Questions
15
across 8 papers
Share of subject
3.9%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#9
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
4 easy · 7 medium · 4 hard
Rotational Motion contributed 15 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 3.9% of the subject and makes it the #9 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.9 questions per paper, peaking at 3 in NEET 2025.
Of the 15 questions tagged for difficulty, 27% were easy, 46% medium and 27% hard — a chapter that tends to bring the tougher questions.
It has been asked more often lately: 2.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 1.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Equilibrium of Rigid Body (Principle of Moments) — 2 questions across 2 papers.
11 topics tagged under Rotational Motion. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equilibrium of Rigid Body (Principle of Moments) | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Moment of Inertia (Method of Calculation of Moment of Inertia) (Circular Ring, Uniform Circular Disc, etc.) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Moment of Inertia (Moment of Inertia of Some Important Cases) | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Moment of Inertia (Radius of Gyration) | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Analogue of Newton's Second law of Motion for Pure Rotation | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Angular Momentum (Angular Momentum of Rigid Body Rotating u– about F…) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Kinematics of Rotational Motion (Equations of Rotational Motion) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Moment of Inertia (Moment of Inertia of Uniform Rectangular Lamina) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Rolling Motion (Pure Rolling on Horizontal Plane) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Torque and Angular Momentum (Conservation of Angular Momentum) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Torque and Angular Momentum (Torque of Force About Point) | 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), 15 Physics questions came from Rotational Motion — 3.9% of the subject, or about 1.9 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #9 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Physics chapter, with 15 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Equilibrium of Rigid Body (Principle of Moments) (2), Moment of Inertia (Method of Calculation of Moment of Inertia) (Circular Ring,… (2) and Moment of Inertia (Moment of Inertia of Some Important Cases) (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 15 difficulty-tagged questions, 27% were easy, 46% medium and 27% hard.
Moment of Inertia (Method of Calculation of Moment of Inertia) (Circular Ring,…, Angular Momentum (Angular Momentum of Rigid Body Rotating u– about F…) and Kinematics of Rotational Motion (Equations of Rotational Motion) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Rotational Motion. 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.