JEE Main 2020 Highlights: Students find physics paper tricky on Day-2

The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2020 paper 1 exam for admission to engineering colleges in the country began on Tuesday. Candidates were seen following precautionary measures, like maintaining social distancing and wearing masks, while entering the exam venue. The exams are being held despite concerns expressed by several opposition parties and a section of students regarding the growing number of corona cases in the country. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that the central government has ignored the “genuine concerns” of JEE and NEET aspirants, who have been demanding postponement of the entrance exam, due to its “arrogance” and is jeopardising India’s future. The government has however gone ahead with the decision to conduct exam saying that it is important to save academic year of students and their future. Several special arrangements have also been made for the candidates to prevent them from getting infected while appearing for the exam. JEE Main began on Tuesday, September 1 with B. Arch and B.Planning (Paper 2). It is the first major nationwide entrance test being held since the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in March. Over 9 lakh candidates have registered for JEE Main 2020.In this blog we will inform you about the latest developments on Day 2 of the JEE main exam, along with students reaction in various states after they leave the exam centre.

02:36 pm IST

JEE Main 2020: Student in Patna finds Chemistry the easiest paper

An aspirant Divya Rani, who took exam at Kankarbagh Centre in Patna, said, “Physics questions were lengthy and time consuming. Mathematics questions were comparatively easier. I found chemistry the easiest as some questions were directly asked from NCERT book.”

02:31 pm IST

JEE Main: Student in Bihar finds Physics paper difficult

Akash Gupta, a JEE aspirant who took exam at Patliputra centre, said, “Overall exam was good. I found Physics the most difficult. Mathematics and Chemistry parts were easy.”

01:41 pm IST

JEE Main 2020: Students pleased with social distancing protocol

Aman Kumar of Lucknow said that paper was moderate. Six physics questions were tricky. He was pleased with social distancing protocol followed at the examination centre.

01:27 pm IST

JEE Main 2020: Lucknow student find some questions tricky

Rajan Singh, a student of Army Public School, SP Marg said “The difficulty level of exam was between moderate and high. Couple of questions were tricky. The only inconvenience I experienced was that computer got shut down once following which he lost about good five minutes.”

01:05 pm IST

Students find Chemistry easy and physics tough

All students remarked that chemistry had been easy but physics was tough as per Avneet Kaur of Mohali.

12:51 pm IST

JEE Main 2020: ‘Got extra time to revise due to delay in exam’, says a student

Chirag Bhatia of Chandigarh said he was able to nail the inorganic chemistry part if the exam. “The delay of the exam worked in my favour as i got extra time to revise the syllabus and was able to read more reference books

12:20 pm IST

JEE Main 2020: Precautionary measures, social distancing followed

Staggered entry and exits; temperature checks; face masks and hand sanitisers at the ready; contact-less frisking; and seats placed at a distance of five to six metres from each other and a host of arrangements were witnessed at the exam centre.

12:15 pm IST

44% candidates in Lucknow skip JEE Main on Day- 1

On day one, nearly 44% JEE candidates stayed away from the exam in Lucknow district. Of the total 1065 candidates scheduled to appear in Lucknow, 597 candidates took the test and remaining 469 were absent, said Lucknow district magistrate, Abhishek Prakash.

12:10 pm IST

JEE Mains 2020: First shift over, second shift to begin at 3 pm

The first shift of exam is over. The exam was conducted from 9 am to 12 noon. Students are coming out of the centres one-by-one in order to reduce the crowd at centre. The second shift of exam will begin at 3 pm today.

12:05 pm IST

JEE Main 2020: B. Arch and B Planning papers were conducted on Day-1

On the first day of JEE Main on Tuesday, NTA conducted the exams for Bachelor’s of Architecture and Bachelor’s of Planning papers (Paper-2). The exams for Paper 1 i.e., B Tech is conducted on Wednesday.

12:00 pm IST

NTA conducts JEE Mains B Tech paper on the second day of exam

NTA conducted the paper 2 i.e., B. Tech paper on the second day of exam on Wednesday.