Class 12: how do I split the last 100 days between boards and NEET?
Pooja Iyer12th Sample
10 Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Okay so it's officially under 100 days to my first board paper (Chennai, PCB, CBSE) and I am having a full dramatic crisis, please send help 😭.
My situation: prelims are in about three weeks, practicals right after, then boards, and NEET comes a couple of months after that. My NEET mocks are around 520 to 560, which is fine, but my school test marks in Chemistry and Physics have been averaging maybe 60 to 65 percent because I only write answers in a rush. In Biology I'm okay at both.
Everybody says something different. My teacher says "do boards first, NEET is MCQs, you'll manage". My coaching says "NEET is the real thing, boards will take care of themselves". My mother says "both" and I wanted to scream into a pillow.
What I tried: one week of alternating days (boards day, NEET day) and I ended up half-doing both. Then one week of only NEET and my Physics derivations started going blank when I tried to write them.
What I actually want to know:
- How do people split time in these last 100 days? Is there a schedule that has worked for someone?
- Should I stop mocks till boards are over?
- How much writing practice do I need if I already know the content?
- Do I stop revising Biology via MCQs and just read the NCERT for boards?
I'm not looking for "work hard" advice, I'm looking for how it's actually structured.
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[+][–]Nisha Verma12thSample· 9d ago
Ha, I'm in the same boat so this isn't expert advice, but here's what I'm doing. Weeks until practicals: 60/40, NEET/boards, because prelims and practicals are fixed and you can't skip them. Between practicals and the first paper: switch to 30/70, boards heavy. After the last board paper: all NEET. And I'm keeping a few MCQs a day alive in the boards phase so the muscle doesn't go.
[+][–]Pooja Iyer12thSample· 8d agoAuthor
Nisha, that 60/40 then 30/70 then all NEET is actually a plan I can follow. Thank you. Is there a rough daily structure? Like do I do boards in the morning or evening?
[+][–]Nisha Verma12thSample· 8d ago
My boards stuff goes in the morning (fresh hand, long writing), MCQs and mocks in the evening, and the last hour is revision from the summary sheets. Try one week and see.
[+][–]Tanvi Deshmukh12thSample· 9d ago
Tanvi here!! I'd add a THIRD thing, which is overlap. A lot of boards prep is NEET prep if you do it right. Reading NCERT line by line for Biology? That's both. Writing out Physics derivations? That's boards, but it also makes numerical questions easier because you understand where the formulas come from. So the real question is what is boards-only: long answer writing, diagrams with labels, practical file and viva, and 5-mark derivations. Block time for just those.
[+][–]Zoya Khan12thSample· 9d ago
Gentle point from someone who got burnt: please also plan your sleep and an actual day off per week in this phase. The last hundred days are where a lot of people drop quietly in health and then lose the very marks they were chasing. I would treat a day off like a block in the timetable.
[+][–]Harsh Gupta12thSample· 9d ago
JEE here but same drama. Honestly boards is just NCERT, I'd do it in the last two weeks before the paper, no need to plan 100 days around it
[+][–]Kavya NaikDropperSample· 9d ago
Disagree Harsh, and Pooja's already said her answers are rushed. For boards, marks come from how you write: the diagram labelled correctly, the derivation in the steps examiners expect, the units in the final answer. If you start two weeks before, you'll know the content but your hand won't. Writing is a skill like typing. You need reps.
[+][–]Harsh Gupta12thSample· 9d ago
ok ok fair, I withdraw my 2-week genius plan. Pooja, you may now ignore me
[+][–]Arjun Nair12thSample· 9d ago
Also practicals count and you can't cram them. And the board marks matter for quite a few college and eligibility things. Dry take: ignoring them is a bad trade.
[+][–]Siddharth RaoDropperSample· 9d ago
Dropper, so I did boards a year ago. What helped:
Mocks: don't stop them completely. Cut to one a week or fortnight so you still feel the exam clock. Skipping all mocks for 2 months makes your speed rusty.
Writing practice: two board papers (sample or previous) per subject, written fully in exam conditions, then checked against the marking scheme. Don't just look at the answers. Write. I know it sounds slow. It's the fastest way I know.
Biology: don't switch to only reading. Keep the MCQs, but read each NCERT chapter again with a pencil and underline the exact line that gives the answer. That's good for both.
[+][–]Mehak AroraDropperSample· 8d ago
It also helps to put the dates somewhere you see them: prelims, practicals, each paper, NEET. Seeing the actual calendar made my panic smaller. It's easy to feel like it's "all at once" but it's actually a sequence.
[+][–]Pooja Iyer12thSample· 8d agoAuthor
okay I made a calendar with all the dates on my wall and the first thing I noticed is that the first two papers I have are Biology and English, which is... not scary at all. Why was I panicking 😭
