NEET UG · Biology · Human Reproduction

Pregnancy, Embryonic Development and Parturition: NEET previous year questions

6 questions in ten years of NEET, in 4 of 10 papers. Pattern: Most years. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years: 6; about 0.6 per paper
Years asked: 4/10; last asked 2025
Chance of a question next paper: 50%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.6; model; history: 0.6 a paper on average, typically 0–2

Key findings

01
Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 6 questions in all: #131 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 2.7 years on average. 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 0 of the 6 ideas in this topic; 0 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (83%); 17% easy, 0% hard.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.5; per paper
Since 2024: 0.7; 0.1
Usual gap: 2.7 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.8; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 6 questions on Pregnancy, Embryonic Development and Parturition since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy1 · 17%
Medium5 · 83%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

One-line MCQ · 5 Q83%
Other · 1 Q17%

Skill tested

Recall · 4 Q67%
Concept · 2 Q33%

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.

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

Coverage of the topic

NEET has asked 0 of the 6 ideas in this topic. 0 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly0 · 0%
Touched inside another question6 · 100%
Never asked0 · 0%

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

1 · 17%17%1/10
- 2017 · Q126
  Capacitation occurs in :
  easyOne-line MCQNew idea
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%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

6 different ideas were tested; none came more than once.

Foetal Development Milestones1×
count correct statements on human pregnancy
Other · 6% next
Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins1×
identify must-be-true statement about twins
One-line MCQ · 6% next
Hormones of Pregnancy1×
identify source of hormone
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Parturition1×
identify non-component of a process
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Germ Layers and Extra-embryonic Membranes1×
identify origin of embryonic structure
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Fertilisation and Capacitation1×
identify site of a process
One-line MCQ · 4% next

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Foetal Development Milestonescount correct statements on human pregnancy	1	OtherRecall	6%	–
Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twinsidentify must-be-true statement about twins	1	One-line MCQConcept	6%	–
Hormones of Pregnancyidentify source of hormone	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Parturitionidentify non-component of a process	1	One-line MCQConcept	4%	–
Germ Layers and Extra-embryonic Membranesidentify origin of embryonic structure	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Fertilisation and Capacitationidentify site of a process	1	One-line MCQRecall	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

Pregnancy, Embryonic Development and Parturition 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

Q123
Find the correct statements : A. In human pregnancy, the major organ systems are formed at the end of 12 weeks. B. In human pregnancy the…
Idea: Foetal Development Milestones
New ideaMediumOther
Q176
Twins are born to a family that lives next door to you. The twins are a boy and a girl. Which of the following must be true?
Idea: Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20212 questions

Q189
Which of the following secretes the hormone, relaxin, during the later phase of pregnancy ?
Idea: Hormones of Pregnancy
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
Q200
Which of these is not an important component of initiation of parturition in humans ?
Idea: Parturition
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20181 question

Q143
The amnion of mammalian embryo is derived from
Idea: Germ Layers and Extra-embryonic Membranes
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

Q126
Capacitation occurs in :
Idea: Fertilisation and Capacitation
EasyOne-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.