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NEET UG 2017 · Code A

NEET 2017 paper, question by question

All 178 questions from the NEET UG 2017 paper, tagged to chapter, topic and idea. How hard it was, what it asked, what was new and what came back.

Questions
178
of 180; 2 dropped by NTA
Chapters asked
87
3 usual chapters skipped
Easy / hard
57% / 0%
share of the paper
Need a calculation
21%
Physics alone: 61%
New ideas
–
First year in our data: nothing to compare with
Use a figure
8%
8 in Physics, 7 in Chemistry
From Class 12
49%
of the questions, all subjects
Same idea as last year
–
First year in our data

Key findings · NEET 2017

  1. 1

    57% of questions were easy, 3 points above the ten-year average of 54%.

  2. 2

    About 37 questions (21%) needed a calculation, against 21% on average; Physics alone was 61% calculation.

  3. 3

    Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants got the biggest boost: 6 questions against a usual 3.6, followed by Digestion and Absorption (3 vs 1.4).

  4. 4

    Physics tilted to Class 11: 22 of 43 questions (Class 12 share the lowest in ten years).

  5. 5

    3 chapters that usually carry a question had none: Biotechnology and its Applications, Alternating Current, Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry.

Subjects

How the 2017 paper split

Questions per subject, the Class 11 and Class 12 balance, and how hard each part was.

Physics 2017

24% of the paper

43questions · 26 chapters

Class 11 and 12

2221
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

2221
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
–
Use a figure
8
Calculation
61%
Figure-based
16%
Application
12%

Physics 2017, question by questionTen years of Physics

Chemistry 2017

25% of the paper

45questions · 25 chapters

Class 11 and 12

1926
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

2718
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
–
Use a figure
7
Concept
27%
Recall
27%
Application
22%

Chemistry 2017, question by questionTen years of Chemistry

Biology 2017

51% of the paper

90questions · 36 chapters

Botany and Zoology

5733
  • Botany
  • Zoology

Class 11 and 12

4941
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

5238
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
–
Use a figure
0
Recall
71%
Concept
20%
Application
6%

Biology 2017, question by questionTen years of Biology

Compared

Versus the ten-year average

Each measure for this paper, next to the year before and the average of all ten papers. Changes are in percentage points.

  • Questions in the paper178
    Avg: 188 -10
  • Chapters asked87
    Avg: 84 +3
  • Easy questions56.7%
    Avg: 54.0% +2.7
  • Hard questions0.0%
    Avg: 2.7% -2.7
  • Need a calculation20.8%
    Avg: 21.2% -0.4
  • Straight recall43.8%
    Avg: 46.3% -2.5
  • Use a figure8.4%
    Avg: 10.5% -2.1
  • Statements, assertion–reason, match1.7%
    Avg: 14.5% -12.8
  • Test a new idea–
    Avg: 73.9%
  • Same idea as the year before–
    Avg: 6.8%
  • From Class 1249.4%
    Avg: 51.9% -2.4
  • Physics: easy51.2%
    Avg: 47.0% +4.1
  • Chemistry: easy60.0%
    Avg: 46.6% +13.4
  • Biology: easy57.8%
    Avg: 61.0% -3.2

Repetition

What came back, and what was new

2017 is the first paper in our data, so there is nothing earlier to compare it with. Later years are measured against it.

Questions testing a new idea, by year

Share of each paper whose idea had never been asked in an earlier paper.

Same idea as the year before

Share of each paper that repeated an idea from the previous paper.

Chapters

Which chapters got more, and which got less

Questions a chapter had in 2017 minus its usual: its ten-year average per 180 questions.

More than usual

Less than usual, or skipped

All 87 chapters asked

Biology · 36

Topics

Busiest topics in 2017

Question format

SHARE OF 2017
  • One-line MCQ · 135 Q76%
  • Numerical · 28 Q16%
  • Figure-based · 8 Q4%
  • Other · 4 Q2%
  • Match the lists · 3 Q2%

What the question tests

SHARE OF 2017
  • Recall · 78 Q44%
  • Concept · 36 Q20%
  • Calculation · 24 Q13%
  • Application · 24 Q13%
  • Multi-step · 15 Q8%
  • Figure reading · 1 Q1%

Drill down

What 2017 asked, and its history

Every chapter the 2017 paper asked, with all its topics and ideas. Counts and squares cover all ten papers; rows 2017 did not ask are faded, and questions from other years link to their own paper.

  • Open90 this paper940 · 50%909090901001001001009090
  • Open45 this paper469 · 25%45454545504950504545
  • Open43 this paper466 · 25%43454545505049504544

Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.

Every question

All 178 questions of NEET 2017

The opening words of each question as printed, with its chapter, topic and how hard it was. “New idea” means no earlier paper had tested it.

Subject
Difficulty
Idea
178 of 178 questions

Physics43 questions

22 easy21 medium0 hard

Chemistry45 questions

27 easy18 medium0 hard

Botany57 questions

30 easy27 medium0 hard

Zoology33 questions

22 easy11 medium0 hard

Dropped from the official key and left out of every count: Q8, Q18.

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

Other papers

Every NEET paper, 2017 to 2026

How is difficulty decided?
Each question is rated easy, medium or hard by how many steps and how much recall it needs. It is Lumi’s rating, not NTA’s, and it is the same scale for every year.
What is a “new idea”?
Inside each topic we tag the exact idea a question tests. A new idea is one that no earlier paper in our data had tested. The first year, 2017, has nothing to compare with.
Does this tell me what will come next year?
No. It shows weightage and patterns from past papers. Chapters and topics repeat; exact questions rarely do.

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