NEET UG · Biology · Class 11
Mineral Nutrition: NEET previous year questions
This chapter is not in the NEET UG 2026 syllabus. It had 12 questions from 2017 to 2023; they are kept here for reference.
- Asked in 10 years
- 12
- 8 of 10 papers
- 10-year average
- 1.1
- a paper · 0.3 since 2024 -1.2
- Typical range
- 0–2
- questions a paper; fewest 0, most 2
- Syllabus
- Dropped
- NEET UG 2026 syllabus
- 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.
Questions per year
Kind of question
SHARE OF 10 YEARS- Recall58%
- Match the lists33%
- Application8%
Most common asks: match list on mineral roles (2); identify element by role (1); ionic form of nutrient absorbed (1).
Profile
This chapter in numbers
Where it ranks, how steady it is, and what it costs to study.
- Syllabus
- Dropped
- not in NEET UG 2026
- Last asked
- 2025
- Share of the paper
- 0.6%
- ten-year average
- Busiest year
- 2018
- 2 questions
- Year to year
- Steady
- varies by about 0.7 questions
- Long-run direction
- -0.13
- questions per paper, per year
- Easy questions
- 50%
- 53% of ideas rated hard
- With a figure
- 0%
- graph, diagram or structure
- Botany / Zoology
- 12 / 0
- questions by section
- Foundation for others
- 44%
- of its ideas are used in other chapters
Difficulty, year by year
Each question rated easy, medium or hard against NCERT.
- 20171
- 20182
- 20191
- 20202
- 20211
- 20222
- 20232
- 2024
- 20251
- 2026
- Easy
- Medium
- Hard
What it asks you to do
SHARE OF QUESTIONS- Recall92%
- Application8%
Coverage
How much of the chapter NEET has used
We split the chapter into 170 ideas. In ten years NEET built a question around 9 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
- 9
- Touched on in a question
- 8
- Never asked
- 153
Topics
What repeats, topic by topic
Questions per topic in each year's paper. Topics that come every year are worth learning first.
- Nitrogen Fixation · Every year6111111
- Mineral Nutrition · Due again62112
| Topic | 2017 | ’18 | 2019 | ’20 | 2021 | ’22 | 2023 | ’24 | 2025 | ’26 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen FixationEvery year | 1 | · | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | 6 |
| Mineral NutritionDue again | · | 2 | · | 1 | · | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | 6 |
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.
Ideas
The exact ideas NEET has asked
Inside the topics, 9 different ideas were tested. These came more than once, or are new since 2024.
- Manganese in Photolysis of Water3×
match list on elements and functions
- Non-Legume Symbiotic Fixation2×
identify symbiont for a host plant
- Cyanobacterial N2 FixersNew1×
odd-one-out among organisms
Every question
Mineral Nutrition questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper.
NEET 20251 question
- Q113Which of following organisms *cannot* fix nitrogen? A. *Azotobacter* B. *Oscillatoria* C. *Anabaena* D. *Volvox* E. *Nostoc* Choose the…Other
NEET 20232 questions
- Q103Which micronutrient is required for splitting of water molecule during photosynthesis?One-line MCQ
- Q139Match List I with List II : List I | List II A. Iron | I. Synthesis of auxin B. Zinc | II. Component of nitrate reductase C. Boron | III.…Match the lists
NEET 20222 questions
- Q127Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Manganese | (i) Activates the enzyme catalase (b) Magnesium | (ii) Required for…Match the lists
- Q131Which one of the following produces nitrogen fixing nodules on the roots of Alnus ?One-line MCQ
NEET 20211 question
- Q140Match Column - I with Column - II. Column - I | Column - II (a) Nitrococcus | (i) Denitrification (b) Rhizobium | (ii) Conversion of…Match the lists
NEET 20202 questions
- Q13The product(s) of reaction catalyzed by nitrogenase in root nodules of leguminous plants is/are :One-line MCQ
- Q28Match the following concerning essential elements and their functions in plants : (a) Iron | (i) Photolysis of water (b) Zinc | (ii)…Match the lists
NEET 20191 question
- Q131Thiobacillus is a group of bacteria helpful in carrying out :One-line MCQ
NEET 20182 questions
- Q95Which of the following elements is responsible for maintaining turgor in cells ?One-line MCQ
- Q97In which of the following forms is iron absorbed by plants ?One-line MCQ
NEET 20171 question
- Q93Select the mismatch :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.