Questions
11
across 8 papers
Share of subject
2.8%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#16
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
5 easy · 5 medium · 1 hard
Kinetic Theory contributed 11 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 2.8% of the subject and makes it the #16 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.4 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2020.
Of the 11 questions tagged for difficulty, 45% were easy, 46% medium and 9% hard — a chapter where NCERT-level preparation pays off directly.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 1.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas (Average Kinetic Energy of Gas Molecule) — 2 questions across 2 papers.
8 topics tagged under Kinetic Theory. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas (Average Kinetic Energy of Gas Molecule) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas (RMS Speed) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Mean Free Path | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Behaviour of Gases (Charles Law) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Behaviour of Gases (Ideal Gas Equation) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas (Mean Square Speed) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Specific Heat Capacity (Molar Specific Heat of Monatomic Gas, Diatomic Gas…) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 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), 11 Physics questions came from Kinetic Theory — 2.8% of the subject, or about 1.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #16 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Physics chapter, with 11 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas (Average Kinetic Energy of Gas Molecule) (2), Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas (RMS Speed) (2) and Mean Free Path (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 11 difficulty-tagged questions, 45% were easy, 46% medium and 9% hard.
Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas (RMS Speed), Mean Free Path and Specific Heat Capacity (Molar Specific Heat of Monatomic Gas, Diatomic Gas…) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Kinetic Theory. 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.