JEE Main Solutions: Weightage, Key Concepts and Study Plan

Solutions is a dependable mid-weight chapter in JEE Main Chemistry, ranked #8 of 20 with 5.5% of recent questions. Here is what five years of JEE Main questions say about it, and how to prepare.

At a glance

• 143 questions across 2022–2026, all shifts
• 4.9% of Chemistry over five years and 5.5% in 2024–2026
• Rank #8 of 20 Chemistry chapters by recent weight
• Momentum: Stable
• Asked in 5 of 5 years; busiest year 2022 with 34 questions
• 24 questions in the 2026 papers

Year-wise questions

How Solutions compares inside Chemistry

Concepts that repeat

These specific ideas came back most often inside Solutions.

Start your practice with these. Each one has appeared in every one of the five years, so it is worth knowing the question styles.

What the syllabus covers

Concentration terms, Raoult's law, ideal and non-ideal solutions, colligative properties, molecular mass determination, van't Hoff factor.

A checklist to tick off:

• Concentration terms
• Raoult's law
• Ideal and non-ideal solutions
• Colligative properties
• Molecular mass determination
• Van't Hoff factor

What to focus on

Colligative-property numericals, Raoult's law and the van't Hoff factor.

A study plan for this chapter

Treat it as a dependable source of marks and keep it in your regular revision cycle. If you divide your Chemistry time in proportion to recent weightage, this chapter earns about 6% of it.

1. Days 1–4: theory and solved examples.
2. Days 5–9: chapter-wise PYQs and error log.
3. Ongoing: a short revision every ten days.

Keep reading

• The full ranking: JEE Main Chemistry chapter-wise weightage
• Next chapter by weight: Atomic Structure
• A heavier neighbour: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

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