Academically, first year in college is very similar to the stuff you were taught in JEE. You’ll again need the calculus, algebra, mechanics, organic and inorganic chemistry, rotation, probability, and waves all over again. Most of the courses hover around that. That being said, you’ll also learn new stuff, like C programming (although a few would have done that already in +2), Engineering Graphics, Report Writing (although there isn’t much to learn), Biology (for most of the students, biology is new), and Thermodynamics (it’s a lot different than what we were taught during 11th and 12th grade).
First year is specially important for Dual degree students (Dualites) as the BE degree they’d get depends on their first year CG.
So far, it may seem, first year academics aren’t an issue, right? Most of the stuff is already done, I just need to attend all lectures regularly, make notes, give all the tests, and I’d pass with flying colours, or in this scenario, a good CG at the end of the first year. Here comes the tricky part.
We think studying in college is similar to what it used to be an year ago. You’d sit down for couple of hours, concentrate, and study productively, and that’s where you’re wrong. There’s no room for complacency in college, trust me. There are innumerable distractions in colleges, some of which you might not be able to imagine right now, since you are not here. There would be people who would be overwhelmed with the new found freedom they have. A land where there’s no one to stop them from doing anything, no one to dictate terms to them. They’re independent and are the only one responsible to make all the decisions for themselves.