Questions
23
across 8 papers
Share of subject
5.7%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#8
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
12 easy · 4 medium · 6 hard
Plant Kingdom contributed 23 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 5.7% of the subject and makes it the #8 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 2.9 questions per paper, peaking at 5 in NEET 2021.
Of the 22 questions tagged for difficulty, 55% were easy, 18% medium and 27% hard — a chapter where NCERT-level preparation pays off directly.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 2.7 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 3.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Gymnosperms (General Characteristics and Importance) — 4 questions across 4 papers.
11 topics tagged under Plant Kingdom. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gymnosperms (General Characteristics and Importance) | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Pteridophytes (Characteristics and Importance) | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 4 | 3 | – | 1 |
| Algae (Chlorophyceae) | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Algae (Rhodophyceae) | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | – | – |
| Algae (Phaeophyceae) | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Bryophytes (Introduction, Characteristics) | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Angiosperms (General Characteristics and Importance) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Bryophytes (Liverworts) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Bryophytes (Mosses) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Plant Life Cycles and Alternation of Generations (Haplo - Diplontic Life Cycle) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Pteridophytes (Classification of Pteridophytes) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 23 Botany questions came from Plant Kingdom — 5.7% of the subject, or about 2.9 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #8 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Botany chapter, with 23 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Gymnosperms (General Characteristics and Importance) (4), Pteridophytes (Characteristics and Importance) (4) and Algae (Chlorophyceae) (3). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 22 difficulty-tagged questions, 55% were easy, 18% medium and 27% hard.
Gymnosperms (General Characteristics and Importance) and Pteridophytes (Classification of Pteridophytes) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Plant Kingdom. 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.