JEE Main · Maths · Straight Lines
Square Area from Vertex and Diagonal
JEE Main asked Square Area from Vertex and Diagonal 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2022 and 2025. It belongs to Straight Line Distance, in Straight Lines (Maths). The longest wait between two years asking it was 3 years.
Updated 2026-10-24
- Times asked
- 2
- in 2 shifts
- Years
- 2 of 8
- First asked
- 2022
- last in 2025
- Pattern
- Occasional
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2022 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Maths questions.
Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 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.
How JEE Main framed it
Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: multi-step.
- Side of square from diagonal equations
- Square geometry with parametric vertex and diagonal
Difficulty
Every question was multiple choice.
Every question
All 2 questions
From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.
- 8 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q11Let be the length of a side of a square OABC with O being the origin. Its side OA makes an acute angle with the positive…MediumSingle correct
- 29 Jul 2022, Shift 2 · Q11Let , be the slopes of two adjacent sides of a square of side a such that . If one…HardSingle correct
Shifts: 29 Jul 2022, Shift 2, 8 Apr 2025, Shift 2.
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- Angle Bisector Locus via Distances3× · 2024
- Chord Length via Perpendicular Distance2× · 2026
- Reflection of a Line in a Line2× · 2026
- Altitude Length of a Triangle2× · 2024
- Distance Measured Parallel to a Line2× · 2024
- Locus of Points at a Fixed Distance2× · 2024
- Origin Distance to Intercept Form2× · 2024