NEET UG · Biology · Transport in Plants
Transpiration Pull: NEET previous year questions
This topic’s chapter, Transport in Plants, is not in the NEET UG 2026 syllabus. It had 9 questions from 2017 to 2023; they are kept here for reference.
- Asked in 10 years
- 9
- about 0.9 per paper
- Years asked
- 7/10
- last asked 2023
- Syllabus
- Dropped
- not in NEET UG 2026
- Last asked
- 2023
- 3 papers ago
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 7 of 10 papers, 9 questions in all: #96 of 204 topics by ten-year total. Last asked in 2023.
- 02
75% 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 Cohesion and Adhesion, asked 2 times (2021, 2023), usually as “match list on water transport properties”.
- 04
NEET has asked 4 of the 81 ideas in this topic; 67 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (67%); 56% easy, 0% hard, and down from 1.2 to 0.0 questions a paper since 2024.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 1.2
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.0
- -1.2
- Usual gap
- 1.0 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±0.7
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 9 questions on Transpiration Pull since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy5 · 56%
- Medium4 · 44%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 6 Q67%
- Match the lists · 2 Q22%
- Two statements · 1 Q11%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 6 Q67%
- Concept · 3 Q33%
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 4 of the 81 ideas in this topic. 67 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly4 · 5%
- Touched inside another question10 · 12%
- Never asked67 · 83%
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 · 22%
- 2023 · Q147Match List I with List II : List I | List II A. Cohesion | I. More attraction in liquid phase B. Adhesion | II. Mutual attraction among…
mediumMatch the lists
- 2021 · Q135Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Cohesion | (i) More attraction in liquid phase (b) Adhesion | (ii) Mutual…
easyMatch the listsNew idea
- 2023 · Q147
- Repeated2 · 22%
- 1 · 11%
- 1 · 11%
- 1 · 11%
- 1 · 11%
- 1 · 11%
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; 2 came more than once. Stomatal Opening Mechanism is the foundation for 35 other ideas in the syllabus.
- Cohesion and Adhesion2×
match list on water transport properties
Match the lists · 4% next · foundation for 23 - Stomatal Opening Mechanism2×
factor not affecting a process
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 35 - Transpirational Cooling1×
statement i/ii on transpiration
Two statements · 4% next - Girdling Experiment1×
identify tissue from classic experiment
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Guttation vs Transpiration1×
identify process for an observed phenomenon
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 1 - Phloem Translocation by Pressure Flow1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Uptake and Translocation of Mineral Ions1×
identify substances translocated by tissue
One-line MCQ · 4% next
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
Transpiration Pull questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20232 questions
- Q125Given below are two statements : Statement I : The forces generated by transpiration can lift a xylem-sized column of water over 130…
Idea: Transpirational Cooling
New ideaMediumTwo statements - Q147Match List I with List II : List I | List II A. Cohesion | I. More attraction in liquid phase B. Adhesion | II. Mutual attraction among…
Idea: Cohesion and Adhesion
MediumMatch the lists
NEET 20221 question
- Q124"Girdling Experiment" was performed by Plant Physiologists to identify the plant tissue through which :
Idea: Girdling Experiment
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20211 question
- Q135Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Cohesion | (i) More attraction in liquid phase (b) Adhesion | (ii) Mutual…
Idea: Cohesion and Adhesion
New ideaEasyMatch the lists
NEET 20201 question
- Q40The process responsible for facilitating loss of water in liquid form from the tip of grass blades at night and in early morning is :
Idea: Guttation vs Transpiration
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20192 questions
- Q126What is the direction of movement of sugars in phloem ?
Idea: Phloem Translocation by Pressure Flow
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q134Xylem translocates :
Idea: Uptake and Translocation of Mineral Ions
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
NEET 20181 question
- Q122Stomatal movement is not affected by
Idea: Stomatal Opening Mechanism
Asked last yearEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20171 question
- Q123Which of the following facilitates opening of stomatal aperture ?
Idea: Stomatal Opening Mechanism
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.