NEET UG · Chemistry · Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
Hybridization: NEET previous year questions
2 questions in ten years of NEET, in 2 of 10 papers. Pattern: Now and then. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 2
- about 0.2 per paper
- Years asked
- 2/10
- last asked 2024
- Weighted estimate
- 0.2
- model; history: 0.2 a paper on average, typically 0–1
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 2 of 10 papers, 2 questions in all: #185 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 3.0 years on average. Last asked in 2024.
- 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 2 of the 82 ideas in this topic; 72 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as match the lists (50%); 100% easy, 0% hard.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.1
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.3
- 0.2
- Usual gap
- 3.0 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±0.4
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 2 questions on Hybridization since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy2 · 100%
- Medium0 · 0%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- Match the lists · 1 Q50%
- One-line MCQ · 1 Q50%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 2 Q100%
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 2 of the 82 ideas in this topic. 72 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly2 · 2%
- Touched inside another question8 · 10%
- Never asked72 · 88%
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 · 50%
- 2024 · Q54Match List I with List II. List I (Molecule) | List II (Number and types of bond/s between two carbon atoms) A. ethane | I. one…
easyMatch the listsNew idea
- 2024 · Q54
- 1 · 50%
Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.
Ideas
Every idea inside this topic
2 different ideas were tested; none came more than once. Simple Hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3) is the foundation for 58 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Counting Sigma and Pi Bonds1×
match list on bond types
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 5 - Simple Hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3)1×
identify hybridization and electron count
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 58
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
Hybridization questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20241 question
- Q54Match List I with List II. List I (Molecule) | List II (Number and types of bond/s between two carbon atoms) A. ethane | I. one…
Idea: Counting Sigma and Pi Bonds
New ideaEasyMatch the lists
NEET 20211 question
- Q51is planar and electron deficient compound. Hybridization and number of electrons around the central atom, respectively are :
Idea: Simple Hybridization (sp, sp2, sp3)
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.