NEET UG 2022 · Chemistry · Question 74
NEET 2022 Chemistry, question 74
Question 74 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Chemistry question from Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers. Its idea, Ortho/Para vs Meta Position of EWG, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q74 · Chemistry
Given below are two statements :
Statement I :
The acidic strength of monosubstituted nitrophenol is higher than phenol because of electron withdrawing nitro group.
Statement II :
o-nitrophenol, m-nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol will have same acidic strength as they have one nitro group attached to the phenolic ring.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
- 1Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
- 2Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
- 3Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
- 4Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Ortho/Para vs Meta Position of EWG
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Ortho/Para vs Meta Position of EWG: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers in ten years of NEET
15 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 7 of 10 papers, about 1.4 a paper. Alcohols and Phenols alone had 15.