Statistics and Probability in JEE Main: weightage, trend and PYQs (2002–2026)
10 November 2026 · Counted from previous-year JEE Main papers on JEE Arc
Statistics and Probability has appeared in 387 JEE Main questions between 2002 and 2026. In the last five years it ranks #6 of 19 Mathematics chapters by how often it was asked, with 199 questions.
It is being asked more: about 39.8 questions a year in the last five years, up from 27.4 before that.
Year-wise weightage
| Year | Questions |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 |
| 2025 | 26 |
| 2024 | 41 |
| 2023 | 51 |
| 2022 | 49 |
| 2021 | 54 |
| 2020 | 32 |
| 2019 | 33 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2017 | 9 |
Counts are questions per year across all sessions and shifts, so years with more shifts naturally have more.
Difficulty and question type
Of the 387 questions, 20% were easy, 68% medium and 12% hard. 68 were numerical-answer questions, so practise getting exact values, not just eliminating options.
Latest Statistics and Probability questions
- JEE Main 2026 · 23 Jan Morning shift: Let the mean and variance of 8 numbers -10, -7, -1, x, y, 9, 2, 16 be 7/2 and 293/4, respectively. Then the mean of 4…
- JEE Main 2026 · 8 Apr Evening shift: A candidate has to go to the examination centre to appear in an examination. The candidate uses only one means of…
- JEE Main 2026 · 5 Apr Morning shift: A letter is known to have arrived by post either from KANPUR or from ANANTPUR. On the envelope just two consecutive…
- JEE Main 2026 · 8 Apr Evening shift: A set of four observations has mean 1 and variance 13. Another set of six observations has mean 2 and variance 1…
- JEE Main 2026 · 23 Jan Evening shift: Bag A contains 9 white and 8 black balls, while bag B contains 6 white and 4 black balls. One ball is randomly picked…
- JEE Main 2026 · 6 Apr Evening shift: Let the mean and the variance of seven observations 2, 4, α, 8, β, 12, 14, α<β, be 8 and 16 respectively. Then the…
- JEE Main 2026 · 2 Apr Evening shift: A man throws a fair coin repeatedly. He gets 10 points for each head he throws and 5 points for each tail he throws…
- JEE Main 2026 · 4 Apr Evening shift: For 10 observations x₁,x₂,,x₁₀, if Σ i=1 ¹⁰(x i +2)²=180 and Σ i=1 ¹⁰(x i -1)²=90, then their standard deviation is:
See all 387 with worked solutions on the Statistics and Probability chapter page.
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