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NEET UG · Biology · Neural Control and Coordination

Structure of Eye: NEET previous year questions

4 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
4
about 0.4 per paper
Years asked
4/10
last asked 2023
Chance of a question next paper
30%
historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate
0.2
model; history: 0.4 a paper on average, typically 0–1

Key findings

  1. 01

    Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 4 questions in all: #174 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 2.0 years on average. Last asked in 2023.

  2. 02

    100% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; none repeated an idea from the year before.

  3. 03

    No idea in this topic has been asked twice: every question tested something new.

  4. 04

    NEET has asked 4 of the 84 ideas in this topic; 74 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.

  5. 05

    Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (50%); 50% easy, 0% hard, and down from 0.6 to 0.0 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

0241’171’181’190’200’210’221’230’240’250’26
Up to 2023
0.6
per paper
Since 2024
0.0
-0.6
Usual gap
2.0 yrs
between papers asking it
Swing
±0.5
questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 4 questions on Structure of Eye since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS
22
  • Easy2 · 50%
  • Medium2 · 50%
  • Hard0 · 0%

Format

SHARE
  • One-line MCQ · 2 Q50%
  • Match the lists · 1 Q25%
  • Other · 1 Q25%

Skill tested

SHARE
  • Recall · 3 Q75%
  • Concept · 1 Q25%

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.

1
1
1
1
’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 84 ideas in this topic. 74 have never been asked yet.

74
  • Asked directly4 · 5%
  • Touched inside another question6 · 7%
  • Never asked74 · 88%

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.

  • 1 · 25%
    • 2019 · Q164
      Which of the following statements is correct ?

      mediumOne-line MCQNew idea

  • 1 · 25%
  • 1 · 25%
  • 1 · 25%

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; none came more than once. Rhodopsin and Vitamin A Link is the foundation for 3 other ideas in the syllabus.

  • Visual Acuity at the Fovea1×

    match list on eye parts

    Match the lists · 4% next
  • Avascular Nature of the Cornea1×

    true statement selection on eye structure

    One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 1
  • Lens Suspensory Ligaments1×

    identify structure holding lens

    One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 2
  • Rhodopsin and Vitamin A Link1×

    count correct statements on vision

    Other · 4% next · foundation for 3

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

Structure of Eye 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

  • Q163
    Match List I with List II with respect to human eye. List I | List II A. Fovea | I. Visible coloured portion of eye that regulates…

    Idea: Visual Acuity at the Fovea

    New ideaEasyMatch the lists

NEET 20191 question

  • Q164
    Which of the following statements is correct ?

    Idea: Avascular Nature of the Cornea

    New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20181 question

  • Q139
    The transparent lens in the human eye is held in its place by

    Idea: Lens Suspensory Ligaments

    New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

  • Q152
    Good vision depends on adequate intake of carotene-rich food. Select the best option from the following statements. (a) Vitamin A…

    Idea: Rhodopsin and Vitamin A Link

    MediumOther

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