NEET UG · Biology · Class 11
The Living World: NEET previous year questions
9 questions in ten years of NEET, asked in 7 of 10 years. Here is what this chapter tests and how.
- Asked in 10 years
- 9
- 7 of 10 papers
- 10-year average
- 0.9
- a paper · 1.3 since 2024 +0.7
- Typical range
- 0–1
- questions a paper; fewest 0, most 3
- Weighted estimate
- 1.2
- model, recent papers count more · about 5 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 The Living World
Priority
Among the chapters that shared the last fifth of the questions. How bands are set
- Past questions
- 9in 7 of 10 papers
- Study plan gives it
- 8 hover 12 months; 6 h over 6
Ideas asked most often
- Taxonomic Category Sequence2×
145 of the 159 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- Recall67%
- Match the lists22%
- Application11%
Most common asks: definition recall (2); match list on taxonomic aids (1); order of steps in a hierarchy (1).
Profile
This chapter in numbers
Where it ranks, how steady it is, and what it costs to study.
- Rank, all NEET chapters
- #70
- of 80 by weighted estimate
- Rank in Biology
- #32
- of 32 chapters
- Share of the paper
- 0.5%
- ten-year average
- Busiest year
- 2026
- 3 questions
- Year to year
- Steady
- varies by about 0.8 questions
- Long-run direction
- +0.08
- questions per paper, per year
- Easy questions
- 78%
- 10% of ideas rated hard
- With a figure
- 0%
- graph, diagram or structure
- Botany / Zoology
- 6 / 3
- questions by section
- Study time
- 8 h
- 6 h on a 6-month plan
- Marks per study hour
- 0.63
- #21 of 80 chapters
- Foundation for others
- 31%
- of its ideas are used in other chapters
Difficulty, year by year
Each question rated easy, medium or hard against NCERT.
- 20171
- 20181
- 20191
- 2020
- 20211
- 20221
- 2023
- 2024
- 20251
- 20263
- Easy
- Medium
- Hard
What it asks you to do
SHARE OF QUESTIONS- Recall89%
- Application11%
Coverage
How much of the chapter NEET has used
We split the chapter into 159 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
- 8
- Never asked
- 145
Topics
What repeats, topic by topic
Questions per topic in each year's paper. Topics that come every year are worth learning first.
- Taxonomic Hierarchy · Every year8111113
- Binomial Nomenclature · Gone quiet11
| Topic | 2017 | ’18 | 2019 | ’20 | 2021 | ’22 | 2023 | ’24 | 2025 | ’26 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxonomic HierarchyEvery year | 1 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Binomial NomenclatureGone quiet | · | · | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 1 |
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, 8 different ideas were tested. These came more than once, or are new since 2024.
- Taxonomic Category Sequence2×
order of steps in a hierarchy
- Genus Grouping LogicNew1×
definition recall
- Mango Taxonomic HierarchyNew1×
match list on taxonomic categories of an organism
- Approaches to Studying LifeNew1×
definition recall
Every question
The Living World questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper.
NEET 20263 questions
- Q118Match List-I with List-II. List-I | List-II A. Family | I. Sapindales B. Genus | II. Dicotyledonae C. Class | III. Anacardiaceae D. Phylum…Match the lists
- Q119Arrange the following taxonomic categories in ascending order. (a) Genus | (b) Class (c) Order | (d) Phylum (e) Family | (f) Kingdom (g)…One-line MCQ
- Q125Genus represents __________.One-line MCQ
NEET 20251 question
- Q95Which one of the following statements refers to Reductionist Biology?One-line MCQ
NEET 20221 question
- Q151In the taxonomic categories which hierarchical arrangement in ascending order is correct in case of animals ?One-line MCQ
NEET 20211 question
- Q162Which one of the following belongs to the family Muscidae ?One-line MCQ
NEET 20191 question
- Q144Select the correctly written scientific name of Mango which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus :One-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q133Match the items given in Column I with those in Column II and select the correct option given below : Column I | Column II a. Herbarium |…Match the lists
NEET 20171 question
- Q113Which of the following represents order of 'Horse' ?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.