NEET UG · Chemistry · Equilibrium

Qualitative Inorganic Analysis: NEET previous year questions

2 questions in ten years of NEET, in 2 of 10 papers. Pattern: New since 2024. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years: 2; about 0.2 per paper
Years asked: 2/10; last asked 2025
Chance of a question next paper: 37%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.3; model; history: 0.2 a paper on average, typically 0–1

Key findings

01
Asked in 2 of 10 papers, 2 questions in all: #183 of 204 topics by ten-year total. Last asked in 2025.
02
50% 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 Group Separation of Cations, asked 2 times (2024, 2025), usually as “order of groups in qualitative analysis”.
04
NEET has asked 0 of the 2 ideas in this topic; 0 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as match the lists (50%); 0% easy, 0% hard, and up from 0.0 to 0.6 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.0; per paper
Since 2024: 0.6; +0.6
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 Qualitative Inorganic Analysis since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy0 · 0%
Medium2 · 100%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

Match the lists · 1 Q50%
Other · 1 Q50%

Skill tested

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.

’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 0 of the 2 ideas in this topic. 0 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly0 · 0%
Touched inside another question2 · 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

Repeated2 · 100%100%2/10
- 2025 · Q48
  Match List I with List II List I (Ion) | List II (Group Number in Cation Analysis) A. $Co^{2+}$ | I. Group-I B. $Mg^{2+}$ | II. Group-III…
  mediumMatch the listsAsked the year before
- 2024 · Q89
  Given below are certain cations. Using inorganic qualitative analysis, arrange them in increasing group number from 0 to VI. A. Al $^{3+}$ …
  mediumOtherNew idea

Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.

Ideas

Every idea inside this topic

1 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once.

Group Separation of Cations2×
order of groups in qualitative analysis
Match the lists · 6% next

Idea	Years asked	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Group Separation of Cationsorder of groups in qualitative analysis		2	Match the listsRecall	6%	–

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

Qualitative Inorganic Analysis 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

Q48
Match List I with List II List I (Ion) | List II (Group Number in Cation Analysis) A. $Co^{2+}$ | I. Group-I B. $Mg^{2+}$ | II. Group-III…
Idea: Group Separation of Cations
Asked last yearMediumMatch the lists

NEET 20241 question

Q89
Given below are certain cations. Using inorganic qualitative analysis, arrange them in increasing group number from 0 to VI. A. Al $^{3+}$ …
Idea: Group Separation of Cations
New ideaMediumOther

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