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NEET UG 2020 · Code E1

NEET 2020 paper, question by question

All 180 questions from the NEET UG 2020 paper, tagged to chapter, topic and idea. How hard it was, what it asked, what was new and what came back.

Questions
180
all 180 counted
Chapters asked
89
2 usual chapters skipped
Easy / hard
67% / 0%
share of the paper
Need a calculation
22%
Physics alone: 58%
New ideas
84%
of questions tested an idea not asked before
Use a figure
4%
4 in Physics, 4 in Chemistry
From Class 12
53%
of the questions, all subjects
Same idea as last year
6.1%
11 questions

Key findings · NEET 2020

  1. 1

    67% of questions were easy, 13 points above the ten-year average of 54%, the highest in ten years.

  2. 2

    About 39 questions (22%) needed a calculation, against 21% on average; Physics alone was 58% calculation.

  3. 3

    Current Electricity got the biggest boost: 5 questions against a usual 3.2, followed by Kinetic Theory (3 vs 1.4).

  4. 4

    Physics tilted to Class 12: 28 of 45 questions, against a usual 56%.

  5. 5

    84% of tagged questions tested an idea no earlier paper had asked, yet 94% came from a topic seen before.

Subjects

How the 2020 paper split

Questions per subject, the Class 11 and Class 12 balance, and how hard each part was.

Physics

25% of the paper

45questions · 24 chapters

Class 11 and 12

1728
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

369
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
35 (78%)
Use a figure
4
Calculation
58%
Recall
22%
Figure-based
9%

Chemistry

25% of the paper

45questions · 29 chapters

Class 11 and 12

2124
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

2718
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
36 (80%)
Use a figure
4
Recall
29%
Calculation
27%
Concept
20%

Biology

50% of the paper

90questions · 36 chapters

Botany and Zoology

5040
  • Botany
  • Zoology

Class 11 and 12

4743
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

5733
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
80 (89%)
Use a figure
0
Recall
64%
Match the lists
17%
Concept
13%

Compared

Versus 2019 and the ten-year average

Each measure for this paper, next to the year before and the average of all ten papers. Changes are in percentage points.

  • Questions in the paper180
    2019: 180 0Avg: 188 -8
  • Chapters asked89
    2019: 88 +1Avg: 84 +5
  • Easy questions66.7%
    2019: 54.4% +12.3Avg: 54.0% +12.7
  • Hard questions0.0%
    2019: 1.7% -1.7Avg: 2.7% -2.7
  • Need a calculation21.7%
    2019: 18.3% +3.4Avg: 21.2% +0.5
  • Straight recall54.4%
    2019: 50.0% +4.4Avg: 46.3% +8.1
  • Use a figure4.4%
    2019: 7.2% -2.8Avg: 10.5% -6.1
  • Statements, assertion–reason, match10.0%
    2019: 6.1% +3.9Avg: 14.5% -4.5
  • Test a new idea83.9%
    2019: 89.4% -5.5Avg: 73.9% +10.0
  • Same idea as the year before6.1%
    2019: 5.0% +1.1Avg: 6.8% -0.7
  • From Class 1252.8%
    2019: 50.6% +2.2Avg: 51.9% +0.9
  • Physics: easy80.0%
    2019: 55.6% +24.4Avg: 47.0% +33.0
  • Chemistry: easy60.0%
    2019: 42.2% +17.8Avg: 46.6% +13.4
  • Biology: easy63.3%
    2019: 60.0% +3.3Avg: 61.0% +2.3

Repetition

What came back, and what was new

Almost every question sits in a chapter NEET has asked before, and most in a known topic. The exact idea is a different story: most are new.

Questions whose … had appeared before

ANY PAPER 2017–2019
  • Chapter100%
  • Topic94%
  • Exact idea16%
  • Exact idea, in 20196%

Topic and idea shares count only the questions we could tag to a topic. The ten-paper window grows each year, so early years look newer than they are.

Questions testing a new idea, by year

Share of each paper whose idea had never been asked in an earlier paper.

Same idea as the year before

Share of each paper that repeated an idea from the previous paper.

Chapters

Which chapters got more, and which got less

Questions a chapter had in 2020 minus its usual: its ten-year average per 180 questions.

More than usual

Less than usual, or skipped

All 89 chapters asked

Biology · 36

Topics

Busiest topics in 2020

Question format

SHARE OF 2020
  • One-line MCQ · 116 Q64%
  • Numerical · 36 Q20%
  • Match the lists · 18 Q10%
  • Other · 6 Q3%
  • Figure-based · 4 Q2%

What the question tests

SHARE OF 2020
  • Recall · 98 Q54%
  • Calculation · 29 Q16%
  • Concept · 24 Q13%
  • Application · 21 Q12%
  • Multi-step · 5 Q3%
  • Figure reading · 2 Q1%
  • Data or graph · 1 Q1%

Drill down

What 2020 asked, and its history

Every chapter the 2020 paper asked, with all its topics and ideas. Counts and squares cover all ten papers; rows 2020 did not ask are faded, and questions from other years link to their own paper.

  • Open90 this paper940 · 50%909090901001001001009090
  • Open45 this paper469 · 25%45454545504950504545
  • Open45 this paper466 · 25%43454545505049504544

Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.

Every question

All 180 questions of NEET 2020

The opening words of each question as printed, with its chapter, topic and how hard it was. “New idea” means no earlier paper had tested it.

Subject
Difficulty
Idea
180 of 180 questions

Physics45 questions

36 easy9 medium0 hard

  • Q136
    For which one of the following, Bohr model is not valid ?

    AtomsBohr's Atomic ModelValid Hydrogen-like Species

    EasyOne-line MCQNew idea

  • Q137
    The ratio of contributions made by the electric field and magnetic field components to the intensity of an electromagnetic wave is : (c =…

    Electromagnetic WavesEnergy Density of EM Waves

    EasyOne-line MCQNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q138
    The Brewsters angle ibi_b for an interface should be :

    Wave OpticsSingle Slit DiffractionPolarisation and Malus's Law

    MediumOne-line MCQIdea asked in 5 papers

  • Q139
    A cylinder contains hydrogen gas at pressure of 249 kPa and temperature 27°C. Its density is : (R = 8.3 J mol−1^{-1} K−1^{-1})

    Kinetic TheoryKinetic Theory of GasesIdeal Gas Equation

    EasyNumericalNew ideaIdea asked in 5 papers

  • Q140
    A ray is incident at an angle of incidence ii on one surface of a small angle prism (with angle of prism A) and emerges normally from the…

    Ray Optics and Optical InstrumentsPrisms, Dispersion and Optical InstrumentsThin Prisms and Dispersion

    MediumNumericalIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q141
    Two cylinders A and B of equal capacity are connected to each other via a stop cock. A contains an ideal gas at standard temperature and…

    ThermodynamicsLaws of ThermodynamicsFirst Law in Free Expansion

    EasyOne-line MCQNew idea

  • Q142
    The energy equivalent of 0.5 g of a substance is :

    NucleiNuclear Binding EnergyEnergy Equivalent of One Gram

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q143
    A body weighs 72 N on the surface of the earth. What is the gravitational force on it, at a height equal to half the radius of the earth ?

    GravitationVariation of g and Force with Height

    EasyNumericalIdea asked in 3 papers

  • Q144
    The solids which have the negative temperature coefficient of resistance are :

    Current ElectricityOhm's Law and ResistanceNegative Temperature Coefficient

    EasyOne-line MCQNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q145
    The phase difference between displacement and acceleration of a particle in a simple harmonic motion is :

    OscillationsSimple Harmonic MotionPhase Relationships in SHM Graphs

    EasyOne-line MCQNew idea

  • Q146
    A screw gauge has least count of 0.01 mm and there are 50 divisions in its circular scale. The pitch of the screw gauge is :

    Units and MeasurementsUnits and DimensionsScrew Gauge Pitch and Least Count

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q147
    In a guitar, two strings A and B made of same material are slightly out of tune and produce beats of frequency 6 Hz. When tension in B is…

    WavesStanding Waves, Organ Pipes and BeatsBeats and String Tension

    MediumNumericalNew idea

  • Q148
    Two particles of mass 5 kg and 10 kg respectively are attached to the two ends of a rigid rod of length 1 m with negligible mass. The…

    System of Particles and Rotational MotionCenter of MassCOM Distance in Two-Body Systems

    EasyNumericalNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q149
    Find the torque about the origin when a force of 3j^3\hat{j} N acts on a particle whose position vector is 2k^2\hat{k} m.

    System of Particles and Rotational MotionRotational MotionTorque as a Cross Product

    EasyNumericalIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q150
    Light with an average flux of 20 W/cm2^2 falls on a non-reflecting surface at normal incidence having surface area 20 cm2^2. The energy…

    Electromagnetic WavesIntensity and Energy Transport

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q151
    A spherical conductor of radius 10 cm has a charge of 3.2×10−73.2\times10^{-7} C distributed uniformly. What is the magnitude of electric field…

    Electric Charges and FieldsGauss's LawField of a Solid Conducting Sphere

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q152
    In a certain region of space with volume 0.2 m3^3, the electric potential is found to be 5 V throughout. The magnitude of electric field…

    Electrostatic Potential and CapacitanceElectrostatic PotentialRelation between E and V

    EasyOne-line MCQNew idea

  • Q153
    The increase in the width of the depletion region in a p-n junction diode is due to :

    Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple CircuitsSemiconductor Devicesp-n Junction: Depletion Region and Biasing

    EasyOne-line MCQIdea asked in 4 papers

  • Q154
    A 40 μ\muF capacitor is connected to a 200 V, 50 Hz ac supply. The rms value of the current in the circuit is, nearly :

    Alternating CurrentLCR CircuitsCapacitive Reactance Calculation

    EasyNumericalNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q155
    The mean free path for a gas, with molecular diameter d and number density n can be expressed as :

    Kinetic TheoryKinetic Theory of GasesMean Free Path

    MediumOne-line MCQNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q156
    For transistor action, which of the following statements is correct ?

    Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple CircuitsSemiconductor DevicesBipolar Junction Transistor

    EasyOne-line MCQIdea asked in 3 papers

  • Q157
    Light of frequency 1.5 times the threshold frequency is incident on a photosensitive material. What will be the photoelectric current if…

    Dual Nature of Radiation and MatterPhotoelectric EffectThreshold Wavelength Condition

    EasyOne-line MCQNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q158
    When a uranium isotope 92235U^{235}_{92}\mathrm{U} is bombarded with a neutron, it generates 3689Kr^{89}_{36}\mathrm{Kr}, three neutrons and :

    NucleiNuclear Binding EnergyBalancing Nuclear Equations

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q159
    The energy required to break one bond in DNA is 10−2010^{-20} J. This value in eV is nearly :

    Dual Nature of Radiation and MatterPhotoelectric EffecteV to Joule Conversion in Photoelectric Equations

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q160
    Two bodies of mass 4 kg and 6 kg are tied to the ends of a massless string. The string passes over a pulley which is frictionless (see…

    Laws of MotionNewton's Laws of MotionStandard Atwood Machine

    EasyFigure-basedNew idea

  • Q161
    A wire of length L, area of cross section A is hanging from a fixed support. The length of the wire changes to L1L_1 when mass M is…

    Mechanical Properties of SolidsElasticityYoung's Modulus Calculation

    EasyOne-line MCQIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q162
    The average thermal energy for a mono-atomic gas is : (kBk_B is Boltzmann constant and T, absolute temperature)

    Kinetic TheoryKinetic Theory of GasesMolecular Kinetic Energy and Temperature

    EasyOne-line MCQIdea asked in 2 papersAsked the year before

  • Q163
    Which of the following graph represents the variation of resistivity (ρ\rho) with temperature (T) for copper ?

    Current ElectricityOhm's Law and ResistanceResistivity vs Temperature Graphs

    EasyFigure-basedNew idea

  • Q164
    The color code of a resistance is given below : [figure: resistor with bands Yellow, Violet, Brown, Gold] The values of resistance and…

    Current ElectricityOhm's Law and ResistanceCarbon Resistor Color Coding

    EasyFigure-basedIdea asked in 3 papers

  • Q165
    In Young's double slit experiment, if the separation between coherent sources is halved and the distance of the screen from the coherent…

    Wave OpticsYoung's Double SlitProportionality of Fringe Width to D and d

    EasyOne-line MCQNew idea

  • Q166
    The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with air as medium is 6 μ\muF. With the introduction of a dielectric medium, the…

    Electrostatic Potential and CapacitanceCapacitanceParallel Plate Capacitor Formula

    EasyNumericalNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q167
    Dimensions of stress are :

    Units and MeasurementsUnits and DimensionsDimensions of Pressure and Energy Density

    EasyOne-line MCQNew idea

  • Q168
    Assume that light of wavelength 600 nm is coming from a star. The limit of resolution of telescope whose objective has a diameter of 2 m…

    Wave OpticsSingle Slit DiffractionAngular Radius of Airy Disk

    MediumNumericalNew idea

  • Q169
    A series LCR circuit is connected to an ac voltage source. When L is removed from the circuit, the phase difference between current and…

    Alternating CurrentLCR CircuitsUnity Power Factor at Resonance

    MediumNumericalNew idea

  • Q170
    A short electric dipole has a dipole moment of 16×10−916\times10^{-9} C m. The electric potential due to the dipole at a point at a distance of…

    Electrostatic Potential and CapacitanceElectrostatic PotentialPotential of an Electric Dipole

    EasyNumericalNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q171
    An iron rod of susceptibility 599 is subjected to a magnetising field of 1200 A m−1^{-1}. The permeability of the material of the rod is :…

    Magnetism and MatterSusceptibility and Permeability

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q172
    A long solenoid of 50 cm length having 100 turns carries a current of 2.5 A. The magnetic field at the centre of the solenoid is : (…

    Moving Charges and MagnetismAmpere's Circuital LawMagnetic Field of Solenoid

    EasyNumericalNew ideaIdea asked in 2 papers

  • Q173
    A charged particle having drift velocity of 7.5×10−47.5\times10^{-4} m s−1^{-1} in an electric field of 3×10−103\times10^{-10} V m−1^{-1}, has a…

    Current ElectricityOhm's Law and ResistanceCharge Carrier Mobility

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q174
    The quantities of heat required to raise the temperature of two solid copper spheres of radii r1r_1 and r2r_2 (r1=1.5 r2r_1 = 1.5\,r_2) through 1…

    Thermal Properties of MatterCalorimetryThermal Capacity (Heat Capacity)

    MediumNumericalNew idea

  • Q175
    An electron is accelerated from rest through a potential difference of V volt. If the de Broglie wavelength of the electron is…

    Dual Nature of Radiation and MatterPhotoelectric Effectde Broglie Wavelength of Accelerated Electrons

    MediumNumericalNew idea

  • Q176
    Taking into account of the significant figures, what is the value of 9.99 m −- 0.0099 m ?

    Units and MeasurementsUnits and DimensionsSignificant Figures in Addition and Subtraction

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q177
    A ball is thrown vertically downward with a velocity of 20 m/s from the top of a tower. It hits the ground after some time with a velocity…

    Motion in a Straight LineKinematics in 1DDownward Projection Sign Convention

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q178
    A capillary tube of radius r is immersed in water and water rises in it to a height h. The mass of the water in the capillary is 5 g.…

    Mechanical Properties of FluidsSurface TensionMass of Liquid in a Capillary Tube

    EasyNumericalNew idea

  • Q179
    A resistance wire connected in the left gap of a metre bridge balances a 10 Ω\Omega resistance in the right gap at a point which divides…

    Current ElectricityKirchhoff's RulesMetre Bridge Application

    MediumNumericalNew idea

  • Q180
    For the logic circuit shown, the truth table is :

    Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple CircuitsLogic GatesCombined Circuit Truth Tables

    EasyFigure-basedIdea asked in 5 papers

Chemistry45 questions

27 easy18 medium0 hard

Botany50 questions

31 easy19 medium0 hard

Zoology40 questions

26 easy14 medium0 hard

Questions from the official NEET UG papers published by NTA (CBSE before 2019). Topic and idea tags, difficulty and notes are Lumi’s.

Other papers

Every NEET paper, 2017 to 2026

How is difficulty decided?
Each question is rated easy, medium or hard by how many steps and how much recall it needs. It is Lumi’s rating, not NTA’s, and it is the same scale for every year.
What is a “new idea”?
Inside each topic we tag the exact idea a question tests. A new idea is one that no earlier paper in our data had tested. The first year, 2017, has nothing to compare with.
Does this tell me what will come next year?
No. It shows weightage and patterns from past papers. Chapters and topics repeat; exact questions rarely do.

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