Questions
3
across 8 papers
Share of subject
0.8%
of 398 Chemistry Qs
Weightage rank
#31
of 31 chapters
Difficulty
0 easy · 3 medium · 0 hard
Principles of Qualitative Analysis contributed 3 of the 398 NEET Chemistry questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 0.8% of the subject and makes it the #31 chapter out of 31 by weightage — roughly 0.4 questions per paper, peaking at 1 in NEET 2024.
Of the 3 questions tagged for difficulty, 0% were easy, 100% medium and 0% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
It has been asked more often lately: 0.7 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 0 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Analysis of Basic Radicals (Group - Vi) — 1 question across 1 paper.
3 topics tagged under Principles of Qualitative Analysis. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis of Basic Radicals (Group - Vi) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Introduction | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Test of Cations (Flame Test on Dry Samples) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
No topic has appeared in three or more different papers.
No question in this chapter was tagged hard.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 3 Chemistry questions came from Principles of Qualitative Analysis — 0.8% of the subject, or about 0.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #31 of 31 Chemistry chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Chemistry chapter, with 3 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Analysis of Basic Radicals (Group - Vi) (1), Introduction (1) and Test of Cations (Flame Test on Dry Samples) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 3 difficulty-tagged questions, 0% were easy, 100% medium and 0% hard.
Analysis of Basic Radicals (Group - Vi) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Principles of Qualitative Analysis. 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.