JEE Main · Physics · Motion in a Straight Line
Average Speed Special Cases
JEE Main asked Average Speed Special Cases 4 times in 4 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. It belongs to Kinematics in 1D, in Motion in a Straight Line (Physics). The longest wait between two years asking it was 1 year.
Updated 2026-10-24
- Times asked
- 4
- in 4 shifts
- Years
- 4 of 8
- First asked
- 2022
- last in 2025
- Pattern
- Comes in cycles
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.
Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 in 24 shifts · 2023: 1 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 1 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.
Shift by shift
Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.
How JEE Main framed it
Numerical value is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.
- Unknown speed from average velocity
- Average speed over split journey
Difficulty
2 of the 4 questions had a numerical answer.
Every question
All 4 questions
From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.
- 2 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q49A person travelling on a straight line moves with a uniform velocity for a distance and with a uniform velocity for the…EasyNumerical value
- 9 Apr 2024, Shift 1 · Q32A particle moving in a straight line covers half the distance with speed m/s. The other half is covered in two equal time intervals…MediumSingle correct
- 10 Apr 2023, Shift 2 · Q40A person travels distance with velocity and then distance with velocity in the same direction. The average velocity of…EasySingle correct
- 30 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q51A person starts his journey from centre ‘O’ of the park and comes back to the same position following path OPQO as shown in the figure.…EasyNumerical valueHas a figure
Shifts: 30 Jun 2022, Shift 1, 10 Apr 2023, Shift 2, 9 Apr 2024, Shift 1, 2 Apr 2025, Shift 1.
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