JAM 22 maths paper was most unexpected for everyone. I started preparing for JAM in the beginning of my 4th semester(January 219) under the gance of some seniors and college professors. Everyone told me about the question's weightage like analysis group theory linear algebra and topology are extremely important. You must know the concepts if you want good rank. As in these subjects there are Minor calculations and lots of concept. While they told me ignore multivariate calculus differential equation and vector calculus for then saying that there weightage is too low and a good student like me can prepare for that in last 2 months. So I did what I was told. I practiced a lot of questions from pure part from some good books like Kumarsen Joseph A Gallian etc. I was satisfied with my practice. My professors were sure like I'd easily get 5+ marks and that would be enough to get a good IIT. Then came january 22. Now I started studying applied part which is quite easy. Now I was confident. I knew I can get a decent college by seeing my performance. But but but when I saw the question paper I was shocked. There were very less no of questions from pure part like analysis and Group theory. And if I remember correctly almost no questions from topology. If you see past 1 years papers pattern was almost same with 7% of questions from pure part. This time it waspletely opposite. Majority of questions were from differential equation and vector calculus. It was really very unexpected. I was very sad. Still I had to solve them. After exams I got home and talked to my teachers about it. I said I'll get 55. They were like it's ok you'll get a good college. And then came the results. My marks were as I expected and rank was 413. Completely shocked. This year's cutoff was 33 approx which is highest ever set by JAM. JAM 221 is being conducted by IISc Banglore for the first time. Go through the past year's papers and start preparing thoroughly. They can ask questions in any pattern they want.