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JEE Main · Maths · Conic Sections

Condition for a Parabola

JEE Main asked Condition for a Parabola once in the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, on 6 Apr 2024, Shift 1. It belongs to General Conic Section, in Conic Sections (Maths).

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
1
in 1 shift
Years
1 of 8
First asked
2024
the only year
Pattern
New since 2024
asked once so far

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2024. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Maths questions.

00.050.10’170’200’210’220’230.05’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 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.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20241 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20210 of 24
  • 20200 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: multi-step.

  • Conic identified from tangent slope condition

Difficulty

Easy 0Medium 0Hard 1

1 of the 1 question had a numerical answer.

Every question

The question

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

  1. 6 Apr 2024, Shift 1 · Q27Let a conic CC pass through the point (4,−2)(4,-2) and P(x,y)P(x,y), x≥3x \geq 3, be any point on CC. Let the slope of the line touching the…HardNumerical value

Shift: 6 Apr 2024, Shift 1.

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