NEET UG · Biology · Class 11
Transport in Plants: NEET previous year questions
This chapter is not in the NEET UG 2026 syllabus. It had 13 questions from 2017 to 2023; they are kept here for reference.
- Asked in 10 years
- 13
- 7 of 10 papers
- 10-year average
- 1.2
- a paper · 0.0 since 2024 -1.8
- Typical range
- 0–3
- questions a paper; fewest 0, most 3
- 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- Concept46%
- Recall31%
- Match the lists15%
- Two statements8%
Most common asks: definition recall (2); factor not affecting a process (1); identify process for an observed phenomenon (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
- 2023
- Share of the paper
- 0.7%
- ten-year average
- Busiest year
- 2022
- 3 questions
- Year to year
- Some swing
- varies by about 1.0 questions
- Long-run direction
- -0.17
- questions per paper, per year
- Easy questions
- 62%
- 29% of ideas rated hard
- With a figure
- 0%
- graph, diagram or structure
- Botany / Zoology
- 13 / 0
- questions by section
- Foundation for others
- 85%
- of its ideas are used in other chapters
Difficulty, year by year
Each question rated easy, medium or hard against NCERT.
- 20172
- 20181
- 20192
- 20201
- 20211
- 20223
- 20233
- 2024
- 2025
- 2026
- Easy
- Medium
- Hard
What it asks you to do
SHARE OF QUESTIONS- Recall54%
- Concept46%
Coverage
How much of the chapter NEET has used
We split the chapter into 175 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
- 11
- Never asked
- 158
Topics
What repeats, topic by topic
Questions per topic in each year's paper. Topics that come every year are worth learning first.
- Transpiration Pull · Every year91121112
- Water Potential · Most years4121
| Topic | 2017 | ’18 | 2019 | ’20 | 2021 | ’22 | 2023 | ’24 | 2025 | ’26 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transpiration PullEvery year | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | · | · | · | 9 |
| Water PotentialMost years | 1 | · | · | · | · | 2 | 1 | · | · | · | 4 |
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, 11 different ideas were tested. These came more than once, or are new since 2024.
- Cohesion and Adhesion2×
match list on water transport properties
- Stomatal Opening Mechanism2×
factor not affecting a process
Every question
Transport in Plants questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper.
NEET 20233 questions
- Q125Given below are two statements : Statement I : The forces generated by transpiration can lift a xylem-sized column of water over 130…Two statements
- Q128Movement and accumulation of ions across a membrane against their concentration gradient can be explained byOne-line MCQ
- Q147Match List I with List II : List I | List II A. Cohesion | I. More attraction in liquid phase B. Adhesion | II. Mutual attraction among…Match the lists
NEET 20223 questions
- Q124"Girdling Experiment" was performed by Plant Physiologists to identify the plant tissue through which :One-line MCQ
- Q129Which of the following is not observed during apoplastic pathway ?One-line MCQ
- Q149Addition of more solutes in a given solution will :One-line MCQ
NEET 20211 question
- Q135Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Cohesion | (i) More attraction in liquid phase (b) Adhesion | (ii) Mutual…Match the lists
NEET 20201 question
- Q40The process responsible for facilitating loss of water in liquid form from the tip of grass blades at night and in early morning is :One-line MCQ
NEET 20192 questions
- Q126What is the direction of movement of sugars in phloem ?One-line MCQ
- Q134Xylem translocates :One-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q122Stomatal movement is not affected byOne-line MCQ
NEET 20172 questions
- Q123Which of the following facilitates opening of stomatal aperture ?One-line MCQ
- Q177The water potential of pure water is :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.