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Sevit Kar 1st Jul, 2022

Hello,

The National Testing Agency has released the exam patter in the official website jeemain.nta.nic.in.

There are total 3 subjects that is Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry . In each section you would be having 30 questions each out of which 20 questions will be MCQ based and 10 questions will be numerical based.

Out 10 questions only 5 has to be answered. Earlier there was no negative marking in the numerical section but now there is negative marking.

For each correct answer there will be 4 marks and for wrong answer there will be -1 for it.

Hi JEE MAIN is a computer based examination for admission  in B.E/BTech courses

This examination is for three hours  having both multiple choice question and question with numerical values as answers

There are three sections

1.  Mathematics :  25 ques : out of 25 ques MCQ =15 ques and numerical  values type answer = 10 ques . out of these 10 ques 5 question are compulsory

2. Physics :  25 ques : out of 25 ques MCQ =15 ques and numerical  values type answer = 10 ques . out of these 10 ques 5 question are compulsory

3.Chemistry:  25 ques : out of 25 ques MCQ =15 ques and numerical  values type answer = 10 ques . out of these 10 ques 5 question are compulsory

So total 75 ques 25 ques each section  so total marls =300 (100 in each section)

Marking scheme : For MCQs there will be +4  for correct and for wrong answer -1

For numerical values as answer : +4 marks for correct and -1 for exach wrong answer

you can see previous year paper here

https://engineering.careers360.com/download/jee-main-sample-papers-previous-years

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