Questions
14
across 8 papers
Share of subject
3.6%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#11
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
4 easy · 7 medium · 3 hard
Gravitation contributed 14 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 3.6% of the subject and makes it the #11 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.8 questions per paper, peaking at 3 in NEET 2021.
Of the 14 questions tagged for difficulty, 29% were easy, 50% medium and 21% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 1.7 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Escape Speed or Escape Energy (Escape Speed) — 3 questions across 2 papers.
9 topics tagged under Gravitation. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escape Speed or Escape Energy (Escape Speed) | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | 1 |
| Acceleration Due to Gravity (Variation in Acceleration Due to Gravity Due to Hei…) | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Gravitational Potential Energy (Relation Between Gravitational Field and Potential) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Kepler's Laws (Law of Periods) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Acceleration Due to Gravity (Variation in Acceleration Due to Gravity by Mass an…) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Earth Satellite, Energy of an Orbiting Satellite (Geostationary and Polar Satellites) (Earth Satellite) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Gravitational Field (Gravitational Field Due to Bodies of Different Shapes) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Gravitational Field and its Intensity (Gravitational Field Intensity Due to Particle (Po…) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Satellite Motion (Time Period of Satellite) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
No topic has appeared in three or more different papers.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 14 Physics questions came from Gravitation — 3.6% of the subject, or about 1.8 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #11 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Physics chapter, with 14 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Escape Speed or Escape Energy (Escape Speed) (3), Acceleration Due to Gravity (Variation in Acceleration Due to Gravity Due to… (2) and Gravitational Potential Energy (Relation Between Gravitational Field and… (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 14 difficulty-tagged questions, 29% were easy, 50% medium and 21% hard.
Escape Speed or Escape Energy (Escape Speed), Gravitational Potential Energy (Relation Between Gravitational Field and… and Kepler's Laws (Law of Periods) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Gravitation. 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.