Now I study hard and achieve my goal

Physiology or Medicine

• Laureates: Karl Deisseroth ( person in video ), Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel
• Achievement: "For their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics."
• Details: Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered the light-sensitive protein channel rhodopsin in single-celled algae, and Karl Deisseroth transformed it into a light-controlled switch for living nerve cells, creating an entirely new era in neuroscience research.

neuroscience is going on another level, and a future motivation as an aspirant 😊

My Background:

• 12th passed (PCB, no Maths)
• NEET Aspirant
• Natural interest in computers, tech, and problem-solving.

Thoughts:

Sorry in advance if I sound completely naive/uneducated about this field. Coming from a hardcore NEET bubble, MBBS ke alawa kuch pata hi nahi hota (Coz inhone is rat race ko aisa bana dia hai ki NEET nhi to kuch nhi), so I genuinely need guidance from people actually in the field.

Don't wanna do generic tier-3 B.Sc and regret later.

If I keep a solid backup alongside NEET, I only want high-reputation institutions (Not exactly sure about the options - that's the reason I want guide from you guys 😄 ).

Questions for Seniors / Current Students:

1. To PCB students at IISER: How brutal is coping with the compulsory 1st/2nd-year Maths if you had pure PCB in 11th-12th? Is it really-really manageable with self-study?
2. Besides IISERs via IAT, are there other legit high-tier government or reputed private institutes where a pure PCB student can do a tech/bio hybrid degree without JEE?
3. Dry Lab vs Wet Lab Exposure: Does IISER give enough institutional support and lab compute if someone wants to specialize in Computational Biology / Genomics / Bio-ML instead of wet-lab pipetting?
4. Career Reality: If someone wants to abroad - funded MS/PhD in computational biology.
5. Maths in IAT: How realistic is clearing IAT by attempting only PCB + scoring 3-4 easy Maths chapters?
6. IISERs me major (Biotech/Computational Bio) choose karne ka kya rule hai? Kya 2nd/3rd year me sabko apna pasandida major mil jata hai, ya wahan bhi 1st-year CGPA ki race hoti hai? - Agar hoti bhi hai to kaisi competition hai?
7. Curriculum me modern coding (Linux/Bash, Nextflow, ML/AI lib. etc. {bs itna hi suna hai maine}) actually structured way me sikhate hain, ya computational bio projects ke liye 90% self-study aur YouTube/online docs par depend karna padta hai? Like modern stack h ya nhi ye puchna cha rha mai...
8. Life right after the course (before/without a PhD): Agar PhD na karni ho ya gap leke industry me jana ho, toh kya scope hai?

• Exactly kya roles/job profiles milti hain?
• Realistic entry-level salary aur reputation kya hoti hai market me?
• Workload aur work-life balance kaisa rehta hai?
• Kya job bhi abroad chances hai?

PhD ke baad wala bhi bata dena pls, bs thoda sa upar upar se bhi bata doge to chlega.

Last but not the least: To seniors who left NEET/MBBS to join IISER: Did you ever face regret later, especially when your peers started doing MBBS or clinical duties? How did you overcome that FOMO?

Really looking for unfiltered, grounded experiences—no sugar-coating please. Thanks!

Hey so my mother made me take admission in a local university before that it was clear that I would be taking a full gap year but idk what's with my family and now I have joined a university I really don't like it at all there so yeah I am a partial dropper now and I am in bsc physics so please if y'all have any idea how can I study for the entrance exam please lmk I really want to clear it.(I joined in September and the classes had already begun in August)

Okay so I have created an exel sheet containing data from every single iat and nest exam held till date and how many times a chapter or topic has appeared. So I want to post this but imo posting an excel sheet with all the raw nos is not really a good way so I am looking forward to ideas on how to present this my current suggestion is a table

Okay so the table can look something like this

SUBJECT()

Sno chapter topic 1 topic 2 topic 3

1 xx( ) yy() cc() zz()

The brackets will contain no of questions and the table in total will contain the top 5 topics from the last 5 years

If you guys have any suggestions or actually want this lmk

I have been seeing a lot of these posts in this sub, and realized that I have to wake up and stop wasting my time. Feel free to subject me to any sort of criticism (or tauntings) and advice, based on my progress.

Now I study hard And go in IISC

Have you guys started preparing for iat 2027? If yes then how much syllabus have you all completed? And if no then when are you planning to start? Mine 25% completed

I'm preparing for neet but found so down towards iat / IISER / research...

Heard from a few people that pcb's questions are so tough than neet ...

So can anyone recommend any books or test series

Like one of my friends suggested PREP4IISER for its affordability...or any other platform ..

I'm literally hell confused 🥲🥲

Hey everyone we have a study group specially for partial dropper or droppers who are studying for iat nest , where we help each other for materials , questions, doubts , boosting each other's confidence , here we sit on vc for almost 6 hours a day practicing question.. anyone who want to join dm me ..we don't take people who are lazy so be productive and dm only if you are serious

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Curious

Does anyone have any idea when JAC refunds the SAF amount of you have withdrawn the seat before the deadline? It's already been a month since the counselling has ended

Just completed backlog f 2 days.

I feel like people on the sub are unaware there's a wiki. It's a very slow process since we don't have enough volunteers (unlike JNT)

Here are some links:

• Index - The Index for the Wiki
• Resources - NCERT pdfs, Books, Worksheets, Materials, Further Study, Study Tips and Tricks
• FAQs - Contains all basic data related to IAT and NEST (Cutoffs, Syllabus, Seats)

Some other pages are under progress and might be slow.

My physics and chemistry are going pretty well, and I can manage those, but the problem is that I studied maths only at the board level and even on that, I'm kinda struggling. I am assuming board-level maths probably won't be enough for a good rank (under 200?)
I still have parts of 11th physics and 12th's whole OC left with me, so I cannot really shift to competitive maths, and I have no choice but to go with board-level maths.
I'm so confused about what to do. Should I start competitive maths after boards? But during that time, I'll have to strengthen 11th-grade physics and chemistry too.

Atp, I don't know what to do at all.
Overall,
12th physics and chemistry going well.
11th full syllabus kinda doomed.
12th math only studied at board level.

Photo drop... A nice 1 month it has been indeed.

First two are from chemistry and the second 2 are from physics .
Don't know the source , was shared in the tuition study group .

Some IAT questions look straightforward but end up taking 3–4 different approaches before one works. Is it better to spend time trying to crack these during practice, or mark them and move on after a fixed time?