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A drop year starts where most students end: the whole syllabus is already done once. So the mocks start early — full 75-question JEE Main papers or 180-question NEET papers on the current pattern — and the useful question is not "can I finish the syllabus?" but "which chapters keep costing me marks?" This generator builds both kinds of paper: realistic full mocks, and full mocks that lean on last year's leaks.
Free · no sign-up · updated October 2026
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Press Generate paper plan for a chapter-by-chapter blueprint: questions per chapter, numericals, marks and time — ready to print and fill from your PYQs, modules or the BrainStride question bank.
Full length, exam weightage — the paper to sit every week from the second month.
| Subject | Questions | Of which numerical | Marks | Time at exam pace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics | 25 | 5 | 100 | 60 min |
| Chemistry | 25 | 5 | 100 | 60 min |
| Mathematics | 25 | 5 | 100 | 60 min |
| Whole paper | 75 | 15 | 300 | 180 min |
Marking +4 / -1. Since 2025: 75 compulsory questions, 20 MCQs and 5 numericals per subject, +4 and −1 on both, 3 hours.
Full length, exam weightage, Botany and Zoology at 45 each.
| Subject | Questions | Marks | Time at exam pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics | 45 | 180 | 45 min |
| Chemistry | 45 | 180 | 45 min |
| Biology | 90 | 360 | 90 min |
| Whole paper | 180 | 720 | 180 min |
Marking +4 / -1. Since 2025: 180 compulsory MCQs — Physics 45, Chemistry 45, Biology 90 — +4 and −1, 3 hours.
Each full paper the generator builds, split by the class each chapter belongs to.
| Exam | Questions | Class 11 chapters | Class 12 chapters | Chapters spanning both | Roughly Class 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JEE Main | 75 | 35 | 27 | 13 | 55% |
| NEET UG | 180 | 86 | 86 | 8 | 50% |
Counted from the generator’s full papers in exam-weightage mode; “roughly Class 11” counts half of the chapters that span both years. Chapter weights are BrainStride’s reading of past papers, not official data — NTA publishes no chapter weightage.
Droppers who improve by a large margin usually do one thing differently: they treat mocks as diagnosis rather than as rehearsal. A mock every week is easy to sit and easy to waste.
Start full mocks in the first month, not the fifth. You have seen the whole syllabus. One full paper in the first fortnight tells you more about the year ahead than any study plan — which chapters leak marks, and whether the leak is concept, carelessness or time.
Alternate realistic and targeted papers. One week, a full paper in exam weightage, scored +4 / −1, to track your level honestly. The next, a full paper in weak-chapter mode with last mock's three worst chapters marked, so they get two and a half times their usual share.
Watch Class 11 especially. In the generator's full papers, roughly 55% of JEE Main and 50% of NEET comes from Class 11 chapters. Last year those were studied first and revised least. Droppers who rebuild them early usually find marks there faster than anywhere else.
Do not sit papers in the old pattern. JEE Main dropped its optional numerical section in 2025 and NEET moved to 180 compulsory questions. Older papers are excellent material, but plan them on the current pattern.
BrainStride is an AI tutor for JEE, NEET and Olympiad preparation that runs a 20-minute diagnostic, maps your weak chapters and writes a daily plan, with practice-bank solutions checked by teachers. The dropper plan page explains how it handles a repeat year.
Adjust to your exam date; keep the order.
| Months | Full mocks | Generator settings | What to look for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | Two | Full length, exam weightage | Your real starting level, chapter by chapter |
| Months 2–5 | One a week | Alternate exam weightage and weak-chapter mode | The same chapters leaking twice in a row |
| Months 6–8 | One or two a week | Mostly exam weightage | Score stability, not peaks |
| Final 2 months | Two a week | Exam weightage, every chapter, timed strictly | Time management and attempt strategy |
About one full paper a week for most of the year, rising to two a week in the last two months — roughly 45 to 60 in all. More is not better if they are not reviewed: a mock without a written error analysis the next day is mostly practice at sitting still.
Full-syllabus mocks, early. A dropper has studied every chapter once, so a full paper is the fastest honest measure of which chapters still leak marks. Chapter tests come after, aimed at what the mock exposed.
Yes, but plan them on the current pattern. JEE Main has had five compulsory numericals per subject since 2025, and NEET 180 compulsory questions. Use the generator’s blueprint and fill it from older papers, rather than sitting 2024 papers as printed.
Not in the sense of writing questions. The generator is a rule-based planner: it reads the exam pattern and BrainStride’s chapter weights from past papers and decides how many questions each chapter gets, so the result is the same every time for the same settings. The AI part of BrainStride is the tutor, which picks your next practice questions from a teacher-checked bank based on the mistakes you have made.
No. The paper plan is built in your browser, nothing is sent to a server and there is no sign-up. Print it or copy it as text if you want to keep it. The free BrainStride diagnostic is a separate, optional step if you want a plan built around your own mistakes.
Exam patterns are from the official information bulletins. Chapter weights are BrainStride estimates from past papers, not official data.
The 20-minute diagnostic assumes nothing about what you studied — it finds the chapters you recognise but cannot yet score in.