Is there a correlation between the number of hours spent on studying and the ranks secured in IIT entrance test? A good JEE rank depends not just on the time spent, but also the innate ability of the candidate. This is what a survey of the 2015 batch of IIT-Bombay students done by Insight , the student newspaper of IIT Bombay reveals.

The survey reveals that barely five per cent of the candidates among top 100 rankers spent more than 12 hours a day to crack the JEE while 18 per cent of students above rank 5,000 spent the same amount of time in their preparation everyday. Among the top 2,500 rankers majority of them spent minimum of 4 to 7 hours a day for JEE preparation. Among those who ranked below 5,000 in JEE, over 40 per cent spent between 4 to 7 hours daily.

The survey, which is inspired by Harvard Crimson’s Freshmen Survey, was conducted on the 2015 batch on diverse topics like their background before entering the IIT, political and religious beliefs and their plans for post-graduation.

Among the 875 newcomers 254 participated in the survey.

Among the top rankers very few people spent more than 12 hours of preparation dismissing the general assumption that students need to study long and not waste any time.