Questions
13
across 8 papers
Share of subject
3.2%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#14
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
6 easy · 6 medium · 1 hard
Biological Classification contributed 13 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 3.2% of the subject and makes it the #14 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 1.6 questions per paper, peaking at 4 in Re-NEET 2026.
Of the 13 questions tagged for difficulty, 46% were easy, 46% medium and 8% hard — a chapter where NCERT-level preparation pays off directly.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 2 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Classification (Five Kingdom) — 3 questions across 3 papers.
9 topics tagged under Biological Classification. Numbers show how many questions each topic had in each paper; E / M / H are the easy, medium and hard counts.
| Topic | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Re | Total | E | M | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classification (Five Kingdom) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | 1 |
| Kingdom: Fungi (General Characters/Mycorrhiza) | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Kingdom: Fungi (Ascomycetes) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Kingdom: Monera (Characteristics) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Kingdom: Monera (Mycoplasma) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Kingdom: Fungi (Reproduction in Fungi) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Prions (History, Structure, etc.) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Symbiont (Lichens and Mycorrhiza) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Viroids (History, Structure, etc.) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 13 Botany questions came from Biological Classification — 3.2% of the subject, or about 1.6 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #14 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Botany chapter, with 13 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Classification (Five Kingdom) (3), Kingdom: Fungi (General Characters/Mycorrhiza) (3) and Kingdom: Fungi (Ascomycetes) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 13 difficulty-tagged questions, 46% were easy, 46% medium and 8% hard.
Classification (Five Kingdom), Kingdom: Fungi (Reproduction in Fungi), Prions (History, Structure, etc.) and Symbiont (Lichens and Mycorrhiza) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Biological Classification. Use the practice button on this page to open the set, attempt questions and check your answers.
Counts come from Edurack's tagged set of NEET papers 2020–2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), mapped to NCERT chapters and topics. Use them as a trend guide — past frequency doesn't guarantee what a future paper will ask.