NEET UG · Physics · Laws of Motion

Uniform Circular Motion: NEET previous year questions

6 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: 6; about 0.6 per paper
Years asked: 4/10; last asked 2026
Chance of a question next paper: 50%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.6; model; history: 0.6 a paper on average, typically 0–2

Key findings

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Asked in 4 of 10 papers, 6 questions in all: #129 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 3.0 years on average.
02
100% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; none repeated an idea from the year before.
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No idea in this topic has been asked twice: every question tested something new.
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NEET has asked 6 of the 92 ideas in this topic; 80 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (67%); 100% easy, 0% hard, and up from 0.4 to 0.9 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.4; per paper
Since 2024: 0.9; +0.5
Usual gap: 3.0 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.8; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 6 questions on Uniform Circular Motion since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy6 · 100%
Medium0 · 0%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

One-line MCQ · 4 Q67%
Numerical · 2 Q33%

Skill tested

Concept · 4 Q67%
Calculation · 1 Q17%
Application · 1 Q17%

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 6 of the 92 ideas in this topic. 80 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly6 · 7%
Touched inside another question6 · 7%
Never asked80 · 87%

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

1 · 17%17%1/10
- 2019 · Q34
  Two particles A and B are moving in uniform circular motion in concentric circles of radii $r_A$ and $r_B$ with speed $v_A$ and $v_B$ …
  easyOne-line MCQNew idea
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%1/10
1 · 17%17%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

6 different ideas were tested; none came more than once. Angular Kinematics Variables is the foundation for 91 other ideas in the syllabus.

Banking of Roads1×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next · foundation for 3
Centripetal Acceleration1×
true statement selection on uniform circular motion
One-line MCQ · 6% next · foundation for 77
Tension in a Rotating Horizontal String1×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next · foundation for 2
Angular Kinematics Variables1×
compare angular speed of two circular motions
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 91
Vertical Circular Motion1×
where tension is maximum in vertical circle
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 14
Identifying Centripetal Force Sources1×
identify net centripetal force in circular motion
One-line MCQ · 4% next · foundation for 13

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Banking of Roadsnumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	6%	3 ideas
Centripetal Accelerationtrue statement selection on uniform circular motion	1	One-line MCQConcept	6%	77 ideas
Tension in a Rotating Horizontal Stringnumerical	1	NumericalApplication	6%	2 ideas
Angular Kinematics Variablescompare angular speed of two circular motions	1	One-line MCQConcept	4%	91 ideas
Vertical Circular Motionwhere tension is maximum in vertical circle	1	One-line MCQConcept	4%	14 ideas
Identifying Centripetal Force Sourcesidentify net centripetal force in circular motion	1	One-line MCQConcept	4%	13 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

Uniform Circular Motion questions, year by year

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

NEET 20261 question

Q41
A car travels on a circular racetrack of radius 50 m, which is banked at an angle $\theta$ . If the car travels at a speed 10 ms $^{-1}$ ,…
Idea: Banking of Roads
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20242 questions

Q16
A particle moving with uniform speed in a circular path maintains :
Idea: Centripetal Acceleration
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
Q20
A bob is whirled in a horizontal plane by means of a string with an initial speed of $\omega$ rpm. The tension in the string is $T$ . If…
Idea: Tension in a Rotating Horizontal String
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20192 questions

Q2
A mass m is attached to a thin wire and whirled in a vertical circle. The wire is most likely to break when :
Idea: Vertical Circular Motion
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
Q34
Two particles A and B are moving in uniform circular motion in concentric circles of radii $r_A$ and $r_B$ with speed $v_A$ and $v_B$ …
Idea: Angular Kinematics Variables
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

Q7
One end of string of length $l$ is connected to a particle of mass 'm' and the other end is connected to a small peg on a smooth…
Idea: Identifying Centripetal Force Sources
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.