Questions
6
across 8 papers
Share of subject
1.6%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#27
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
1 easy · 5 medium · 0 hard
Waves 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 #27 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 0.8 questions per paper, peaking at 1 in NEET 2020.
Of the 6 questions tagged for difficulty, 17% were easy, 83% medium and 0% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 1 question per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 0.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Standing or Stationary Waves (Standing Waves and Normal Modes in Open Organ… — 3 questions across 3 papers.
4 topics tagged under Waves. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standing or Stationary Waves (Standing Waves and Normal Modes in Open Organ Pipe) | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 3 | – |
| Beats | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Sinusoidal Progressive Waves (Amplitude, Phase, etc.) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| String Waves (Speed of Transverse Wave on Stretched String) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
No question in this chapter was tagged hard.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 6 Physics questions came from Waves — 1.6% of the subject, or about 0.8 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #27 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Physics chapter, with 6 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Standing or Stationary Waves (Standing Waves and Normal Modes in Open Organ… (3), Beats (1) and Sinusoidal Progressive Waves (Amplitude, Phase, etc.) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 6 difficulty-tagged questions, 17% were easy, 83% medium and 0% hard.
Standing or Stationary Waves (Standing Waves and Normal Modes in Open Organ… and Sinusoidal Progressive Waves (Amplitude, Phase, etc.) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Waves. 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.