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Straight Lines JEE Main PYQs, 2020 to 2025

Straight Lines has 39 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2025, about 6.5 per year across all shifts. The most asked topic is Distance and Section Formula (13 questions), followed by Distance from a Point to a Line (10) and Forms of a Line (9).

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39Total PYQs
6Years covered
5Topics
2025 Apr S1Latest paper

Straight Lines questions per year

YearQuestions
20256
20246
20232
20226
202111
20208

Topic-wise weightage

TopicQuestionsShare of chapterLast asked
Distance and Section Formula1333%2025
Distance from a Point to a Line1026%2025
Forms of a Line923%2024
Locus513%2025
Angle Between Lines25%2024

Sample questions from recent papers

JEE Main 2025 · 7 Apr · Shift 1 · Distance and Section Formula

Let ABC be the triangle such that the equations of lines AB and AC be 3y−x=23y-x=2 and x+y=2x+y=2, respectively, and the points B and C lie on xx-axis. If P is the orthocentre of the triangle ABC , then the area of the triangle PBC is equal to

  1. (A)8
  2. (B)4
  3. (C)10
  4. (D)6
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Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2025 · 3 Apr · Shift 2 · Distance from a Point to a Line

Let the equation x(x+2)(12−k)=2x(x+2)(12-k)=2 have equal roots. Then the distance of the point (k,k2)\left(k, \frac{k}{2}\right) from the line 3x+4y+5=03 x+4 y+5=0 is

  1. (A)15
  2. (B)12
  3. (C)535 \sqrt{3}
  4. (D)15515 \sqrt{5}
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Answer: (A)

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JEE Main 2025 · 28 Jan · Shift 2 · Locus

If A and B are the points of intersection of the circle x2+y2−8x=0x^{2}+y^{2}-8x=0 and the hyperbola x29−y24=1\frac{x^{2}}{9}-\frac{y^{2}}{4}=1 and a point P moves on the line 2x−3y+4=02x-3y+4=0, then the centroid of ΔPAB\Delta PAB lies on the line :

  1. (A)

    x+9y=36x+9y=36

  2. (B)

    9x−9y=329x-9y=32

  3. (C)

    4x−9y=124x-9y=12

  4. (D)

    6x−9y=206x-9y=20

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Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2024 · 8 Apr · Shift 2 · Angle Between Lines

If the line segment joining the points (5,2)(5,2) and (2,a)(2,a) subtends an angle π4\frac{\pi}{4} at the origin, then the absolute value of the product of all possible values of aa is :

  1. (A)4
  2. (B)8
  3. (C)6
  4. (D)2
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Answer: (A)

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JEE Main 2024 · 1 Feb · Shift 2 · Forms of a Line

The lines L1, L2,…,L20{\mathrm{L}}_{1},{\ \mathrm{L}}_{2},\ldots,{\mathrm{L}}_{{20}} are distinct. For n=1,2,3,…,10{\mathrm{n}}=1,2,3,\ldots,10 all the lines L2n−1{\mathrm{L}}_{{2{\mathrm{n}}-1}} are parallel to each other and all the lines L2nL_{{2n}} pass through a given point PP. The maximum number of points of intersection of pairs of lines from the set {L1, L2,…,L20}\{{\mathrm{L}}_{1},{\ \mathrm{L}}_{2},\ldots,{\mathrm{L}}_{{20}}\} is equal to ___________.
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Answer: 101

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How many questions come from Straight Lines in JEE Main?

39 questions from 2020 to 2025, about 6.5 per year. In 2025 it had 6.

Which Straight Lines topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Distance and Section Formula (33%), Distance from a Point to a Line (26%) and Forms of a Line (23%) of all Straight Lines questions.

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