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JEE Main Chemistry · Class 12

The Solid State: JEE Main previous year questions

The Solid State had 10 questions in the 42 JEE Main shifts Lumi analysed, about 0.3 a shift, asked in 10 of 42 shifts. It ranks 28 of 30 Chemistry chapters by questions; 0% of its questions were hard.

Questions
10
in 10 of 42 shifts
A shift, on average
0.3
of 25 Chemistry questions
Since 2024
-0.5
0.5 a shift in 2017–23, 0.0 in 2024–26
Numerical answer
6
60% of its questions

Year by year

How often it came

Questions in the analysed shifts of each year. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so read the bars with the shift count.

Questions each year
0241’171’202’212’223’231’240’250’26

2017: 1 shifts · 2020: 4 shifts · 2021: 4 shifts · 2022: 4 shifts · 2023: 4 shifts · 2024: 8 shifts · 2025: 8 shifts · 2026: 9 shifts

Difficulty by year
  • 20171
  • 20201
  • 20212
  • 20222
  • 20233
  • 20241
  • 2025
  • 2026
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard

Inside the chapter

Topics and the ideas that repeat

2 topics and 8 distinct ideas; 2 ideas were asked more than once. Most questions are numerical value and calculation.

Topics, by questions
Ideas asked most
2 repeat

Every question

All 10 The Solid State questions

Newest first. Each opens with its options and the official answer.

2024 1 questions

  1. 31 Jan 2024, Shift 2 · Q84The values of conductivity of some materials at 298.15 K in Sm−1^{-1} are 2.1×1032.1 \times 10^{3}, 1.0×10−161.0 \times 10^{-16}, 1.2×101.2 \times 10,…MediumNumerical value

2023 3 questions

  1. 6 Apr 2023, Shift 1 · Q61A compound is formed by two elements X and Y. The element Y forms cubic close packed arrangement and those of element X occupy one third…MediumSingle correct
  2. 11 Apr 2023, Shift 1 · Q82An atomic substance A of molar mass 12 g mol−112\ \mathrm{g\ mol^{-1}} has a cubic crystal structure with edge length of 300 pm. The no. of atoms…MediumNumerical value
  3. 13 Apr 2023, Shift 2 · Q82Sodium metal crystallizes in a body centred cubic lattice with unit cell edge length of 4 Å. The radius of sodium atom is ______…EasyNumerical value

2022 2 questions

  1. 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1 · Q82An element M crystallises in a body centred cubic unit cell with a cell edge of 300 pm. The density of the element is…MediumNumerical value
  2. 24 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q81Atoms of element X form hcp lattice and those of element Y occupy 23\frac{2}{3} of its tetrahedral voids. The percentage of element X in…MediumNumerical value

2021 2 questions

  1. 16 Mar 2021, Shift 2 · Q52Ga (atomic mass 70 u) crystallizes in a hexagonal close packed structure. The total number of voids in 0.581 g of Ga is ________…MediumNumerical value
  2. 18 Mar 2021, Shift 1 · Q31In a binary compound, atoms of element A form a hcp structure and those of element M occupy 2/3 of the tetrahedral voids of the hcp…EasySingle correct

2020 1 questions

  1. 6 Sep 2020, Shift 2 · Q41A crystal is made up of metal ions 'M1_1' and 'M2_2' and oxide ions. Oxide ions form a ccp lattice structure. The cation 'M1_1'…MediumSingle correct

2017 1 questions

  1. 2 Apr 2017 (offline) · Q35A metal crystallises in a face centred cubic structure. If the edge length of its unit cell is 'a', the closest approach between two atoms…EasySingle correct

Pattern: Asked most years.