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

Adsorption in Chromatography

JEE Main asked Adsorption in Chromatography 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2023 and 2024. It belongs to Adsorption, 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
2
in 2 shifts
Years
2 of 8
First asked
2023
last in 2024
Pattern
Occasional
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2023 and 2024. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.

00.050.10’170’200’210’220.07’230.05’240’250’26

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: 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
  • 20241 of 18
  • 20231 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

Other is the usual form. Skill tested: diagram reading.

  • Adsorbents used in adsorption chromatography
  • True statement selection on column chromatography

Difficulty

Easy 1Medium 1Hard 0

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.

  1. 4 Apr 2024, Shift 2 · Q73The adsorbent used in adsorption chromatography is/are - A. silica gel B. alumina C. quick lime D. magnesia Choose the most appropriate…EasyOther
  2. 6 Apr 2023, Shift 2 · Q76From the figure of column chromatography given below, identify incorrect statements. A. Compound 'c' is more polar than 'a' and 'b' B.…MediumOtherHas a figure

Shifts: 6 Apr 2023, Shift 2, 4 Apr 2024, Shift 2.

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Other ideas in Adsorption

Adsorption has 13 ideas JEE Main has asked; 10 of them came up in more than one question.

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