Books to buy.

This article lists the books that saved an otherwise helpless me and describes how I used them

With high school comes bullshit. You would already have bought obese reference books because a teacher, a senior, a tutor had recommended, started out with enthusiasm to conquer a lesson, find that one topic runs for 10 pages (ONE SIMPLE TOPIC!), give up hope, and procrastinated.

Let me tell you this. Stop that crap. As far as boards go, NCERT books suffice. Not a page more. All those reference books kill time and hope. 95% of it would be meaningless fluff.

This here is a minimal list of books that worked for me. Buy it, and stick to it. Do not experiment. I wasted my whole 11th standard that way, and when I came to 12th, the teachers wouldn’t respect me for shit! That’s what made me go spartan.

The books do not serve a purpose unto themselves. The syllabus is more important. So, take a topic from the syllabus, refer to it in NCERT and guide, make your own notes, forget about those books, rely only on your notes for the boards.

That is it. Stick to it. Do not go for “Solved Papers”, “Question banks”, “Chapterwise solved” or other crap. This is what survivor recommends. This is what you should follow. Don’t waste your time man. They are cashing in on you!

(None of the links are affiliate marketed. This is solely to make things easier. So, if you doubted me, merry christmas.)

Physics is gloomy and unclear. That is the only reason such a book is even being considered. Don’t fall into the “I’m an explorer” trap just because you solved two HOTS or JEE problem. Don’t venture out into all these other detailed sections they made just to impress buyers.

Don’t consider this as your main book at all. Once you fall, you may get blind to all other subjects, and the purpose of your journey is lost. Use this only for structured derivations, definitons ,CBSE approved numericals and exemplars.

I repeat, don’t fool around in the star-marked section thinking the universe of physics has chosen you and shall yield under your feet. That is for later. This one year… the battle!

This is the best book to understand and learn C++. Even the college courses on C++ aren’t as enjoyable. I still cherish it.

These books help you handle those freak questions at the boards, which are out of the box. These are not mandatory for the preparation side of it. Bother about these when you are done and are in the performance tuning phase.

The NCERTs! Make sure to run through every single page with your pencil, try out all the mechanisms and derivations, and don’t let the sight of thsese books defeat you when it is exam time.

If you do not have them, please get the offline versions:

The purpose of this article is not to make you go on a shopping spree.

If your school has already provided you with the NCERTs, you are one step closer. If you have an All-in-one for every subject, you are practically stocked for boards.

S.L. Arora is not necessary, but given the condition of physics, it becomes indispensable as a guide by the side. Sometimes NCERT expounds better, sometimes the All-in-one, and sometimes S.L. Arora wins.

The exemplars provide you a edge when it comes to answering tricky questions.

But ultimately, it is you. Saddle up. Stock your ammo. Build your muscles. Be ready enough, for the idea is to gracefully ride over the war without the least struggle. Boards 2019. Let’s Go!

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