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Statistics JEE Main PYQs PDF, 2020–2026

Statistics has 104 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2026, about 15 per year across all shifts. All 104 are in the free PDF, with an answer key. The most asked topic is Variance and Standard Deviation (76 questions), followed by Measures of Central Tendency (14) and Measures of Dispersion (14).

Asked in JEE Main
1042020–2026, all shifts
In this free PDF
104all of them, with answers
Asked in 2026
15Latest paper: 2026 Apr S2
Most asked topic
Variance and Standard Deviation76 Qs · 73% of the chapter
Difficulty mix
15% easy · 83% medium · 2% hardof the questions in the PDF

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How often it's asked in JEE Main

Statistics had about 0.6 questions per shift in recent JEE Main papers (2024–26). Most asked topic: Variance and Standard Deviation. About 15 questions in the 2026 papers.

It came up in most 2024–26 shifts in our bank (about 37 shifts). Question types in 2020–2026: about 69 MCQs and about 35 numerical.

How many questions from Statistics in JEE Main, year by year

YearQuestionsPer shiftMCQNumerical
2026150.8150
202580.471
2024140.7104
2023200.8128
2022120.566
2021200.8911
2020150.9105
2020–20261040.76935

Most asked Statistics topics, 2020–2026

TopicQuestions
Variance and Standard Deviation76
Measures of Central Tendency14
Measures of Dispersion14

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Statistics questions per year

YearAskedIn PDF
20261515
202588
20241414
20232020
20221212
20212020
20201515

Topic-wise weightage by year

How many Statistics 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.

TopicAskedShare2026202520242023202220212020
Variance and Standard Deviation7673%14661591313
Measures of Central Tendency1414%1122·62
Measures of Dispersion1413%·16331·
All topics104100%1581420122015

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Newest questions (2026)

The 12 newest of the 15 JEE Main 2026 Statistics questions in the free PDF, latest shift first.

  1. JEE Main 2026 · 8 Apr · Shift 2 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    A set of four observations has mean 1 and variance 13. Another set of six observations has mean 2 and variance 1 . Then, the variance of all these 10 observations is equal to :

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  2. JEE Main 2026 · 6 Apr · Shift 1 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    A data consists of 20 observations x1,x2,…,x20x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{{20}}. If ∑i=120(xi+5)2=2500\sum_{{i=1}}^{{20}}{(x_{i}+5)}^{2}=2500 and ∑i=120(xi−5)2=100\sum_{{i=1}}^{{20}}{(x_{i}-5)}^{2}=100, then the ratio of mean to standard deviation of this data is :

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  3. JEE Main 2026 · 6 Apr · Shift 2 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    Let the mean and the variance of seven observations 2,4,α,8,β,12,14,α<β2,4,\alpha,8,\beta,12,14,\alpha<\beta, be 8 and 16 respectively. Then the quadratic equation whose roots are 3α+23\alpha+2 and 2β+12\beta+1 is :

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  4. JEE Main 2026 · 5 Apr · Shift 2 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    A variable XX takes values 0,0,2,6,12,20,…,n(n−1)0,0,2,6,12,20,\ldots,n(n-1) with frequencies nC0,nC1,nC2,nC3,nC4,nC5,…,nCn{}^{n}C_{0},{}^{n}C_{1},{}^{n}C_{2},{}^{n}C_{3},{}^{n}C_{4},{}^{n}C_{5},\ldots,{}^{n}C_{n}, respectively. If the mean of this data is 60 , then its median is :

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  5. JEE Main 2026 · 5 Apr · Shift 1 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    The mean deviation about the mean for the data

    xi579101215fi862226\begin{array}{ccccccc}x_{i} & 5 & 7 & 9 & 10 & 12 & 15 \\ f_{i} & 8 & 6 & 2 & 2 & 2 & 6\end{array}

    is equal to:\text{ is equal to:}

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  6. JEE Main 2026 · 4 Apr · Shift 2 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    For 10 observations x1,x2,…,x10x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{{10}}, if ∑i=110(xi+2)2=180\sum_{{i=1}}^{{10}}{(x_{i}+2)}^{2}=180 and ∑i=110(xi−1)2=90\sum_{{i=1}}^{{10}}{(x_{i}-1)}^{2}=90, then their standard deviation is :

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  7. JEE Main 2026 · 4 Apr · Shift 1 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    Suppose that the mean and median of the non-negative numbers 21,8,17,a,51,103,b,13,67,(a>b)21,8,17,a,51,103,b,13,67,(a>b), are 40 and 21 , respectively. If the mean deviation about the median is 26 , then 2a2a is equal to :

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  8. JEE Main 2026 · 2 Apr · Shift 2 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    The mean and variance of n observations are 8 and 16, respectively. If the sum of the first (n − 1) observations is 48 and the sum of squares of the first (n − 1) observations is 496, then the value of n is :

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  9. JEE Main 2026 · 2 Apr · Shift 1 · Measures of Central Tendency

    If the mean of the data

    Class5-1010-1515-2020-2525-3030-35
    Frequency2k2854k + 15

    is 21, then kk is one of the roots of the equation:

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  10. JEE Main 2026 · 28 Jan · Shift 1 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    The mean and variance of 10 observations are 9 and 34.2 , respectively. If 8 of these observations are 2,3,5,10,11,13,15,212,3,5,10,11,13,15,21, then the mean deviation about the median of all the 10 observations is

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  11. JEE Main 2026 · 24 Jan · Shift 1 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    The mean and variance of a data of 10 observations are 10 and 2 , respectively. If an observations α\alpha in this data is replaced by β\beta, then the mean and variance become 10.1 and 1.99 , respectively. Then α+β\alpha+\beta equals

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  12. JEE Main 2026 · 24 Jan · Shift 2 · Variance and Standard Deviation

    Let X={x∈ N:1≤x≤19}{\mathrm{X}}=\{x\in {\ \mathrm{N}}:1\leq x\leq 19\} and for some a,b∈R,Y={ax+b:x∈X}a,b\in {\mathbb{R}},{\mathrm{Y}}=\{ax+b:x\in {\mathrm{X}}\}. If the mean and variance of the elements of Y are 30 and 750 , respectively, then the sum of all possible values of bb is

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JEE Main 2025 · 4 Apr · Shift 2 · Measures of Dispersion

Let the mean and the standard deviation of the observation 2,3,3,4,5,7,a,b2,3,3,4,5,7, a, b be 4 and 2\sqrt{2} respectively. Then the mean deviation about the mode of these observations is :

  1. (A)12\frac{1}{2}
  2. (B)34\frac{3}{4}
  3. (C)1
  4. (D)2
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Answer: (C)

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JEE Main 2025 · 23 Jan · Shift 1 · Measures of Central Tendency

Marks obtains by all the students of class 12 are presented in a freqency distribution with classes of equal width. Let the median of this grouped data be 14 with median class interval 12-18 and median class frequency 12. If the number of students whose marks are less than 12 is 18 , then the total number of students is :

  1. (A)52
  2. (B)44
  3. (C)40
  4. (D)48
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Answer: (B)

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How many questions come from Statistics in JEE Main?

104 questions from 2020 to 2026, about 15 per year. In 2026 it had 15.

Which Statistics topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Variance and Standard Deviation (73%), Measures of Central Tendency (14%) and Measures of Dispersion (13%) of all Statistics questions.

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