Questions
14
across 8 papers
Share of subject
3.6%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#12
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
4 easy · 7 medium · 3 hard
Oscillations contributed 14 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 3.6% of the subject and makes it the #12 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.8 questions per paper, peaking at 3 in NEET 2026.
Of the 14 questions tagged for difficulty, 29% were easy, 50% medium and 21% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
It has been asked more often lately: 2.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion — 3 questions across 2 papers.
7 topics tagged under Oscillations. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Some Systems Executing Simple Harmonic Motion (Oscillations Due to Spring) | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Simple Harmonic Motion (Time Period and Frequency) | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Some Systems Executing Simple Harmonic Motion (The Simple Pendulum) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Velocity and Acceleration in Simple Harmonic Motion | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Simple Harmonic Motion (Phase (φ)) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Some Systems Executing Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM of Floating Body) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 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), 14 Physics questions came from Oscillations — 3.6% of the subject, or about 1.8 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #12 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Physics chapter, with 14 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion (3), Some Systems Executing Simple Harmonic Motion (Oscillations Due to Spring) (3) and Some Systems Executing Simple Harmonic Motion (The Simple Pendulum) (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 14 difficulty-tagged questions, 29% were easy, 50% medium and 21% hard.
Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion, Some Systems Executing Simple Harmonic Motion (The Simple Pendulum), Velocity and Acceleration in Simple Harmonic Motion and Some Systems Executing Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM of Floating Body) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Oscillations. 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.