NEET UG · Physics · Motion in a Plane

Projectile Motion: NEET previous year questions

5 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: 5; about 0.5 per paper
Years asked: 4/10; last asked 2023
Chance of a question next paper: 10%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.1; model; history: 0.5 a paper on average, typically 0–1

Key findings

01
Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 5 questions in all: #155 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 2.0 years on average. Last asked in 2023.
02
75% 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 Maximum Height, asked 2 times (2021, 2023), usually as “numerical”.
04
NEET has asked 4 of the 89 ideas in this topic; 84 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as numerical (80%); 60% easy, 0% hard, and down from 0.7 to 0.0 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.7; per paper
Since 2024: 0.0; -0.7
Usual gap: 2.0 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.6; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 5 questions on Projectile Motion since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy3 · 60%
Medium2 · 40%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

Numerical · 4 Q80%
One-line MCQ · 1 Q20%

Skill tested

Calculation · 2 Q40%
Multi-step · 2 Q40%
Application · 1 Q20%

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 4 of the 89 ideas in this topic. 84 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly4 · 4%
Touched inside another question1 · 1%
Never asked84 · 94%

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 · 40%40%2/10
- 2023 · Q25
  A bullet is fired from a gun at the speed of 280 m s $^{-1}$ in the direction 30° above the horizontal. The maximum height attained by the…
  easyNumerical
- 2021 · Q45
  A particle moving in a circle of radius R with a uniform speed takes a time T to complete one revolution. If this particle were projected…
  mediumOne-line MCQNew idea
1 · 20%20%1/10
1 · 20%20%1/10
1 · 20%20%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

4 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once. Maximum Height is the foundation for 26 other ideas in the syllabus.

Maximum Height2×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 26
Velocity at Maximum Height1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 8
Projectile from Horizontally Moving Platform1×
velocity and acceleration of ball dropped from moving car
Numerical · 4% next
Position Vector at Time t1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 1

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Maximum Heightnumerical	2	NumericalCalculation	4%	26 ideas
Velocity at Maximum Heightnumerical	1	NumericalApplication	4%	8 ideas
Projectile from Horizontally Moving Platformvelocity and acceleration of ball dropped from moving car	1	NumericalMulti-step	4%	–
Position Vector at Time tnumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	4%	1 ideas

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

Projectile Motion 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

Q25
A bullet is fired from a gun at the speed of 280 m s $^{-1}$ in the direction 30° above the horizontal. The maximum height attained by the…
Idea: Maximum Height
EasyNumerical

NEET 20221 question

Q46
A ball is projected with a velocity, 10 ms $^{-1}$ , at an angle of 60° with the vertical direction. Its speed at the highest point of its…
Idea: Velocity at Maximum Height
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20212 questions

Q45
A particle moving in a circle of radius R with a uniform speed takes a time T to complete one revolution. If this particle were projected…
Idea: Maximum Height
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
Q48
A car starts from rest and accelerates at 5 m/ $s^{2}$ . At t = 4 s, a ball is dropped out of a window by a person sitting in the car. What…
Idea: Projectile from Horizontally Moving Platform
New ideaMediumNumerical

NEET 20171 question

Q9
The $x$ and $y$ coordinates of the particle at any time are $x = 5t - 2t^2$ and $y = 10t$ respectively, where $x$ and $y$ are in meters…
Idea: Position Vector at Time t
EasyNumerical

Questions from the official NEET UG papers published by NTA (CBSE before 2019). Topic and idea tags, counts and notes are Lumi’s.