Questions
11
across 8 papers
Share of subject
2.8%
of 398 Chemistry Qs
Weightage rank
#20
of 31 chapters
Difficulty
4 easy · 7 medium · 0 hard
The p-Block Elements contributed 11 of the 398 NEET Chemistry questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 2.8% of the subject and makes it the #20 chapter out of 31 by weightage — roughly 1.4 questions per paper, peaking at 6 in NEET 2020.
Of the 11 questions tagged for difficulty, 36% were easy, 64% medium and 0% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
It has been asked less often lately: 0.7 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 2.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Allotropes of Carbon and Uses (Amorphous Form) — 2 questions across 2 papers.
9 topics tagged under The p-Block 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allotropes of Carbon and Uses (Amorphous Form) | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Compounds of Carbon (Carbon Monoxide) | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Allotropes of Carbon (Crystalline Form (1) Diamond) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Aluminium Compounds | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| General Characteristics of P-Block Elements | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Group 13 Elements: The Boron Family (General Trends in Atomic and Physical Properties) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Some Important Compounds of Aluminium (Aluminium Oxide or Alumina, Al₂O₃) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Some Important Compounds of Boron (Boron Halide) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Some Important Compounds of Boron (Hydrides of Boron (Diborane)) | – | – | 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), 11 Chemistry questions came from The p-Block Elements — 2.8% of the subject, or about 1.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #20 of 31 Chemistry chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Chemistry chapter, with 11 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Allotropes of Carbon and Uses (Amorphous Form) (2), Compounds of Carbon (Carbon Monoxide) (2) and Allotropes of Carbon (Crystalline Form (1) Diamond) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 11 difficulty-tagged questions, 36% were easy, 64% medium and 0% hard.
General Characteristics of P-Block Elements and Group 13 Elements: The Boron Family (General Trends in Atomic and Physical… were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for The p-Block 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.