JEE Main · Chemistry · Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
Square Pyramidal Geometry (SN=6, 1 LP)
JEE Main asked Square Pyramidal Geometry (SN=6, 1 LP) 3 times in 3 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2023, 2024 and 2025. It belongs to VSEPR Theory, in Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure (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
- 2023
- last in 2025
- Pattern
- Comes in cycles
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2023, 2024 and 2025. 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: 1 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.
How JEE Main framed it
Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: application.
- Deduce molecular shape from element clues
- Identify species with given shape
Difficulty
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.
- 2 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q61A molecule with the formula has all it's elements from p-block. Element A is rarest, monoatomic, non-radioactive from its…HardSingle correct
- 30 Jan 2024, Shift 2 · Q63The molecule / ion with square pyramidal shape isEasySingle correct
- 6 Apr 2023, Shift 1 · Q83The number of species from the following which have square pyramidal structure is ________…MediumNumerical value
Shifts: 6 Apr 2023, Shift 1, 30 Jan 2024, Shift 2, 2 Apr 2025, Shift 1.
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- Octahedral and Square Planar4× · 2026
- VSEPR Symmetry and Dipole Moments3× · 2025
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