NEET UG · Biology · Plant Kingdom
Bryophytes: NEET previous year questions
5 questions in ten years of NEET, in 3 of 10 papers. Pattern: Due again. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 5
- about 0.5 per paper
- Years asked
- 3/10
- last asked 2025
- Weighted estimate
- 0.7
- model; history: 0.5 a paper on average, typically 0–1
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 3 of 10 papers, 5 questions in all: #144 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 2.0 years on average. Last asked in 2025.
- 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.
- 04
NEET has asked 5 of the 87 ideas in this topic; 79 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (40%); 80% easy, 0% hard, and up from 0.3 to 1.0 questions a paper since 2024.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.3
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 1.0
- +0.7
- Usual gap
- 2.0 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±0.9
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 5 questions on Bryophytes since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy4 · 80%
- Medium1 · 20%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 2 Q40%
- Other · 1 Q20%
- Match the lists · 1 Q20%
- Assertion–reason · 1 Q20%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 3 Q60%
- Application · 1 Q20%
- Concept · 1 Q20%
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 5 of the 87 ideas in this topic. 79 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly5 · 6%
- Touched inside another question3 · 3%
- Never asked79 · 91%
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.
- 1 · 20%
- 2025 · Q119The correct sequence of events in the life cycle of bryophytes is A. Fusion of antherozoid with egg. B. Attachment of gametophyte to…
mediumOtherNew idea
- 2025 · Q119
- 1 · 20%
- 1 · 20%
- 1 · 20%
- 1 · 20%
Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.
Ideas
Every idea inside this topic
5 different ideas were tested; none came more than once. Bryophyte Life Cycle and Reproduction is the foundation for 30 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Bryophyte Life Cycle and Reproduction1×
order of steps in a process
Other · 6% next · foundation for 30 - Examples of Mosses1×
match list on plant groups and examples
Match the lists · 6% next - Morphology of Gemmae1×
identify function of a structure
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 1 - Origin of the Moss Protonema1×
assertion-reason on moss life cycle
Assertion–reason · 4% next · foundation for 1 - Liverwort Structure and Gemmae1×
identify group having a structure
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 21
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
Bryophytes questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20253 questions
- Q119The correct sequence of events in the life cycle of bryophytes is A. Fusion of antherozoid with egg. B. Attachment of gametophyte to…
Idea: Bryophyte Life Cycle and Reproduction
New ideaMediumOther - Q162Match List I with List II. List I | List II A. Pteridophyte | I. Salvia B. Bryophyte | II. Ginkgo C. Angiosperm | III. Polytrichum D.…
Idea: Examples of Mosses
New ideaEasyMatch the lists - Q168In bryophytes, the gemmae help in which one of the following?
Idea: Morphology of Gemmae
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20231 question
- Q101Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R : Assertion A : The first stage of…
Idea: Origin of the Moss Protonema
New ideaEasyAssertion–reason
NEET 20211 question
- Q114Gemmae are present in :
Idea: Liverwort Structure and Gemmae
New ideaEasyOne-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.