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One preparation, several exams

Most of these exams are built from the same handful of subjects. Prepare properly for one and you have, without meaning to, prepared for others.

Every figure on this page is an estimate. MHT-CET (PCM group)'s preparation hours have not been derived from its syllabus yet, so everything computed from them inherits that.

If this is the exam you build your two years around

BITSAT CA Foundation CLAT CUET UG IPMAT (IIM Indore)JEE Advanced JEE Main MHT-CET (PCM group)NATA NDA (Written + SSB)NEET UG NIFT Entrance

0 of 12 exams have hours derived from a syllabus

A top-up

A few focused weeks on top of the anchor.

≈ +120 h NATA ≈ 43% of it already covered and Drawing and visual composition — which the anchor does not prepare you for

≈ +130 h BITSAT ≈ 75% of it already covered

≈ +160 h CUET UG ≈ 63% of it already covered

≈ +190 h NIFT Entrance ≈ 24% of it already covered and Situation test, Portfolio round — which the anchor does not prepare you for

≈ +200 h JEE Main ≈ 67% of it already covered

A second preparation

A different body of knowledge, funded by taking time from the anchor.

≈ +270 h NDA (Written + SSB) ≈ 52% of it already covered and Services Selection Board (5 days) — which the anchor does not prepare you for

≈ +370 h IPMAT (IIM Indore) ≈ 27% of it already covered and Personal interview — which the anchor does not prepare you for

≈ +440 h CA Foundation ≈ 24% of it already covered

≈ +520 h NEET UG ≈ 33% of it already covered

≈ +620 h JEE Advanced ≈ 39% of it already covered

≈ +630 h CLAT ≈ 6% of it already covered

Too few exams have hours derived from a syllabus for a ranking of them to mean anything yet, so estimated exams are ranked alongside them for now. Every figure marked approximately was judged rather than counted.

What each exam is made of

Exam	Phy	Chem	Math	Bio	Eng	Reas	GK	Total
MHT-CET (PCM group)	130	130	140					400 h
BITSAT	150	150	160		30	40		530 h
JEE Main	200	190	210					600 h
CUET UG	90	90	90		60	40	60	430 h
NDA (Written + SSB)	90	60	200		90		120	560 h
NATA			90			60	60	210 h
JEE Advanced	340	320	360					1,020 h
NEET UG	180	220		380				780 h
IPMAT (IIM Indore)			300		120	90		510 h
CA Foundation			220		60		300	580 h
NIFT Entrance			60		50	80	60	250 h
CLAT			40		180	200	250	670 h

Hatched cells were estimated rather than counted from a syllabus.

Your shortlist

BITSAT CA Foundation CLAT CUET UG IPMAT (IIM Indore)JEE Advanced JEE Main MHT-CET (PCM group)NATA NDA (Written + SSB)NEET UG NIFT Entrance

MHT-CET (PCM group) + JEE Advanced

Prepared together

≈ 1,020 h

Prepared separately

≈ 1,420 h

Saved by the overlap

≈ 400 h

At least one offer, somewhere between ≈ 1 in 2.3 if the same rank travels with you and ≈ 1 in 2.0 if the results are unrelated.

The honest answer sits between. It moves toward the second the less alike the exams are — which is the trade-off against the overlap above.