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Experimental Skills JEE Main PYQs, 2020 to 2025

Experimental Skills has 42 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2025, about 7 per year across all shifts. The most asked topic is Vernier Callipers and Screw Gauge (36 questions), followed by Optics Experiments (4) and p-n Junction Characteristics (1).

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42Total PYQs
6Years covered
4Topics
2025 Apr S2Latest paper

Experimental Skills questions per year

YearQuestions
20253
202413
20235
20228
20216
20207

Topic-wise weightage

TopicQuestionsShare of chapterLast asked
Vernier Callipers and Screw Gauge3686%2025
Optics Experiments410%2024
p-n Junction Characteristics12%2020
Pendulum and g Measurement12%2020

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JEE Main 2025 · 4 Apr · Shift 2 · Vernier Callipers and Screw Gauge

For the determination of refractive index of glass slab, a travelling microscope is used whose main scale contains 300 equal divisions equals to 15 cm . The vernier scale attached to the microscope has 25 divisions equals to 24 divisions of main scale. The least count (LC) of the travelling microscope is (in cm ) :

  1. (A) 0.002
  2. (B) 0.0025
  3. (C) 0.0005
  4. (D) 0.001
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Answer: (A)

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JEE Main 2024 · 4 Apr · Shift 1 · Optics Experiments

In an experiment to measure focal length (ff) of convex lens, the least counts of the measuring scales for the position of object (u) and for the position of image (v) are Δu\Delta u and Δv\Delta v, respectively. The error in the measurement of the focal length of the convex lens will be:

  1. (A)2f[Δuu+Δvv]2 f\left[\frac{\Delta \mathrm{u}}{\mathrm{u}}+\frac{\Delta \mathrm{v}}{\mathrm{v}}\right]
  2. (B)f[Δuu+Δvv]f\left[\frac{\Delta \mathrm{u}}{\mathrm{u}}+\frac{\Delta \mathrm{v}}{\mathrm{v}}\right]
  3. (C)f2[Δuu2+Δvv2]f^2\left[\frac{\Delta \mathrm{u}}{\mathrm{u}^2}+\frac{\Delta \mathrm{v}}{\mathrm{v}^2}\right]
  4. (D)Δuu+Δvv\frac{\Delta \mathrm{u}}{\mathrm{u}}+\frac{\Delta \mathrm{v}}{\mathrm{v}}
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Answer: (C)

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JEE Main 2020 · 3 Sep · Shift 2 · p-n Junction Characteristics

Which of the following will NOT be observed when a multimeter (operating in resistance measuring mode) probes connected across a component, are just reversed?
  1. (A)Multimeter shows NO deflection in both cases i.e. before and after reversing the probes if the chosen component is metal wire.
  2. (B)Multimeter shows a deflection, accompanied by a splash of light out of connected component in one direction and NO deflection on reversing the probes if the chosen component is LED.
  3. (C)Multimeter shows an equal deflection in both cases i.e. before and after reversing the probes if the chosen component is resistor.
  4. (D)Multimeter shows NO deflection in both cases i.e. before and after reversing the probes if the chosen component is capacitor.
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Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2020 · 8 Jan · Shift 2 · Pendulum and g Measurement

A simple pendulum is being used to determine th value of gravitational acceleration g at a certain place. Th length of the pendulum is 25.0 cm and a stop watch with 1s resolution measures the time taken for 40 oscillations to be 50 s. The accuracy in g is :
  1. (A)4.40%
  2. (B)3.40%
  3. (C)2.40%
  4. (D)5.40%
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Answer: (A)

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How many questions come from Experimental Skills in JEE Main?

42 questions from 2020 to 2025, about 7 per year. In 2025 it had 3.

Which Experimental Skills topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Vernier Callipers and Screw Gauge (86%), Optics Experiments (10%) and p-n Junction Characteristics (2%) of all Experimental Skills questions.

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