JEE Main · Chemistry · Chemistry in Everyday Life
Drug Classification
JEE Main asked Drug Classification 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2021 and 2022. It belongs to Chemistry in Everyday Life (Chemistry). 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
- 2021
- last in 2022
- Pattern
- Occasional
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2021 and 2022. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.
Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 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.
How JEE Main framed it
Match the list is the usual form. Skill tested: recall.
- Match list on drug structures and uses
- Match list on drug classes and examples
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.
- 27 Jul 2022, Shift 1 · Q78Match List I with List II. List I | List II A. [structure drawn, see figure_note] | I. Anti-depressant B. [structure drawn, see…MediumMatch the listHas a figure
- 18 Mar 2021, Shift 2 · Q49Match List - I with List - II : List - I (Class of Chemicals) List - II (Example) (a) Antifertility drug (i) Meprobamate (b) Antibiotic…MediumMatch the list
Shifts: 18 Mar 2021, Shift 2, 27 Jul 2022, Shift 1.
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