NEET UG · Biology · Biotechnology and its Applications
Gene Therapy: NEET previous year questions
8 questions in ten years of NEET, in 4 of 10 papers. Pattern: Due again. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 8
- about 0.7 per paper
- Years asked
- 4/10
- last asked 2023
- Weighted estimate
- 0.6
- model; history: 0.7 a paper on average, typically 0–1
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 8 questions in all: #111 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.7 years on average. Last asked in 2023.
- 02
88% 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 Molecular Diagnosis Prerequisite, asked 3 times (2021, 2023), usually as “identify technique not used for a purpose”.
- 04
NEET has asked 5 of the 85 ideas in this topic; 77 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (100%); 75% easy, 0% hard, and down from 1.0 to 0.0 questions a paper since 2024.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 1.0
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.0
- -1.0
- Usual gap
- 1.7 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±1.3
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 8 questions on Gene Therapy since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy6 · 75%
- Medium2 · 25%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 8 Q100%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 5 Q63%
- Concept · 3 Q38%
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 5 of the 85 ideas in this topic. 77 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly5 · 6%
- Touched inside another question3 · 4%
- Never asked77 · 91%
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.
- Repeated3 · 38%2
- 2023 · Q156Which one of the following techniques does not serve the purpose of early diagnosis of a disease for its early treatment?
easyOne-line MCQ
- 2021 · Q106Which of the following is not an application of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) ?
easyOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2021 · Q185For effective treatment of the disease, early diagnosis and understanding its pathophysiology is very important. Which of the following…
mediumOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2023 · Q156
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.
Ideas
Every idea inside this topic
6 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once. Gene Therapy Definition is the foundation for 84 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Molecular Diagnosis Prerequisite3×
identify technique not used for a purpose
One-line MCQ · 6% next - Limitations of Lymphocyte Therapy1×
reason for periodic infusion in gene therapy
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 9 - ADA Role in Immune System1×
identify effect of enzyme deficiency
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Gene Therapy Definition1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 84 - Probe Hybridisation and Autoradiography1×
true statement selection on molecular diagnosis
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Disarmed Retroviral Vectors1×
identify suitable vector for host cell
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 5
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
Gene Therapy 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
- Q156Which one of the following techniques does not serve the purpose of early diagnosis of a disease for its early treatment?
Idea: Molecular Diagnosis Prerequisite
EasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20221 question
- Q152In gene therapy of Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) deficiency, the patient requires periodic infusion of genetically engineered lymphocytes…
Idea: Limitations of Lymphocyte Therapy
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20215 questions
- Q106Which of the following is not an application of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) ?
Idea: Molecular Diagnosis Prerequisite
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q108When gene targetting involving gene amplification is attempted in an individual's tissue to treat disease, it is known as :
Idea: Gene Therapy Definition
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q146Now a days it is possible to detect the mutated gene causing cancer by allowing radioactive probe to hybridise its complimentary DNA in a…
Idea: Probe Hybridisation and Autoradiography
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ - Q185For effective treatment of the disease, early diagnosis and understanding its pathophysiology is very important. Which of the following…
Idea: Molecular Diagnosis Prerequisite
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ - Q198The Adenosine deaminase deficiency results into :
Idea: ADA Role in Immune System
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q98Which of the following is commonly used as a vector for introducing a DNA fragment in human lymphocytes ?
Idea: Disarmed Retroviral Vectors
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.