NEET UG · Biology · Plant Kingdom

Gymnosperms: NEET previous year questions

7 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: 7; about 0.7 per paper
Years asked: 7/10; last asked 2026
Chance of a question next paper: 50%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.7; model; history: 0.7 a paper on average, typically 0–1

Key findings

01
Asked in 7 of 10 papers, 7 questions in all: #119 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.5 years on average.
02
83% 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 Monoecious and Dioecious Plant Groups, asked 2 times (2017, 2021), usually as “identify monoecious plant among examples”.
04
NEET has asked 0 of the 8 ideas in this topic; 0 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (71%); 29% easy, 14% hard.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.7; per paper
Since 2024: 0.7; -0.0
Usual gap: 1.5 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.5; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 7 questions on Gymnosperms since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

241

Easy2 · 29%
Medium4 · 57%
Hard1 · 14%

Format

One-line MCQ · 5 Q71%
Two statements · 1 Q14%
Assertion–reason · 1 Q14%

Skill tested

Recall · 4 Q57%
Concept · 3 Q43%

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 0 of the 8 ideas in this topic. 0 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly0 · 0%
Touched inside another question8 · 100%
Never asked0 · 0%

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

Repeated2 · 29%29%2/10
- 2021 · Q119
  Which of the following plants is monoecious ?
  mediumOne-line MCQ
- 2017 · Q122
  Select the mismatch :
  mediumOne-line MCQNew idea
1 · 14%14%1/10
1 · 14%14%1/10
1 · 14%14%1/10
1 · 14%14%1/10
1 · 14%14%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

6 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once.

Monoecious and Dioecious Plant Groups2×
identify monoecious plant among examples
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Retention of Gametophytes1×
statement i/ii on gymnosperms
Two statements · 6% next
Naked Ovules and Seeds1×
identify characteristic feature of a group
One-line MCQ · 6% next
Wind Pollination and Pollen Tube1×
assertion-reason on gymnosperm pollination
Assertion–reason · 4% next
Coralloid Roots and Mycorrhiza1×
reason for plant-fungus dependence
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Winged Pollen of Pinus1×
identify example of a plant feature
One-line MCQ · 4% next

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Monoecious and Dioecious Plant Groupsidentify monoecious plant among examples	2	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Retention of Gametophytesstatement i/ii on gymnosperms	1	Two statementsConcept	6%	–
Naked Ovules and Seedsidentify characteristic feature of a group	1	One-line MCQRecall	6%	–
Wind Pollination and Pollen Tubeassertion-reason on gymnosperm pollination	1	Assertion–reasonConcept	4%	–
Coralloid Roots and Mycorrhizareason for plant-fungus dependence	1	One-line MCQConcept	4%	–
Winged Pollen of Pinusidentify example of a plant feature	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

Gymnosperms 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

Q111
Given below are two statements: Statement I: In gymnosperms, the male and female gametophytes remain within the sporangia. Statement II:…
Idea: Retention of Gametophytes
New ideaMediumTwo statements

NEET 20251 question

Q159
Which one of the following is the characteristic feature of gymnosperms?
Idea: Naked Ovules and Seeds
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20231 question

Q138
Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R : Assertion A : In gymnosperms the…
Idea: Wind Pollination and Pollen Tube
New ideaHardAssertion–reason

NEET 20211 question

Q119
Which of the following plants is monoecious ?
Idea: Monoecious and Dioecious Plant Groups
MediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20191 question

Q153
Pinus seed cannot germinate and establish without fungal association. This is because :
Idea: Coralloid Roots and Mycorrhiza
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20181 question

Q134
Winged pollen grains are present in
Idea: Winged Pollen of Pinus
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

Q122
Select the mismatch :
Idea: Monoecious and Dioecious Plant Groups
MediumOne-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.