NEET UG · Biology · Locomotion and Movement

Skeletal Joints: NEET previous year questions

5 questions in ten years of NEET, in 5 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years: 5; about 0.5 per paper
Years asked: 5/10; last asked 2024
Chance of a question next paper: 50%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.4; model; history: 0.5 a paper on average, typically 0–1

Key findings

01
Asked in 5 of 10 papers, 5 questions in all: #152 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.8 years on average. Last asked in 2024.
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 Fibrous Joints, asked 2 times (2021, 2024), usually as “match list on bones and joints”.
04
NEET has asked 4 of the 79 ideas in this topic; 66 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as match the lists (60%); 100% easy, 0% hard.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.5; per paper
Since 2024: 0.3; -0.2
Usual gap: 1.8 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.5; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 5 questions on Skeletal Joints since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy5 · 100%
Medium0 · 0%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

Match the lists · 3 Q60%
One-line MCQ · 2 Q40%

Skill tested

Recall · 5 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 4 of the 79 ideas in this topic. 66 have never been asked yet.

966

Asked directly4 · 5%
Touched inside another question9 · 11%
Never asked66 · 84%

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
- 2024 · Q151
  Match List I with List II List-I | List-II A. Fibrous joints | I. Adjacent vertebrae, limited movement B. Cartilaginous joints | II.…
  easyMatch the lists
- 2021 · Q187
  Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Scapula | (i) Cartilaginous joints (b) Cranium | (ii) Flat bone (c) Sternum |…
  easyMatch the listsNew 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. Hinge and Pivot Joints is the foundation for 14 other ideas in the syllabus.

Fibrous Joints2×
match list on bones and joints
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 6
Cartilaginous Joints1×
match list on joint types
Match the lists · 4% next · foundation for 11
Fibrocartilage in Intervertebral Discs1×
identify tissue between adjacent structures
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Hinge and Pivot Joints1×
identify joint type by example
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 14

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Fibrous Jointsmatch list on bones and joints	2	Match the listsRecall	6%	6 ideas
Cartilaginous Jointsmatch list on joint types	1	Match the listsRecall	4%	11 ideas
Fibrocartilage in Intervertebral Discsidentify tissue between adjacent structures	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Hinge and Pivot Jointsidentify joint type by example	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	14 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

Skeletal Joints questions, year by year

The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.

NEET 20241 question

Q151
Match List I with List II List-I | List-II A. Fibrous joints | I. Adjacent vertebrae, limited movement B. Cartilaginous joints | II.…
Idea: Fibrous Joints
EasyMatch the lists

NEET 20231 question

Q154
Match List I with List II. List I (Type of Joint) | List II (Found between) A. Cartilaginous Joint | I. Between flat skull bones B. Ball…
Idea: Cartilaginous Joints
New ideaEasyMatch the lists

NEET 20221 question

Q178
Which of the following is present between the adjacent bones of the vertebral column ?
Idea: Fibrocartilage in Intervertebral Discs
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20211 question

Q187
Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Scapula | (i) Cartilaginous joints (b) Cranium | (ii) Flat bone (c) Sternum |…
Idea: Fibrous Joints
New ideaEasyMatch the lists

NEET 20171 question

Q131
The pivot joint between atlas and axis is a type of :
Idea: Hinge and Pivot Joints
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.