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Hyperconjugation

JEE Main asked Hyperconjugation 3 times in 3 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2024, 2025 and 2026. It belongs to Resonance and Hyperconjugation, in Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques (Chemistry). The longest wait between two years asking it was 1 year.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked: 3; in 3 shifts
Years: 3 of 8
First asked: 2024; last in 2026
Pattern: New since 2024; across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2024, 2025 and 2026. 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: 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: 1 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

20261 of 9
20251 of 8
20241 of 18
20230 of 12
20220 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: application.

Order/ranking of alkene stability
Statement i/ii on hyperconjugation

Difficulty

Easy 1Medium 2Hard 0

1 of the 3 questions had a numerical answer.

Every question

All 3 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

Shifts: 6 Apr 2024, Shift 2, 3 Apr 2025, Shift 2, 5 Apr 2026, Shift 2.

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Other ideas in Resonance and Hyperconjugation

Resonance and Hyperconjugation has 7 ideas JEE Main has asked; 5 of them came up in more than one question.

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