Questions
25
across 8 papers
Share of subject
6.4%
of 388 Zoology Qs
Weightage rank
#7
of 16 chapters
Difficulty
12 easy · 11 medium · 2 hard
Evolution contributed 25 of the 388 NEET Zoology questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 6.4% of the subject and makes it the #7 chapter out of 16 by weightage — roughly 3.1 questions per paper, peaking at 6 in Re-NEET 2026.
Of the 25 questions tagged for difficulty, 48% were easy, 44% medium and 8% hard — a chapter where NCERT-level preparation pays off directly.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 3.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 3.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Convergent and Divergent Evolution — 5 questions across 5 papers.
15 topics tagged under Evolution. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convergent and Divergent Evolution | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | – |
| Origin and Evolution of Man (Prehistoric Species, Prosimian Ancestors, etc.) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – |
| A Brief Account of Evolution (Evolution of Animal Forms through Geological Periods) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Adaptive Radiation (Convergence and Divergence) | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Hardy-Weinberg Principle (Introduction) | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Natural Selection (Types of Natural Selection) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Adaptive Radiation (Darwin’s Finches, Australian Marsupials, etc.) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Evidences for Evolution (Anatomical and Morphological Evidences) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Evidences for Evolution (Biogeographical Evidences) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Evidences for Evolution (Embryological Evidences) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Evidences for Evolution (Morphological uEvidences: Homologous Structures, An…) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Evidences for Evolution (Palaeontological Evidences) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Mechanism of Evolution (Variation, Mutation and Recombination) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Oparin-Haldane Theory (Theory) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Prdinciple Hardy-Weinberg (Factors Affecting Hardy-Weinberg Principle) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 25 Zoology questions came from Evolution — 6.4% of the subject, or about 3.1 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #7 of 16 Zoology chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Zoology chapter, with 25 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Convergent and Divergent Evolution (5), Origin and Evolution of Man (Prehistoric Species, Prosimian Ancestors, etc.) (3) and A Brief Account of Evolution (Evolution of Animal Forms through Geological… (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 25 difficulty-tagged questions, 48% were easy, 44% medium and 8% hard.
Convergent and Divergent Evolution, Origin and Evolution of Man (Prehistoric Species, Prosimian Ancestors, etc.), A Brief Account of Evolution (Evolution of Animal Forms through Geological… and Natural Selection (Types of Natural Selection) and more were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Evolution. 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.