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Laws of Motion: NEET previous year questions

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

Asked in 10 years: 20; 10 of 10 papers
10-year average: 1.9; a paper · 1.9 since 2024 -0.1
Typical range: 1–3; questions a paper; fewest 1, most 5
Weighted estimate: 1.8; model, recent papers count more · about 7 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 Laws of Motion

Priority

Should do

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

Past questions: 20in 10 of 10 papers
Study plan gives it: 13 hover 12 months; 10 h over 6

Study this chapter →Practise →

Ideas asked most often

Impulse of a Bouncing Ball2×

224 of the 258 ideas in Lumi’s map of this chapter have not been asked or touched in ten years. New questions often come from ideas like these, so learn the whole chapter, not just the list above.

Questions per year

Kind of question

SHARE OF 10 YEARS

Calculation45%
Concept30%
Figure-based25%

Most common asks: numerical (11); incorrect statement on friction (1); condition for block stationary on accelerating wedge (1).

Profile

This chapter in numbers

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

Rank, all NEET chapters: #51; of 80 by weighted estimate
Rank in Physics: #11; of 27 chapters
Share of the paper: 1.1%; ten-year average
Busiest year: 2019; 5 questions
Year to year: Some swing; varies by about 1.2 questions
Long-run direction: -0.11; questions per paper, per year
Easy questions: 65%; 23% of ideas rated hard
With a figure: 25%; graph, diagram or structure
Study time: 13 h; 10 h on a 6-month plan
Marks per study hour: 0.55; #44 of 80 chapters
Foundation for others: 81%; of its ideas are used in other chapters

Difficulty, year by year

Each question rated easy, medium or hard against NCERT.

20172
20182
20195
20201
20211
20221
20232
20243
20252
20261

Easy
Medium
Hard

What it asks you to do

SHARE OF QUESTIONS

Calculation45%
Concept35%
Application15%
Multi-step5%

Coverage

How much of the chapter NEET has used

We split the chapter into 258 ideas. In ten years NEET built a question around 19 of them. Most of the chapter has never been asked, which is why learning it whole beats memorising past questions.

Asked as the main idea: 19
Touched on in a question: 15
Never asked: 224

Topics

What repeats, topic by topic

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

Newton's Laws of Motion · Every year10
112111111
Uniform Circular Motion · Most years6
1221
Friction Forces · Most years4
1111

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Topic	2017	’18	2019	’20	2021	’22	2023	’24	2025	’26	Total
Newton's Laws of MotionEvery year	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	·	10
Uniform Circular MotionMost years	1	·	2	·	·	·	·	2	·	1	6
Friction ForcesMost years	·	1	1	·	·	·	1	·	1	·	4

02+questions in that year’s paper

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

Open10 · 50%50%9/102
9 ideas inside
- Repeated2 · 20%20%2/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
- 1 · 10%10%1/10
Open6 · 30%30%4/1022
Open4 · 20%20%4/10

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, 19 different ideas were tested. These came more than once, or are new since 2024.

Impulse of a Bouncing Ball2×
numerical
Banking of RoadsNew1×
numerical
Acceleration Sliding Down an InclineNew1×
numerical
Centripetal AccelerationNew1×
true statement selection on uniform circular motion
Tension in a Rotating Horizontal StringNew1×
numerical
Contact Force Between Adjacent BlocksNew1×
numerical

Idea	Times	Usually asked as
Impulse of a Bouncing Ballnumerical	2	Numerical
Banking of Roadsnumerical	1	NumericalNew
Acceleration Sliding Down an Inclinenumerical	1	NumericalNew
Centripetal Accelerationtrue statement selection on uniform circular motion	1	One-line MCQNew
Tension in a Rotating Horizontal Stringnumerical	1	NumericalNew
Contact Force Between Adjacent Blocksnumerical	1	Figure-basedNew

Every question

Laws of Motion questions, year by year

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

NEET 20261 question

Q41A car travels on a circular racetrack of radius 50 m, which is banked at an angle $\theta$ . If the car travels at a speed 10 ms $^{-1}$ ,…Numerical

NEET 20252 questions

Q4There are two inclined surfaces of equal length ( $L$ ) and same angle of inclination 45° with the horizontal. One of them is rough and the…Numerical
Q10A ball of mass 0.5 kg is dropped from a height of 40 m. The ball hits the ground and rises to a height of 10 m. The impulse imparted to…Numerical

NEET 20243 questions

Q9A horizontal force 10 N is applied to a block $A$ as shown in figure. The mass of blocks $A$ and $B$ are 2 kg and 3 kg, respectively. The…Figure-based · figure
Q16A particle moving with uniform speed in a circular path maintains :One-line MCQ
Q20A bob is whirled in a horizontal plane by means of a string with an initial speed of $\omega$ rpm. The tension in the string is $T$ . If…Numerical

NEET 20232 questions

Q13A football player is moving southward and suddenly turns eastward with the same speed to avoid an opponent. The force that acts on the…One-line MCQ
Q41Calculate the maximum acceleration of a moving car so that a body lying on the floor of the car remains stationary. The coefficient of…Numerical

NEET 20221 question

Q28A shell of mass m is at rest initially. It explodes into three fragments having mass in the ratio 2 : 2 : 1. If the fragments having equal…Numerical

NEET 20211 question

Q44A ball of mass 0.15 kg is dropped from a height 10 m, strikes the ground and rebounds to the same height. The magnitude of impulse…Numerical

NEET 20201 question

Q160Two 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…Figure-based · figure

NEET 20195 questions

Q2A mass m is attached to a thin wire and whirled in a vertical circle. The wire is most likely to break when :One-line MCQ
Q30When an object is shot from the bottom of a long smooth inclined plane kept at an angle 60° with horizontal, it can travel a distance…Numerical
Q33A particle moving with velocity $\vec{V}$ is acted by three forces shown by the vector triangle PQR. The velocity of the particle will :Figure-based · figure
Q34Two particles A and B are moving in uniform circular motion in concentric circles of radii $r_A$ and $r_B$ with speed $v_A$ and $v_B$ …One-line MCQ
Q35A block of mass 10 kg is in contact against the inner wall of a hollow cylindrical drum of radius 1 m. The coefficient of friction between…Numerical

NEET 20182 questions

Q33Which one of the following statements is incorrect ?One-line MCQ
Q35A block of mass m is placed on a smooth inclined wedge ABC of inclination $\theta$ as shown in the figure. The wedge is given an…Figure-based · figure

NEET 20172 questions

Q7One end of string of length $l$ is connected to a particle of mass 'm' and the other end is connected to a small peg on a smooth…One-line MCQ
Q36Two blocks A and B of masses 3m and m respectively are connected by a massless and inextensible string. The whole system is suspended by a…Figure-based · figure

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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