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Broad vs Narrow Spectrum Antibiotics

JEE Main asked Broad vs Narrow Spectrum Antibiotics 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, all in 2022. It belongs to Chemistry in Everyday Life (Chemistry). In 2022 it came in more than one shift of the same year.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
2
in 2 shifts
Years
1 of 8
First asked
2022
the only year
Pattern
Occasional
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2022. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.

00.050.10’170’200’210.07’220’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 2 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 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
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20222 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: recall.

  • Odd-one-out among antibiotics by spectrum
  • Count drugs that are broad spectrum antibiotics

Difficulty

Easy 2Medium 0Hard 0

1 of the 2 questions had a numerical answer.

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.

  1. 24 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q79Which of the following is not a broad spectrum antibiotic ?EasySingle correct
  2. 26 Jul 2022, Shift 2 · Q90How many of the following drugs is/are example(s) of broad spectrum antibiotics ? Ofloxacin, Penicillin G, Terpineol, Salvarsan.EasyNumerical value

Shifts: 24 Jun 2022, Shift 1, 26 Jul 2022, Shift 2.

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