Questions
11
across 8 papers
Share of subject
2.8%
of 398 Chemistry Qs
Weightage rank
#19
of 31 chapters
Difficulty
6 easy · 4 medium · 1 hard
Haloalkanes and Haloarenes 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 #19 chapter out of 31 by weightage — roughly 1.4 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2021.
Of the 11 questions tagged for difficulty, 55% were easy, 36% medium and 9% hard — a chapter where NCERT-level preparation pays off directly.
It has been asked less often lately: 1 question per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Chemical Properties — 2 questions across 2 papers.
9 topics tagged under Haloalkanes and Haloarenes. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Properties | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Stereochemical Aspects of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (Elements of Symmetry and Mechanism) | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Classification | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Haloalkanes (Preparation Method) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Haloarenes (Preparation Method) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Isomerism (Introduction) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Nature of C-X Bond | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Preparation Method of Haloalkanes (From Alcohols) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Reaction of Haloarenes (Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
No topic has appeared in three or more different papers.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 11 Chemistry questions came from Haloalkanes and Haloarenes — 2.8% of the subject, or about 1.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #19 of 31 Chemistry chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Chemistry chapter, with 11 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Chemical Properties (2), Stereochemical Aspects of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (Elements of… (2) and Classification (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 11 difficulty-tagged questions, 55% were easy, 36% medium and 9% hard.
Preparation Method of Haloalkanes (From Alcohols) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Haloalkanes and Haloarenes. 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.