JEE Main Timings

I want to know the timing and the duration of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main Exam so can you please tell me?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

The duration of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main Exam is 3 hours.

JEE Main Exam pattern

Paper 1 -

Courses: The paper-1 of JEE Main 2017 is conducted for admission to undergraduate engineering courses.

Subjects: JEE Main Paper 1 will contain questions from chemistry, physics and mathematics subjects.

Number of Questions: It will contain total 90 objective type questions. Weightage to all subjects are given equal. Total 30 questions will be asked from each subject.

Exam Duration: The exam duration will be 3 hours. 4 hours for candidates having 40% disability.

Exam Mode: The mode of exam for paper-1 is online as well as offline. Students can appear the examination through CBT or PBT mode.

Marking Scheme: Each correct question will carry 4 marks.

Negative Marking: 1/4 negative marking for every incorrect answer i.e. 1 mark will be deducted for each incorrect response.

Subjects Questions Marks
Chemistry 30 120
Physics 30 120
Mathematics 30 120
Total 90 360

Paper 2 -

Courses: The paper-2 of JEE Main 2017 is conducted for admission to undergraduate architecture courses.

Subjects: The JEE Main Paper 2 will comprises of three parts which are mathematics, aptitude test and drawing test.

Number of Questions: This paper will consist total 50 questions for aptitude test, 2 questions for drawing test and 30 questions from mathematics.

Exam Duration: The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. 4 hours for candidates having 40% disability.

Exam Mode: The mode of exam for paper-2 is offline only. No online mode is available for this paper.

Negative Marking: For each incorrect response 1/4 of the total marks allotted to that question will be deducted from the total score.

Subjects Questions Marks
Mathematics 30 120
Aptitude test 50 200
Drawing 2 70
Total 82 390