KEAM 2026 Exam Analysis (OUT): Check Engineering and Pharmacy Paper Review

KEAM 2026 shift-wise analysis can be checked below:

Check the KEAM 2025 exam analysis below:

From 2024 onwards, the KEAM exam transitioned to computer-based test from an offline exam. The KEAM exam pattern and KEAM syllabus also underwent various changes. Candidates can check the KEAM 2024 exam analysis day-wise.

KEAM entrance exam was held at the state level across all districts of Kerala and also in Dubai, Delhi and Mumbai.

• Engineering: Candidates have 180 minutes to answer 150 questions (75 in Mathematics, 45 in Physics, and 30 in Chemistry).
• BPharm Only: Candidates have 90 minutes to complete 75 questions (45 in Physics and 30 in Chemistry).
• The scoring system grants four marks for every correct answer and applies a one-mark penalty for each incorrect response.

KEAM 2024 June 9 Exam Analysis

• Overall difficulty: Moderate.
• Physics was moderate.
• Chemistry was easy.
• Maths moderate and lengthy.

KEAM 2024 June 8 Exam Analysis

• The overall paper was moderate.
• Overall paper was moderate.
• Maths was lengthy but doable.
• Chemistry was easy and directly from NCERT.
• Physics was easy to moderate.

KEAM 2024 June 7 Exam Analysis

KEAM 2024 June 6 Exam Analysis

• Overall the exam was easy to moderate.
• Maths was easy.
• Physics and Chemistry were moderate to difficult and slightly towards the JEE Mains level.
• In Physics questions came from Ohms law.
• In the chemistry part today, physical chemistry questions were more. But there were a fair number of questions from organic and inorganic as well.
• In Maths, very basic questions were asked from integration.
• As per the students, almost 60% of questions are directly from NCERT without changing a single word. The rest 40% would be numerical and application-based.
• The weightage of class 12 topics was more than class 11 topics.

KEAM 2024 June 5 Exam Analysis

• Overall difficulty: Moderate
• Physics: Physics mostly from 11th mechanics, waves. Less weightage from electrostatics, optics.
• Chemistry: Chemistry was heavy on IUPAC, organic, moderate weightage for inorganic. Physical was on the lesser side.
• Maths: Less weightage for premutation and combination, probability and conics. Heavy on 3d, vectors and complex. 

KEAM 2023 Paper 1 Analysis:

As per the initial reaction of the candidates after the KEAM 2023 paper 1 exam the following has been noted:

• KEAM 2023 physics section was moderate to difficult.
• The overall paper was of a moderate difficulty level.
• The chemistry section in KEAM 2023 paper 1 was easy.
• In the Chemistry section, Organic chemistry carried high weightage.

KEAM 2023 Paper 2 Analysis:

As per the initial reaction of the candidates:

• The overall paper was difficult.
• The KEAM 2023 paper 2 exam was said to be lengthy and time-consuming.

KEAM 2022 Analysis for Paper 1

Chemistry: Moderate. Topics with the most weightage were chemistry in everyday life, polymers, organics chemistry and others. 

Physics: Moderate to difficult. Most of the questions came from Bernoulli's theorem, gravitation, velocity-time graph, vector, circular motion, dimensional formula and others.

KEAM 2022 Analysis for Paper 2

Maths: As per the initial reaction of the students, Maths was lengthy, and that is why it was considered a moderate-level paper. However, the questions were easy. Time management was difficult as come questions had quite a bit of calculation.

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