Always start trying to factorise, *yaar*—it’s the *vhodlem* and fast way if the roots look neat. But for JEE level, the paper-setter’s trap is usually messy numbers, so just slam the quadratic formula straight away and save time.
I learned this the hard way, tutoring a kid after college, when I wasted ten beautiful sunset minutes staring at a factorisable sum, while my bus was about to leave.
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