NEET UG · Biology · Principles of Inheritance and Variation
Independent Assortment: NEET previous year questions
2 questions in ten years of NEET, in 1 of 10 papers. Pattern: New since 2024. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 2
- about 0.2 per paper
- Years asked
- 1/10
- last asked 2025
- Weighted estimate
- 0.4
- model; history: 0.2 a paper on average, typically 0
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 1 of 10 papers, 2 questions in all: #182 of 204 topics by ten-year total. 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 1 of the 88 ideas in this topic; 85 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (100%); 50% easy, 0% hard, and up from 0.0 to 0.7 questions a paper since 2024.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.0
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.7
- +0.7
- Usual gap
- –
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±0.6
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 2 questions on Independent Assortment since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy1 · 50%
- Medium1 · 50%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 2 Q100%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 1 Q50%
- Application · 1 Q50%
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 1 of the 88 ideas in this topic. 85 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly1 · 1%
- Touched inside another question2 · 2%
- Never asked85 · 97%
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%
- 2025 · Q145Genes R and Y follow independent assortment. If RRYY produce round yellow seeds and rryy produce wrinkled green seeds, what will be the…
easyOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2025 · Q145
- 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. F2 Phenotypic Ratio 9:3:3:1 is the foundation for 49 other ideas in the syllabus.
- F2 Phenotypic Ratio 9:3:3:11×
numerical
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 49 - Polygenic Inheritance1×
identify pattern of inheritance
One-line MCQ · 6% next
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
Independent Assortment questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20252 questions
- Q130What is the pattern of inheritance for polygenic trait?
Idea: Polygenic Inheritance
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ - Q145Genes R and Y follow independent assortment. If RRYY produce round yellow seeds and rryy produce wrinkled green seeds, what will be the…
Idea: F2 Phenotypic Ratio 9:3:3:1
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.