JEE Main · Maths · Sequences and Series
Symmetric Selection of AP Terms
JEE Main asked Symmetric Selection of AP Terms 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2024 and 2025. It belongs to AP and GP, in Sequences and Series (Maths). The longest wait between two years asking it was 1 year.
Updated 2026-10-24
- Times asked
- 2
- in 2 shifts
- Years
- 2 of 8
- First asked
- 2024
- last in 2025
- Pattern
- New since 2024
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2024 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: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 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
Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: multi-step.
- Two three-term aps with product conditions
- Numbers in ap with shifted terms in gp
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.
- 4 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q6Consider two sets A and B, each containing three numbers in A.P. Let the sum and the product of the elements of A be 36 and p respectively…MediumSingle correct
- 4 Apr 2024, Shift 2 · Q6Let three real numbers be in arithmetic progression and be in geometric progression. If and the arithmetic…MediumSingle correct
Shifts: 4 Apr 2024, Shift 2, 4 Apr 2025, Shift 2.
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