JEE Main 2021 Session 4 Updates: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is conducting the fourth and last session of the JEE Main 2021 on August 26, 27, 31, and September 1 and 2. A total of 7.32 lakh candidates were already registered for JEE(Main) 2021 session 4 as on July 15.
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The exam was originally set to be conducted in May but was postponed due to Covid outbreak. JEE Main will be held in 13 languages – English, Hindi, Gujarati, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
The agency had declared the result for JEE Main (April) 2021 on August 6. The JEE Main 2021 session 3 was successfully conducted on July 20, 22, 25, and 27. A total of 17 candidates secured a cent percent score in the April session 2021 result. Pal Aggarwal and Amaiya Singhal, both from UP were the only girls to have secured a 100 percentile in the JEE Main April 2021 result.
In 2021, the number of attempts was increased to a total of four. Earlier, students could appear for the engineering entrance test only twice. Students can now appear in JEE Main four times.
Candidates should be among the top 2.50 lakh successful candidates (including all categories) in BE/BTech paper of JEE (Main) 2021 to be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2021. Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1996. Five years of age relaxation is given to SC, ST and PwD candidates. Read less
The experts predict that the cut-off for JEE Main 2021 will be above 90 per cent. The cut-off is being prepared considering various factors that affect the exam — the total number of aspirants who appeared, the number of available seats, the difficulty level of the exam, previous year cut-off trends.
"For a large section of students, the mathematics part was moderate. As anticipated, some questions involved lengthy calculations. There were 7 to 8 questions from calculus, not less than 5 questions from algebra and 3 to 4 questions from vectors and 3D and 4 questions were from coordinate geometry. Regular practice and solving mock tests would be of great help in scoring well in these papers, said Ajay Kumar Sharma, National Academic Director (Engineering), Aakash Institute.
According to a sizeable number of students, the physics part was moderately difficult of the lot. 5 to 6 questions from electromagnetics about 8 questions from mechanics, 2 from units and dimensions, 4 questions from optics were there in the paper. "Other chapters were also included in due proportions. There were a good number of numerical questions, which were largely formula based. Solving a good number of mock tests would prove to be a better strategy," Ajay Kumar Sharma, National Academic Director (Engineering), Aakaash Institute.
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Mathematics paper was easy but slightly time taking due to lengthy calculations involved. A few good questions were interspersed sporadically. 7 questions were asked from calculus, 5 questions from coordinate geometry, 4 from vectors & 3D and not less than 5 questions from algebra were there. Almost all the topics were covered. Again, practice through mock tests holds the key.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) is conducting the fourth and last session of the JEE Main 2021 on August 26, 27, 31, and September 1 and 2. A total of 7.32 lakh candidates were already registered for JEE(Main) 2021 session 4 as on July 15.
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The paper was by and large based on NCERT books. Six of the numerical based questions were from physical chemistry and two from inorganic chemistry. Overall, the questions from physical, organic and inorganic branches were evenly distributed. A thorough study of the NCERT books, solving NCERT examples and mock tests based on NCERT is the guarantee of success in these types of tests.
The paper was easy to moderate. Chemistry was the easiest of the lot, whereas mathematics was easy to moderate with slightly lengthy calculations involved. Physics was moderate, said Ajay Kumar Sharma, National Academic Director (Engineering), Aakaash Institute.
The test, for which over 16 lakh students have registered, was earlier scheduled for August 1 but had to be postponed because of the surge in coronavirus infections during the second wave. A section of students is now demanding a further postponement of the test citing various reasons. They shared their concerns on social networking websites through various hashtags such as #postponeNEET, #shiftNEETUG among many others. Read more.
JEE Main will be held in 13 languages – English, Hindi, Gujarati, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) is conducting the fourth and last session of the JEE Main 2021 on August 26, 27, 31, and September 1 and 2.
Kailash Sharma, IIT JEE Educator at Unacademy says: The difficulty level of the question paper for this session was easy to moderate. The paper was very well balanced, easy and predictable. Chemistry questions were the easiest and were NCERT based. The numerical questions were moderately difficult. Students, however, had the choice of attempting 5 out of the 10 questions.
The paper was similar to previous attempts, and NTA attempted to cover the entire syllabus in order to make this paper syllabus-wise balanced."
The fourth session of JEE Main 2021 has already started. The first exam (2 shifts) was held today. The second one will be held on August 27, followed by exams on August 27, 31, and September 1 and 2.
Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000* successful candidates (including all categories) in B.E./B.Tech. paper of JEE (Main) 2021. Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1996. Five years of age relaxation is given to SC, ST and PwD candidates.
Kailash Sharma, an IIT JEE educator at Unacademy, says “The difficulty level of the question paper for this session was moderate to easy. Most questions were from the class 12 syllabus. Chemistry and physics questions were relatively easy. Additionally, the math section was moderately difficult and as compared to the last sessions, this time the paper was less lengthy."
As per the students' reaction after giving the 4th session of the JEE Main, the pattern, difficulty level and the trend of the exam was not new and as per the usual standards as previous sessions conducted earlier this year. "The usual trend in the JEE Main highlights that mathematics is the most typical section followed by physics and then chemistry. Similar was the trend in terms of the difficulty level with chemistry being the easiest of all," said Saurabh Kumar, Director Academics, Vidyamandir Classes.
The physics section in today's JEE Main paper had questions from kinematics, optics, electrostatics, magnetism, current electricity, em waves, heat and thermodynamics, communication systems & modern physics. few numerical based questions had lengthy calculations but were easy. "This section was balanced compared to the other two subjects," said Ramesh Batlish
Head, FIITJEE Noida.
Physics had total of 30 questions – sections 1 had 20 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with single correct answers and section 2 had 10 numerical based questions out of which only 5 had to be attempted. The marking scheme for multiple-choice questions was +4 for a correct response, -1 for an incorrect response, 0 if not attempted. The marking scheme for numerical based questions was +4 for correct response and 0 in all other cases. The total marks of this section were 100.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) is conducting the fourth and last session of the JEE Main 2021 on August 26, 27, 31, and September 1 and 2.