JEE Main 2022 Day 5 Session-1 paper analysis: Mathematics section trouble students

In terms of order of difficulty – Mathematics was moderately tough while Chemistry was easy amongst the three subjects. Overall, this paper was of moderate level as per students.

In the mathematics section, questions were asked from all chapters with emphasis on Conic sections and algebra. Some questions were asked from chapters like probability, determinants, Progressions, Straight Lines and Ellipse, 3 D Geometry, Definite Integrals, Differential Equations. the numerical section had lengthy calculations. Few questions were reported as tricky.

“For a lot of students, the Mathematics part was moderate. AS anticipated, some questions involved calculations. There were 7 to 8 questions from calculus, not less than 6 questions from Algebra and 2 questions from Vectors and 3 Dimensional and about 5 questions from coordinate geometry. Regular practice and solving mock tests would be of great help in acing these papers,” Ajay Sharma, National Academic Director, Engineering at Aakash+BYJU’S said.

In the Chemistry section, physical Chemistry was given more weightage compared to inorganic and organic Chemistry. Numerical based questions were mostly from Physical Chemistry. Meanwhile, Physics section was rated balanced. Numerical based questions were easy as per the students. 

“As expected, numerical type questions were more in numbers than theoretical questions and almost all numerical were simple formula-based questions. Practising a sufficient number of similar tests would keep students in good stead,” Sharma said.