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Binding Energy per Nucleon

JEE Main asked Binding Energy per Nucleon 6 times in 6 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. It belongs to Nuclear Binding Energy, in Nuclei (Physics). The longest wait between two years asking it was 2 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
6
in 6 shifts
Years
6 of 8
First asked
2020
last in 2026
Pattern
Asked most years
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.

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Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 1 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: 1 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20261 of 9
  • 20251 of 8
  • 20241 of 18
  • 20231 of 12
  • 20221 of 24
  • 20210 of 24
  • 20201 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Numerical value is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.

  • Fusion energy from binding energy per nucleon
  • Binding energy per nucleon of nucleus

Difficulty

Easy 4Medium 2Hard 0

3 of the 6 questions had a numerical answer.

Every question

All 6 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 2 Apr 2026, Shift 2 · Q44The binding energy per nucleon of 20983Bi\frac{209}{83}Bi isMediumSingle correct
  2. 2 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q38Energy released when two deuterons (1H2_1\mathrm{H}^2) fuse to form a helium nucleus (2He4_2\mathrm{He}^4) is : (Given : Binding energy per…EasySingle correct
  3. 27 Jan 2024, Shift 1 · Q60In a nuclear fission process, a high mass nuclide (A ≈\approx 236) with binding energy 7.6 MeV/Nucleon dissociated into middle mass…EasyNumerical value
  4. 8 Apr 2023, Shift 1 · Q55A nucleus with mass number 242242 and binding energy per nucleon as 7.6 MeV7.6\ \mathrm{MeV} breaks into two fragment each with mass number…EasyNumerical value
  5. 26 Jul 2022, Shift 2 · Q54Two lighter nuclei combine to form a comparatively heavier nucleus by the relation given below : 12X+12X=24Y{}^{2}_{1}X + {}^{2}_{1}X = {}^{4}_{2}Y…MediumNumerical value
  6. 4 Sep 2020, Shift 2 · Q18Find the Binding energy per neucleon for 50120Sn^{120}_{50}\mathrm{Sn}. Mass of proton mp=1.00783m_p = 1.00783 U, mass of neutron mn=1.00867m_n = 1.00867 U and…EasySingle correct

Shifts: 4 Sep 2020, Shift 2, 26 Jul 2022, Shift 2, 8 Apr 2023, Shift 1, 27 Jan 2024, Shift 1, 2 Apr 2025, Shift 2, 2 Apr 2026, Shift 2.

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