VITEEE 2026 April 28 Shift 1 Paper Analysis Out: Impact of Negative Marking on Day 1, Topics, Difficulty Level

VITEEE 2026 April 28 shift 1 paper analysis OUT: The Vellore Institute of Technology has finally completed VIT April 28 shift 1 and 2 paper. Based on initial students feedback and reactions, overall both papers were moderate. However, with negative marking this year, scenario seems completely changed. While some found the paper to be balanced, on the contrary, some felt pressured and stressed due to -1 mark penalty. Read below to know more about VITEEE 2026 April 28 analysis.

VITEEE 2026 April 28 Shift 1 Paper Analysis Out: Impact of Negative Marking on Day 1, Topics Covered, Difficulty Level

VIT has completely conducting VITEEE 2026 April 28 shift 1 and 2 paper. Students can check feedback on exam along with VITEEE 2026 question paper answer key of both shifts. Based on experts feedback and student's reaction, both the paper were moderate level. Physics and Maths section were moderate to tough with tricky questions and maths being lengthy made candidates stress to finish it by 2.5 hours.

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Chemistry in the VITEEE April 28 shift 1 was moderate with few out of the box questions (beyond NCERT Level). While in VIT 2026 April 28 shift 2 question paper, Chemistry section was more balanced and had direct questions.

VIT 2026 April 28 Shift 2 Question Paper Analysis: Section-Wise Difficulty Level

Students can check the difficulty level of the question paper of shift 2 -

• Overall- easy to moderate
• Chemistry - scorable - easy- doable easy to moderate 
• Physics - was moderate with tricky and calculative questions
• English and Aptitude - Easy and direct questions. 

VITEEE 2026 April 28 Shift 1 Paper Analysis: Section-Wise Breakdown 

Based on students and experts analysis, overall VITEEE 2026 April 28 paper analysis -

• Overall - Moderate level. Paper was balanced. 

• Chemistry- Easy to moderate (concept and formula based) mostly from PYQs

• Physics - was moderately tough with few tricky questions PYQs

• Maths - was tough, lengthy, calculative, average attempt was less in this section. 

• English and Aptitude - Easy to moderate

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VIT 2026 April 28 Shift 1 Analysis: Impact of Negative Marking of Day One

Students on social media stated that the VITEEE exam April 28 shift 1 was moderate to lengthy. Many also mentioned, that the question paper was on JEE Main level. Maths was tough, especially calculus section. While Physics was easy to moderate. 

Students have mentioned that with negative marking introduced in VITEEE 2026, they had to be more cautious, which resulted paper to be more time consuming. 

VITEEE April 28 Shift 1 Exam 2026: Important Topics Covered 

Students appearing for later shifts must know that high-weightage questions were mostly asked from inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. 

Important topics covered (Maths, Physics, and Chemistry): Chemical bonding, p, d, and s-block elements, Mole concept, thermodynamics, polymer, NCERT (12th Syllabus), GOC, co-ordination compounds, GOC, Isomer, Organic chemistry (12th chemistry), Vector 3D, Conic section, integral calculus, area under curve, differential equation, co-ordinate geometry, functions, probability, matrices, algebra questions was lengthy etc. 

VITEEE 2026 April 28 Safe Score

Based on today’s analysis, experts have stated that for VIT Category 1 and 2, the safe score might fall under the following range-

• Category 1 - 300 marks

• Category - 220 marks 

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• VITEEE 2026 April 28 Shift 2 Analysis OUT: Was it Tough or Easy, Important Topics, Safe Scores