NEET UG · Physics · Class 12
Magnetism and Matter: NEET previous year questions
8 questions in ten years of NEET, asked in 6 of 10 years. Here is what this chapter tests and how.
- Asked in 10 years
- 8
- 6 of 10 papers
- 10-year average
- 0.8
- a paper · 0.9 since 2024 0.2
- Typical range
- 0–1
- questions a paper; fewest 0, most 3
- Weighted estimate
- 0.7
- model, recent papers count more · about 3 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 Magnetism and Matter
Priority
Among the chapters that shared the last fifth of the questions. How bands are set
- Past questions
- 8in 6 of 10 papers
- Study plan gives it
- 7 hover 12 months; 5 h over 6
Ideas asked most often
- Dia-, Para- and Ferromagnetism2×
- Earth's Magnetism and Angle of Dip2×
Questions per year
Kind of question
SHARE OF 10 YEARS- Calculation50%
- Concept25%
- Recall13%
- Match the lists13%
Most common asks: numerical (3); source of work done on diamagnetic rod (1); definition recall (1).
Profile
This chapter in numbers
Where it ranks, how steady it is, and what it costs to study.
- Rank, all NEET chapters
- #78
- of 80 by weighted estimate
- Rank in Physics
- #25
- of 27 chapters
- Share of the paper
- 0.4%
- ten-year average
- Busiest year
- 2024
- 3 questions
- Year to year
- Steady
- varies by about 0.8 questions
- Long-run direction
- -0.05
- questions per paper, per year
- Easy questions
- 25%
- 97% of ideas rated hard
- With a figure
- 13%
- graph, diagram or structure
- Study time
- 7 h
- 5 h on a 6-month plan
- Marks per study hour
- 0.45
- #77 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.
- 20171
- 20181
- 20191
- 20201
- 2021
- 2022
- 20231
- 20243
- 2025
- 2026
- Easy
- Medium
- Hard
What it asks you to do
SHARE OF QUESTIONS- Calculation38%
- Concept25%
- Recall25%
- Multi-step13%
Topics
What repeats, topic by topic
Questions per topic in each year's paper. Topics that come every year are worth learning first.
- Magnetism and Matter · Every year8111113
| Topic | 2017 | ’18 | 2019 | ’20 | 2021 | ’22 | 2023 | ’24 | 2025 | ’26 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnetism and MatterEvery year | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 3 | · | · | 8 |
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.
6 ideas inside
- Repeated2 · 25%
- Repeated2 · 25%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
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, 6 different ideas were tested. These came more than once, or are new since 2024.
- Dia-, Para- and Ferromagnetism2×
source of work done on diamagnetic rod
- Earth's Magnetism and Angle of Dip2×
interpret sign of angle of dip
- Magnetic Moment of Bar and Bent MagnetsNew1×
numerical
- Magnet Oscillating in a FieldNew1×
numerical
Every question
Magnetism and Matter questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper.
NEET 20243 questions
- Q3In a uniform magnetic field of 0.049 T, a magnetic needle performs 20 complete oscillations in 5 seconds as shown. The moment of inertia…Numerical · figure
- Q32Match List-I with List-II. List-I (Material) | List-II (Susceptibility ()) A. Diamagnetic | I. B. Ferromagnetic | II.…Match the lists
- Q38An iron bar of length L has magnetic moment M. It is bent at the middle of its length such that the two arms make an angle 60° with each…Numerical
NEET 20231 question
- Q2The net magnetic flux through any closed surface is :One-line MCQ
NEET 20201 question
- Q171An iron rod of susceptibility 599 is subjected to a magnetising field of 1200 A m. The permeability of the material of the rod is :…Numerical
NEET 20191 question
- Q26At a point A on the earth's surface the angle of dip, δ = +25°. At a point B on the earth's surface the angle of dip, δ = −25°. We can…One-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q27A thin diamagnetic rod is placed vertically between the poles of an electromagnet. When the current in the electromagnet is switched on,…One-line MCQ
NEET 20171 question
- Q28If and be the apparent angles of dip observed in two vertical planes at right angles to each other, then the true…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.