JEE Main 2018 Student Reactions

JEE Main 2018 offline exam commenced today, on April 8. Paper 1 of the exam for BE/BTech programmes was conducted from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Paper 2 for BArch/BPlan programmes is being held from 2 pm to 5 pm. JEE Main 2018 is being conducted across 248 cities in 36 states and union territories and towns in India. Additionally, the exam is also being held at 10 exam centres abroad. This year, around 11.5 lakh aspirants have signed up for the exam in comparison to 12 lakh in 2017. JEE Main 2018 registrations have dipped by 51000.

Aspirants appearing for Paper 1 had to report two and a half hours before the exam time. Candidates will have to undergo security check at exam centres. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the conducting authority of the exam, will be setting up metal detectors at JEE Main 2018 test centres. The metal detectors would be able to detect prohibited metallic or electronics devices, copper, aluminum, silver, wire, cell battery, watch battery, miniature electronic gadget or photovoltaic equipment, etc. Mobile phone, electronic watch and calculators too are a part of the banned items list. All that the aspirants are allowed to carry is their valid JEE Main admit cards.

While Paper 1 of JEE Main 2018 will comprise questions from Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, Paper 2 will have questions from Mathematics, Aptitude Test and Drawing. CBSE had recently announced that the difficulty level of each section of JEE Main 2018 will be the same.

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JEE Main 2018 Paper 1 Student Reactions

Shiksha spoke to a bunch of students who appeared for JEE Main 2018 on April 8. According to Rwit Panda, a student of DPS R.K.Puram, the exam was a bit difficult and quite lengthy as compared to last year. He said, " Maths took a lot of time so it was the toughest section for me. On the other hand, Chemistry as usual, was the easiest and Physics was of moderate level. Out of 90 questions, I could solve around 84 questions".

Speaking about section-wise weightage, he shared, " I think, all the topics across all the three subjects were given equal weightage. Howver, questions from topics like Set Theory, Progression, and Conic Sections were lengthy as compared to others".

Vikas Chaudhary who took the exam for the second time said, "Maths is my weakest point and I found it to be tough and lengthy. The exam was neither very easy nor very tough. Chemistry was the easiest while Physics was of moderate level. I was able to solve 80% of the questions though. Let's hope for the best". 

A student of Delhi Scottish School, Aditi Agarwal agreed to the fact the paper this year was tougher than 2017. She said, " According to me the paper had a lot of suprises and I am not satisfied with my performance. I had prepare well for numericals but I guess I lagged behind in the theory part of it. I was able to solve around 60 out of 90 questions in the exam".

Another enginering aspirant, Ayush Rai, a student of Father Agnel School is sure of securing anything above 200. He said, " Even though Maths was lenghthy and the most difficult amongst all the three sections, I am sure to get anything above 200 marks in JEE Main. Overall, I found the exam to be easy. In Mathematics, I think more weightage was given to topics like Conic Sections and Integration".

Contradicting most of the students who found Mathematics to be the toughest section of the exam, Ramanpreet Singh shared, " Most of the my friends found Mathematics to be toughest section. However, for me Chemistry was the most difficult. Maths and Physics was at par in terms of difficulty level. I could solve around 75% of the questions across sections. I hope the cut-offs are low this year.

JEE Main 2018 answer keys, JEE Main 2018 solution with question paper and JEE Main 2018 cut-off score will be soon available on Shiksha.

JEE Main 2018 official answer keys will be released on JEE Main website from April 24 to 27.  The exam results will be declared on April 30. Check JEE Main 2018 important dates here!