Questions
5
across 8 papers
Share of subject
1.2%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#20
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
2 easy · 1 medium · 2 hard
The Living World contributed 5 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 1.2% of the subject and makes it the #20 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 0.6 questions per paper, peaking at 3 in Re-NEET 2026.
Of the 5 questions tagged for difficulty, 40% were easy, 20% medium and 40% hard — a chapter that tends to bring the tougher questions.
It has been asked more often lately: 1.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 0.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Taxonomic Hierarchy (Species/Genus/Fa mily/Order/Class/Phylum or Division…) — 4 questions across 2 papers.
2 topics tagged under The Living World. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxonomic Hierarchy (Species/Genus/Fa mily/Order/Class/Phylum or Division…) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Nomenclature (Binomial Nomenclature, International Code of Nomenc…) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
No topic has appeared in three or more different papers.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 5 Botany questions came from The Living World — 1.2% of the subject, or about 0.6 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #20 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Botany chapter, with 5 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Taxonomic Hierarchy (Species/Genus/Fa mily/Order/Class/Phylum or Division…) (4) and Nomenclature (Binomial Nomenclature, International Code of Nomenc…) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 5 difficulty-tagged questions, 40% were easy, 20% medium and 40% hard.
Taxonomic Hierarchy (Species/Genus/Fa mily/Order/Class/Phylum or Division…) and Nomenclature (Binomial Nomenclature, International Code of Nomenc…) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for The Living World. 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.