NEET UG · Biology · Reproductive Health

Assisted Reproductive Tech: NEET previous year questions

4 questions in ten years of NEET, in 4 of 10 papers. Pattern: Most years. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years: 4; about 0.4 per paper
Years asked: 4/10; last asked 2026
Chance of a question next paper: 50%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.5; model; history: 0.4 a paper on average, typically 0–1

Key findings

01
Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 4 questions in all: #160 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 3.0 years on average.
02
100% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; none repeated an idea from the year before.
03
No idea in this topic has been asked twice: every question tested something new.
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NEET has asked 4 of the 92 ideas in this topic; 81 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (75%); 50% easy, 0% hard, and up from 0.3 to 0.7 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.3; per paper
Since 2024: 0.7; +0.4
Usual gap: 3.0 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.5; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 4 questions on Assisted Reproductive Tech since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy2 · 50%
Medium2 · 50%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

One-line MCQ · 3 Q75%
Other · 1 Q25%

Skill tested

Recall · 2 Q50%
Concept · 1 Q25%
Application · 1 Q25%

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.

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Idea asked for the first time
Idea asked in an earlier paper

Coverage of the topic

NEET has asked 4 of the 92 ideas in this topic. 81 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly4 · 4%
Touched inside another question7 · 8%
Never asked81 · 88%

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.

ideaAskedShareYears’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

1 · 25%25%1/10
- 2017 · Q172
  In case of a couple where the male is having a very low sperm count, which technique will be suitable for fertilisation ?
  mediumOne-line MCQNew idea
1 · 25%25%1/10
1 · 25%25%1/10
1 · 25%25%1/10

Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.

Ideas

Every idea inside this topic

4 different ideas were tested; none came more than once. ZIFT vs IUT is the foundation for 19 other ideas in the syllabus.

ICSI Technique1×
identify art technique by description
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 6
Limitations of ART and Adoption1×
count correct statements on ivf drawbacks
Other · 6% next · foundation for 4
ZIFT vs IUT1×
identify assisted reproduction technique
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 19
Artificial Insemination1×
identify technique for a case
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 15

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
ICSI Techniqueidentify art technique by description	1	One-line MCQRecall	6%	6 ideas
Limitations of ART and Adoptioncount correct statements on ivf drawbacks	1	OtherConcept	6%	4 ideas
ZIFT vs IUTidentify assisted reproduction technique	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	19 ideas
Artificial Inseminationidentify technique for a case	1	One-line MCQApplication	4%	15 ideas

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

Assisted Reproductive Tech questions, year by year

The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.

NEET 20261 question

Q142
The method of directly of injecting a sperm into ovum in assisted reproductive technology is called:
Idea: ICSI Technique
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20251 question

Q93
What are the potential drawbacks in adoption of the IVF method? A. High fatality risk to mother B. Expensive instruments and reagents C.…
Idea: Limitations of ART and Adoption
New ideaMediumOther

NEET 20201 question

Q5
In which of the following techniques, the embryos are transferred to assist those females who cannot conceive ?
Idea: ZIFT vs IUT
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

Q172
In case of a couple where the male is having a very low sperm count, which technique will be suitable for fertilisation ?
Idea: Artificial Insemination
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.