JEE Advanced 2026 Questions Analysis: Which Questions Did Students Skip the Most?

JEE Advanced 2026 Most Skipped Questions 

The following table contains the questions that were not answered by the largest number of students in the JEE Advanced 2026 Question Paper. This data is for both papers and includes all three subjects.

Important results of the skipped questions

Electromagnetic Induction was one of the toughest topics: Physics Paper 1 Question 2 had the highest percentage of non-attempts, at 71.5%. Only 14.6% of the students managed to obtain maximum marks.

Rotational Motion was another tough topic: Physics Paper 1 Question 1 was skipped by 68% of the students, whereas Question 3 was not attempted by 66.6% of the students.

The questions from Chemistry had many non-attempts: Chemistry Paper 2 Question 1 from Electrochemistry was not attempted by 67.4% of the students.

Thermodynamics was another tough subject: Chemistry Paper 1 Question 1 was not attempted by 66.6% of the students.

There were questions which were not answered despite having a low difficulty index: Mathematics Paper 1 Question 2 from Coordinate Geometry had a 57.3% non-attempt rate, although the difficulty index was 57.3.

JEE Advanced 2026 Subject-wise Most Skipped Questions

Analysis of the JEE Advanced 2026 paperwise gives us information about those questions that went unattempted the most in both the papers. The percentage of questions unattempted is quite significant since it tells us about those areas where students may have found it difficult to answer the question due to any lack of understanding of the concept/formula/timing.

Following is the list of questions most unattempted in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics according to their percentage of unattempted.

Read: JEE Advanced 2026: Which Questions Were Hardest, Easiest and Most Tricky?

JEE Advanced 2026 Physics Most Skipped Questions 

There were quite a number of questions in physics which were not attempted by many students. In paper one, question two in Electromagnetic Induction is the most missed question, based on the data above, with 71.5% of students failing to attempt it. Questions one and three in the System of Particles and Rotational Motion are also highly missed questions.

In paper two, question four in Laws of Motion is the most missed question in physics based on the data above, with 62.4% of students not attempting it.

Findings from Physics

• Many Electromagnetic Induction questions were left unattempted: Paper 1 Question 2 had the highest rate of non-attempts among all listed physics questions, at 71.5%.

• Students also often left rotational motion questions unattempted: Paper 1 Questions 1 and 3 had non-attempt rates of 68% and 66.6%, respectively.

• Non-attempts on the Laws of Motion questions were quite common: 62.4% of students left Paper 2 Question 4 on Laws of Motion.

• Ray Optics questions were included in the list of the most skipped questions twice: Paper 2 Questions 5 and 3 received non-attempt rates of 55.5% and 52.3%, respectively.

• Full marks on some questions were rare: just 1.8% of students received full marks on Paper 2 Question 5 on Ray Optics and Optical Instruments.

JEE Advanced 2026 Maths Most Skipped Questions

Maths also had some problems that were left unattempted by the students. From the provided data, one can see that Paper 1, Question 2 from Coordinate Geometry, had the highest percentage of non-attempts with 57.3%. From Paper 2, Question 5 from Limits, Continuity and Differentiability had 57% non-attempts.

Matrices and determinants came up a number of times in the Paper 1 problems. Some of the other unattempted problems were limits, continuity and differentiability, three-dimensional geometry, trigonometry, and probability and statistics.

Findings from Maths

• Most missed questions were from Coordinate Geometry: Paper 1 Question 2 was not done by 57.3% of students.

• Limit, continuity and differentiability had many questions: Paper 2 Question 5 was not answered by 57% of students, whereas Paper 1 Question 1 was not answered by 47.6% of students.

• There were three instances of matrices and determinants in this list: Paper 1 Questions 15, 8, and 3 were not done by 48.2%, 46.8%, and 46.4% of students, respectively.

• Similarly, three-dimensional geometry was not solved by many students: Paper 2 Question 7 and Paper 1 Question 6 were not answered by 56.4% and 46.7% of students, respectively.

• Some questions which were attempted but still had many mistakes were: Paper 1 Question 4 from Trigonometry, which was solved incorrectly by 35% of students, whereas Paper 1 Question 5 from Probability & Statistics was solved incorrectly by 34.6% of students.

JEE Advanced 2026 Chemistry Most Skipped Questions

Among all the subjects, Chemistry showed the highest percentage of non-attempted questions amongst the listed questions. This was especially so for Question 1 of Electrochemistry under Paper 2, which showed a 67.4% non-attempt rate. For Paper 1, Thermodynamics Question 1 also showed a 66.6% non-attempt rate.

Questions related to aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids were found to be common in the analysis, while some organic chemistry questions also recorded a high wrong-answer percentage.

Key Findings from Chemistry

• The highest non-attempt rate was found in Electrochemistry among the Chemistry data given: Paper 2 Question 1 was not attempted by 67.4% of students.

• Another difficult topic is thermodynamics: Paper 1 Question 1 has a non-attempt rate of 66.6%.

• Many questions on aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids have been asked: non-attempt rates for questions in this chapter were in the range of 40.8% - 62.4%.

• Questions on Some Basic Principles and Techniques in Organic Chemistry had very high wrong-answer rates: Paper 2 Questions 17 and 18 in this chapter had wrong-answer rates of 54.8% and 53.6%, respectively.

• Chemical bonding has a high percentage of errors as well: Paper 1 Question 7 has a non-attempt rate of 52.5%, while 33.1% answered the question wrongly.