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NEET UG 2023 · Code G6

NEET 2023 paper, question by question

All 199 questions from the NEET UG 2023 paper, tagged to chapter, topic and idea. How hard it was, what it asked, what was new and what came back.

Questions
199
200 printed, 180 answered; 1 dropped by NTA
Chapters asked
89
3 usual chapters skipped
Easy / hard
54% / 2%
share of the paper
Need a calculation
18%
Physics alone: 49%
New ideas
64%
of questions tested an idea not asked before
Use a figure
11%
9 in Physics, 12 in Chemistry
From Class 12
52%
of the questions, all subjects
Same idea as last year
7.5%
15 questions

Key findings · NEET 2023

  1. 1

    54% of questions were easy, in line with the ten-year average of 54%.

  2. 2

    About 36 questions (18%) needed a calculation, against 21% on average: the lowest in ten years; Physics alone was 49% calculation.

  3. 3

    Cell Cycle and Cell Division got the biggest boost: 6 questions against a usual 3.0, followed by Environmental Issues (4 vs 1.8).

  4. 4

    Physics tilted to Class 12: 30 of 49 questions, against a usual 56%.

  5. 5

    64% of tagged questions tested an idea no earlier paper had asked, yet 100% came from a topic seen before.

Subjects

How the 2023 paper split

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

Physics 2023

25% of the paper

49questions · 26 chapters

Class 11 and 12

1930
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

3216
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
31 (63%)
Use a figure
9
Calculation
49%
Figure-based
18%
Concept
14%

Physics 2023, question by questionTen years of Physics

Chemistry 2023

25% of the paper

50questions · 29 chapters

Class 11 and 12

2228
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

1930
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
35 (70%)
Use a figure
12
Recall
30%
Calculation
22%
Application
18%

Chemistry 2023, question by questionTen years of Chemistry

Biology 2023

50% of the paper

100questions · 34 chapters

Botany and Zoology

5050
  • Botany
  • Zoology

Class 11 and 12

5545
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

5741
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
62 (62%)
Use a figure
1
Recall
48%
Match the lists
18%
Two statements
11%

Biology 2023, question by questionTen years of Biology

Compared

Versus 2022 and 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 paper199
    2022: 199 0Avg: 188 +12
  • Chapters asked89
    2022: 91 -2Avg: 84 +5
  • Easy questions54.3%
    2022: 51.3% +3.0Avg: 54.0% +0.3
  • Hard questions2.0%
    2022: 1.5% +0.5Avg: 2.7% -0.7
  • Need a calculation18.1%
    2022: 21.1% -3.0Avg: 21.2% -3.1
  • Straight recall48.7%
    2022: 42.7% +6.0Avg: 46.3% +2.4
  • Use a figure11.1%
    2022: 9.0% +2.1Avg: 10.5% +0.6
  • Statements, assertion–reason, match23.6%
    2022: 19.1% +4.5Avg: 14.5% +9.1
  • Test a new idea64.3%
    2022: 66.3% -2.0Avg: 73.9% -9.6
  • Same idea as the year before7.5%
    2022: 7.0% +0.5Avg: 6.8% +0.7
  • From Class 1251.8%
    2022: 52.3% -0.5Avg: 51.9% -0.1
  • Physics: easy65.3%
    2022: 50.0% +15.3Avg: 47.0% +18.3
  • Chemistry: easy38.0%
    2022: 40.8% -2.8Avg: 46.6% -8.6
  • Biology: easy57.0%
    2022: 57.0% 0.0Avg: 61.0% -4.0

Repetition

What came back, and what was new

Almost every question sits in a chapter NEET has asked before, and most in a known topic. The exact idea is a different story: most are new.

Questions whose … had appeared before

ANY PAPER 2017–2022
  • Chapter100%
  • Topic100%
  • Exact idea36%
  • Exact idea, in 20228%

Topic and idea shares count only the questions we could tag to a topic. The ten-paper window grows each year, so early years look newer than they are.

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 2023 minus its usual: its ten-year average per 180 questions. Counts are scaled to 180 questions so years compare fairly.

More than usual

Less than usual, or skipped

All 89 chapters asked

Biology · 34

Topics

Busiest topics in 2023

Question format

SHARE OF 2023
  • One-line MCQ · 95 Q48%
  • Numerical · 29 Q15%
  • Match the lists · 20 Q10%
  • Other · 17 Q9%
  • Two statements · 15 Q8%
  • Assertion–reason · 12 Q6%
  • Figure-based · 11 Q6%

What the question tests

SHARE OF 2023
  • Recall · 97 Q49%
  • Concept · 40 Q20%
  • Calculation · 28 Q14%
  • Application · 19 Q10%
  • Multi-step · 12 Q6%
  • Data or graph · 2 Q1%
  • Figure reading · 1 Q1%

Drill down

What 2023 asked, and its history

Every chapter the 2023 paper asked, with all its topics and ideas. Counts and squares cover all ten papers; rows 2023 did not ask are faded, and questions from other years link to their own paper.

  • Open100 this paper940 · 50%909090901001001001009090
  • Open50 this paper469 · 25%45454545504950504545
  • Open49 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 199 questions of NEET 2023

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
199 of 199 questions

Physics49 questions

32 easy16 medium1 hard

Chemistry50 questions

19 easy30 medium1 hard

Botany50 questions

25 easy23 medium2 hard

Zoology50 questions

32 easy18 medium0 hard

Dropped from the official key and left out of every count: Q32.

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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