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Probability: Basic JEE Main PYQs, 2020 to 2025

Probability: Basic has 66 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2025, about 11 per year across all shifts. The most asked topic is Classical Probability (55 questions), followed by Addition Theorem (6) and Sample Space and Events (4).

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66Total PYQs
6Years covered
4Topics
2025 Apr S1Latest paper

Probability: Basic questions per year

YearQuestions
20257
202412
202314
202210
202115
20208

Topic-wise weightage

TopicQuestionsShare of chapterLast asked
Classical Probability5583%2025
Addition Theorem69%2024
Sample Space and Events46%2023
Mutually Exclusive Events12%2022

Sample questions from recent papers

JEE Main 2025 · 4 Apr · Shift 1 · Classical Probability

The probability, of forming a 12 persons committee from 4 engineers, 2 doctors and 10 professors containing at least 3 engineers and at least 1 doctor, is

  1. (A) 129182\frac{129}{182}
  2. (B) 1726\frac{17}{26}
  3. (C) 1926\frac{19}{26}
  4. (D) 103182\frac{103}{182}

Answer: (A)

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JEE Main 2024 · 1 Feb · Shift 2 · Addition Theorem

Let Ajay will not appear in JEE exam with probability p=27\mathrm{p}=\frac{2}{7}, while both Ajay and Vijay will appear in the exam with probability q=15\mathrm{q}=\frac{1}{5}. Then the probability, that Ajay will appear in the exam and Vijay will not appear is :
  1. (A)935\frac{9}{35}
  2. (B)335\frac{3}{35}
  3. (C)2435\frac{24}{35}
  4. (D)1835\frac{18}{35}

Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2023 · 1 Feb · Shift 2 · Sample Space and Events

Two dice are thrown independently. Let A\mathrm{A} be the event that the number appeared on the 1st 1^{\text {st }} die is less than the number appeared on the 2nd 2^{\text {nd }} die, B\mathrm{B} be the event that the number appeared on the 1st 1^{\text {st }} die is even and that on the second die is odd, and C\mathrm{C} be the event that the number appeared on the 1st 1^{\text {st }} die is odd and that on the 2nd 2^{\text {nd }} is even. Then :

  1. (A)A and B are mutually exclusive
  2. (B)the number of favourable cases of the events A, B and C are 15, 6 and 6 respectively
  3. (C)B and C are independent
  4. (D)the number of favourable cases of the event (A∪B)∩C(\mathrm{A\cup B)\cap C} is 6

Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2022 · 26 Jul · Shift 1 · Mutually Exclusive Events

Let E1,E2,E3\mathrm{E}_{1}, \mathrm{E}_{2}, \mathrm{E}_{3} be three mutually exclusive events such that P(E1)=2+3p6,P(E2)=2−p8\mathrm{P}\left(\mathrm{E}_{1}\right)=\frac{2+3 \mathrm{p}}{6}, \mathrm{P}\left(\mathrm{E}_{2}\right)=\frac{2-\mathrm{p}}{8} and P(E3)=1−p2\mathrm{P}\left(\mathrm{E}_{3}\right)=\frac{1-\mathrm{p}}{2}. If the maximum and minimum values of p\mathrm{p} are p1\mathrm{p}_{1} and p2\mathrm{p}_{2}, then (p1+p2)\left(\mathrm{p}_{1}+\mathrm{p}_{2}\right) is equal to :

  1. (A)23\frac{2}{3}
  2. (B)53\frac{5}{3}
  3. (C)54\frac{5}{4}
  4. (D)1

Answer: (B)

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How many questions come from Probability: Basic in JEE Main?

66 questions from 2020 to 2025, about 11 per year. In 2025 it had 7.

Which Probability: Basic topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Classical Probability (83%), Addition Theorem (9%) and Sample Space and Events (6%) of all Probability: Basic questions.

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