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Organic Compounds Containing Halogens PYQs (previous year questions) for JEE Advanced: Organic Compounds Containing Halogens (Chemistry) had 6 questions across the 22 official JEE Advanced papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 6 of them. Asked in 5 of 11 years; last in 2025. The concepts asked in the most papers: Haloalkanes, Nucleophilic Substitution, Free Radical Addition.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 5 of 11 years, with 2 papers each year.
| Year | Questions |
|---|---|
| JEE Advanced 2026 | Not asked |
| JEE Advanced 2025 | 1 |
| JEE Advanced 2024 | Not asked |
| JEE Advanced 2023 | 2 |
| JEE Advanced 2022 | Not asked |
| JEE Advanced 2021 | 1 |
| JEE Advanced 2020 | Not asked |
| JEE Advanced 2019 | Not asked |
| JEE Advanced 2018 | Not asked |
| JEE Advanced 2017 | 1 |
| JEE Advanced 2016 | 1 |
Most-asked concepts
Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.
| Concept | Questions | Papers | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Radical Addition | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Free Radical Halogenation | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Haloalkanes | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nucleophilic Substitution | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| SN1 and SN2 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
How to practise Organic Compounds Containing Halogens PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s Organic Compounds Containing Halogens questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
- Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
- Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.
Questions by year
Each line gives the question number and paper, type, concept, our one-line summary and the official answer, with a link to the official PDF.
JEE Advanced2025
- Q.7 (Paper 1) · MSQ · Haloalkanes: Bond length, enthalpy and SN2 trends for halides from HBr, Finkelstein, Swarts (official answer: B) PDF
JEE Advanced2023
JEE Advanced2021
- Q.12 (Paper 1) · MSQ · Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution: Substrates giving sulfur-containing product with PhSNa PDF
JEE Advanced2017
- Q.29 (Paper 2) · MSQ · SN1 and SN2: Nucleophilic substitution mechanism and reactivity for given halides (official answer: A, B, C or A, B, C, D) PDF
JEE Advanced2016
- Q.36 (Paper 1) · Integer · Free Radical Halogenation: Number of chiral monobromination products of a chiral bromide (official answer: 5) PDF
Organic Compounds Containing Halogens in other exams
The same chapter in other official papers we tagged: JEE Main (11 questions), NEET (1 question).
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FAQ
How many Organic Compounds Containing Halogens questions come in JEE Advanced?
In the official papers we tagged: 1 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2017 and 1 in 2016 (2 papers each year). Not asked in the other 6 years. That is 6 questions in all, about 2% of Chemistry.
Which Organic Compounds Containing Halogens topics repeat in JEE Advanced?
Asked in the most papers: Haloalkanes, Nucleophilic Substitution, Free Radical Addition. The concept table lists every one with its count.
Are these official JEE Advanced questions?
Yes. Every question is from an official JEE Advanced paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.