Advanced Problems in Organic Chemistry for Competitive Examinations
by Akshay Choudhary & Mandakini Choudhary
- 1. About the Book
- 2. Key Features
- 3. Book Index
- 4. Who Should Read This
- 5. Download PDF
If organic chemistry is the part of your syllabus that keeps you awake at night, this book is built for exactly that frustration. Advanced Problems in Organic Chemistry for Competitive Examinations by Akshay Choudhary and Mandakini Choudhary is a problem-solving workbook designed to push students past the textbook phase and into the territory where exams are actually won.
About the Book
The book doesn't waste pages re-teaching theory you already know. It assumes you have the basics in place and focuses on application — the kind of multi-step, concept-blending problems that show up in JEE Advanced and IISER IAT. Each chapter opens with a brief concept recap and then moves quickly into worked examples and graded practice questions.
Akshay Choudhary brings serious credentials to the table. He holds an M.Sc. in Chemistry, earned his JRF from NCL Pune, and is both NET and GATE qualified. His classroom experience with IIT-JEE aspirants shapes the difficulty curve throughout the book. Co-author Mandakini Choudhary, with her B.Ed background and four years of teaching, brings clarity to the trickier sections on reaction mechanisms and intermediates.
Key Features
What sets this book apart is the depth of its problem sets. You will find single-concept drills, yes, but also passage-based questions, assertion-reasoning problems, and match-the-column formats that mirror the real exam pattern. Solutions are detailed rather than one-liners — they walk you through the reasoning so a wrong answer actually teaches you something.
The chapter on Organic Reaction Mechanisms and Reagents is the heaviest section, spanning over 80 pages. That is where most students stumble in competitive exams, and the authors clearly knew it. Reaction intermediates, named reactions, and reagent behaviour are covered with the kind of repetition that builds instinct.
Book Index
| # | Chapter | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Organic Chemistry | 1.1–1.83 |
| 2 | Isomerism | 2.1–2.81 |
| 3 | Hydrocarbons | 3.1–3.65 |
| 4 | Alkyl Halides, Alcohols and Ethers | 4.1–4.74 |
| 5 | Carbonyl Compounds and Acid Derivatives | 5.1–5.71 |
| 6 | ESR, Amines and Phenols | 6.1–6.77 |
| 7 | Biomolecules | 7.1–7.40 |
| 8 | Organic Reaction Mechanisms and Reagents | 8.1–8.82 |
| 9 | Practical Organic Chemistry | 9.1–9.13 |
| 10 | Nomenclature | 10.1–10.23 |
Who Should Read This
Aspirants targeting NEET and JEE Mains will find plenty of objective practice here, but the real value surfaces for JEE Advanced, NEST, and IISER IAT candidates — exams that reward conceptual depth over rote recall. If you are at the stage where standard coaching material feels repetitive and you need problems that genuinely make you think, this book fills that gap well.
It also works as a revision companion in the final months before an exam. The chapter sizes are uneven on purpose: the longer sections match the topics that historically carry more weight, so your study time goes where it matters most.
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