Questions
7
across 8 papers
Share of subject
1.8%
of 398 Chemistry Qs
Weightage rank
#23
of 31 chapters
Difficulty
2 easy · 5 medium · 0 hard
General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements contributed 7 of the 398 NEET Chemistry questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 1.8% of the subject and makes it the #23 chapter out of 31 by weightage — roughly 0.9 questions per paper, peaking at 3 in NEET 2020.
Of the 7 questions tagged for difficulty, 29% were easy, 71% medium and 0% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
No question came from this chapter in the last four papers (NEET 2024 onward), though earlier papers asked 7.
The single most-tested topic is Extraction of Iron — 3 questions across 3 papers.
5 topics tagged under General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extraction of Iron | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Electrochemical Principles of Metallurgy (Extraction of Aluminium (Electrometallurgy)) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Extraction of Copper | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Extraction of Metals and Non-Metals (General) (Pulverisation) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Modes of Occurrence of Metals (Classification of Ores (Native Ore and Combined Ore)) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
No question came from General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements in the 2026 papers.
No question in this chapter was tagged hard.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 7 Chemistry questions came from General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements — 1.8% of the subject, or about 0.9 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #23 of 31 Chemistry chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Chemistry chapter, with 7 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Extraction of Iron (3), Electrochemical Principles of Metallurgy (Extraction of Aluminium… (1) and Extraction of Copper (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 7 difficulty-tagged questions, 29% were easy, 71% medium and 0% hard.
No question came from General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements in NEET 2026 or Re-NEET 2026.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements. 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.