NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 82
NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 82
Question 82 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure. Its idea, Exceptions to the Octet Rule, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q82 · Chemistry
Amongst the following, the total number of species NOT having eight electrons around central atom in its outer most shell, is
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- 11
- 23Official answer
- 32
- 44
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Exceptions to the Octet Rule
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Exceptions to the Octet Rule: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure in ten years of NEET
24 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.3 a paper. VSEPR Theory alone had 13.