The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati conducted the JEE Advanced 2023 examination on June 4th, 2023. The exam was conducted in two sessions. Paper 1 was conducted from 9 am to 12 pm followed by paper 2 from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Each paper is conducted with a duration of 3 hours and both papers have questions from physics, chemistry, and mathematics in depth. Paper 1 had 17 questions from each subject with a total of 51 questions. Over 1,80,226 candidates appeared for the JEE Advanced examination this year.
Considering the student’s responses, the JEE Advanced 2023 examination was more moderate than the previous year’s examinations. Overall the difficulty level of the exam was moderate to difficult. Questions from mathematics sessions were the toughest since most of the questions were tricky. The majority of the questions came from the chapters Functions, Differential Equations, Inverse Trigonometric Functions, Differentiability, Vectors,3D Geometry, Applications of Derivatives, Complex Numbers, Matrices, Circle, Permutation and Combination and Probability.
The physics questions were comparatively moderate but the majority of the questions were lengthy with tricky calculations. The chapters Wave and Sound, Wave optics, Fluids, EM waves, Thermodynamics, Modern Physics, Current Electricity, Kinematics, Gravitation, and Electrostatics were the questions with more weightage.
Chemistry questions from paper 1 and paper 2 were easy compared to the questions from physics and mathematics. Questions with more weightage came from organic and physical chemistry. From the inorganic part, questions had less weightage and were directly from the NCERT topics Amines, Biomolecules, Oxygen-containing compounds, and Polymers.