the first attempt

  • After scoring 251, she felt embarrassed because she was previously a topper in her class.
  • People around her asked for her plan, but at that time she had no clear answer.
  • She identifies weaknesses in:
    • Intelligence
    • Consistency
    • Strategy
    • Effort

Decision to take a drop and remove “backup excuses”

  • She emphasizes that taking a drop year brings pressure and fear of failure.
  • She frames this as removing the option to rely on excuses or a backup plan.
  • Her goal for the second attempt was strong:
    • From 251 to enough marks for a government BDS
    • She notes MBBS is not guaranteed, but BDS was the target.

Methodology / approach during the drop year

Coaching choice

  • She took offline coaching to build discipline.
  • She says online coaching wouldn’t provide enough discipline.

Key improvements targeted

  • Consistency
  • Question practice
  • Discipline

Attendance and practice habits

  • She did not skip coaching classes and went daily.
  • She attempted all mock tests.
  • She also did self-study.
  • She solved DPP on the same day as the subject/teaching.
  • She used a pattern of attending classes and revising the same subject.

Daily routine structure (approximate timing)

  • 9:00 AM: Music classes
  • ~4:30 PM: Return from coaching/activities
  • Break after returning
  • 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Self-study
    • In that session, she studied:
      • Physics for ~3 hours
      • Then either Chemistry or Biology for ~3 hours
    • She alternated between Bio and Chemistry

Subject-specific strategies

Chemistry

  • She states chemistry was strong for her, especially organic chemistry.
  • About 2 months before the exam, she started studying chemistry every day.
  • Inorganic chemistry
    • Mainly used NCERT (she believes mock questions were largely coming from NCERT).
  • Organic chemistry
    • She struggled more with it.
    • She used YouTube lectures, made regular notes, and did extensive question practice.

Biology

  • She fit Bio either early in the morning or at night.
  • During commute (~40 minutes), she revised one NCERT chapter.

Physics

  • She believed physics was already relatively fine.
  • She scored about 150 marks in every mock test and stayed consistent.
  • She attended classes regularly and solved DPP the same day.
  • Ray optics was particularly difficult, so she focused on basic questions for it.

NCERT usage across subjects

  • She read NCERT for every subject:
    • Physical chemistry
    • Inorganic chemistry (especially from NCERT)
    • Organic chemistry (with additional video support)
    • Physics (NCERT-based preparation since mocks drew heavily from the “midh/medium” portions)
    • Biology (NCERT-based learning is implied as standard)

Mock test + error-analysis process

  • Her first mock test score was 471, which she found disappointing and demotivating.
  • She responded with detailed analysis for every test:
    • For any question she couldn’t solve, she wrote down the concept/solution immediately
    • Before the next mock covering that topic/chapter, she revised those notes
  • Mistake tracking system
    • She created a separate WhatsApp group for “mistake questions”
    • She was the only member and posted:
      • Questions she had solved earlier
      • Concepts linked to those questions
      • Also saved questions she couldn’t solve or where concepts were weak/forgotten
  • In the last one month, she gave a lot of mock tests and analyzed all of them—she credits this with major improvement.
  • Timeline:
    • Her score reached about 650 at the end of the last month.

Final focus during the last month

About one month before the exam, she focused on:

  • NCERT concepts
  • Mock tests
  • Analysis of every subject

Core takeaways / lessons stated explicitly

  • Consistency matters more than motivation.
  • Mock tests matter more than rereading books.
  • Mental health matters more than any rank (while noting rank is not everything).
  • If you clear NEET, great; otherwise, life doesn’t stop.
  • Learn from mistakes, improve strategies, and keep a backup plan.

Speakers / sources featured

  • Speaker: Charvi (author of the NEET journey narration)
  • Sources mentioned/used:
    • NCERT
    • YouTube lectures (used for organic chemistry)
  • Platform mentioned for tracking:
    • WhatsApp (used for the mistake-question group)

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