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Friday, 9 October

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

Structural Isomerism in JEE Main

Structural Isomerism (Chemistry, Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques) came 6 times in 6 of the 42 JEE Main shifts Lumi analysed, across 5 distinct ideas. 5 of them came in 2024–26; it was last asked in 2026.

Questions
6
in 6 shifts
Ideas asked
5
1 asked more than once
Numerical answer
2
33% of its questions
Pattern
Frequent
last asked 2026
Questions each year
0240’170’201’210’220’230’242’253’26

In the shifts Lumi analysed for each year.

Difficulty and format
Easy 2Medium 3Hard 1

Format

  • Numerical value2 Q
  • Single correct2 Q
  • Two statements1 Q
  • Other1 Q
Ideas inside the topic
5 ideas
Where it sits

Part of Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques, which had 91 questions in all. Structural Isomerism accounts for 7% of them. In Lumi's JEE taxonomy it belongs to Organic Chemistry.

Some questions sit in other chapters too: Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids, Hydrocarbons.