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Non-Consecutive Selection in a Row

JEE Main asked Non-Consecutive Selection in a Row once in the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, on 7 Apr 2025, Shift 1. It belongs to Permutations and Combinations (Maths).

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
1
in 1 shift
Years
1 of 8
First asked
2025
the only year
Pattern
New since 2024
asked once so far

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Maths questions.

00.10.20’170’200’210’220’230’240.13’250’26

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: 0 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.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20251 of 8
  • 20240 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.

  • Count subsets with no consecutive elements

Difficulty

Easy 0Medium 1Hard 0

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. 7 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q21For n≥2n \geq 2, let SnS_n denote the set of all subsets of {1,2,…,n}\{1, 2, \ldots, n\} with no two consecutive numbers. For example…MediumNumerical value

Shift: 7 Apr 2025, Shift 1.

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