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Motion in a Straight Line: NEET previous year questions

13 questions in ten years of NEET, asked in 9 of 10 years. Here is what this chapter tests and how.

Asked in 10 years: 13; 9 of 10 papers
10-year average: 1.2; a paper · 1.3 since 2024 0.1
Typical range: 1–2; questions a paper; fewest 0, most 3
Weighted estimate: 1.4; model, recent papers count more · about 6 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 Motion in a Straight Line

Priority

Lower priority

Among the chapters that shared the last fifth of the questions. How bands are set

Past questions: 13in 9 of 10 papers
Study plan gives it: 12 hover 12 months; 9 h over 6

Study this chapter →Practise →

Ideas asked most often

Relative Velocity 1D2×
Kinematic Graphs2×
Displacement in the nth Second2×

73 of the 91 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

Calculation62%
Application23%
Figure-based15%

Most common asks: numerical (9); ratio of distances in successive seconds (2); graph conversion from v-t to a-t (1).

Profile

This chapter in numbers

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

Rank, all NEET chapters: #66; of 80 by weighted estimate
Rank in Physics: #19; of 27 chapters
Share of the paper: 0.7%; ten-year average
Busiest year: 2023; 3 questions
Year to year: Steady; varies by about 0.7 questions
Long-run direction: +0.11; questions per paper, per year
Easy questions: 46%; 61% of ideas rated hard
With a figure: 15%; graph, diagram or structure
Study time: 12 h; 9 h on a 6-month plan
Marks per study hour: 0.50; #69 of 80 chapters
Foundation for others: 93%; of its ideas are used in other chapters

Difficulty, year by year

Each question rated easy, medium or hard against NCERT.

20171
20181
2019
20201
20211
20222
20233
20241
20252
20261

Easy
Medium
Hard

What it asks you to do

SHARE OF QUESTIONS

Calculation39%
Multi-step23%
Application23%
Data or graph15%

Coverage

How much of the chapter NEET has used

We split the chapter into 91 ideas. In ten years NEET built a question around 10 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: 10
Touched on in a question: 8
Never asked: 73

Topics

What repeats, topic by topic

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

Kinematics in 1D · Every year13
111123121

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Topic	2017	’18	2019	’20	2021	’22	2023	’24	2025	’26	Total
Kinematics in 1DEvery year	1	1	·	1	1	2	3	1	2	1	13

03+questions in that year’s paper

Kinematics in 1D
Expect a short numerical problem (one or two formula steps, four numeric options) about Kinematics in 1D; an application item that applies the idea to a fresh situation is the next most likely shape. Past framings centre on: numerical; ratio of distances in successive seconds.

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

Open13 · 100%100%9/10232
10 ideas inside
- Repeated2 · 15%15%2/10
- Repeated2 · 15%15%2/10
- Repeated2 · 15%15%2/10
- 1 · 8%8%1/10
- 1 · 8%8%1/10
- 1 · 8%8%1/10
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- 1 · 8%8%1/10
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- 1 · 8%8%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.

Relative Velocity 1D2×
relative motion on moving escalator
Kinematic Graphs2×
numerical
Displacement in the nth Second2×
ratio of distances in successive seconds
Distance vs DisplacementNew1×
numerical
Acceleration as v(dv/dx)New1×
numerical

Idea	Times	Usually asked as
Relative Velocity 1Drelative motion on moving escalator	2	Numerical
Kinematic Graphsnumerical	2	Figure-based
Displacement in the nth Secondratio of distances in successive seconds	2	One-line MCQ
Distance vs Displacementnumerical	1	NumericalNew
Acceleration as v(dv/dx)numerical	1	NumericalNew

Every question

Motion in a Straight Line questions, year by year

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

NEET 20261 question

Q6Consider a particle moving along a straight line, whose position as a function of time is given by $s(t)=\alpha t^2-\beta t+\gamma$ , where…Numerical

NEET 20252 questions

Q15In some appropriate units, time ( $t$ ) and position ( $x$ ) relation of a moving particle is given by $t = x^2 + x$ . The acceleration of the…Numerical
Q21Two cities X and Y are connected by a regular bus service with a bus leaving in either direction every T min. A girl is driving scooty…Numerical

NEET 20241 question

Q49The velocity ( $v$ ) - time ( $t$ ) plot of the motion of a body is shown below : The acceleration ( $a$ ) - time ( $t$ ) graph that best suits…Figure-based · figure

NEET 20233 questions

Q31A vehicle travels half the distance with speed $\vartheta$ and the remaining distance with speed $2\vartheta$ . Its average speed is:Numerical
Q48A bullet from a gun is fired on a rectangular wooden block with velocity $u$ . When bullet travels 24 cm through the block along its length…Numerical
Q50A horizontal bridge is built across a river. A student standing on the bridge throws a small ball vertically upwards with a velocity 4 m…Numerical

NEET 20222 questions

Q26The displacement-time graphs of two moving particles make angles of 30° and 45° with the x-axis as shown in the figure. The ratio of their…Figure-based · figure
Q27The ratio of the distances travelled by a freely falling body in the 1 $^{st}$ , 2 $^{nd}$ , 3 $^{rd}$ and 4 $^{th}$ second :One-line MCQ

NEET 20211 question

Q10A small block slides down on a smooth inclined plane, starting from rest at time t = 0. Let $S_n$ be the distance travelled by the block…One-line MCQ

NEET 20201 question

Q177A ball is thrown vertically downward with a velocity of 20 m/s from the top of a tower. It hits the ground after some time with a velocity…Numerical

NEET 20181 question

Q34A toy car with charge q moves on a frictionless horizontal plane surface under the influence of a uniform electric field $\vec{E}$ . Due to…Numerical

NEET 20171 question

Q40Preeti reached the metro station and found that the escalator was not working. She walked up the stationary escalator in time $t_1$ . On…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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