NEET UG · Biology · Biological Classification
Kingdom Monera: NEET previous year questions
10 questions in ten years of NEET, in 5 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 10
- about 1.0 per paper
- Years asked
- 5/10
- last asked 2026
- Weighted estimate
- 1.0
- model; history: 1.0 a paper on average, typically 0–2
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 5 of 10 papers, 10 questions in all: #78 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 2.2 years on average.
- 02
71% 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 Prokaryotic Cellular Organization, asked 2 times (2018, 2026), usually as “odd-one-out among organisms”.
- 04
NEET has asked 7 of the 78 ideas in this topic; 56 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (70%); 80% easy, 0% hard.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 1.0
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 1.0
- 0.0
- Usual gap
- 2.2 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±1.1
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 10 questions on Kingdom Monera since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy8 · 80%
- Medium2 · 20%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 7 Q70%
- Match the lists · 1 Q10%
- Other · 1 Q10%
- Two statements · 1 Q10%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 8 Q80%
- Multi-step · 1 Q10%
- Concept · 1 Q10%
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 7 of the 78 ideas in this topic. 56 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly7 · 9%
- Touched inside another question15 · 19%
- Never asked56 · 72%
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 · 20%
- 2022 · Q185Given below are two statements : Statement I : Mycoplasma can pass through less than 1 micron filter size. Statement II : Mycoplasma are…
easyTwo statements
- 2017 · Q101Which among the following are the smallest living cells, known without a definite cell wall, pathogenic to plants as well as animals and…
easyOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2022 · Q185
- Repeated2 · 20%
- 1 · 10%
- 1 · 10%
- 1 · 10%
- 1 · 10%
- 1 · 10%
- 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
8 different ideas were tested; 2 came more than once. Metabolic Diversity is the foundation for 18 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Prokaryotic Cellular Organization2×
odd-one-out among organisms
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 4 - Mycoplasma Characteristics2×
statement i/ii on mycoplasma
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 3 - Bacterial Morphologies1×
match list on bacterial shapes
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 1 - Whittaker's Five Kingdom Classification1×
order/ranking of body organisation complexity
Other · 6% next - Metabolic Diversity1×
true statement selection on monera
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 18 - Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria1×
odd-one-out among organisms
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Bacterial Reproduction via Fission1×
true statement selection on replication
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 2 - Types of Extremophilic Archaebacteria1×
identify example of a type
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 2
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
Kingdom Monera questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20262 questions
- Q112Match List-I with List-II. List-I | List-II A. Spherical | I. Vibrio B. Rod | II. Cocci C. Comma | III. Spirilla D. Spirillum | IV.…
Idea: Bacterial Morphologies
New ideaEasyMatch the lists - Q126Which of the following is not a prokaryote?
Idea: Prokaryotic Cellular Organization
EasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20251 question
- Q132Each of the following characteristics represent a Kingdom proposed by Whittaker. Arrange the following in increasing order of complexity…
Idea: Whittaker's Five Kingdom Classification
New ideaMediumOther
NEET 20222 questions
- Q185Given below are two statements : Statement I : Mycoplasma can pass through less than 1 micron filter size. Statement II : Mycoplasma are…
Idea: Mycoplasma Characteristics
EasyTwo statements - Q191Which of the following is a correct statement ?
Idea: Metabolic Diversity
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20182 questions
- Q91Oxygen is not produced during photosynthesis by
Idea: Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q118Which among the following is not a prokaryote ?
Idea: Prokaryotic Cellular Organization
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20173 questions
- Q92Which of the following are found in extreme saline conditions ?
Idea: Types of Extremophilic Archaebacteria
EasyOne-line MCQ - Q101Which among the following are the smallest living cells, known without a definite cell wall, pathogenic to plants as well as animals and…
Idea: Mycoplasma Characteristics
EasyOne-line MCQ - Q174DNA replication in bacteria occurs :
Idea: Bacterial Reproduction via Fission
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.