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NEET UG · Chemistry · The p-Block Elements (Class 11)

Carbon Allotropes: NEET previous year questions

1 questions in ten years of NEET, in 1 of 10 papers. Pattern: Now and then. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years
1
about 0.1 per paper
Years asked
1/10
last asked 2022
Chance of a question next paper
10%
historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate
0.1
model; history: 0.1 a paper on average, typically 0

Key findings

  1. 01

    Asked in 1 of 10 papers, 1 questions in all: #195 of 204 topics by ten-year total. Last asked in 2022.

  2. 02

    100% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; none repeated an idea from the year before.

  3. 03

    No idea in this topic has been asked twice: every question tested something new.

  4. 04

    NEET has asked 1 of the 85 ideas in this topic; 80 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.

  5. 05

    Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (100%); 100% easy, 0% hard.

Questions per year

0240’170’180’190’200’211’220’230’240’250’26
Up to 2023
0.1
per paper
Since 2024
0.0
-0.1
Usual gap
–
between papers asking it
Swing
±0.3
questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 1 questions on Carbon Allotropes since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS
1
  • Easy1 · 100%
  • Medium0 · 0%
  • Hard0 · 0%

Format

SHARE
  • One-line MCQ · 1 Q100%

Skill tested

SHARE
  • Concept · 1 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.

1
’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 1 of the 85 ideas in this topic. 80 have never been asked yet.

80
  • Asked directly1 · 1%
  • Touched inside another question4 · 5%
  • Never asked80 · 94%

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 · 100%
    • 2022 · Q71
      Choose the correct statement :

      easyOne-line MCQNew idea

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

Ideas

Every idea inside this topic

1 different ideas were tested; none came more than once. Structure of Diamond is the foundation for 9 other ideas in the syllabus.

  • Structure of Diamond1×

    true statement selection on carbon allotropes

    One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 9

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

Carbon Allotropes questions, year by year

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

NEET 20221 question

  • Q71
    Choose the correct statement :

    Idea: Structure of Diamond

    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.