NTA JEE Main 2020 January 9 exam analysis: Math tricky and lengthy, Chemistry easiest

NTA JEE Main 2020: Check section-wise paper analysis

Mathematics – Students reported maths to be easy but had lengthy calculations in a few questions. Overall it was a balanced section. No questions asked from height and distance.

Physics – The paper had more questions from class 11 chapters. Few questions were of mixed concept type. It was also lengthy. No questions asked from chapters like Semiconductors, AC Circuits, Magnetism.

Chemistry – Students reported questions were largely from NCERT especially chapters of Inorganic Chemistry. The paper was balanced as per students covering questions from class 9 and 12. More questions from Inorganic were asked as compared to Organic and Physical Chemistry.

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Saurabh Kumar, director academics, Vidyamandir Classes said, “Though chemistry was easy, question-based on the complicated structure of aspartain sugar and calculation on the hardness of water were asked. The major twist was that multiple-choice questions were converted into a single choice which made paper tricky,” he added.

“Physics section was Difficult as compared to last year it had lengthy calculations. With questions fairly distributed over all topics however no question was asked from transistors & logic gates,” he said while adding, “Maths was Easy as compared to last year. However, this year it was calculative in nature. Most of the questions were asked from Calculus & coordinate geometry. The Numerical Answer, especially in maths questions, were lengthy in nature.”

The experts, after analysing the difficulty level of the JEE Main paper, predicted that the cut-off of this year will be around 90 for the general category. Navin C Joshi, Academic Head and VP (JEE and NEET) at Gradeup said that considering the difficulty level of the exam, students who expect to score around 210 can expect a 99 percentile.

Speaking to indianexpress.com, Professor Amit Banerjee from Roy’s institute, Kolkata said, “Overall, the paper was moderate with mathematics and physics had lots of tricky questions and chemistry was the easiest. The candidates above 200 score can expect a percentile starting from 90. The cut-off for the reserved category candidates can be varied from 40-70.”

A total of 11 lakh candidates appeared for the engineering, architecture and planning entrance exams. The exams are being held by the National Testing Agency (NTA) in two shifts — morning from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, and afternoon from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

– With inputs from FIITJEE, Gradeup