JEE Main 30 Jan Shift 1 Analysis: The mathematics section of JEE Main 2024, January 30 exam was rated as moderate by students, while physics and chemistry were rated as easy. However, in the second shift, the difficulty level-wise order according to a large section of students is: Mathematics > Chemistry > Physics.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) on January 30 conducted the day 4 exam of the Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) 2024. In the morning shift, students found the whole exam to be balanced.

The JEE Main paper 1 comprised three subjects – physics, chemistry and mathematics. The paper was held for a total of 300 marks. Questions covered almost all chapters of Class 11 and Class 12 from the CBSE board. Students felt more weightage was given to Class 12 chapters in math and physics, Ramesh Batlish Head, FIITJEE Noida told indianexpress.com.

Ajay Sharma, National Academic Director, Engineering at Aakash BYJU’S, while analysing the paper said that chemistry and physics were on the easy to moderate level and mathematics was considered to be on the moderate side in comparison to past shifts.

The difficulty level of the math paper was of moderate level in the first shift and moderate to difficult in evening shift. Questions were asked from all chapters with emphasis on chapters of calculus and algebra. There were multiple questions from vectors, 3D geometry, matrices, limits and differential equations. 

In calculus, questions asked were from continuity and differentiability, indefinite integrals, area, differential equations.  In algebra, probability, binomial theorem, complex numbers, statistics, progressions, quadratic equations, matrices and determinants were seen.  In the coordinate geometry part, questions were asked from circle and ellipse.  The numerical section had lengthy calculations from chapters of calculus and coordinate geometry.  In the evening shift, there were more questions from Class 11, said Ajay Sharma, National Academic Director, Engineering, Aakash BYJU’S.

A few questions were reported as lengthy.

The difficulty level of the physics paper held on day 4 of JEE Main 2024 exam was moderate. Questions were asked from kinematics, laws of motion, work power and energy, gravitation, heat and thermodynamics, magnetism, optics- 2 questions, capacitance, current electricity, modern physics, semi-conductors. 

Both MCQs and numerical-based questions were lengthy. A few fact-based questions from Class 12 chapters of NCERT were also asked.  Students felt more weightage given to Class 12 chapters in both shifts.

The chemistry paper on January 30 has been analysed at an easy level. Some questions were directly asked from NCERT textbook, which made this section easy.

Organic and physical chemistry was given more weightage compared to inorganic chemistry. Questions were asked from ionic equilibrium, thermodynamics, atomic structure, chemical bonding had match list type question, mole concept , chemical kinetics, general organic chemistry- 2 questions, IUPAC names,  alcohol, ether and phenol, amines, aryl and alkyl halides, coordination compounds, d and f block elements, periodic table. 

In shift 2, very few questions in this shift were asked from Physical chemistry.