Questions
7
across 8 papers
Share of subject
1.8%
of 398 Chemistry Qs
Weightage rank
#24
of 31 chapters
Difficulty
2 easy · 4 medium · 1 hard
States of Matter 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 #24 chapter out of 31 by weightage — roughly 0.9 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2021.
Of the 7 questions tagged for difficulty, 29% were easy, 57% medium and 14% 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 Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures — 2 questions across 2 papers.
4 topics tagged under States of Matter. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Ideal Gas Equation | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| The Gas Laws (Boyle's Law (Pressure-Volume Relationship)) | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Thermal Energy - Intermolecular Forces versus Thermal Energy (Intermolecular Forces) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
No topic has appeared in three or more different papers.
No question came from States of Matter in the 2026 papers.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 7 Chemistry questions came from States of Matter — 1.8% of the subject, or about 0.9 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #24 of 31 Chemistry chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Chemistry chapter, with 7 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures (2), Ideal Gas Equation (2) and The Gas Laws (Boyle's Law (Pressure-Volume Relationship)) (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 7 difficulty-tagged questions, 29% were easy, 57% medium and 14% hard.
No question came from States of Matter in NEET 2026 or Re-NEET 2026.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for States of Matter. 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.