NEET UG · Biology · The Living World
Taxonomic Hierarchy: NEET previous year questions
8 questions in ten years of NEET, in 6 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.
- Asked in 10 years
- 8
- about 0.8 per paper
- Years asked
- 6/10
- last asked 2026
- Weighted estimate
- 1.1
- model; history: 0.8 a paper on average, typically 0–1
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 6 of 10 papers, 8 questions in all: #97 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.8 years on average.
- 02
86% 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 Taxonomic Category Sequence, asked 2 times (2022, 2026), usually as “order of steps in a hierarchy”.
- 04
NEET has asked 5 of the 81 ideas in this topic; 69 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (75%); 75% easy, 0% hard, and up from 0.6 to 1.3 questions a paper since 2024.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 0.6
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 1.3
- +0.8
- Usual gap
- 1.8 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±0.9
- questions, year to year
Revise first
Taxonomic Category Sequence (2022 2026); Genus Grouping Logic (2026); Mango Taxonomic Hierarchy (2026)
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 8 questions on Taxonomic Hierarchy since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy6 · 75%
- Medium2 · 25%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 6 Q75%
- Match the lists · 2 Q25%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 8 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.
- Idea asked for the first time
- Idea asked in an earlier paper
Coverage of the topic
NEET has asked 5 of the 81 ideas in this topic. 69 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly5 · 6%
- Touched inside another question7 · 9%
- Never asked69 · 85%
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 · 25%
- 2026 · Q119Arrange the following taxonomic categories in ascending order. (a) Genus | (b) Class (c) Order | (d) Phylum (e) Family | (f) Kingdom (g)…
easyOne-line MCQ
- 2022 · Q151In the taxonomic categories which hierarchical arrangement in ascending order is correct in case of animals ?
easyOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2026 · Q119
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
- 1 · 13%
Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.
Ideas
Every idea inside this topic
7 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once. Taxonomic Category Sequence is the foundation for 44 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Taxonomic Category Sequence2×
order of steps in a hierarchy
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 44 - Genus Grouping Logic1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 25 - Mango Taxonomic Hierarchy1×
match list on taxonomic categories of an organism
Match the lists · 6% next · foundation for 2 - Approaches to Studying Life1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 6% next - Housefly Order vs Family Trap1×
identify example of a taxonomic group
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Taxonomical Aids1×
match list on taxonomic aids
Match the lists · 4% next - Orders of Class Mammalia1×
identify rank of a name in hierarchy
One-line MCQ · 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
Taxonomic Hierarchy questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20263 questions
- Q118Match List-I with List-II. List-I | List-II A. Family | I. Sapindales B. Genus | II. Dicotyledonae C. Class | III. Anacardiaceae D. Phylum…
Idea: Mango Taxonomic Hierarchy
New ideaMediumMatch the lists - Q119Arrange the following taxonomic categories in ascending order. (a) Genus | (b) Class (c) Order | (d) Phylum (e) Family | (f) Kingdom (g)…
Idea: Taxonomic Category Sequence
EasyOne-line MCQ - Q125Genus represents __________.
Idea: Genus Grouping Logic
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20251 question
- Q95Which one of the following statements refers to Reductionist Biology?
Idea: Approaches to Studying Life
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20221 question
- Q151In the taxonomic categories which hierarchical arrangement in ascending order is correct in case of animals ?
Idea: Taxonomic Category Sequence
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20211 question
- Q162Which one of the following belongs to the family Muscidae ?
Idea: Housefly Order vs Family Trap
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q133Match the items given in Column I with those in Column II and select the correct option given below : Column I | Column II a. Herbarium |…
Idea: Taxonomical Aids
New ideaEasyMatch the lists
NEET 20171 question
- Q113Which of the following represents order of 'Horse' ?
Idea: Orders of Class Mammalia
MediumOne-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.