How Acrolly Analyses JEE PYQs
Source filters, difficulty buckets, question-type labels, and limitations behind Acrolly Research reports.
Snapshot 2026-08-19
Source corpus
Reports aggregate rows from acrolly.question_bank. At snapshot time:
- JEE Advanced: 1086 questions, 22 papers, 2016–2026
- JEE Main: 6801 questions, 82 sessions, 2023–2026
Advanced filter: reference ~ '^JEE_ADVANCED_[0-9]{4}_PAPER' AND reference NOT ILIKE '%MOCK%' AND reference NOT ILIKE '%CHAPTER%'
Main filter: reference ~ '^JEE_MAINS_[0-9]{4}_' AND reference NOT ILIKE '%MOCK%'
Grouping rules
(subject, chapter) — Thermodynamics exists in both Physics and Chemistry
Unit filters use ai_stream (e.g. Organic Chemistry, Mechanics, Calculus).
Difficulty scale
0–100 integer difficulty_level
- Main: Easy 0–49, Medium 50–64, Hard 65–79, Very hard 80–100
- Advanced: Medium 0–64, Hard 65–79, Very hard 80–100 (scores cluster high; almost no Easy band)
Question types
mcq_single_correct→ Single correctmcq_multiple_correct→ Multiple correctinteger→ Integer / numericalmatching→ Matchingparagraph_mcq→ Paragraph MCQparagraph_integer→ Paragraph integerreasoning→ Assertion–reason
Integer / numerical is a response format, not a claim that the item is purely computational.
What we do not claim
- Official NTA weightage or future paper predictions
- Calculation-complexity or conceptual-vs-computational scores (not stored)
- That every official Main shift is present in the bank
Figures reflect historical question distribution in Acrolly's tagged PYQ bank. They are not a prediction of future papers.
FAQ
- Where do the numbers come from?
- From Acrolly’s question_bank table, filtered to tagged PYQ references only. Advanced uses JEE_ADVANCED_<year>_PAPER-*; Main uses JEE_MAINS_<year>_<MONTH>_<day>_MORNING|EVENING. Mocks are excluded.
- Why isn’t calculation complexity in these reports?
- That label is not stored as a first-class column on PYQ rows today. We do not invent proxies that would look precise but be wrong.
- Can I download the data?
- Yes. Each report links to a JSON file under /research/data/ for LLM and developer use.