NEET UG · Physics · Class 11

Gravitation: NEET previous year questions

19 questions in ten years of NEET, asked in 10 of 10 years. Here is what this chapter tests and how.

Asked in 10 years: 19; 10 of 10 papers
10-year average: 1.8; a paper · 1.9 since 2024 0.2
Typical range: 2; questions a paper; fewest 1, most 2
Weighted estimate: 1.9; model, recent papers count more · about 8 marks

Typical range (fact)
10-year average (fact)
Weighted estimate (model)

Typical range: questions per paper in the middle eight of the ten papers, leaving out the single highest and lowest year (about the 10th to 90th percentile), each paper scaled to 180 questions. The ten-year average and the range are historical fact. The weighted estimate is a model: each paper's share, with recent papers counting more (half-life three years), and dropped syllabus removed. It is a guide to effort, not a forecast.

What to do

How to spend time on Gravitation

Priority

Should do

Among the chapters that took NEET from half to 80% of its questions. How bands are set

Past questions: 19in 10 of 10 papers
Study plan gives it: 14 hover 12 months; 11 h over 6

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Ideas asked most often

Escape Velocity3×
Kepler's Laws3×
Variation of g and Force with Height3×
Acceleration due to Gravity on a Planet2×
Orbital Speed and Energy of Satellites2×

Questions per year

Kind of question

SHARE OF 10 YEARS

Calculation68%
Concept16%
Application5%
Match the lists5%
Figure-based5%

Most common asks: numerical (11); order of kinetic energy at orbit positions (1); identify incorrect statement on changed g (1).

Profile

This chapter in numbers

Where it ranks, how steady it is, and what it costs to study.

Rank, all NEET chapters: #47; of 80 by weighted estimate
Rank in Physics: #9; of 27 chapters
Share of the paper: 1.0%; ten-year average
Busiest year: 2017; 2 questions
Year to year: Steady; varies by about 0.3 questions
Long-run direction: +0.01; questions per paper, per year
Easy questions: 53%; 69% of ideas rated hard
With a figure: 5%; graph, diagram or structure
Study time: 14 h; 11 h on a 6-month plan
Marks per study hour: 0.56; #39 of 80 chapters
Foundation for others: 50%; of its ideas are used in other chapters

Difficulty, year by year

Each question rated easy, medium or hard against NCERT.

20172
20182
20192
20201
20212
20222
20232
20242
20252
20262

Easy
Medium
Hard

What it asks you to do

SHARE OF QUESTIONS

Calculation32%
Multi-step26%
Concept21%
Application16%
Recall5%

Topics

What repeats, topic by topic

Questions per topic in each year's paper. Topics that come every year are worth learning first.

Gravitation · Every year19
2221222222

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Topic	2017	’18	2019	’20	2021	’22	2023	’24	2025	’26	Total
GravitationEvery year	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	19

02+questions in that year’s paper

Gravitation
Expect a short numerical problem (one or two formula steps, four numeric options) about Gravitation. Past framings centre on: numerical; order of kinetic energy at orbit positions.

Drill down

Topic, idea, question

Open a topic to see every idea NEET tested inside it, then open an idea to read the questions. Each row shows its ten papers.

topicAskedShareYears’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Open19 · 100%100%10/10222222222
10 ideas inside
- Repeated3 · 16%16%2/102
- Repeated3 · 16%16%3/10
- Repeated3 · 16%16%3/10
- Repeated2 · 11%11%2/10
- Repeated2 · 11%11%2/10
- Repeated2 · 11%11%2/10
- 1 · 5%5%1/10
- 1 · 5%5%1/10
- 1 · 5%5%1/10
- 1 · 5%5%1/10

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

Ideas

The exact ideas NEET has asked

Inside the topics, 10 different ideas were tested. These came more than once, or are new since 2024.

Escape Velocity3×
escape velocity for different planet radius
Kepler's Laws3×
order of kinetic energy at orbit positions
Variation of g and Force with Height3×
numerical
Acceleration due to Gravity on a Planet2×
identify incorrect statement on changed g
Orbital Speed and Energy of Satellites2×
identify quantity from satellite period and density
Newton's Law of Gravitation2×
match list on dimensions of gravitation quantities

Idea	Times	Usually asked as
Escape Velocityescape velocity for different planet radius	3	One-line MCQ
Kepler's Lawsorder of kinetic energy at orbit positions	3	Figure-based
Variation of g and Force with Heightnumerical	3	Numerical
Acceleration due to Gravity on a Planetidentify incorrect statement on changed g	2	Numerical
Orbital Speed and Energy of Satellitesidentify quantity from satellite period and density	2	Numerical
Newton's Law of Gravitationmatch list on dimensions of gravitation quantities	2	Match the lists

Every question

Gravitation questions, year by year

The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper.

NEET 20262 questions

Q13Two planets $P_1$ and $P_2$ with equal mass have radii $R_1$ and $R_2$ , respectively, where $R_2=\frac{R_1}{2}$ . The escape speeds of…Numerical
Q14In a solar system, the time-period of revolution of a planet tracing a circular orbit of radius R is proportional to :One-line MCQ

NEET 20252 questions

Q31The radius of Martian orbit around the Sun is about 4 times the radius of the orbit of Mercury. The Martian year is 687 Earth days. Then…Numerical
Q32A body weighs 48 N on the surface of the earth. The gravitational force experienced by the body due to the earth at a height equal to…Numerical

NEET 20242 questions

Q30The mass of a planet is $\frac{1}{10}$ th that of the earth and its diameter is half that of the earth. The acceleration due to gravity on…Numerical
Q45The minimum energy required to launch a satellite of mass $m$ from the surface of earth of mass $M$ and radius $R$ in a circular orbit at…Numerical

NEET 20232 questions

Q33Two bodies of mass $m$ and $9m$ are placed at a distance $R$ . The gravitational potential on the line joining the bodies where the…Numerical
Q43A satellite is orbiting just above the surface of the earth with period $T$ . If $d$ is the density of the earth and $G$ is the universal…One-line MCQ

NEET 20222 questions

Q21A body of mass 60 g experiences a gravitational force of 3.0 N, when placed at a particular point. The magnitude of the gravitational…Numerical
Q49Match List - I with List - II : List - I | List - II (a) Gravitational constant (G) | (i) $[L^2T^{-2}]$ (b) Gravitational potential energy…Match the lists

NEET 20212 questions

Q7The escape velocity from the Earth's surface is $v$ . The escape velocity from the surface of another planet having a radius, four times…One-line MCQ
Q42A particle of mass 'm' is projected with a velocity $v = kV_e$ (k < 1) from the surface of the earth. ( $V_e$ = escape velocity) The…One-line MCQ

NEET 20201 question

Q143A 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 ?Numerical

NEET 20192 questions

Q16A body weighs 200 N on the surface of the earth. How much will it weigh half way down to the centre of the earth ?Numerical
Q29The work done to raise a mass m from the surface of the earth to a height h, which is equal to the radius of the earth, is :Numerical

NEET 20182 questions

Q39The kinetic energies of a planet in an elliptical orbit about the Sun, at positions A, B and C are $K_A$ , $K_B$ and $K_C$ , respectively.…Figure-based · figure
Q40If the mass of the Sun were ten times smaller and the universal gravitational constant were ten times larger in magnitude, which of the…One-line MCQ

NEET 20172 questions

Q25The acceleration due to gravity at a height 1 km above the earth is the same as at a depth d below the surface of earth. Then :Numerical
Q30Two astronauts are floating in gravitational free space after having lost contact with their spaceship. The two will :One-line MCQ

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

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