NEET UG · Physics · Laws of Motion
Friction Forces: 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 2025
- Weighted estimate
- 0.4
- model; history: 0.4 a paper on average, typically 0–1
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 4 questions in all: #168 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 2.3 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 4 of the 81 ideas in this topic; 72 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as numerical (75%); 50% easy, 0% hard.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.4
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.3
- -0.1
- 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 Friction Forces since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy2 · 50%
- Medium2 · 50%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- Numerical · 3 Q75%
- One-line MCQ · 1 Q25%
Skill tested
SHARE- Calculation · 3 Q75%
- Concept · 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.
- Idea asked for the first time
- Idea asked in an earlier paper
Coverage of the topic
NEET has asked 4 of the 81 ideas in this topic. 72 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly4 · 5%
- Touched inside another question5 · 6%
- Never asked72 · 89%
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 · 25%
- 2025 · Q4There are two inclined surfaces of equal length () and same angle of inclination 45° with the horizontal. One of them is rough and the…
mediumNumericalNew idea
- 2025 · Q4
- 1 · 25%
- 1 · 25%
- 1 · 25%
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. Acceleration Sliding Down an Incline is the foundation for 4 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Acceleration Sliding Down an Incline1×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next · foundation for 4 - Block on an Accelerating Truck1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 1 - Friction in a Rotor (Death Well)1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next - Laws of Limiting Friction1×
incorrect statement on friction
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 2
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
Friction Forces 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
- Q4There are two inclined surfaces of equal length () and same angle of inclination 45° with the horizontal. One of them is rough and the…
Idea: Acceleration Sliding Down an Incline
New ideaMediumNumerical
NEET 20231 question
- Q41Calculate the maximum acceleration of a moving car so that a body lying on the floor of the car remains stationary. The coefficient of…
Idea: Block on an Accelerating Truck
New ideaEasyNumerical
NEET 20191 question
- Q35A block of mass 10 kg is in contact against the inner wall of a hollow cylindrical drum of radius 1 m. The coefficient of friction between…
Idea: Friction in a Rotor (Death Well)
New ideaMediumNumerical
NEET 20181 question
- Q33Which one of the following statements is incorrect ?
Idea: Laws of Limiting Friction
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.