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17. from mp. attempted jee 2025.

september 2024 — 142 in mock.

december 2024 — 89.

exam day — let's not go there.

what happened in between?

i didn't get dumber. i didn't run out of time. i broke.

one bad mock became one bad week. one bad week became

"i'll restart monday." monday became next monday. four

months gone.

every planner i tried made it worse. missed a day?

here's your guilt. missed a week? here's 47 overdue tasks

staring at you. no system was built for how students

actually behave when pressure peaks.

so my co-founder and i are building prepex.

not a planner. an execution layer.

→ plan adapts daily to how you're actually feeling

→ bad day protocol — miss 2 days, it welcomes you back

with 3 small tasks instead of a wall of guilt

→ spaced revision auto-scheduled (you never forget again)

→ burnout detection — silent monitoring that catches you

before full collapse

→ accountability partner — one real person matched to

your prep stage

100+ aspirants in community. we have two iit mentors now:

aditya (iit madras) for daily doubt solving 7-8 pm.

saad (iiit nagpur) for weekly live google meet sessions.

both free. no tier. no upsell.

i'm 17 building this. not from iit. not from any startup

background. just someone who broke down during prep and

refused to let that be the end of the story.

screenshot attached — prepex.io for the full thing.

honest question for fellow droppers: what was the exact

moment last year when you knew it was slipping? want to

build for that moment specifically.

(dm for community link — 100+ aspirants, iit mentor

doubt sessions daily)

17. dropper. attempted jee 2025.

if you're class 11 right now — this is for you.

you have time. and i know that doesn't feel like a big deal

right now. it will feel like the biggest deal in november when

the pressure actually hits.

i was exactly where you are in class 11. confident. slightly

lazy. thinking "i'll get serious later."

later came. november came with it. i couldn't open a book for

4 months. mock dropped from 142 to 89. exam over.

what nobody tells class 11 students:

content is not the problem. pw is free. allen is detailed.

ncert is sitting right there.

the problem is execution. the problem is —

- what do i actually do today?

- how do i keep revising what i studied 3 weeks ago?

- what happens to my prep when i have a terrible week?

class 11 is the exact right time to build the systems that

answer these questions. not class 12. not the drop year.

i built prepex because i needed it at your stage. execution

layer for jee — daily adaptive planning, auto-revision,

burnout detection.

100+ aspirants in community now. two iit mentors for doubt

sessions — completely free.

if you want in — prepex.io or dm me.

one question for class 11 folks — what does your current

prep structure look like? genuinely curious.

if you're a dropper this year, you already know what i'm

going to say.

the hardest part isn't the second attempt.

it's the silence between you and a textbook at 11 pm when

your mock score broke you that morning. it's everyone

assuming you'll just "try harder this time." it's having

no one to talk to who's actually been there.

last year i scored 142 in september. december i was at 89.

i didn't get dumber. i broke.

what nobody told me — droppers don't fail because of less

time. they fail because they have more pressure and same

broken systems. same rigid timetable. same "you missed a

day, you're behind forever" guilt. same isolation.

so my co-founder and i are building prepex. it's the system

i wish i had during my drop.

→ daily plan that adapts when you crash (not punishes you)

→ auto-schedules revision so you don't forget what you

studied last week

→ detects burnout patterns silently — before you stop opening

the app

→ welcomes you back gently when you disappear for 3 days

community crossed 100+ aspirants. just added two iit mentors:

→ aditya (iit madras, final year) — doubt solver, daily

7-8 pm

→ saad (iiit nagpur) — weekly live google meet sessions

all free. no subscription, no premium tier nonsense.

dropper to dropper — your second attempt can be different.

not because you have less syllabus left. because you have

clearer eyes about what actually broke you last time.

screenshot of the app + mentors below.

one honest question for fellow droppers — what was the

exact moment last year you knew it had slipped? want to

make sure we're building for that moment, not after.

(prepex.io if you want a look. dm for community link.)

if you're a dropper, falling 3 days behind a rigid, static schedule feels like a death sentence. the moment you miss a target, the planner becomes a monument of guilt.

that exact guilt loop ruined my prep last year. i got sick, missed a week, looked at my manual tracker, and panicked so hard i couldn't study properly for months.

fixed schedules are made for robots, not droppers dealing with intense pressure.

we're building prepex as an adaptive study operating system. if you miss a session, the system automatically reshuffles your backlog timeline instantly.

to make sure you don't get stuck on heavy concepts, we just got 2 iitans inside our whatsapp group—one for on-demand doubt solving and another taking live problem-solving sessions to show you how they cracked it.

analytics attached from our development dashboard.

if you want to join the community and get access to the iitans, drop a comment below and i'll dm you the link.

Hey folks,

I'm Ishwar, 17, from Indore. I'm building Prepex with my

co-founder — an execution app for JEE aspirants. Not a

content platform, not another planner. It focuses on daily

consistency, smart revision, and emotional accountability

so students don't burn out mid-prep.

We currently have a 90+ member aspirant community growing

weekly. MVP launches in 8 weeks.

What I'm looking for:

IIT students (current or recent grads) for three roles —

all paid, all flexible:

1. Doubt Solver — ~1 hour a day, solve student doubts. Per-hour payment.
2. Mentor — share your prep journey, guide students through strategy. Async, low time commitment. Paid per interaction.
3. Live Session Host — 1 hour a week, take a live session with the community on any topic of your choice. Fixed payment per session.

You can pick one role or all three. Pay is negotiable based

on your time and what you bring to the table.

What I'm NOT looking for:

- People who want equity-only roles

- Anyone too busy to commit even 1 hour a week consistently

- Sales pitches from coaching institutes

If this sounds interesting, drop a comment or DM me with:

- Your IIT + branch + year

- Which role(s) interest you

- A rough idea of your availability

Happy to share more about Prepex, the team, and where

we're headed in a quick call.

Thanks for reading.

— Ishwar Birla

Co-founder, Prepex

this is for the folks chasing top 5K, not just passing.

specifically about why high-effort students still under-

perform.

three leaks most aspirants don't notice:

LEAK 1: revision timing

you study a topic in september. attempt mock in december.

you've never revised it. ebbinghaus forgetting curve says

you've lost 75% by then. but you "studied" it once, so it

goes on your "covered" list. it's not covered. it's gone.

LEAK 2: mistake tagging

you got 7/10 in a mock. you saw the wrong 3. but did you

tag them?

- silly error (recoverable, no action needed)

- conceptual gap (must restudy)

- time pressure (need pace practice)

- wild guess (test prep gap)

without tagging, you treat all wrong answers the same. you

restudy stuff you already know. waste of weeks.

LEAK 3: backlog compounding

you missed monday's plan. tuesday morning, do you see

"yesterday's 4 tasks" added to today's 6? if yes, you'll

quit by friday. backlog needs to redistribute across 3-5

days with priority decay, not dump on day 2.

prepex builds all three correctly. spaced revision auto-

scheduled, mistake tagging mandatory after every wrong

answer, backlog redistribution algorithmic.

i'm 17. dropped 4 months last year. mock 142 → 89.

analysed exactly why. now building.

free. summer 2026.

prepex dot io

for top-rank chasers — which leak hits you hardest? curious

what serious aspirants actually struggle with vs what i'm

assuming.

what prepex is:

an execution layer for jee prep. sits on top of pw / allen

/ unacademy / self-study. doesn't replace content. helps

you actually do something with it.

what it does (mvp):

1. ai daily planner — 6 tasks per day, adapts to yesterday

2. spaced revision — auto-scheduled day 1, 3, 7, 14, 30

3. focus mode — distraction-free, milestone tracking

4. mistake notebook — auto-fills from wrong answers

5. burnout detection — passive, no annoying surveys

6. bad day protocol — no guilt when you come back

7. accountability partner — one real human, matched

8. weekly win journal — friday celebration card

what it's NOT:

- not another planner

- not another doubt solver

- not another video lecture platform

- not another mock test bank

- not another youtube tutor

who's building it:

17 year old who dropped 4 months in their own jee attempt.

came back. now building this with one co-founder.

development started this monday.

cost: free.

launch: summer 2026.

waitlist: 75+ joined this week.

prepex.io

ek hi sawal — what's missing from this list that you wish

existed? tell me. backlog gets logged.

january last year. i started jee prep. day 1.

first thing i did was open notion and build a "perfect"

timetable. 6 hours a day, color-coded, every chapter mapped

out till the exam. felt productive. felt like a topper

already.

3 weeks later — the timetable was dead.

2 months later — i couldn't even open notion.

4 months later — full breakdown. couldn't study at all.

what i learned the hard way: a static timetable is the worst

thing you can build on day 1. real life doesn't work like

that. you'll get sick. you'll have school exams. you'll have

bad days. the moment you miss one day, the whole timetable

starts mocking you.

what i'm building instead is prepex — a system that adapts

every single day. plan changes based on what you actually

studied yesterday. miss a day? plan re-balances itself.

energy low? plan goes lighter. no guilt, no shame, no dead

timetables.

dropped 4 months last year. came back too late. mock crashed

from 142 to 89. now building so other jee28 folks don't

repeat my arc.

waitlist live. free. summer 2026 launch.

Prepex.

question for jee28 batch: what's your current "perfect

timetable" looking like? drop it in comments. let's roast it

together.

if you're jee droppers batch, you have something i didn't. time to set up systems before pressure hits.

i went all in last year. november came. couldn't open a book for 4 months. mock dropped 142 to 89. came back too late.

what broke me wasn't syllabus. it was that every planner i used punished me for missing days. nobody designed any of this for actual humans.

so my co-founder and i are building prepex. an execution layer for jee aspirants. adapts daily, auto-schedules revisions, detects burnout patterns, welcomes you back without guilt when you crash.

landing page is live. waitlist crossed 75+ this week. dev started monday. launching summer 2026.

posting here because jee is exactly who we're building for. start with the right system, not just the right syllabus.It’s completely free of cost.

screenshot attached. prepex.io if curious.

one question — what scares you most about starting prep? want to make sure we're solving real fears, not assumed ones

if you're jee28 batch, you have something i didn't. time to set up systems before pressure hits.

i went all in last year. november came. couldn't open a book for 4 months. mock dropped 142 to 89. came back too late.

what broke me wasn't syllabus. it was that every planner i used punished me for missing days. nobody designed any of this for actual humans.

so my co-founder and i are building prepex. an execution layer for jee aspirants. adapts daily, auto-schedules revisions, detects burnout patterns, welcomes you back without guilt when you crash.

landing page is live. waitlist crossed 75+ this week. dev started monday. launching summer 2026.

posting here because jee28 is exactly who we're building for. you have 2 years. start with the right system, not just the right syllabus.

screenshot attached. prepex dot io if curious.

one question — what scares you most about starting prep? want to make sure we're solving real fears, not assumed ones.