How Acrolly Analyses JEE PYQs
How Acrolly counts JEE Main and Advanced PYQs: what is included, how chapters are grouped, and what the difficulty tags mean.
Snapshot 2026-08-19
What we count
Reports count questions from Acrolly’s tagged JEE previous-year papers. Mocks and chapter-practice items are excluded.
- JEE Advanced: 1,086 questions across 22 papers (2016–2026), Paper 1 and Paper 2
- JEE Main: 6,801 questions across 82 sessions (2023–2026), morning and evening where we have them
Not every official Main shift is in the bank. Treat session totals as tagged papers, not a claim that every NTA shift is present.
How we group questions
We count by subject and chapter together. Physics Thermodynamics is not the same as Chemistry Thermodynamics. Filters such as Mechanics, Organic Chemistry, or Calculus are our unit families — a way to look at related chapters together.
Difficulty scale
Each question has an Acrolly 0–100 difficulty tag. These are not official NTA labels.
- Main: Easy 0–49, Medium 50–64, Hard 65–79, Very hard 80–100
- Advanced: Medium 0–64, Hard 65–79, Very hard 80–100 (scores sit high; almost no Easy band)
Question types
We record how the student answers, not a claim about how “calculative” the item is:
- Single correct
- Multiple correct
- Integer / numerical
- Matching
- Paragraph (MCQ or integer)
- Assertion–reason
Integer / numerical is a response format. It does not mean the question is purely computational.
What we do not claim
- Official NTA weightage or a prediction of future papers
- Marks-weighted weightage — we count questions, not marks
- Calculation-complexity or conceptual-vs-computational scores
Figures reflect historical question distribution in Acrolly’s tagged PYQ bank. They are not a forecast of the next exam.
FAQ
- Where do the numbers come from?
- From Acrolly’s tagged JEE Main and JEE Advanced previous-year questions. Only official papers are counted. Mocks and chapter drills are left out.
- Why isn’t calculation complexity in these reports?
- We do not tag questions that way, so we do not invent a score that would look precise but be wrong.
- Is this the official NTA weightage?
- No. These are historical counts from Acrolly’s tagged PYQ bank, not an official syllabus table and not a prediction of the next paper.