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JEE Main · Chemistry · Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques

Polyfunctional Aromatic Compounds

JEE Main asked Polyfunctional Aromatic Compounds 3 times in 3 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2020, 2024 and 2025. It belongs to IUPAC Nomenclature, in Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques (Chemistry). The longest wait between two years asking it was 4 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
3
in 3 shifts
Years
3 of 8
First asked
2020
last in 2025
Pattern
Frequent
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2020, 2024 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.

00.10.20’170.08’200’210’220’230.05’240.13’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 1 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: 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
  • 20251 of 8
  • 20241 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20210 of 24
  • 20201 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Diagram based is the usual form. Skill tested: application.

  • Iupac name of polyfunctional compound
  • Statement i/ii on iupac names of compounds

Difficulty

Easy 2Medium 1Hard 0

Every question was multiple choice.

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.

  1. 3 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q66What is the correct IUPAC name of [structure] ?EasyDiagram basedHas a figure
  2. 8 Apr 2024, Shift 1 · Q74Given below are two statements: Statement I: [figure: Compound A, a benzene ring bearing Cl, and two NO2\mathrm{NO_2} groups] IUPAC name of…EasyTwo statementsHas a figure
  3. 6 Sep 2020, Shift 2 · Q31The IUPAC name of the following compound is :MediumSingle correctHas a figure

Shifts: 6 Sep 2020, Shift 2, 8 Apr 2024, Shift 1, 3 Apr 2025, Shift 2.

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