NEET UG · Physics · Class 11
Mechanical Properties of Solids: NEET previous year questions
7 questions in ten years of NEET, asked in 7 of 10 years. Here is what this chapter tests and how.
- Asked in 10 years
- 7
- 7 of 10 papers
- 10-year average
- 0.7
- a paper · 0.3 since 2024 -0.5
- Typical range
- 0–1
- questions a paper; fewest 0, most 1
- Weighted estimate
- 0.5
- model, recent papers count more · about 2 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 Mechanical Properties of Solids
Priority
Among the chapters that shared the last fifth of the questions. How bands are set
- Past questions
- 7in 7 of 10 papers
- Study plan gives it
- 5 hover 12 months; 4 h over 6
Ideas asked most often
- Young's Modulus Calculation2×
80 of the 89 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- Calculation29%
- Concept29%
- Recall14%
- Application14%
- Assertion–reason14%
Most common asks: numerical (2); recall expression for young's modulus (1); longitudinal stress in suspended wire (1).
Profile
This chapter in numbers
Where it ranks, how steady it is, and what it costs to study.
- Rank, all NEET chapters
- #79
- of 80 by weighted estimate
- Rank in Physics
- #26
- of 27 chapters
- Share of the paper
- 0.4%
- ten-year average
- Busiest year
- 2017
- 1 questions
- Year to year
- Steady
- varies by about 0.4 questions
- Long-run direction
- -0.10
- questions per paper, per year
- Easy questions
- 57%
- 37% of ideas rated hard
- With a figure
- 0%
- graph, diagram or structure
- Study time
- 5 h
- 4 h on a 6-month plan
- Marks per study hour
- 0.38
- #78 of 80 chapters
- Foundation for others
- 88%
- 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
- 20221
- 20231
- 20241
- 2025
- 2026
- Easy
- Medium
- Hard
What it asks you to do
SHARE OF QUESTIONS- Concept43%
- Multi-step14%
- Recall14%
- Calculation14%
- Application14%
Coverage
How much of the chapter NEET has used
We split the chapter into 89 ideas. In ten years NEET built a question around 6 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
- 6
- Touched on in a question
- 3
- Never asked
- 80
Topics
What repeats, topic by topic
Questions per topic in each year's paper. Topics that come every year are worth learning first.
- Elasticity · Every year71111111
| Topic | 2017 | ’18 | 2019 | ’20 | 2021 | ’22 | 2023 | ’24 | 2025 | ’26 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElasticityEvery year | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 7 |
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 · 29%
- 1 · 14%
- 1 · 14%
- 1 · 14%
- 1 · 14%
- 1 · 14%
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.
- Young's Modulus Calculation2×
numerical
- Hooke's Law and Elastic LimitNew1×
numerical
Every question
Mechanical Properties of Solids questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper.
NEET 20241 question
- Q31The maximum elongation of a steel wire of 1 m length if the elastic limit of steel and its Young's modulus, respectively, are…Numerical
NEET 20231 question
- Q10Let a wire be suspended from the ceiling (rigid support) and stretched by a weight attached at its free end. The longitudinal stress…One-line MCQ
NEET 20221 question
- Q48Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A) : The stretching…Assertion–reason
NEET 20201 question
- Q161A wire of length L, area of cross section A is hanging from a fixed support. The length of the wire changes to when mass M is…One-line MCQ
NEET 20191 question
- Q1When a block of mass M is suspended by a long wire of length L, the length of the wire becomes . The elastic potential energy…One-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q44Two wires are made of the same material and have the same volume. The first wire has cross-sectional area A and the second wire has…Numerical
NEET 20171 question
- Q32The bulk modulus of a spherical object is 'B'. If it is subjected to uniform pressure 'p', the fractional decrease in radius isOne-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.