Questions
7
across 8 papers
Share of subject
1.7%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#19
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
3 easy · 0 medium · 4 hard
Mineral Nutrition contributed 7 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 1.7% of the subject and makes it the #19 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 0.9 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2020.
Of the 7 questions tagged for difficulty, 43% were easy, 0% medium and 57% hard — a chapter that tends to bring the tougher questions.
No question came from this chapter in the last four papers (NEET 2024 onward), though earlier papers asked 7.
The single most-tested topic is Mineral Elements (Essential Mineral Elements) — 4 questions across 3 papers.
3 topics tagged under Mineral Nutrition. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mineral Elements (Essential Mineral Elements) | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | 3 |
| Metabolism of Nitrogen (Biological Nitrogen Fixation) | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Metabolism of Nitrogen (Nodule Formation) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
No question came from Mineral Nutrition in the 2026 papers.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 7 Botany questions came from Mineral Nutrition — 1.7% of the subject, or about 0.9 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #19 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Botany chapter, with 7 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Mineral Elements (Essential Mineral Elements) (4), Metabolism of Nitrogen (Biological Nitrogen Fixation) (2) and Metabolism of Nitrogen (Nodule Formation) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 7 difficulty-tagged questions, 43% were easy, 0% medium and 57% hard.
No question came from Mineral Nutrition in NEET 2026 or Re-NEET 2026.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Mineral Nutrition. 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.