JEE Main 2018 Online Exam Analysis

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JEE Main 2018 online exam commenced today. According to students, there were no changes in the exam pattern. The paper overall was similar to the JEE Main offline exam held on April 8. Read more on Shiksha.

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JEE Main 2018 online paper was held today, April 15 across 258 cities in India and abroad. The exam started sharp at 9:30 am. No entry was allowed after 9:30 am.

Students were not allowed to carry anything inside examination hall except JEE Main admit card. Those having proper medical advice were allowed water bottles. Metal detectors were used at the entry gate and no bags or wrist watches were allowed inside. No problems of power cuts or technical glitches were reported by test takers.

According to students, there were no changes in the pattern of Paper -1 of JEE Main compared to previous years. The paper had three sections - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics with 30 questions from each subject. The marking scheme was +4 marks for correct answer, – 1 for incorrect answer and zero if not attempted. All the 90 questions were of multiple choice with single correct answer objective type.

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Students shared that the level of difficulty for each paper was as follows:

  • Physics - Medium
  • Chemistry - Medium (Mostly NCERT based)
  • Mathematics - Easy

The paper overall was similar to the JEE Main offline exam held on April 8, 2018 i.e. between easy to moderate level. As compared to last year’s paper, this year the online paper was relatively of same level as per students. Students found the online exam paper convenient to attempt.

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