JEE Main Previous Year Questions (PYQ) 2019-2026 with Solutions

What twenty-four years of JEE Main papers look like

Our JEE Main collection runs from 2002 to 2026 and every question carries a worked solution. The shape of it changes sharply in 2019. Papers from 2002 to 2018 contribute somewhere between 78 and 394 questions a year, because JEE Main ran as a single annual paper. From 2019 onward the count jumps past a thousand a year and peaks in 2021: NTA moved the exam to multiple sessions with several shifts each, and every shift is a separate paper.

That split is worth respecting when you practise. The pre-2019 papers are a good test of concepts that have been stable for two decades. The post-2019 papers are where you see the current question style, the numerical-answer format, and — most usefully — how the same idea gets re-asked in different shifts of the same session.

Physics: Mechanics is larger than everything else combined

Physics is the biggest of the three subjects in our bank, and inside it the distribution is not close. Mechanics is the largest block by a wide margin — bigger than every other Physics topic put together. Electromagnetism is the only other topic in four figures. Thermodynamics, Modern Physics, Waves & Oscillations and Optics follow, each an order of magnitude smaller than Mechanics.

If your revision time is limited, that ordering is the ordering. It also holds across the whole 2002-2026 range rather than being an artefact of recent papers, which is what makes it worth planning around. Open the year-wise weightage heatmap on any Physics topic page to see how a topic's share moved year by year.

Chemistry is the most evenly balanced of the three

Where Physics is top-heavy, Chemistry is close to flat: Organic, Physical and Inorganic sit within roughly a fifth of each other in our collection. There is no branch you can quietly skip and no branch that repays disproportionate depth.

The practical consequence is that Chemistry rewards steady coverage rather than specialisation. Inorganic being the smallest of the three does not make it optional — it is the branch most amenable to direct recall, so it tends to give the best return per hour of the three.

Mathematics: two topics carry about two-thirds

Algebra and Calculus together account for roughly two-thirds of our JEE Main Mathematics questions. Coordinate Geometry comes next, then Vectors & 3D Geometry, Probability & Statistics, and Trigonometry.

This is the subject where topic-wise practice pays off most obviously, because the two dominant topics are also the two that compound: Algebra techniques turn up inside Calculus problems, and Calculus shows up in Coordinate Geometry. Working them in that order tends to be less painful than jumping around.

What the difficulty mix tells you

Across the bank, about half the questions are rated medium, roughly a third easy, and under a fifth hard. Half the paper sitting at medium is the number that should shape your practice: JEE Main is decided far more by reliable execution on standard problems than by whether you crack the hard tail.

A useful check is to track your accuracy on medium questions separately from your overall score. A candidate who is at ninety per cent on easy and sixty per cent on medium has a much clearer next step than one looking at a single aggregate.

A way to work through these papers

Practise by topic first, and only after you have finished the chapter — PYQs are a test of preparation, not a substitute for it. Use the topic pages to work a chapter end to end, then move to the year pages to see how that chapter appeared alongside everything else.

Once you have covered a subject, switch to timed full-year sets. The point of the change is that a mixed paper forces the decision the real exam forces — which question to leave — and that decision cannot be practised inside a single-topic set.

Review the questions you got right by guessing as carefully as the ones you got wrong. A lucky answer in practice is an error you have not found yet.