Questions
25
across 8 papers
Share of subject
6.4%
of 388 Zoology Qs
Weightage rank
#8
of 16 chapters
Difficulty
7 easy · 15 medium · 3 hard
Human Health and Disease 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 #8 chapter out of 16 by weightage — roughly 3.1 questions per paper, peaking at 5 in NEET 2023.
Of the 25 questions tagged for difficulty, 28% were easy, 60% medium and 12% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 2.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Common Diseases in Humans (Typhoid, Pneumonia, etc.) — 4 questions across 3 papers.
14 topics tagged under Human Health and Disease. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Diseases in Humans (Typhoid, Pneumonia, etc.) | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 4 | – | 4 | – |
| Common Diseases in Humans (Life Cycle of Plasmodium) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Drugs (Opioids, Heroin, etc.) | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Lymphoid Organs (Secondary Lymphoid Organs) | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) (HIV Virus, Modes of Transmission, etc.) | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Common Diseases in Humans (Disease Causing Organism) | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Cancer (Introduction) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Drugs (Different Types of Drugs.) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Drugs and Alcohol Abuse (Effects of Drug/Alcohol Abuse) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Immunity (Acquired Immunity) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Immunity (Active and Passive Immunity) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Immunity (Innate Immunity) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Immunity (Structure of Antibody) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Miscellaneous | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 25 Zoology questions came from Human Health and Disease — 6.4% of the subject, or about 3.1 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #8 of 16 Zoology chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Zoology chapter, with 25 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Common Diseases in Humans (Typhoid, Pneumonia, etc.) (4), Common Diseases in Humans (Life Cycle of Plasmodium) (3) and Drugs (Opioids, Heroin, etc.) (3). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 25 difficulty-tagged questions, 28% were easy, 60% medium and 12% hard.
Common Diseases in Humans (Life Cycle of Plasmodium), Drugs (Opioids, Heroin, etc.), Lymphoid Organs (Secondary Lymphoid Organs) and Drugs and Alcohol Abuse (Effects of Drug/Alcohol Abuse) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Human Health and Disease. 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.