General Principles of Organic Chemistry is a Class 11 Chemistry chapter that carries about 6.3% of the Chemistry questions in NEET. Practise it with 55 questions covering 6 topics, each with an explanation.
Sets of 15 questions that adapt to your level, with an explanation for every answer.
Across the 13 previous year papers, General Principles of Organic Chemistry had 46 questions, about 3.5 a year. The most in one paper was 7, in Re-AIPMT 2015.
| Paper | Questions from this chapter |
|---|---|
| NEET 2026 | 7 |
| NEET 2025 | 7 |
| NEET 2024 | 2 |
| NEET 2023 | 1 |
| NEET 2022 | 2 |
| NEET 2021 | 4 |
| NEET 2020 | 1 |
| NEET 2019 | 2 |
| NEET 2018 | 2 |
| NEET 2017 | 4 |
| NEET 2016 | 6 |
| Re-AIPMT 2015 | 7 |
| AIPMT 2014 | 1 |
8 questions from the practice bank, spread across the chapter's topics. The full set is in the app.
Which of the following is the strongest acid?
Answer: D. FCH₂COOH
Why: The strongly electron-withdrawing fluorine stabilises the carboxylate through the −I effect most effectively.
The electromeric effect is:
Answer: A. a temporary effect that appears only in the presence of an attacking reagent
Why: The π electrons are transferred completely to one atom of a multiple bond.
The IUPAC name of (CH₃)₂CHCH₂CH₂OH is:
Answer: A. 3-methylbutan-1-ol
Why: The chain is numbered from the end nearest the –OH group.
The stability of alkyl carbanions follows the order:
Answer: A. methyl > primary > secondary > tertiary
Why: Electron-donating alkyl groups destabilise a negative charge.
The maximum number of stereoisomers of a compound with two different chiral centres is:
Answer: C. 4
Why: 2ⁿ = 4 for n = 2.
Heterolytic fission of a covalent bond produces:
Answer: B. ions (a cation and an anion)
Why: Homolytic fission produces free radicals.
The higher acidity of phenol compared with ethanol is due to:
Answer: B. resonance stabilisation of the phenoxide ion
Why: The negative charge on oxygen in phenoxide is delocalised into the ring, which an ethoxide ion cannot do.
The number of hyperconjugation structures for the ethyl carbocation (CH₃CH₂⁺) is:
Answer: A. 3
Why: There are three α-hydrogens.
General Principles of Organic Chemistry carries about 6.3% of the Chemistry questions in NEET. Across the 13 previous year papers on NeetVictory it appeared 46 times, about 3.5 questions a year.
General Principles of Organic Chemistry is a Class 11 Chemistry chapter in the NCERT syllabus.
NeetVictory has 55 practice questions on General Principles of Organic Chemistry, each with an explanation, in sets of 15 that adapt to your level. This page shows a free sample.
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