JEE Main 2025 Analysis: The Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) BTech, BE paper held on the first day of the April 2025 session consisted of a 300-mark mathematics, physics, and chemistry paper. The JEE Main question paper, according to experts in the field, covered almost all chapters of Class 11 and Class 12 CBSE board. Candidates who appeared for the BE, BTech paper of JEE Main shift 1 exam found the paper “balanced but lengthy”.
The JEE Main day 1 exam was held in two shifts: from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. The JEE Main 2025 session 2 exam, which started on April 2, will continue until April 9. All the subjects have two sections – 1 and 2. While section 1 has 20 multiple choice questions with a single correct answer, section 2 has five numerical-based questions.
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According to Ramesh Batlish, JEE Expert, AAKASH INVICTUS, the shift 1 exam on April 2, physics was moderately tricky, mathematics was moderate and lengthy, and chemistry was easy. “Overall, this paper was of a moderate level as per students,” he said.
The JEE expert also listed the topics covered on the April 2 morning session exam.
Mathematics: The paper had a strong focus on calculus, coordinate geometry, and algebra. Some students noted that Vector and 3D Geometry questions were present but not difficult. A few lengthy calculations in certain questions made time management crucial, but the overall difficulty was balanced.The Numerical Section had lengthy calculations.
Physics: More weightage given to mechanics, electrostatics and current electricity. Chapters included kinematics, gravitation, rotational motion, SHM, laws of motion, magnetism, ray optics, modern physics, work power and energy, heat and thermodynamics. Numerical based questions were easy. Few fact-based questions from Class 12 chapters of NCERT were also asked.
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Chemistry: Organic Chemistry was given more weightage compared to Inorganic Chemistry. Questions asked from GOC, amines, aldehyde and ketones, chemical bonding, electrochemistry, mole concept, coordination compounds, liquid solutions, atomic structure, chemical kinetics, alcohol, ether and phenol, biomolecules, aryl and alkyl halides. Numerical based had questions from physical chemistry.
There will be negative markings for incorrect answers in Sections A and B. For each question in Section B, a candidate has to enter the correct integer value of the answer using the mouse and the on-screen virtual numeric keypad in the place designated to enter the answer. For Section B, the answer should be rounded off to the nearest integer.
According to students who appeared in the first session of JEE Main held in January this year, questions in all the JEE Main 2025 shifts held between January 22 and 29 covered almost all chapters of Class 11 and 12 NCERT textbooks.
Last year, the overall difficulty was moderate to difficult. In 2024, the number of 100 percentilers had increased by 13 candidates in comparison to 2023 as a total of 56 candidates have received 100 NTA score in Paper 1 (BE/BTech).
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Last year, for general category candidates, the cut off for JEE Advanced was 93.23, for SC candidates, the cut-off was 60.09 and cut-off for ST students was 46.69 in 2024. The OBC (non-creamy layer) cut off for JEE Advanced last year was 79.67.
