NEET UG · Biology · Digestion and Absorption
Nutrient Absorption: NEET previous year questions
This topic’s chapter, Digestion and Absorption, is not in the NEET UG 2026 syllabus. It had 2 questions from 2017 to 2023; they are kept here for reference.
- Asked in 10 years
- 2
- about 0.2 per paper
- Years asked
- 2/10
- last asked 2023
- Syllabus
- Dropped
- not in NEET UG 2026
- Last asked
- 2023
- 3 papers ago
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 2 of 10 papers, 2 questions in all: #190 of 204 topics by ten-year total. Last asked in 2023.
- 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 89 ideas in this topic; 83 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (50%); 100% easy, 0% hard.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.3
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.0
- -0.3
- Usual gap
- 1.0 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 Nutrient Absorption since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy2 · 100%
- Medium0 · 0%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 1 Q50%
- Two statements · 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 89 ideas in this topic. 83 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly2 · 2%
- Touched inside another question4 · 4%
- Never asked83 · 93%
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%
- 2022 · Q154Given below are two statements : Statement I : Fatty acids and glycerols cannot be absorbed into the blood. Statement II : Specialized…
easyTwo statementsNew idea
- 2022 · Q154
- 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. Chylomicrons and Lacteals is the foundation for 8 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Ileo-Caecal Valve Function1×
identify structure by function
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Chylomicrons and Lacteals1×
statement i/ii on fat absorption
Two statements · 4% next · foundation for 8
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
Nutrient Absorption questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20231 question
- Q162Once the undigested and unabsorbed substances enter the caecum, their backflow is prevented by-
Idea: Ileo-Caecal Valve Function
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20221 question
- Q154Given below are two statements : Statement I : Fatty acids and glycerols cannot be absorbed into the blood. Statement II : Specialized…
Idea: Chylomicrons and Lacteals
New ideaEasyTwo statements
Questions from the official NEET UG papers published by NTA (CBSE before 2019). Topic and idea tags, counts and notes are Lumi’s.