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JEE Main · Chemistry · Thermodynamics (Chemistry)

Sign Conventions for Heat Flow

JEE Main asked Sign Conventions for Heat Flow 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2021 and 2023. It belongs to Enthalpy and Hess's Law, in Thermodynamics (Chemistry) (Chemistry). The longest wait between two years asking it was 2 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
2
in 2 shifts
Years
2 of 8
First asked
2021
last in 2023
Pattern
Occasional
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2021 and 2023. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.

00.050.10’170’200.03’210’220.07’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 1 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20231 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20211 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Numerical value is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.

  • Count endothermic processes
  • Internal energy change from work and heat

Difficulty

Easy 2Medium 0Hard 0

2 of the 2 questions had a numerical answer.

Every question

All 2 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 10 Apr 2023, Shift 2 · Q83The number of endothermic process/es from the following is ____________ A. I2\mathrm{I_2} (g) →\rightarrow 2I (g) B. HCl (g)…EasyNumerical value
  2. 25 Jul 2021, Shift 2 · Q54A system does 200 J of work and at the same time absorbs 150 J of heat. The magnitude of the change in internal energy is ________ J.…EasyNumerical value

Shifts: 25 Jul 2021, Shift 2, 10 Apr 2023, Shift 2.

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Enthalpy and Hess's Law has 23 ideas JEE Main has asked; 12 of them came up in more than one question. The 12 most asked are below.

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