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Ionic Equilibrium JEE Main PYQs, 2020 to 2025

Ionic Equilibrium has 63 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2025, about 11 per year across all shifts. The most asked topic is Solubility Product (23 questions), followed by pH and pKa (19) and Buffer Solutions (11).

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63Total PYQs
6Years covered
5Topics
2025 Apr S2Latest paper

Ionic Equilibrium questions per year

YearQuestions
202512
20247
202313
202213
20217
202011

Topic-wise weightage

TopicQuestionsShare of chapterLast asked
Solubility Product2337%2025
pH and pKa1930%2025
Buffer Solutions1117%2025
Acid-Base Concepts610%2025
Salt Hydrolysis46%2024

Sample questions from recent papers

JEE Main 2025 · 7 Apr · Shift 1 · pH and pKa

An aqueous solution of HCl with pH 1.0 is diluted by adding equal volume of water (ignoring dissociation of water). The pH of HCl solution would

(( Given log⁡2=0.30)\log 2=0.30)

  1. (A) increase to 1.3
  2. (B) reduce to 0.5
  3. (C) increase to 2
  4. (D) remain same

Answer: (A)

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JEE Main 2025 · 7 Apr · Shift 2 · Buffer Solutions

One litre buffer solution was prepared by adding 0.10 mol each of NH3\mathrm{NH}_3 and NH4Cl\mathrm{NH}_4 \mathrm{Cl} in deionised water. The change in pH on addition of 0.05 mol of HCl to the above solution is ______________ ×10−2\times 10^{-2}.

(Nearest integer)

Given : pKb\mathrm{pK}_{\mathrm{b}} of NH3=4.745\mathrm{NH}_3=4.745 and log⁡103=0.477\log _{10} 3=0.477

Answer: 48

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JEE Main 2025 · 3 Apr · Shift 2 · Acid-Base Concepts

10 mL of 2 M NaOH solution is added to 20 mL of 1 M HCl solution kept in a beaker. Now, 10 mL of this mixture is poured into a volumetric flask of 100 mL containing 2 moles of HCl and made the volume upto the mark with distilled water. The solution in this flask is :

  1. (A)0.2 M NaCl solution
  2. (B)20 M HCl solution
  3. (C)Neutral solution
  4. (D)10 M HCl solution

Answer: (B)

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JEE Main 2025 · 2 Apr · Shift 1 · Solubility Product

If equal volumes of AB2A B_2 and XYX Y (both are salts) aqueous solutions are mixed, which of the following combination will give a precipitate of AY2\mathrm{AY}_2 at 300 K ? (Given Ksp(\mathrm{K}_{\mathrm{sp}}\left(\right. at 300 K ) for AY2=5.2×10−7\mathrm{AY}_2=5.2 \times 10^{-7} )

  1. (A) 2.0×10−4MAB2,0.8×10−3MXY2.0 \times 10^{-4} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{AB}_2, 0.8 \times 10^{-3} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{XY}
  2. (B) 2.0×10−2MAB2,2.0×10−2MXY2.0 \times 10^{-2} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{AB}_2, 2.0 \times 10^{-2} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{XY}
  3. (C) 1.5×10−4MAB2,1.5×10−3MXY1.5 \times 10^{-4} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{AB}_2, 1.5 \times 10^{-3} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{XY}
  4. (D) 3.6×10−3MAB2,5.0×10−4MXY3.6 \times 10^{-3} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{AB}_2, 5.0 \times 10^{-4} \mathrm{M} \mathrm{XY}

Answer: (B)

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JEE Main 2024 · 1 Feb · Shift 1 · Salt Hydrolysis

Ka\mathrm{K}_{\mathrm{a}} for CH3COOH\mathrm{CH}_3 \mathrm{COOH} is 1.8×10−51.8 \times 10^{-5} and Kb\mathrm{K}_{\mathrm{b}} for NH4OH\mathrm{NH}_4 \mathrm{OH} is 1.8×10−51.8 \times 10^{-5}. The pH\mathrm{pH} of ammonium acetate solution will be _________.

Answer: 7

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How many questions come from Ionic Equilibrium in JEE Main?

63 questions from 2020 to 2025, about 11 per year. In 2025 it had 12.

Which Ionic Equilibrium topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Solubility Product (37%), pH and pKa (30%) and Buffer Solutions (17%) of all Ionic Equilibrium questions.

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