The JEE (Main) 2018 offline paper was held on April 8, 2018 across 112 cities. The exam started at 9:30 am.
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Students were not allowed to carry anything inside examination hall except Admit Card. Those having proper medical prescription were allowed water bottles.
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Metal detectors were used at the entry gate and no bags or wrist watches were allowed inside.
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Ball point pens were given inside the examination Hall.
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Wall clock was provided inside the examination hall.
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No errors were reported from students.
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There were no changes in the pattern of Paper -1 of JEE (Main) compared to previous years.
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The paper had three sections - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics with 30 questions from each subject.
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Marking scheme was +4 marks for correct answer, - 1 for incorrect answer and zero if not attempted.
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All 90 questions were of multiple choice with single correct answer objective type.
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The level of difficult as per feedback of students:
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Physics - Medium
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Chemistry - Easy (Mostly NCERT based)
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Mathematics - Medium
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As compared to last year paper was relatively tougher as per students but as per the FIITJEE experts the paper was easy to moderate level.
Expected cut-off could be 86 marks out of 360 in Paper-1 of JEE Main 2018 for general category.