NEET UG · Chemistry · Chemistry in Everyday Life

Chemistry in Everyday Life: NEET previous year questions

This topic’s chapter, Chemistry in Everyday Life, is not in the NEET UG 2026 syllabus. It had 6 questions from 2017 to 2023; they are kept here for reference.

Asked in 10 years: 6; about 0.6 per paper
Years asked: 6/10; last asked 2023
Syllabus: Dropped; not in NEET UG 2026
Last asked: 2023; 3 papers ago

Key findings

01
Asked in 6 of 10 papers, 6 questions in all: #139 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.2 years on average. Last asked in 2023.
02
80% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; none repeated an idea from the year before.
03
The most repeated idea is Classes of Drugs, asked 2 times (2017, 2022), usually as “match list on drug classes”.
04
NEET has asked 0 of the 6 ideas in this topic; 0 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (67%); 67% easy, 0% hard, and down from 0.8 to 0.0 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.8; per paper
Since 2024: 0.0; -0.8
Usual gap: 1.2 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.5; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 6 questions on Chemistry in Everyday Life since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy4 · 67%
Medium2 · 33%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

One-line MCQ · 4 Q67%
Match the lists · 1 Q17%
Two statements · 1 Q17%

Skill tested

Recall · 6 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.

’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 0 of the 6 ideas in this topic. 0 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly0 · 0%
Touched inside another question6 · 100%
Never asked0 · 0%

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

Repeated2 · 33%33%2/10
- 2022 · Q69
  Match List - I with List - II. List - I (Drug class) | List - II (Drug molecule) (a) Antacids | (i) Salvarsan (b) Antihistamines | (ii)…
  easyMatch the lists
- 2017 · Q49
  Mixture of chloroxylenol and terpineol acts as :
  easyOne-line MCQNew idea
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%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

5 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once.

Classes of Drugs2×
match list on drug classes
Match the lists · 4% next
Tranquilizers and Barbiturates1×
identify example of a drug class
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Analgesics and Antipyretics1×
statement i/ii on drug classes
Two statements · 4% next
Soaps and Detergents1×
identify example of detergent type
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Antibiotics: Narrow and Broad Spectrum1×
classify example of a type
One-line MCQ · 4% next

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Classes of Drugsmatch list on drug classes	2	Match the listsRecall	4%	–
Tranquilizers and Barbituratesidentify example of a drug class	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Analgesics and Antipyreticsstatement i/ii on drug classes	1	Two statementsRecall	4%	–
Soaps and Detergentsidentify example of detergent type	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Antibiotics: Narrow and Broad Spectrumclassify example of a type	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–

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

Chemistry in Everyday Life questions, year by year

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

NEET 20231 question

Q63
Some tranquilizers are listed below. Which one from the following belongs to barbiturates?
Idea: Tranquilizers and Barbiturates
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20221 question

Q69
Match List - I with List - II. List - I (Drug class) | List - II (Drug molecule) (a) Antacids | (i) Salvarsan (b) Antihistamines | (ii)…
Idea: Classes of Drugs
EasyMatch the lists

NEET 20211 question

Q74
Given below are two statements : Statement I : Aspirin and Paracetamol belong to the class of narcotic analgesics. Statement II : Morphine…
Idea: Analgesics and Antipyretics
New ideaEasyTwo statements

NEET 20201 question

Q113
Which of the following is a cationic detergent ?
Idea: Soaps and Detergents
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20191 question

Q73
Among the following, the narrow spectrum antibiotic is :
Idea: Antibiotics: Narrow and Broad Spectrum
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

Q49
Mixture of chloroxylenol and terpineol acts as :
Idea: Classes of Drugs
EasyOne-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.