Questions
19
across 8 papers
Share of subject
4.8%
of 398 Chemistry Qs
Weightage rank
#6
of 31 chapters
Difficulty
7 easy · 6 medium · 6 hard
Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure contributed 19 of the 398 NEET Chemistry questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 4.8% of the subject and makes it the #6 chapter out of 31 by weightage — roughly 2.4 questions per paper, peaking at 3 in NEET 2021.
Of the 19 questions tagged for difficulty, 37% were easy, 31% medium and 32% hard — a chapter that tends to bring the tougher questions.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 2 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 2.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory (Postulates, Applications… — 4 questions across 4 papers.
11 topics tagged under Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory (Postulates, Applications and Limitations of VSEPR T…) | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Bond Parameters (Bond Energy) | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Bond Parameters (Bond order) | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Dipole Moment (Applications of Dipole moment) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Kössel - Lewis Approach to Chemical Bonding (Limitation of Octet Rule) | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Molecular Orbital Theory (MOT) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Dipole Moment | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Formal Charge (Formal Charge and its Applications) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Hybridisation (Types of Hybridization by Using and Orbitals) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Hydrogen Bonds (Types of Hydrogen Bonds) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Kossel - Lewis Approach to Chemical Bonding (Covalent Bonds) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 19 Chemistry questions came from Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure — 4.8% of the subject, or about 2.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #6 of 31 Chemistry chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Chemistry chapter, with 19 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory (Postulates, Applications… (4), Bond Parameters (Bond Energy) (2) and Bond Parameters (Bond order) (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 19 difficulty-tagged questions, 37% were easy, 31% medium and 32% hard.
Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) Theory (Postulates, Applications…, Molecular Orbital Theory (MOT), Formal Charge (Formal Charge and its Applications) and Kossel - Lewis Approach to Chemical Bonding (Covalent Bonds) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure. 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.