NEET UG · Biology · Cell: The Unit of Life
Nuclear Organization: NEET previous year questions
8 questions in ten years of NEET, in 6 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 8
- about 0.8 per paper
- Years asked
- 6/10
- last asked 2025
- Weighted estimate
- 0.6
- model; history: 0.8 a paper on average, typically 0–2
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 6 of 10 papers, 8 questions in all: #109 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.4 years on average. Last asked in 2025.
- 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 Nucleolus and rRNA Synthesis, asked 2 times (2018, 2024), usually as “true statement selection on a cell organelle”.
- 04
NEET has asked 6 of the 73 ideas in this topic; 54 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (63%); 63% easy, 0% hard.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.8
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.6
- -0.2
- Usual gap
- 1.4 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±0.7
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 8 questions on Nuclear Organization since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy5 · 63%
- Medium3 · 38%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 5 Q63%
- Match the lists · 3 Q38%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 8 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 6 of the 73 ideas in this topic. 54 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly6 · 8%
- Touched inside another question13 · 18%
- Never asked54 · 74%
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 · 25%
- 2022 · Q139Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Metacentric chromosome | (i) Centromere situated close to the end forming one…
easyMatch the listsAsked the year before
- 2021 · Q115When the centromere is situated in the middle of two equal arms of chromosomes, the chromosome is referred as :
easyOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2022 · Q139
- Repeated2 · 25%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
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; 2 came more than once. Centromere and Kinetochore is the foundation for 22 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Nucleolus and rRNA Synthesis2×
true statement selection on a cell organelle
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 7 - Chromosome Types by Centromere2×
match list on chromosome types
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 17 - Centromere and Kinetochore1×
match list on cell structures and functions
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 22 - Anucleate Cells in Eukaryotes1×
incorrect statement selection on cell organelles
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Chromosome Arm Nomenclature (p and q)1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Polytene Chromosomes and Balbiani Rings1×
incorrect match among chromosome terms
One-line MCQ · 4% 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
Nuclear Organization questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20251 question
- Q121Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II A. Centromere | I. Mitochondrion B. Cilium | II. Cell division C. Cristae | III. Cell…
Idea: Centromere and Kinetochore
New ideaEasyMatch the lists
NEET 20241 question
- Q121Match List I with List II List I | List II A. Nucleolus | I. Site of formation of glycolipid B. Centriole | II. Organization like the…
Idea: Nucleolus and rRNA Synthesis
MediumMatch the lists
NEET 20221 question
- Q139Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Metacentric chromosome | (i) Centromere situated close to the end forming one…
Idea: Chromosome Types by Centromere
Asked last yearEasyMatch the lists
NEET 20212 questions
- Q103Which of the following is an incorrect statement ?
Idea: Anucleate Cells in Eukaryotes
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ - Q115When the centromere is situated in the middle of two equal arms of chromosomes, the chromosome is referred as :
Idea: Chromosome Types by Centromere
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20191 question
- Q94The shorter and longer arms of a submetacentric chromosome are referred to as :
Idea: Chromosome Arm Nomenclature (p and q)
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20182 questions
- Q121Which of the following is true for nucleolus ?
Idea: Nucleolus and rRNA Synthesis
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q171Select the incorrect match :
Idea: Polytene Chromosomes and Balbiani Rings
New ideaMediumOne-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.