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