Questions
13
across 8 papers
Share of subject
3.4%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#13
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
0 easy · 12 medium · 1 hard
Motion in a Straight Line contributed 13 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 3.4% of the subject and makes it the #13 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.6 questions per paper, peaking at 3 in NEET 2023.
Of the 13 questions tagged for difficulty, 0% were easy, 92% medium and 8% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 1.7 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Average Velocity and Average Speed (Average Speed) — 2 questions across 2 papers.
10 topics tagged under Motion in a Straight Line. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Velocity and Average Speed (Average Speed) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Kinematical Quantities or Graphs (Velocity(v) - Time(t) Graph) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Motion under gravity (Free fall motion) (Calculation of Time of flight, max height, etc.) | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Acceleration (Instantaneous Acceleration) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Displacement of Particle in nth Second | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Equations of Motion (Application of Equations of Motion) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Graphs in Motion in One Dimension (Motion Diagram) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Kinematic Equations for Uniformly Accelerated Motion (Free Fall (Motion under Gravity)) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Motion under gravity (Free fall motion) (Height to ground projection in upward and downward…) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Relative velocity in One Dimension (Relative Velocity (For ex - Two Trains, Police- Thi…) | – | – | – | – | – | 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), 13 Physics questions came from Motion in a Straight Line — 3.4% of the subject, or about 1.6 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #13 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Physics chapter, with 13 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Average Velocity and Average Speed (Average Speed) (2), Kinematical Quantities or Graphs (Velocity(v) - Time(t) Graph) (2) and Motion under gravity (Free fall motion) (Calculation of Time of flight, max… (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 13 difficulty-tagged questions, 0% were easy, 92% medium and 8% hard.
Average Velocity and Average Speed (Average Speed), Kinematical Quantities or Graphs (Velocity(v) - Time(t) Graph) and Kinematic Equations for Uniformly Accelerated Motion (Free Fall (Motion under… were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Motion in a Straight Line. 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.