Questions
25
across 8 papers
Share of subject
6.2%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#6
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
11 easy · 9 medium · 5 hard
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants contributed 25 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 6.2% of the subject and makes it the #6 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 3.1 questions per paper, peaking at 5 in NEET 2025.
Of the 25 questions tagged for difficulty, 44% were easy, 36% medium and 20% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
It has been asked more often lately: 4 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 2.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Pollination (Types of Pollination/Agents of Pollination/Outbreed…) — 10 questions across 7 papers.
9 topics tagged under Sexual Reproduction in Flowering 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollination (Types of Pollination/Agents of Pollination/Outbreed…) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Structure and Development of Ovule and Female Gametophyte | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Double Fertilisation | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Post-Fertilisation: Structures and Events (Endosperm) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Seed (Formation of Seed, Classification of Seed) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Structure and Development of Anther and Male Gametophyte | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Structure and Development of Anther and Male Gametophyte (Microsporogenesis, T.S. of Anther, etc.) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Fertilisation | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| The Fruit (Types of Fruits on the Basis of Development, Epicar…) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 25 Botany questions came from Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants — 6.2% of the subject, or about 3.1 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #6 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Botany chapter, with 25 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Pollination (Types of Pollination/Agents of Pollination/Outbreed…) (10), Structure and Development of Ovule and Female Gametophyte (3) and Double Fertilisation (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 25 difficulty-tagged questions, 44% were easy, 36% medium and 20% hard.
Pollination (Types of Pollination/Agents of Pollination/Outbreed…), Post-Fertilisation: Structures and Events (Endosperm), Seed (Formation of Seed, Classification of Seed) and Structure and Development of Anther and Male Gametophyte and more were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Sexual Reproduction in Flowering 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.