JEE Main Feb 1 Shift 1 Analysis: The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted the last day of the January 2024 session of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main on February 1. The morning shift, according to students who appeared for the exam, was a balanced paper and covered all the chapters of the CBSE board 2024 syllabus.

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The JEE Main Paper 1 comprised three subjects – physics, chemistry and mathematics. The paper was held for a total of 300 marks.

“Overall, the JEE Main exam, held on the morning shift of February 1, was a balanced paper that could be solved in the stipulated time. Average students found mathematics a bit lengthy. According to a large section of students, the difficulty level-wise order is mathematics > chemistry > physics,” said Ajay Sharma, national academic director, engineering at Aakash BYJU’s.

In terms of order of difficulty, the JEE Main February 1 evening shift paper was of moderate level, according to Ramesh Batlish, head of FIITJEE Noida. Mathematics in shift 2 was moderate, while physics was easy to moderate and chemistry was easy.

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The chemistry paper, according to Aakash BYJU’S, in the morning shift was based on NCERT books. All the chapters were duly represented in the paper.

“A few questions were based on memory-based data and were confusing. Questions from prominent chapters like electrochemistry, nomenclature of organic compounds, p-block, d-block and thermodynamics were asked. Overall coverage of the chapters was uniform,” the Aakash BYJU’S analysis said.

Organic and inorganic chemistry was given more weightage compared to physical chemistry, the FIITJEE expert said while analysing the paper. He further added: “Some questions were directly asked from NCERT Textbook, which made this section easy.”

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The difficulty level of the physics paper held in the morning shift on February 1 was easy to moderate. Questions, according to FIITJEE and Aakash BYJU’S, were asked from kinematics, laws of motion, work power and energy, gravitation, circular motion, heat and thermodynamics, magnetism-2 questions, wave optics, capacitance, current electricity, modern physics, semiconductors.

Both MCQs and numerical-based questions were lengthy in the morning shift A few fact-based questions from class 12 chapters of NCERT were also asked, the experts added. Students felt the physics section was balanced as per the coverage of chapters.

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The mathematics paper in the morning shift today was moderate according to FIITJEE. Questions were asked from all chapters with emphasis on chapters of calculus and algebra, FIITJEE said. As per JEE Main analysis by FIITJEE, more than one question was asked from vectors, 3-D geometry, differential equations and conic sections.

The Aakash-BYJU’S expert also termed the mathematics paper as moderate to difficult based on students’ feedback received. The questions were a bit calculative. Coordinate geometry and calculus were dominant in the paper. Almost all the topics were covered.

In calculus, questions are asked from continuity and differentiability, area, and differential equations, FIITJEE added.

In algebra, probability, binomial theorem, complex numbers, permutation and combination, statistics, progressions, matrices and determinants were asked. In the coordinate geometry, questions were asked from circle, ellipse and hyperbola with mixed concepts. The numerical section had lengthy calculations. A few questions, according to Aakash-BYJU’S were found to be lengthy and tricky.