The 6 TOP books to ACE physics in Competitive Exams!
Alright welcome to the final blog in this series. By now, we’re so confident that you’ve got yourself figured out for Math and Chem(if not, we’ve tagged them). Anyways, prioritizing the topics/chapters to study is wayyyy necessary as we’ve mentioned before and this needs to be done before jumping onto any further step. Quoting the oldest uncle in your fam that gives advice(pretty much bec he’s got a lot of experience) “Quality is more important than quantity”. With that let’s get started. Here’s a list of 6 Top books that’ll help you ace those exams.
1. Your 11th and 12th NCERT textbooks:
Well, by the time your competitive exams come up these books would be missing a cover page and probably the first few pages too XD. But nevertheless, these are the Must-haves for your competitive exam prep. We totally know that you wouldn’t have expected them to be the first one on the list. But, they are the ones that’ll help you build up your base. The foundation that’s needed to solve all those difficult problems for competitive exams would be formed by mastering these books. We’d suggest hopping on to the ones that are mentioned below only when you’re thoroughly done with these two.
2. New simplified Physics by SL Arora:
Just in case you think some concepts in your NCERT books haven’t been explained properly, you should definitely go with this book. They’ve given a comprehensive explanation of even the smallest concept that exists in your syllabus. So it’s very unlikely that you’d actually have some doubts regarding your NCERT concepts once you’re done with these.
3. HC Verma:
So usually you’re teachers and most of the students(that have given competitive exams), including us(yes we’ve given ours a few years ago), consider this book as an ALL-IN-ONE. It’s got loads and loads of unsolved and solved problems which should help you understand all those difficult maxxxxx questions. There are 2 volumes. The 1st one covers concepts that are mostly taught in your 11th standard and the 2nd one’s a bit of a mix, but it still covers all the concepts in your 12th syllabus. So if you’re someone who’s lost his 11th textbooks or would like to study the concepts taught in your 11th standard to a finer level, these books would be a great buy for you.
4. D.C Pandey Chapter-wise solved papers:
Now, y’all should know that succeeding in competitive exams for your favorite colleges would require a lot of practice. Especially if you’re aiming for NITs or IITs. All the questions have been explained in detail and the amount of solved and unsolved questions in this book would make you a physics wizard by the time you’re done with them. Plus, it has questions that have been picked from JEE advanced papers too, so yes it’s kinda an all-in-one too.
The Russians:
The ones mentioned below are not necessary. They are recommended only when a student is probably done solving the aforementioned ones. So, if you’re convinced with the ones above, feel free to skip this section :)
Also, the ones given below are not 2 volumes of some reference book called “The Russians”, we just thought mentioning them in this way would make them look way cooler than they are.
5. I.E Irodov:
Just FYI, this book was written by a world war two veteran(man that’s so cool). We’d just like you to know what pops up first on google when you search about this book- “IE IRODOV is one of the toughest books on this planet and if you master this, you can easily get into IIT, MIT, HARVARD, STANFORD.” Well, we dk if that’s true or not, but haan once you’re done with this book, it’s a direct ticket to jannat( IIT or whichever college you’ve been dreaming about). But honestly, the problems here are way too difficult than you can imagine. Plus there’s no detailed explanation, so it may get a bit frustrating. We’d suggest using this only when you’re done with the ones mentioned above OR if you’ve got that rush ki top toh karna hi hai :P. So it’s not entirely necessary to buy this book, you can still ace the exams with the above-mentioned ones.
6. S.S Krotov:
Another one by a great scientist who wrote papers on ferroelectricity(dunno what that is? We don’t either, google it… duh). So it has a lot of problems which you can practice, but again the Russians are difficult people that make difficult books so we’ll chalk this up to optional too. The problems are more tricky and intuitive… *occupational hazard*- you may have to imagine a lot of things. We’d suggest that you prefer Irodov to this one. But again, the current syllabus doesn’t require you to be a master of Physics, so yeah, you can skip this one too.
So to conclude, these were our TOP 6 recommendations that would help you prep for your board as well as competitive exams. They cover almost every single concept that exists and they offer you a wide variety of questions that would help you apply those concepts to different problems. Ciao ;)
Although if you still feel that you prolly need a tutor to explain some of dem difficult questions, TRY US!! A 1–1 session with a teacher would eliminate all your doubts.
