Solid State JEE Main PYQs PDF, 2020–2024

This chapter was removed from the JEE Main syllabus in 2024. These are older PYQs. See what changed →

Solid State has 44 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2024, about 8.8 per year across all shifts. All 44 are in the free PDF, with an answer key. The most asked topic is Crystal Systems and Unit Cells (19 questions), followed by Voids (10) and Crystal Defects (7).

Asked in JEE Main: 442020–2024, all shifts
In this free PDF: 44all of them, with answers
Asked in 2024: 1Latest paper: 2024 Apr S1
Most asked topic: Crystal Systems and Unit Cells19 Qs · 43% of the chapter
Difficulty mix: 43% easy · 55% medium · 2% hardof the questions in the PDF

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How often it's asked in JEE Main

Solid State was removed from the JEE Main syllabus in 2024. It had about 0.5 questions per shift in 2020–22 and almost none since.

It came up in about one of the 2024–26 shifts in our bank. Question types in 2020–2026: about 20 MCQs and about 24 numerical.

How many questions from Solid State in JEE Main, year by year

Year	Questions	Per shift	MCQ	Numerical
2026	0	0	0	0
2025	0	0	0	0
2024	1	<0.1	1	0
2023	13	0.5	6	7
2022	9	0.4	2	7
2021	15	0.6	6	9
2020	6	0.4	5	1
2020–2026	44	0.3	20	24

Most asked Solid State topics, 2020–2026

Topic	Questions
Crystal Systems and Unit Cells	19
Voids	10
Crystal Defects	7
Crystalline and Amorphous Solids	6
Close Packing	2

Counted from PrepWiser's question bank of JEE Main papers, 2020–2026. Per shift = questions that year ÷ shifts in our bank. Updated 17 Oct 2026.

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Solid State questions per year

Year	Asked	In PDF
2024	1	1
2023	13	13
2022	9	9
2021	15	15
2020	6	6

Topic-wise weightage by year

How many Solid State questions each topic had in every JEE Main year (all shifts), counting every question asked, including ones not in the PDF. Darker cells mean more questions.

Topic	Asked	Share	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
Crystal Systems and Unit Cells	19	43%	·	7	4	6	2
Voids	10	23%	·	2	2	4	2
Crystal Defects	7	16%	·	2	2	2	1
Crystalline and Amorphous Solids	6	14%	1	1	·	3	1
Close Packing	2	4%	·	1	1	·	·
All topics	44	100%	1	13	9	15	6

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Newest questions (2024)

The only JEE Main 2024 Solid State question in the free PDF.

JEE Main 2024 · 6 Apr · Shift 1 · Crystalline and Amorphous Solids

Which of the following material is not a semiconductor.
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JEE Main 2023 · 15 Apr · Shift 1 · Crystal Systems and Unit Cells

Which of the following expressions is correct in case of a

\mathrm{CsCl}

unit cell (edge length 'a')?

(A) $\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cs}^{+}}+\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cl}^{-}}=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} \mathrm{a}$
(B) $\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cs}^{+}}+\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cl}^{-}}=\frac{\mathrm{a}}{\sqrt{2}}$
(C) $\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cs}^{+}}+\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cl}^{-}}=\mathrm{a}$
(D) $\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cs}^{+}}+\mathrm{r}_{\mathrm{Cl}^{-}}=\frac{\mathrm{a}}{2}$

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JEE Main 2023 · 11 Apr · Shift 2 · Crystalline and Amorphous Solids

Which one of the following pairs is an example of polar molecular solids?

(A) $\mathrm{HCl}(\mathrm{s}), \mathrm{AlN}(\mathrm{s})$
(B) $\mathrm{MgO}(\mathrm{s}), \mathrm{SO}_{2}(\mathrm{s})$
(C) $\mathrm{SO}_{2}(\mathrm{s}), \mathrm{NH}_{3}(\mathrm{s})$
(D) $\mathrm{SO}_{2}(\mathrm{s}), \mathrm{CO}_{2}(\mathrm{s})$

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JEE Main 2023 · 10 Apr · Shift 2 · Close Packing

The correct relationships between unit cell edge length ' $a$ ' and radius of sphere ' $r$ ' for face-centred and body-centred cubic structures respectively are :

(A) $r=2 \sqrt{2} a$ and $\sqrt{3} r=4 a$
(B) $r=2 \sqrt{2} a$ and $4 r=\sqrt{3} a$
(C) $2 \sqrt{2} r=a$ and $\sqrt{3} r=4 a$
(D) $2 \sqrt{2} r=a$ and $4 r=\sqrt{3} a$

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JEE Main 2023 · 6 Apr · Shift 1 · Voids

A compound is formed by two elements $\mathrm{X}$ and $\mathrm{Y}$ . The element $\mathrm{Y}$ forms cubic close packed arrangement and those of element $\mathrm{X}$ occupy one third of the tetrahedral voids. What is the formula of the compound?

(A) $\mathrm{XY}_{3}$
(B) $\mathrm{X_3Y}_{2}$
(C) $\mathrm{X_3Y}$
(D) $\mathrm{X_2Y}_{3}$

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JEE Main 2023 · 1 Feb · Shift 1 · Crystal Defects

Which of the following represents the lattice structure of $\mathrm{A_{0.95}O}$ containing $\mathrm{A^{2+},A^{3+}}$ and $\mathrm{O^{2-}}$ ions?

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(A)B only
(B)A and B only
(C)A only
(D)B and C only

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Answer: (C)

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44 questions from 2020 to 2024, about 8.8 per year. In 2024 it had 1.

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