JEE Main Pattern Practice Questions — Class 11 Physics Chapter 2 Notes

Stop Reading. Start Scoring.

Sections 1 to 8 taught you this chapter — position and displacement, the derivative and the integral of motion, the kinematic equations, free fall, graphs, relative velocity, and the variable-acceleration machinery in Section 8. This section finds out whether you can use any of it with a clock running, which is a completely different skill.

There is no new theory below. There are 30 questions built to the JEE Main pattern, and a marking scheme that punishes the thing students do most: guessing.

The rules of engagement

Key Point: Do not treat this as a reading exercise. Sit down with a blank sheet, a pen and a timer, and attempt all 30 questions in one unbroken sitting before you look at a single explanation.

The setup	What it is
Number of questions	30
Marking scheme	$+4$ correct, $-1$ incorrect, $0$ unattempted
Maximum score	$30 \times 4 = 120$ marks
Minimum possible score	$30 \times (-1) = -30$ marks
Suggested time limit	35 minutes (JEE Main pace is about 1 minute per question)
Take $g$ as	10 m/s^2 unless a question says otherwise
Allowed	rough sheet, your own brain
Not allowed	calculator, formula sheet, looking back at Sections 1 to 8

[Exam Tip] That $-1$ is not decoration. Four wild guesses that produce one lucky hit earn you $4 - 3 = +1$ mark for four minutes of work — a terrible trade. But a question you have narrowed to two options is worth attempting: on average that returns $\frac{4 - 1}{2} = +1.5$ marks. Narrow first, then commit. Leave blank only what you could not narrow at all.

What this set covers

Topic map and self-scoring card for the 30-question JEE Main drill

Topic	Questions	How many
Distance vs displacement, average velocity vs average speed	Q1 to Q4	4
Differentiating and integrating the motion functions, variable acceleration	Q5 to Q9	5
Kinematic equations, two-stage motion, nth second, quadratic in $t$	Q10 to Q15	6
Free fall and vertical motion, moving carriers, meeting in mid-air	Q16 to Q20	5
Graph interpretation: x-t, v-t, a-t, signed areas	Q21 to Q25	5
Relative velocity, chase and collision avoidance	Q26 to Q28	3
Hard multi-concept	Q29 to Q30	2

That spread is deliberate — it mirrors how JEE Main actually samples Motion in a Straight Line. The kinematic equations and free fall together account for 11 of the 30, because in the real paper they account for most of what gets asked here. Graphs and calculus take another 10, and they are where the marks are won, because most candidates rush them.

The difficulty mix is roughly 25% easy, 45% medium and 30% hard, so do not panic if a handful feel brutal. They are meant to.

[Exam Tip] Before you start, write your sign convention at the top of the sheet — up positive, or the initial direction of motion positive — and do not change it mid-question. More marks are lost in this chapter to a flipped sign than to a forgotten formula.

Scoring Yourself Honestly

Mark your sheet with the real scheme — $+4$ , $-1$ , $0$ — and total it. No half marks for "I knew that one really". The number you get is the number that matters.

The bands

Your score (out of 120)	Verdict	What to do next
96 to 120	Exam ready. 80% or more on a hard set, inside the time.	Move on. This chapter will not cost you marks. Revisit only the specific items you missed.
72 to 95	Solid, but leaking marks.	These are almost always slips, not gaps — a dropped sign, a distance reported where a displacement was asked. Redo every wrong question without the explanation first.
44 to 71	Shaky. The ideas are there; the execution is not.	For each wrong answer, go back to the section it came from (use the topic map above) and rework its solved examples before re-attempting.
Below 44	Start again.	Work Sections 1 to 8 properly, then Section 7's solved examples, then come back. Re-attempting this set now teaches you nothing.

Read your own answer sheet

Before you touch the explanations, sort your mistakes into three piles. This is the most valuable ten minutes in the whole section.

Concept errors — you did not know that a negative acceleration can mean speeding up, or that the nth-second formula dies once the body has stopped. Fixable by revision, and quickly.
Execution errors — right method, wrong arithmetic, or you kept the wrong root of a quadratic. Fixable by slowing down for four seconds at the last line.
Reading errors — you found the displacement when the question asked for the distance, or gave the height above the throwing point when it asked for the height above the ground. These are the cheapest marks in the paper to win back, and the ones students refuse to take seriously.

Key Point: In this chapter specifically, pile 3 is dominated by four traps: distance vs displacement when the body reverses, speed vs velocity when the sign flips, height above the ground vs height above the release point, and time measured from your clock vs time measured from the other body's release. Check which of the four caught you, every single time.

The five habits this set is drilling

Fix the origin and the positive direction before writing anything. Then every $v_0$ , $a$ and $x$ carries its own sign automatically.
Where a body reverses, split the interval at the turning instant. Displacement adds signed; distance adds unsigned. There is no formula that does both at once.
On a v-t graph, area below the axis is negative displacement but positive distance. That one sentence answers a whole family of questions.
In a chase or collision problem, sit in the other body's frame. A two-body problem becomes a one-body problem with $v_{AB}$ and $a_{AB}$ .
When acceleration is not constant, do not reach for $v = v_0 + at$ . Ask what the acceleration is a function of — $t$ , $x$ or $v$ — and pick the matching route from Section 8.

[Exam Tip] Every explanation below is a full step-by-step solution, so this set doubles as revision material. Read the explanation even for the questions you got right — sometimes you got there the slow way, and the fast way is what you will need in the hall.