NEET UG · Biology · Biotechnology and its Applications
Genetically Engineered Insulin: NEET previous year questions
4 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
- 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: #167 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.7 years on average. Last asked in 2025.
- 02
75% 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 Disulfide Bond Assembly, asked 2 times (2020, 2022), usually as “identify incorrect statement on insulin”.
- 04
NEET has asked 3 of the 86 ideas in this topic; 73 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (50%); 25% easy, 0% hard.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.4
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.3
- -0.1
- Usual gap
- 1.7 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 Genetically Engineered Insulin since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy1 · 25%
- Medium3 · 75%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 2 Q50%
- Other · 2 Q50%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 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 3 of the 86 ideas in this topic. 73 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly3 · 3%
- Touched inside another question10 · 12%
- Never asked73 · 85%
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.
- Repeated2 · 50%
- 2022 · Q192Statements related to human Insulin are given below. Which statement(s) is/are correct about genetically engineered Insulin ? (a)…
mediumOther
- 2020 · Q35Which of the following statements is not correct ?
mediumOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2022 · Q192
- 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
3 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once. Insulin Maturation Process is the foundation for 55 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Disulfide Bond Assembly2×
identify incorrect statement on insulin
Other · 6% next · foundation for 11 - Host Organism for Insulin1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 7 - Insulin Maturation Process1×
true statement selection on insulin
Other · 4% next · foundation for 55
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
Genetically Engineered Insulin 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
- Q116Which of the following genetically engineered organisms was used by Eli Lilly to prepare human insulin?
Idea: Host Organism for Insulin
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20221 question
- Q192Statements related to human Insulin are given below. Which statement(s) is/are correct about genetically engineered Insulin ? (a)…
Idea: Disulfide Bond Assembly
MediumOther
NEET 20211 question
- Q155With regard to insulin choose correct options. (a) C-peptide is not present in mature insulin. (b) The insulin produced by rDNA technology…
Idea: Insulin Maturation Process
New ideaMediumOther
NEET 20201 question
- Q35Which of the following statements is not correct ?
Idea: Disulfide Bond Assembly
New ideaMediumOne-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.