NEET AIR 1's Complete Chemistry Strategy 🔥| How Aryan Gupta Scored 175/180 in NEET 2026 | Guidance |

Main Ideas and Preparation Strategy

Aryan Gupta reports scoring 175/180 in Chemistry. In this session, he discusses his approach to Physical, Inorganic, and Organic Chemistry. The host emphasizes that students should choose additional study materials based on their available time and needs, rather than assuming every book is necessary.

General Study Habits

• Prioritize understanding during lectures. Ideally, understand the material and take notes at the same time. If note-taking interferes with understanding, focus on the lesson first and write or organize notes afterward. Copying notes without understanding them can make revision harder.
• Revise cumulatively while a chapter is being taught. Aryan reviewed earlier lectures and their questions before moving on. As new material was added, he found he could review older content more quickly.
• Complete questions alongside the teaching sequence. He worked through assignments or module questions as each subtopic was completed instead of postponing all practice until the end of the chapter.
• He emphasized repeated revision and question practice, while acknowledging that study plans do not always fit the time available.

Physical Chemistry

• Notes and practice: Aryan generally used his teacher’s notes and focused on understanding and independently re-solving class questions. He did not make separate short notes for Physical Chemistry.
• During each chapter: He completed coaching assignments and module questions. In Class 11, he also worked through N. Awasthi chapter by chapter.
• After completing the syllabus: He attempted additional JEE questions, including some at the Advanced level. However, he felt that coaching practice and the exercises in N. Awasthi had already provided substantial practice.
• Before a test: About a week beforehand, he revised his notes, revisited doubts and marked material, and sometimes solved roughly 30–40 questions from another source to rebuild familiarity with the chapter. He also read NCERT before tests, but did not recommend spending excessive time on it for Physical Chemistry.
• He completed some NCERT end-of-chapter questions—for example, in Thermodynamics—but skipped questions in some chapters, including Equilibrium.
• Electrochemistry was a difficult topic for him. He revisited his notes many times, read NCERT repeatedly, and practiced questions from test-series material.

Inorganic Chemistry

• NCERT was central to his preparation. Aryan read it topic by topic as the corresponding material was taught. For example, he read about a topic such as dipole moment after it had been covered in class.
• By the time a chapter was complete, he had typically read its NCERT content two or three times.
• He completed coaching assignments and modules during the chapter, then attempted some JEE questions after finishing the syllabus.
• Before tests, he prioritized NCERT and a quick recall of facts. Unlike in Physical Chemistry, he did not focus on revisiting marked questions.

Organic Chemistry

• Learn mechanisms, not just reaction lists. Aryan aimed to understand reaction mechanisms in class, take notes, and then draw the mechanisms and structures himself. He practiced electron movement and resonance by hand.
• He repeatedly referred back to foundational topics such as GOC, isomerism, and SN1/SN2 as they became relevant in later chapters.
• He recommended short notes for quick revision before tests, although he did not make them consistently himself. Instead, he relied on repeated note review and became able to revise some chapters quickly.
• Question practice is essential. He recommended JEE Main previous-year questions, describing them as useful for Organic Chemistry. He sometimes made many mistakes on moderate or difficult multistep problems on his first attempt. He viewed these errors as part of the learning process, though they could be discouraging.
• He used coaching assignments and worked through Exercise 1 of M. S. Chauhan, mainly for Class 12 topics and at the end of chapters. His teacher had advised against using it for Class 11 at that stage, partly because it included material that could be too difficult or demotivating.
• Aryan did not manage to keep a fixed daily schedule for revising old reactions while studying new chapters. Much of that revision happened when preparing for tests or when a later topic required it.

Mindset and Material Selection

• Aryan said he sometimes felt stressed when he repeatedly got questions wrong. His elder brother helped reassure and guide him.
• The host and Aryan emphasized that completing every advanced book is not essential for everyone. Depending on the student’s preparation and available time, coaching assignments, NCERT where relevant, and PYQs may be sufficient. Extra books should be chosen based on individual needs, not followed automatically.
• Aryan considered the one Chemistry question he missed to be ambiguous. It asked about “polarity,” which he interpreted as dipole moment, while he said the answer appeared to rely on hydrogen bonding or boiling-point considerations. He did not consider it a simple careless error.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Ashish — Host and interviewer; identifies himself as a third-year MBBS student.
• Aryan Gupta — Interviewee, discussing his Chemistry preparation and score.
• Aryan’s Chemistry teacher — Referred to by Aryan in connection with teaching practices and advice, but not heard speaking in this excerpt.
• Aryan’s elder brother — Mentioned as a source of support and guidance, but not heard speaking.
• Study materials and references discussed: NCERT, coaching notes and assignments/modules, N. Awasthi, M. S. Chauhan, JEE Main and some JEE Advanced questions, and DLP/test-series material.
• Other students mentioned by Ashish: Sakshi Kumari and Yusuf Ali, cited in connection with their short notes; neither speaks in the excerpt.