Questions
7
across 8 papers
Share of subject
1.8%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#25
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
3 easy · 3 medium · 1 hard
Magnetism and Matter contributed 7 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 1.8% of the subject and makes it the #25 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 0.9 questions per paper, peaking at 4 in NEET 2024.
Of the 7 questions tagged for difficulty, 43% were easy, 43% medium and 14% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
It has been asked less often lately: 0 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 0.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Bar Magnet (Angular SHM, Tangent Law) — 1 question across 1 paper.
7 topics tagged under Magnetism and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar Magnet (Angular SHM, Tangent Law) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Bar Magnet (Magnetic Dipole Moment of Bar Magnet, Magnetic Fi…) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Bar Magnet (Magnetic Field Lines) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Magnetic Properties of Materials (Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism, etc.) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity (Magnetic Permeability (μ), Relative Permeability (…) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity (Magnetic Susceptibility (χ)) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Magnetism and Gauss's Law | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
No topic has appeared in three or more different papers.
No question came from Magnetism and Matter in the 2026 papers.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 7 Physics questions came from Magnetism and Matter — 1.8% of the subject, or about 0.9 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #25 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Physics chapter, with 7 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Bar Magnet (Angular SHM, Tangent Law) (1), Bar Magnet (Magnetic Dipole Moment of Bar Magnet, Magnetic Fi…) (1) and Bar Magnet (Magnetic Field Lines) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 7 difficulty-tagged questions, 43% were easy, 43% medium and 14% hard.
No question came from Magnetism and Matter in NEET 2026 or Re-NEET 2026.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Magnetism and 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.