Meanwhile, Ramesh Batlish Head, FIITJEE Noida said “in terms of order of Difficulty – “Mathematics was moderate while physics was easy overall.” Another expert, Ajay Sharma, national academic director, engineering at Aakash BYJU’S said that the chemistry was the easiest of all, and physics moderately easy and mathematics lengthy in shift 1 exam.

JEE Main 2024: Detailed exam analysis

The JEE Main BTech January 2024 paper comprised three subjects – physics, chemistry and mathematics. All the subjects have two sections – 1 and 2. While section 1 had 20 multiple-choice questions with single correct answers, section 2 had 10 numerical-based questions out of which only five had to be answered. Numerical-based questions in both sessions were found to be easy as per most students. 

A few fact-based questions from Class 12 chapters of NCERT were also asked in the first shift and students felt more weightage was given to Class 12 chapters, FIITJEE expert said.

Analysing the overall paper in shift 1 as balanced, the Aakash-BYJU’S expert however said average students found Mathematics difficult. 

Meanwhile, students felt that the NTA changed the difficulty level of shift 2 as compared to the one asked in shift 1. The evening shift exam was rated as a bit more difficult. The second shift exam was rated as moderate by students. “In this paper, Physics were on the moderate to difficult level whereas Chemistry was on the easier side,” said Ajay Sharma.

JEE Main 2024: Analysis of physics paper

According to experts, the Physics part of JEE Main 2024 was of easy to moderate level in the morning shift.  Questions from mechanics, current electricity was duly represented in the paper. Most of the questions were asked from Class 11 syllabus, the expert added saying that previous year questions were also there in the paper. 

As per analysis shared by Nitin Viijay, founder and CEO of Motion Education, there were questions from momentum conservation, current electricity, electrostat potential as well in the morning shift. 

JEE Main 2024: Chemistry paper analysis

In Chemistry, the Motion Education expert said, questions from magnetic moment and atomic structure had come in the exam in the first shift of JEE Main 2024 exam day 1. Revise periodic table, integer type question, thermochemistry, kinetics before going for the exam, it suggested for the JEE Main aspirants left to appear for the exam in January 2024 session.

The chemistry paper in shift 1, as per analysis done by Aakash BYJU’S, was by and large based on NCERT books. Most of the questions were theoretical. A few questions were based on memory-based data and were confusing. 

Questions from prominent chapters like chemical kinetics, biomolecules, alcohol, phenol and ethers, thermodynamics and aldehyde, ketone and carboxylic acids were asked. Overall coverage of the chapters was uniform in the morning shift, it added.

JEE Main 2024 Exam Analysis: Mathematics in day 1

Mathematics paper in the morning shift was moderate to difficult based on students’ feedback, Aakash-BYJU’s analysed. Questions from calculus, complex numbers, 2-D matrix and determinants were there in the paper. 2D and calculus were dominant in the paper. Almost all the topics were covered, it added.

“Compared to the previous year’s examination, the mathematics section presented a significant increase in difficulty. This suggests that students seeking optimal performance would benefit from prioritising areas such as probability and combinatorics, statistics, and derivations,” the Motion Education analysed.