NEET UG · Biology · Plant Kingdom
Algae Classification: NEET previous year questions
11 questions in ten years of NEET, in 6 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 11
- about 1.1 per paper
- Years asked
- 6/10
- last asked 2024
- Weighted estimate
- 0.7
- model; history: 1.1 a paper on average, typically 0–2
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 6 of 10 papers, 11 questions in all: #70 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.4 years on average. Last asked in 2024.
- 02
75% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; 2 repeated an idea from the year before.
- 03
The most repeated idea is Algal Food Storage, asked 2 times (2021, 2022), usually as “incorrectly matched alga and product”.
- 04
NEET has asked 7 of the 82 ideas in this topic; 66 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (91%); 36% easy, 0% hard, and down from 1.4 to 0.3 questions a paper since 2024.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 1.4
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.3
- -1.1
- Usual gap
- 1.4 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±1.0
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 11 questions on Algae Classification since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy4 · 36%
- Medium7 · 64%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 10 Q91%
- Other · 1 Q9%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 11 Q100%
Repeats
New idea, or one asked before?
Each column is a paper. Blue questions tested an idea NEET had not asked before; navy ones went back to an idea from an earlier paper. 2017 is the first paper, so everything in it counts as new.
- Idea asked for the first time
- Idea asked in an earlier paper
Coverage of the topic
NEET has asked 7 of the 82 ideas in this topic. 66 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly7 · 9%
- Touched inside another question9 · 11%
- Never asked66 · 80%
Ideas come from Lumi’s syllabus map of NCERT. A never-asked idea is not a safe skip: most new questions come from exactly these.
Drill down
Idea, year, question
Every idea NEET tested in this topic, with its ten papers. Open one to read the questions.
- Repeated2 · 18%
- 2022 · Q104Which of the following is incorrectly matched ?
mediumOne-line MCQAsked the year before
- 2021 · Q130Which of the following algae contains mannitol as reserve food material ?
easyOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2022 · Q104
- Repeated2 · 18%
- 2 · 18%2
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.
Ideas
Every idea inside this topic
8 different ideas were tested; 3 came more than once. Algal Forms and Examples is the foundation for 6 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Algal Food Storage2×
incorrectly matched alga and product
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 3 - Algin vs Carrageen Sources2×
identify source of a product
One-line MCQ · 6% next - Haplontic, Diplontic and Haplodiplontic Life Cycles2×
match organisms to life cycle type
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Phaeophyceae Structure1×
count correct statements on brown algae
Other · 6% next · foundation for 4 - Edible Algae and Space Food1×
identify pair of unicellular organisms
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 1 - Floridean Starch Structure1×
identify structural similarity of storage food
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Red Algae Gamete Motility1×
wrongly matched pair among plant groups
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Algal Forms and Examples1×
identify example of a type
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 6
Chance next is the historical rate at which an idea with this record came back in the following paper. It is low for every idea, which is why learning the topic beats memorising past questions. All repeated ideas
Every question
Algae Classification questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20241 question
- Q136Read the following statements and choose the set of correct statements: In the members of Phaeophyceae, A. Asexual reproduction occurs…
Idea: Phaeophyceae Structure
New ideaMediumOther
NEET 20222 questions
- Q104Which of the following is incorrectly matched ?
Idea: Algal Food Storage
Asked last yearMediumOne-line MCQ - Q133Hydrocolloid carrageen is obtained from :
Idea: Algin vs Carrageen Sources
Asked last yearEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20212 questions
- Q110Which of the following algae produce Carrageen ?
Idea: Algin vs Carrageen Sources
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q130Which of the following algae contains mannitol as reserve food material ?
Idea: Algal Food Storage
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20202 questions
- Q50Floridean starch has structure similar to :
Idea: Floridean Starch Structure
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ - Q53Which of the following pairs is of unicellular algae ?
Idea: Edible Algae and Space Food
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q135Which one is wrongly matched ?
Idea: Red Algae Gamete Motility
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
NEET 20173 questions
- Q112An example of colonial alga is :
Idea: Algal Forms and Examples
EasyOne-line MCQ - Q129Life cycle of Ectocarpus and Fucus respectively are :
Idea: Haplontic, Diplontic and Haplodiplontic Life Cycles
MediumOne-line MCQ - Q135Zygotic meiosis is characteristic of :
Idea: Haplontic, Diplontic and Haplodiplontic Life Cycles
MediumOne-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.