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JEE Main 2025: The Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) Btech, BE paper held on the first day of the January 2025 session comprised of mathematics, physics and chemistry paper of 300 marks. The JEE Main day 1 exam is held in two shifts, first from 9 am to 12 noon and the second shift between 3 pm and 6 pm.
The JEE Main BTech January 2025 paper comprised three subjects – physics, chemistry and mathematics. All the subjects have two sections – 1 and 2. While section 1 has 20 multiple choice questions with single correct answer, section 2 has 5 numerical based questions.
According to the academic desk of Vidyamandir Classes, the JEE Main paper in the morning session was easy to moderate. Chemistry was well-balanced, with physical, organic, and inorganic chemistry topics being almost equally represented. A significant portion of the chemistry was aligned with NCERT, and questions did not come from the deleted topics in the NCERT syllabus.
The chemistry paper was easy in the morning shift, according to Dr. Brijesh Maheshwari, Director, Allen Career Institute Pvt. Ltd. 30% questions were asked from inorganic chemistry, 35% each from organic and physical chemistry. Statement and matching list questions were also asked in single option questions in the paper.
In physics, as per Vidyamandir Classes, there was a question on the potentiometer, which is from a deleted topic but was still covered in the paper. There was also a mixed question involving unit dimensions and magnetism, indicating that physics questions had some concept mixing.
“But if you have covered the basic concepts and formulas, you could easily score around 60% in this paper,” the academic desk said.
In the morning shift physics paper, the Allen Career Institute Pvt. Ltd. director said: “One question each was asked from Units and Dimensions, Basic Mathematics and Vectors, Kinematics, Work Power and Energy, Capacitance, Sound Waves, Electromagnetic Waves and Wave Optics, Modern Physics, Fluid Mechanics, Errors in Measurements and Instruments and Semiconductors. While two questions were asked from Rotational Dynamics and three each from Electricity Heat and Thermodynamics, Geometrical Optics, Electrostatics and Current Electricity.”
In mathematics, there were 3-4 questions from vectors and 3D geometry, along with 6-7 questions from calculus according to Vidyamandir Classes. “The maths section was more lengthy than difficult. Overall, the paper was similar to the ones from previous years,” Vidyamandir Classes said.
In the morning shift, calculations were lengthy, however the paper was of medium level. 35 percent questions were asked from Calculus, Coordinates, 9 percent questions were asked from Statistics and Relations and 6 percent questions were asked from 3D Vectors, the director of Allen Career Institute Pvt. Ltd. said.
Last year, the overall difficulty level in JEE Main was moderate to difficult. In 2024, the number of 100 percentilers had increased by 13 candidates in comparison to 2023 as a total of 56 candidates have received 100 NTA score in Paper 1 (BE/BTech).
Last year, for general category candidates, the cut off for JEE Advanced was 93.23 which was up from 90.77 in 2023, up from 88.4 in 2022 and 87.9 in 2021. The qualifying scores for general candidates were 90.3 and 89.7 in 2020 and 2019, respectively.
For SC candidates, the cut-off was 60.09, which was a big jump from 51.97 in 2023, as against 43.08 in 2022, 46.8 in 2021, 50.1 in 2020, and 54.01 in 2019. Cut-off for ST students was 46.69 in 2024, up from 37.23 in 2023, 26.7 in 2022, 34.6 in 2021. The bar was higher in 2020 and 2019 with qualifying scores at 39.06 and 44.3 respectively.
The OBC (non-creamy layer) cut off had also increased to 79.67 last year from 73.61 in 2023, as against 67 in 2022, 68.02 in 2021, 72.8 in 2020. For the EWS category candidates, the cut off last year was 75.62, as compared to 2023’s 63.11.
Also read: JEE Main Exam Analysis 2025
