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Kinematics in 1D: NEET previous year questions

13 questions in ten years of NEET, in 9 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years: 13; about 1.2 per paper
Years asked: 9/10; last asked 2026
Chance of a question next paper: 84%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 1.4; model; history: 1.2 a paper on average, typically 1–2

Key findings

01
Asked in 9 of 10 papers, 13 questions in all: #46 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.1 years on average.
02
75% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; 1 repeated an idea from the year before.
03
The most repeated idea is Relative Velocity 1D, asked 2 times (2017, 2025), usually as “relative motion on moving escalator”.
04
NEET has asked 10 of the 91 ideas in this topic; 73 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as numerical (62%); 46% easy, 0% hard.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 1.2; per paper
Since 2024: 1.3; 0.1
Usual gap: 1.1 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.7; questions, year to year

Recent framings

numerical: average speed from position function
numerical: acceleration from time-position relation
numerical: bus speed and period from relative speed

Revise first

Distance vs Displacement (2026); Kinematic Graphs (2022 2024); Relative Velocity 1D (2017 2025)

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 13 questions on Kinematics in 1D since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy6 · 46%
Medium7 · 54%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

Numerical · 8 Q62%
One-line MCQ · 3 Q23%
Figure-based · 2 Q15%

Skill tested

Calculation · 5 Q38%
Multi-step · 3 Q23%
Application · 3 Q23%
Data or graph · 2 Q15%

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.

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Idea asked for the first time
Idea asked in an earlier paper

Coverage of the topic

NEET has asked 10 of the 91 ideas in this topic. 73 have never been asked yet.

1073

Asked directly10 · 11%
Touched inside another question8 · 9%
Never asked73 · 80%

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 · 15%15%2/10
- 2022 · Q27
  The ratio of the distances travelled by a freely falling body in the 1 $^{st}$ , 2 $^{nd}$ , 3 $^{rd}$ and 4 $^{th}$ second :
  easyOne-line MCQAsked the year before
- 2021 · Q10
  A small block slides down on a smooth inclined plane, starting from rest at time t = 0. Let $S_n$ be the distance travelled by the block…
  mediumOne-line MCQNew idea
Repeated2 · 15%15%2/10
Repeated2 · 15%15%2/10
1 · 8%8%1/10
1 · 8%8%1/10
1 · 8%8%1/10
1 · 8%8%1/10
1 · 8%8%1/10
1 · 8%8%1/10
1 · 8%8%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

10 different ideas were tested; 3 came more than once. Distance vs Displacement is the foundation for 90 other ideas in the syllabus.

Relative Velocity 1D2×
relative motion on moving escalator
Numerical · 6% next · foundation for 9
Kinematic Graphs2×
numerical
Figure-based · 6% next · foundation for 17
Displacement in the nth Second2×
ratio of distances in successive seconds
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 2
Distance vs Displacement1×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next · foundation for 90
Acceleration as v(dv/dx)1×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next · foundation for 4
Average Speed for Equal Distances1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next
Kinematic Equations1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 48
Motion Under Gravity1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 34
Downward Projection Sign Convention1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next
Average Velocity Special Cases1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Relative Velocity 1Drelative motion on moving escalator	2	NumericalApplication	6%	9 ideas
Kinematic Graphsnumerical	2	Figure-basedData or graph	6%	17 ideas
Displacement in the nth Secondratio of distances in successive seconds	2	One-line MCQApplication	6%	2 ideas
Distance vs Displacementnumerical	1	NumericalMulti-step	6%	90 ideas
Acceleration as v(dv/dx)numerical	1	NumericalCalculation	6%	4 ideas
Average Speed for Equal Distancesnumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	4%	–
Kinematic Equationsnumerical	1	NumericalMulti-step	4%	48 ideas
Motion Under Gravitynumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	4%	34 ideas
Downward Projection Sign Conventionnumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	4%	–
Average Velocity Special Casesnumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	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

Kinematics in 1D 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

Q6
Consider a particle moving along a straight line, whose position as a function of time is given by $s(t)=\alpha t^2-\beta t+\gamma$ , where…
Idea: Distance vs Displacement
New ideaMediumNumerical

NEET 20252 questions

Q15
In some appropriate units, time ( $t$ ) and position ( $x$ ) relation of a moving particle is given by $t = x^2 + x$ . The acceleration of the…
Idea: Acceleration as v(dv/dx)
New ideaMediumNumerical
Q21
Two cities X and Y are connected by a regular bus service with a bus leaving in either direction every T min. A girl is driving scooty…
Idea: Relative Velocity 1D
MediumNumerical

NEET 20241 question

Q49
The velocity ( $v$ ) - time ( $t$ ) plot of the motion of a body is shown below : The acceleration ( $a$ ) - time ( $t$ ) graph that best suits…
Idea: Kinematic Graphs
EasyFigure-based · figure

NEET 20233 questions

Q31
A vehicle travels half the distance with speed $\vartheta$ and the remaining distance with speed $2\vartheta$ . Its average speed is:
Idea: Average Speed for Equal Distances
New ideaEasyNumerical
Q48
A bullet from a gun is fired on a rectangular wooden block with velocity $u$ . When bullet travels 24 cm through the block along its length…
Idea: Kinematic Equations
New ideaMediumNumerical
Q50
A horizontal bridge is built across a river. A student standing on the bridge throws a small ball vertically upwards with a velocity 4 m…
Idea: Motion Under Gravity
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20222 questions

Q26
The displacement-time graphs of two moving particles make angles of 30° and 45° with the x-axis as shown in the figure. The ratio of their…
Idea: Kinematic Graphs
New ideaEasyFigure-based · figure
Q27
The ratio of the distances travelled by a freely falling body in the 1 $^{st}$ , 2 $^{nd}$ , 3 $^{rd}$ and 4 $^{th}$ second :
Idea: Displacement in the nth Second
Asked last yearEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20211 question

Q10
A small block slides down on a smooth inclined plane, starting from rest at time t = 0. Let $S_n$ be the distance travelled by the block…
Idea: Displacement in the nth Second
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20201 question

Q177
A ball is thrown vertically downward with a velocity of 20 m/s from the top of a tower. It hits the ground after some time with a velocity…
Idea: Downward Projection Sign Convention
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20181 question

Q34
A toy car with charge q moves on a frictionless horizontal plane surface under the influence of a uniform electric field $\vec{E}$ . Due to…
Idea: Average Velocity Special Cases
New ideaMediumNumerical

NEET 20171 question

Q40
Preeti reached the metro station and found that the escalator was not working. She walked up the stationary escalator in time $t_1$ . On…
Idea: Relative Velocity 1D
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.