Questions
6
across 8 papers
Share of subject
1.6%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#26
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
3 easy · 2 medium · 1 hard
Mechanical Properties of Solids contributed 6 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 1.6% of the subject and makes it the #26 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 0.8 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2024.
Of the 6 questions tagged for difficulty, 50% were easy, 33% medium and 17% hard — a chapter where NCERT-level preparation pays off directly.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 0.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 0.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Types of Elasticity Coefficients (Elastic Moduli) (Determination of Young's… — 2 questions across 1 paper.
5 topics tagged under Mechanical Properties of Solids. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Types of Elasticity Coefficients (Elastic Moduli) (Determination of Young's Modulus of the Material of…) | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Hooke's Law | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Stress and Strain (Tensile and Compressive Strain) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Types of Elasticity Coefficients (Elastic Moduli) (Bulk Modulus) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Types of Elasticity Coefficients (Elastic Moduli) (Shear Modulus or Modulus of Rigidity) | – | – | 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), 6 Physics questions came from Mechanical Properties of Solids — 1.6% of the subject, or about 0.8 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #26 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Physics chapter, with 6 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Types of Elasticity Coefficients (Elastic Moduli) (Determination of Young's… (2), Hooke's Law (1) and Stress and Strain (Tensile and Compressive Strain) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 6 difficulty-tagged questions, 50% were easy, 33% medium and 17% hard.
Types of Elasticity Coefficients (Elastic Moduli) (Bulk Modulus) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Mechanical Properties of Solids. 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.