NEET UG · Biology · Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Embryo Development: 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: 0.6; model; history: 0.4 a paper on average, typically 0–1

Key findings

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Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 4 questions in all: #158 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 2.3 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.
04
NEET has asked 4 of the 80 ideas in this topic; 74 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (50%); 25% easy, 0% hard, and up from 0.1 to 1.0 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.1; per paper
Since 2024: 1.0; +0.8
Usual gap: 2.3 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 Embryo Development since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy1 · 25%
Medium3 · 75%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

One-line MCQ · 2 Q50%
Match the lists · 1 Q25%
Figure-based · 1 Q25%

Skill tested

Recall · 3 Q75%
Figure reading · 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 80 ideas in this topic. 74 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly4 · 5%
Touched inside another question2 · 3%
Never asked74 · 93%

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
- 2026 · Q155
  Which of the following plant produces non-albuminous seeds ?
  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. Monocot Embryo Structure is the foundation for 21 other ideas in the syllabus.

Embryo Growth and Non-Albuminous Seeds1×
identify example of a seed type
One-line MCQ · 6% next
Monocot Embryo Structure1×
match list on seed structures
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 21
Grass Embryo Diagram Labeling1×
identify labelled part in diagram
Figure-based · 6% next
Parthenogenetic vs Adventive Embryo1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Embryo Growth and Non-Albuminous Seedsidentify example of a seed type	1	One-line MCQRecall	6%	–
Monocot Embryo Structurematch list on seed structures	1	Match the listsRecall	6%	21 ideas
Grass Embryo Diagram Labelingidentify labelled part in diagram	1	Figure-basedFigure reading	6%	–
Parthenogenetic vs Adventive Embryodefinition recall	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

Embryo Development 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

Q155
Which of the following plant produces non-albuminous seeds ?
Idea: Embryo Growth and Non-Albuminous Seeds
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20251 question

Q141
Match List I with List II : List I | List II A. Scutellum | I. Persistent nucellus B. Non-albuminous seed | II. Cotyledon of Monocot seed…
Idea: Monocot Embryo Structure
New ideaMediumMatch the lists

NEET 20241 question

Q122
Identify the part of the seed from the given figure which is destined to form root when the seed germinates.
Idea: Grass Embryo Diagram Labeling
New ideaMediumFigure-based · figure

NEET 20191 question

Q127
In some plants, the female gamete develops into embryo without fertilization. This phenomenon is known as :
Idea: Parthenogenetic vs Adventive Embryo
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.