CHANCES FOR KAIST/UNIST/DGIST/GIST??

I recently completed my 12th grade in May 2026, in my gap year now (looking for chemical engineering/material science engineering)

**Academics**

* CBSE Class 10: 97.4% * CBSE Class 12: 91.2% (results were impacted this year due to the OSM-based evaluation issue) * JEE Mains 2026: \~96th percentile (\~98th percentile in chemistry) * JEE Advanced 2026: Qualified * SAT Targeting 1500+ in the upcoming date of examination

**Extracurriculars**

* Fundraising initiatives for an NGO supporting underprivileged and orphaned children * Development of coding projects modeling select chemical engineering processes, particularly reactor systems * An internship at imaging technology company but that is kinda off the field , might be working under electrical and AI department and learning stuff * Some science fair prizes at school level from 5th to 9th grade , several other olympiad medals and certificates but i am aware that they aren't of much importance

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 24 hours ago

WHAT UNIS SHLD I APPLY ?

I recently completed my 12th grade in May 2026, in my gap year now (looking for chemical engineering/material science engineering)

Academics

  • CBSE Class 10: 97.4%
  • CBSE Class 12: 91.2% (results were impacted this year due to the OSM-based evaluation issue)
  • JEE Mains 2026: ~96th percentile (~98th percentile in chemistry)
  • JEE Advanced 2026: Qualified
  • SAT Targeting 1500+ in the upcoming date of examination

Extracurriculars

  • Fundraising initiatives for an NGO supporting underprivileged and orphaned children
  • Development of coding projects modeling select chemical engineering processes, particularly reactor systems
  • An internship at imaging technology company but that is kinda off the field , might be working under electrical and AI department and learning stuff
  • Some science fair prizes at school level from 5th to 9th grade , several other olympiad medals and certificates but i am aware that they aren't of much importance
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CHANCES FOR KAIST/UNIST/DGIST/GIST??

I recently completed my 12th grade in May 2026, in my gap year now (looking for chemical engineering/material science engineering)

Academics

  • CBSE Class 10: 97.4%
  • CBSE Class 12: 91.2% (results were impacted this year due to the OSM-based evaluation issue)
  • JEE Mains 2026: ~96th percentile (~98th percentile in chemistry)
  • JEE Advanced 2026: Qualified
  • SAT Targeting 1500+ in the upcoming date of examination

Extracurriculars

  • Fundraising initiatives for an NGO supporting underprivileged and orphaned children
  • Development of coding projects modeling select chemical engineering processes, particularly reactor systems
  • An internship at imaging technology company but that is kinda off the field , might be working under electrical and AI department and learning stuff
  • Some science fair prizes at school level from 5th to 9th grade , several other olympiad medals and certificates but i am aware that they aren't of much importance
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CHANCES UNIST/DGIST/GIST ?

I recently completed my 12th grade in May 2026, in my gap year now (looking for chemical engineering/material science engineering)

Academics

  • CBSE Class 10: 97.4%
  • CBSE Class 12: 91.2% (results were impacted this year due to the OSM-based evaluation issue)
  • JEE Mains 2026: ~96th percentile (~98th percentile in chemistry)
  • JEE Advanced 2026: Qualified
  • SAT Targeting 1500+ in the upcoming date of examination

Extracurriculars

  • Fundraising initiatives for an NGO supporting underprivileged and orphaned children
  • Development of coding projects modeling select chemical engineering processes, particularly reactor systems
  • An internship at imaging technology company but that is kinda off the field , might be working under electrical and AI department and learning stuff
  • Some science fair prizes at school level from 5th to 9th grade , several other olympiad medals and certificates but i am aware that they aren't of much importance
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Accountability post day 42

Yeah, it's been 4 days since I last updated, just kept procrastinating, "15 minute baad post karunga," "kal dalunga," and never posted 🥀

Anyways, like any other Monday, it's a mock day. Woke up early, studied some RW from Khan Academy, then gave the mains test... it was mid. Then lunch time, had lunch, watched a movie with my mum, The Taj Story or something ig, until the next exam at 2:30. Then it was the adv test, that was also mid, rank is trash.

After the test I continued doing RW, then my dad came and we registered for SAT. Went out for a walk after that, had dinner, and then completed the other pending tasks — did my chem homework of reaction mechanism, finished a few notes that were pending.

Now I'll mostly be solving an old test paper for fun.

Good night, have a nice and productive day tmrw

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 10 days ago

Accountability post day 38

GHEE KHTM BC

Got up in the morning, couldn't sleep well the night before, idk if you know about restless legs, holy shii the pain. Went to buy idli because I forgot to order oats and yogurt the night before, had breakfast, then did 2022 maths straight line PYQs. Then I was just lost man, had chem class after that, rn am almost done with all elimination reactions and have loads of homework until next class, puri Allen ki module khtm krni padegi reaction mechanism ki... hmphh ~

Anyways did nothing until lunch, had lunch, then again did nothing, slept. Woke up somehow managed to sit and revise ionic equilibrium, solved PYQs of 2021, 2022, 2020. Then again did nothing, so decided to solve some random maths questions from a channel called "Mathvengers," he's good, you guys can try his content too. Then again I was lost, then came across the news that Rodri might come to Barca 🔵🔴, crazy to see that happening man.

Anyways got nothing interesting to report, might have to make a timetable like a small kid in 5th grade planning his academic comeback, ig that's the only resort I got to get me back on track lmao.

Anyways hope you all are doing good, glad you all made it this far, and I gotta agree man, drop year horrors are real.

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 14 days ago

Accountability post Day 34

Post for day 33 and 34 — both kinda gloomy ngl.

Day 33 was decent, finished my chem tasks, solved a bunch of questions from MS Chouhan, did the maths module on matrices and determinants, aur kuch hua nahi honestly — I was sick. Bad sleep schedule, headache, tired eyes all day, so just took rest. Watched a preseason United game, had dinner, slept. That was it for gloomy day 33.

Day 34 bhi bekaar. Health still hasn't improved, headache is mad, but still managed to get things done. Sunday matlab test day, so went ahead with it — full syllabus test today. Had been improving in full syllabus tests but today was genuinely worse, scored just 110, physics is just going down and down. Made a new plan for physics since jo bhi chal rha hai clearly isn't working — will start with 12th's electrodynamics topics then move to others since I enjoy solving those the most, hopefully that gets my interest back.

Then I slept, woke up to crazy rain hitting the ground without mercy and ultimately a transformer blast 💝 jo gaaf fati meri dar ke uth gya bc 🥀

After that, had a call with one of my seniors, he's like a mentor to me, my parents know him well too, basically a big brother figure. He guides me and my dad — told me I should give SAT since he knows my plans, wanting to do masters abroad or settle abroad (this was always the plan since a young age, not some post-NEET-scandal decision). He's from IIT Mandi himself, been to Germany for an internship or something. So I took an SAT practice test after that call, and honestly it went better than expected, but yeah, need to work on English a bit now. Will fit that into my schedule too.

After that I noticed my guitar was collecting dust, so played something till dinner, and now gonna solve some rotation and isomerism PYQs and sleep kyuki kal bhi test hai 🙏

Tabiyat kaafi down hogyi hai, think I'll have to get a blood test done and check vitamin levels 👀

Anyways, thanks for reading till here, not the best 2 days but will bounce back in the coming ones.

u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 18 days ago

Accountability post Day 32

Post for day 31 and 32 — 31 was productive, 32 wasn't, but chalta hai ekdo din toh 🤙🏻

Day 31: Woke up, did matrices and determinants, then chem class — almost done with substitution, elimination starts next. Had a weird realisation in OC though: carbonyl group is the most hated yet most graped group 🫪 yeh saare tharki nucleophile chorte hi nahi usko, time to extend our love and support for (C=O), thank you 🤧

Then Eduniti rotation revision videos, solved PYQs of 2025 and Jan 2026. Thinking of going back to older PYQs like 2014ish — thoughts? Or is 2020-26 enough? Also did some chem revision, substitution has so many tiny mechanisms, gets confusing — locha ho jata hai kab SNAr hoga, kab SNi hoga 🤯

Then played football with uncs (not really uncs, I was the youngest, rest were working professionals or uni students). Didn't play too well but will keep joining once/twice a week — need to improve if I wanna represent my clg in an inter-IIT tourney (small hands big dreams 🥀)

Day 32: Travelled back after the game, reached around 2, slept, woke up at 9/10ish, breakfast nearby. Solved MSC for isomerism, almost done, then lunch and slept again 😭 aaj system hi hil gya tha, poora routine gadbad. Woke up, solved matrices and determinants PYQs of 2025-26. Went to the mall for some stuff, then it started raining — decent day overall.

Chalta hai, ek din acha na jaaye toh disappoint hoke negative sochne ki zaroorat nahi, chin up and work harder next day. Hope you're all doing well, happy to see fellow droppers staying motivated with these posts. Let's ace this journey together 🤝

u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 20 days ago

Accountability post day 30

YAAYYY it's been 30 days, happy one month guys 😆 lmao

Well, another pretty decent day, abhi toh sab monotonous jaisa hogya hai. Woke up, had breakfast, did the matrices and determinants module till 10, then had chem class 😄 substitution reactions are almost done now, gonna start SN Ar reactions tmrw, need to solve MSc for that but struggling to find time this week, it's packed. After chem class what did I do? More math... then lunch, and after lunch what did I do? Math!! bro wtf genuinely, realised in my 8hr self study I did math for more than 5 hours, bc aisa kya doob gaya math mai, tabhi physics mai number nahi aare hai 😭

Then solved chemistry PYQs of Chemical Kinetics and Solutions.

In between I did try going to play football today, lekin bache nahi aaye yaar khelne. Bro like you're in 7th 8th 9th grade, what are you even studying that much for? DUHHH I never opened a book at that age, used to reach home, throw my bag, and run off to play 😂

Anyway after that, my dur ki cousin came over, idk even how our families are related, didn't get shi what my mom was explaining lol. We had biryani, ate ice cream, played some games, and then when I checked my to-do list — I've literally just been doing math and chem for the last 3 days 😶 gotta change that man.

Anyways guys, happy to see you all ace through this month too 🎉

u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 22 days ago

Accountability post day 29

Almost a month in already, kind of wild 😅 — happy for everyone who's made it this far with me.

Today was decent overall, but I'm annoyed I lost my afternoon study hour. Not really my fault though — some kind of allergic reaction hit and my face started burning. Need to get that checked by a doctor soon, it's honestly getting so irritating 😭

Anyway, I finally analysed my mistakes from yesterday's tests (should've done it yesterday itself but I went and watched The Odyssey instead lol). Turns out I make these weird ahh mistakes — silly calculation errors on the easiest questions. Even when I'm on the right track, I convince myself I'm wrong just because I'm underconfident. Gonna work on that over the next few days.

Then had chem class as usual, covered reaction mechanisms, mostly substitution reactions. Struggled a lot with SN/NGP reactions, super confusing since I'm redoing OC from scratch — this was a completely new topic I never touched last year.

Normal lunch after, then I just crashed out because of the allergic reaction. Once I settled down, I solved an old test paper, and in the evening made sandwiches for my parents, went for a walk, came back and revised all the chemical kinetics and matrices formulas from NCERT — because my dumbass bought the MOG test series and it's got solutions, kinetics, and electrochem all crammed into one test 🙃 meanwhile my batch's only dealing with structural isomerism (not a big deal) while I'm out here teaching myself reaction mechanisms solo. Chemistry has officially turned into tehelka omelette 🍳

Also did some matrices questions from last year's class notes and a friend's notes (AIR 4XX btw not a flex lmao) — learned new stuff, which is a W.

Planned tomorrow in advance, aiming for a more productive day.

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 23 days ago

Accountability post day 27+28

Day 27 and Day 28 , has been like every other Sunday and Monday , mock tests ... Have been pretty disappointed with my scores ... Bro like I mean how intelligent are RBC batch students full syllabus advanced test and someone scores 130s/180 , why did you take drop then? ... Mains pretty much was fine did decent in maths and chem yet physics I have been struggling... The class average was 190s and I just score 169 , and again I wonder is the above average ship sailing to below average now .

Didn't sleep the entire night , yesterday thinking what? Partial drop lu kya? Can I sustain this? Ahh anyways after my tests today i went to watch odyssey... And fuck what a movie it was . Tomorrow will again begin aimless sailing in hopes of reaching land? Maybe home? Dunno whatever it is .

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 24 days ago

Accountability post day 26

So far so good. Pretty consistent as of now , all tasks done

Chemical equilibrium module done

Sequence and series module done

Did System of particles PG 700 illustration questions

Hope everyone is doing well and share your progress in rhe comments ☺️ , btw should I attach pics like kya kya kiya bahr ghumna + padhai ?

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 26 days ago

Accountability post day 24

Day 23 forgot to post , my phone really gave up on me ig , barish nai gila hogya tha after that it's acting crazy , call kiya toh usko meri awaz nahi ari , meri awaz aari toh uski awaz nhi aari .. bluetooth kuch connect nhi hora , kuch bhi app load nhi hora like it used to 🥲 ig achi baat hai

Well today was a very lazy day honestly kal better tha ,

Got up at 8 and revised periodic properties.had breakfast went to gym then I should have come home Right 😭 but mai gya football ground kyu? Mene ek bache ki ball kal raat ko kick maarke gayab krdu thi , andhere mai jhaadiyo mai ghuske Bangalore ke snakes ka snacks nahi banna tha so I said subah ball laake dunga beta apko 🙃. Lmao luckily ball mil gya .

Uske baad ghar aaya had chem class then lunch and then bhayankar nind aayi sogya , woke up fir bahar gya cams home did sequence n series ka module then chemical equilibrium ka module

And honestly as much as I want to support this protest thing going on am too much distracted with news around it . I should avoid using social media completely , I should have earlier but I will do it from now.

And guys I made a grp for droppers id interest pls dm me I will share the link. And all the best good luck hope you ace your day TMRW 😃

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 28 days ago

exam attempting strat?

anyone aware of how to attempt mains paper efficiently ? i am very bad at it ig , i start and run to complete either of three subjects first and the other next . preferably PCM OR CPM order. but its killing my speed and overall potential in that paper

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 29 days ago

Accountability post day 22

A good day , happy with the progress

I couldn't keep track on time but I couldn't complete 3/5 of my tasks

DC PANDEY COM+LOCM QUESTIONS

GRIGNARD REAGENT MS CHOUHAN QUESTIONS

REVISED MEASURING INSTRUMENTS ND QUESTIONS ON IT

other than that I finally hit the gym after a month and surprisingly I was lifting better than before eating shityy all time

thanks 🙏🏻 hope you're doing well . Can we make a droppers group or SMTH? Or if it exists can I be added , feel so friendless sometimes 🥲 just that serious log ho group mai (ig)

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 30 days ago

Accountability post day 21

Sundays are usually mock test days , had full syllabus mock after a long time scored just 127 , made around 13 mistakes not the best but good improvement from last full syllabus test 4 weeks ago from 94 . Rest I was just restless to watch the fifa wc , wanted to witness greatness. Yeah man argentina lost , congratulations spain . I wanted to see my goat ,my idol , do it for one last time , feeling very sad today 🙂 2014 se ek hi player ko dekhte aara hu , the only game the only person that keeps me alive keeps me going . That's freaking bloody football for you guys, messi passes the baton to Yamal . Ig last match of messi wearing the colours of La Albiceleste anymore 🙃.

Sorry for being a weird ahh ftbl fan lol , ig from now on my social media content consumption will go down to zero . Time to finally lock in

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 1 month ago

Accountability post day 20

Again so and so day , late soya late utha revised whole day for the test TMRW , and finally I made a plan to myself for physics and maths ... Still need to make chemistry. Feels thoda light now ki basic idea hai kab kya karna hai kaise karna hai

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 1 month ago

Accountability post day 19

It was like so and so type day , decent padhai but physical activity has been very less , I think I should start gym instead of counting on kids 😭 unke exam rehte bc hindi exam ke liye kon khelne nhi aata yr. Anyways clocked 6hrs and the part am weirded out it maine game khelna chalu kya 11 baje and I played till 2 am 💀 holyyyyyy Idk how itna doob gya

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 1 month ago

Accountability post day 18

First I'd like to appreciate Rare-arm who always dms me and keeps commenting on my posts everyday to keep me going 😊 I was not going to share yesterday's accountability post day 17 but he reminded me , but maybe I was wrong being ashamed over my actions about how I wasted the day but thats the whole point ☝🏻

So day 18 actually starts from 12.30 am 😂 because I was watching england vs argentina mai already kaafi tired tha because I watched spain france the entire game the day before till almost 2.40pm... I dunno how but aankh lag gyi nd I slept ... And I randomly woke up to the commentators screaming and the fans screaming 😱 on the 81 minute, and oh my oh my what I witnesser after that I could hardly sleep out of shock until 4 am , I then woke up at 8.30ish .. nd I was tired today agan because of lack of sleep.

But I was happy how productive the day turned out clocked out almost 8-9 hours , but I did only physics and chemistry I had maths in my daily targets too but I just couldn't find time or the interest to do so, apart from that regular classes toh rehti hi hai chemistry ki.

I kinda fell off the grid during afternoon I was very tired I mean sar dard krra tha but I knew ki yaar I can't waste this day also. Suddenly productivity badh gyi after I saw josaa round 5 ka result , and my friends telling me they are going to clgs like KGP/HYD/BHU/INDORE, and I am genuinely very very happy for them because they did SMTH I couldn't (blaming it on the circumstances I was in that time , I was facing many inner battles collapsing physically and mentally) , but their achievement made me feel ... What did they do differently than me? Was I not intelligent enough? Maybe maybe not but I wouldn't agree that , but the answer was simple they didn't give up like I did after 96%ile , my 3 friends are going to IITs with 97 percentile irrespective of the branch and me ? I gave up on the dream of advanced , so cowardly of me isn't it.

Thanks to my friends who genuinely believe in me , when they said where they were going" he said ayy dw man ik you will do well next year , maybe this wasn't your year APNA TIME AAYEGA " shi~ my mum warned me Abt this tere dost clg chale jayenge tujhe bura ni lgega? Maybe yes maa , bura toh lg rha hai not because I am jealous but because I gave up so quickly,

. Sometimes I feel yaar agar advanced ke liye padh leta toh kya jaata? Bina padhe 93 aaye thoda aur padh leta 120-130 aajate , atleast kisi new gen IIT ki seat mil jaati but I gave up. But no point in looking back it's pointless , I withdrew from my round 5 allotment BIT MESRA .

But l promised to myself next year I will be a better version of me , competitively, physically , mentally and academically. Will make this year count 👍🏻 THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE READ MY POST kaafi lamba Lamba likhta hu 🫪

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u/ComfortableCreepy376 — 1 month ago