NEET UG · Biology · Biodiversity and Conservation

Conservation Strategies: NEET previous year questions

11 questions in ten years of NEET, in 7 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: 7/10; last asked 2025
Chance of a question next paper: 64%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.9; model; history: 1.1 a paper on average, typically 0–2

Key findings

01
Asked in 7 of 10 papers, 11 questions in all: #67 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.3 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 11 of the 84 ideas in this topic; 70 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (100%); 100% easy, 0% hard.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 1.1; per paper
Since 2024: 0.9; -0.2
Usual gap: 1.3 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.8; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 11 questions on Conservation Strategies since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy11 · 100%
Medium0 · 0%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

One-line MCQ · 11 Q100%

Skill tested

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.

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

Coverage of the topic

NEET has asked 11 of the 84 ideas in this topic. 70 have never been asked yet.

1170

Asked directly11 · 13%
Touched inside another question3 · 4%
Never asked70 · 83%

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 · 9%9%1/10
- 2017 · Q106
  The region of Biosphere Reserve which is legally protected and where no human activity is allowed is known as :
  easyOne-line MCQNew idea
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%1/10
1 · 9%9%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

11 different ideas were tested; none came more than once. In-situ Conservation Types is the foundation for 21 other ideas in the syllabus.

Zoological Parks vs Sanctuaries1×
identify example of a type
One-line MCQ · 6% next
Ex-situ Conservation Definition1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 6% next
IUCN Red List Categories1×
identify organisation for a conservation task
One-line MCQ · 6% next
Earth Summit Details1×
recall year of an event
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 2
Ex-situ Conservation Types1×
odd-one-out among conservation methods
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 16
In-situ Conservation Definition1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Earth Summit CBD Goal1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next
In-situ Conservation Types1×
odd-one-out among conservation methods
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 21
Sacred Groves Role1×
odd-one-out among conservation methods
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 8
Biosphere Reserve Zonation1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Wildlife Safari Parks Classification1×
identify example of a type
One-line MCQ · 4% next

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Zoological Parks vs Sanctuariesidentify example of a type	1	One-line MCQRecall	6%	–
Ex-situ Conservation Definitiondefinition recall	1	One-line MCQRecall	6%	–
IUCN Red List Categoriesidentify organisation for a conservation task	1	One-line MCQRecall	6%	–
Earth Summit Detailsrecall year of an event	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	2 ideas
Ex-situ Conservation Typesodd-one-out among conservation methods	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	16 ideas
In-situ Conservation Definitiondefinition recall	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Earth Summit CBD Goaldefinition recall	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
In-situ Conservation Typesodd-one-out among conservation methods	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	21 ideas
Sacred Groves Roleodd-one-out among conservation methods	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	8 ideas
Biosphere Reserve Zonationdefinition recall	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Wildlife Safari Parks Classificationidentify 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

Conservation Strategies questions, year by year

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

NEET 20251 question

Q99
Which one of the following is an example of ex-situ conservation?
Idea: Zoological Parks vs Sanctuaries
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20242 questions

Q103
The type of conservation in which the threatened species are taken out from their natural habitat and placed in special setting where they…
Idea: Ex-situ Conservation Definition
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
Q114
List of endangered species was released by-
Idea: IUCN Red List Categories
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20231 question

Q126
The historic Convention on Biological Diversity, 'The Earth Summit' was held in Rio de Janeiro in the year :
Idea: Earth Summit Details
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20222 questions

Q101
Which of the following is not a method of ex situ conservation ?
Idea: Ex-situ Conservation Types
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
Q183
In-situ conservation refers to :
Idea: In-situ Conservation Definition
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20192 questions

Q91
The Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 was called :
Idea: Earth Summit CBD Goal
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
Q106
Which one of the following is not a method of in situ conservation of biodiversity ?
Idea: In-situ Conservation Types
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20181 question

Q154
All of the following are included in 'Ex-situ conservation' except
Idea: Sacred Groves Role
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20172 questions

Q106
The region of Biosphere Reserve which is legally protected and where no human activity is allowed is known as :
Idea: Biosphere Reserve Zonation
EasyOne-line MCQ
Q121
Which one of the following is related to Ex-situ conservation of threatened animals and plants ?
Idea: Wildlife Safari Parks Classification
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.