Questions
22
across 8 papers
Share of subject
5.4%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#10
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
9 easy · 9 medium · 4 hard
Photosynthesis in Higher Plants contributed 22 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 5.4% of the subject and makes it the #10 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 2.8 questions per paper, peaking at 5 in Re-NEET 2026.
Of the 22 questions tagged for difficulty, 41% were easy, 41% medium and 18% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
It has been asked more often lately: 3.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 2 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Where are ATP and NADPH Used? (Calvin Cycle or C3 Cycle/Primary Acceptor of… — 7 questions across 5 papers.
9 topics tagged under Photosynthesis in Higher Plants. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where are ATP and NADPH Used? (Calvin Cycle or C3 Cycle/Primary Acceptor of CO₂/St…) | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Photorespiration | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| What is Light Reaction? | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | 1 | – |
| The C4 Pathway (Hatch and Slack Pathway) | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| The Electron Transport (Chemiosmotic Hypothesis) | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| How Many Types of Pigments are Involved in Photosynthesis? (Chlorophyll 'a', Chlorophyll 'b' and c', etc.) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| How Many Types of Pigments are Involved in Photosynthesisr? (Chlorophyll 'a', Chlorophyll 'b' and C', etc.) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Introduction | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| The C4 Pathway (Kranz Anatomy, Importance and CAM Cycle) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 22 Botany questions came from Photosynthesis in Higher Plants — 5.4% of the subject, or about 2.8 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #10 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Botany chapter, with 22 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Where are ATP and NADPH Used? (Calvin Cycle or C3 Cycle/Primary Acceptor of… (7), Photorespiration (4) and What is Light Reaction? (3). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 22 difficulty-tagged questions, 41% were easy, 41% medium and 18% hard.
Where are ATP and NADPH Used? (Calvin Cycle or C3 Cycle/Primary Acceptor of…, Photorespiration, How Many Types of Pigments are Involved in Photosynthesisr? (Chlorophyll 'a',… and Introduction and more were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Photosynthesis in Higher Plants. 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.