Questions
11
across 8 papers
Share of subject
2.8%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#17
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
2 easy · 6 medium · 3 hard
Mechanical Properties of Fluids 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 #17 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.4 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2022.
Of the 11 questions tagged for difficulty, 18% were easy, 55% medium and 27% hard — a chapter that tends to bring the tougher questions.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 1.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Viscosity (Terminal Velocity) — 3 questions across 3 papers.
8 topics tagged under Mechanical Properties of Fluids. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viscosity (Terminal Velocity) | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Surface Tension | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Bernoulli's Equation (Pitot Tube) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Bernoulli's Principle (Applications of Bernoulli's Theorem) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Pressure (Absolute Pressure) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Surface Tension (Bubbles Excess Pressure) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Surface Tension (Capillary Rise) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Surface Tension (Surface Energy) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 11 Physics questions came from Mechanical Properties of Fluids — 2.8% of the subject, or about 1.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #17 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Physics chapter, with 11 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Viscosity (Terminal Velocity) (3), Surface Tension (2) and Bernoulli's Equation (Pitot Tube) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 11 difficulty-tagged questions, 18% were easy, 55% medium and 27% hard.
Viscosity (Terminal Velocity), Bernoulli's Principle (Applications of Bernoulli's Theorem) and Pressure (Absolute Pressure) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Mechanical Properties of Fluids. 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.