NEET UG · Biology · Morphology of Flowering Plants
Stem Modifications: NEET previous year questions
2 questions in ten years of NEET, in 2 of 10 papers. Pattern: Now and then. 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 2022
- Weighted estimate
- 0.1
- model; history: 0.2 a paper on average, typically 0–1
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 2 of 10 papers, 2 questions in all: #188 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 5.0 years on average. Last asked in 2022.
- 02
0% 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 Stem Thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea, asked 2 times (2017, 2022), usually as “count correct statements on plant modifications”.
- 04
NEET has asked 1 of the 90 ideas in this topic; 86 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as other (50%); 50% easy, 0% hard.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.3
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.0
- -0.3
- Usual gap
- 5.0 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 Stem Modifications since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy1 · 50%
- Medium1 · 50%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- Other · 1 Q50%
- One-line MCQ · 1 Q50%
Skill tested
SHARE- Concept · 1 Q50%
- Recall · 1 Q50%
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 1 of the 90 ideas in this topic. 86 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly1 · 1%
- Touched inside another question3 · 3%
- Never asked86 · 96%
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.
- Repeated2 · 100%
- 2022 · Q108Identify the correct set of statements : (a) The leaflets are modified into pointed hard thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea (b) Axillary…
mediumOther
- 2017 · Q150In Bougainvillea thorns are the modifications of :
easyOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2022 · Q108
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. Stem Thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea is the foundation for 7 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Stem Thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea2×
count correct statements on plant modifications
Other · 6% next · foundation for 7
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
Stem Modifications questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20221 question
- Q108Identify the correct set of statements : (a) The leaflets are modified into pointed hard thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea (b) Axillary…
Idea: Stem Thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea
MediumOther
NEET 20171 question
- Q150In Bougainvillea thorns are the modifications of :
Idea: Stem Thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea
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.