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Koustav Dey 15th Jan, 2021

Hello,

The JEE Main 2020 Paper I had three sections - Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Each section had 25 questions among which 20 questions are MCQ and 5 numerical problem. There were no negative marking for the numerical type questions but for each wrong answer of MCQ 1 marks is deducted.

But, there is few difference have been made in the paper pattern in JEE MAIN 2021. This year there will total 90 questions and the candidates have to attempt 25 questions from each section. Each section will have 20 MCQs and 10 numerical questions and 5 out of the 10 numerical questions are optional. The rule of negative marking is same as that of last year.

You can check the link below for more information

https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-exam-pattern/amp

Good luck!

Anurag Khanna 15th Jan, 2021

Hello Aspirant,

Exam pattern of JEE-Main 2021 for Paper 1 and Paper 2 is described below :-

Paper 1 :-

> In JEE-Main 2021, paper 1 there will be total 90 question out of which you have to attempt only 75 (25 from each section) and there will be two sections for each subject, Section-A will be of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)(20 compulsory questions) and Section-B will contain Questions whose answers are to be filled in as a numerical value (10 numerical based questions out of which only 5 are compulsory to be attempted).

> In Section B, candidates have to attempt any five questions out of 10. There will be no negative marking for Section B.

> All question will be of 4 marks and in MCQs there will be negative marking of (-1) on incorrect attempt.

Paper 2 :-

In JEE-Main 2021, paper 2 there will be total 82 question out of which you have to attempt only 77 questions for 100 marks (20 questions from Mathematics section will be of MCQs and 5 questions will have answers to be filled as a numerical value out of 10. There will be no negative marking for numerical value answers) . Second part will be for Aptitude section which will consists of 50 compulsory questions for 200 marks and in Part third there will be two questions for Drawing test comprises of 100 marks. So in total paper will be of 400 marks.

For complete details about JEE-Main 2021 exam pattern kindly check out the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-exam-pattern

Some insights of JEE-Main 2021 :-

> To qualify for JEE Mains, there is no minimum aggregate percentage criteria but yes if you want to take admission into NITs, IIITs or CFTIs then you should score a minimum aggregate of 75% in your class 12th if you belongs to General/Unreserved category and 65% if you belongs to any of the reserved category.

> Also from this year according to New Education Policy the JEE-Main examination will be conducted in English, Hindi and other regional languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Odia and Malayalam.

This year JEE-Main is being conducted with slight changes in it's pattern and it's conduction and you can check out all the changes from the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-main

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

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