Questions
11
across 8 papers
Share of subject
2.8%
of 398 Chemistry Qs
Weightage rank
#17
of 31 chapters
Difficulty
2 easy · 8 medium · 1 hard
Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers contributed 11 of the 398 NEET Chemistry questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 2.8% of the subject and makes it the #17 chapter out of 31 by weightage — roughly 1.4 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2022.
Of the 11 questions tagged for difficulty, 18% were easy, 73% medium and 9% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 1.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Alcohols (Chemical Properties) — 4 questions across 3 papers.
7 topics tagged under Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers. Numbers show how many questions each topic had in each paper; E / M / H are the easy, medium and hard counts.
| Topic | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Re | Total | E | M | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohols (Chemical Properties) | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | 3 | – |
| Ethers (Chemical Properties) | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Alcohols (Physical Properties) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Alcohols (Preparation of Alcohols) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Ethers (Structure of Ether) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Phenols (Chemical Properties) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Phenols (Tests for Phenols) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 11 Chemistry questions came from Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers — 2.8% of the subject, or about 1.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #17 of 31 Chemistry chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Chemistry chapter, with 11 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Alcohols (Chemical Properties) (4), Ethers (Chemical Properties) (2) and Alcohols (Physical Properties) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 11 difficulty-tagged questions, 18% were easy, 73% medium and 9% hard.
Alcohols (Physical Properties), Alcohols (Preparation of Alcohols) and Phenols (Tests for Phenols) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers. Use the practice button on this page to open the set, attempt questions and check your answers.
Counts come from Edurack's tagged set of NEET papers 2020–2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), mapped to NCERT chapters and topics. Use them as a trend guide — past frequency doesn't guarantee what a future paper will ask.