Questions
24
across 8 papers
Share of subject
6.2%
of 388 Zoology Qs
Weightage rank
#9
of 16 chapters
Difficulty
5 easy · 17 medium · 2 hard
Locomotion and Movement contributed 24 of the 388 NEET Zoology questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 6.2% of the subject and makes it the #9 chapter out of 16 by weightage — roughly 3 questions per paper, peaking at 5 in NEET 2021.
Of the 24 questions tagged for difficulty, 21% were easy, 71% medium and 8% 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 3.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Disorder of Muscular and Skeletal System — 7 questions across 5 papers.
8 topics tagged under Locomotion and Movement. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disorder of Muscular and Skeletal System | – | 1 | 3 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 7 | – | 6 | 1 |
| Joints (Fibrous, Cartilaginous, etc.) | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | 3 | 1 |
| Mechanism of Muscle Contraction (Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction) | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | – |
| Skeletal System (Appendicular Skeleton) | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Skeletal System (Axial skeleton) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Types of Movement (Flagellar Movements) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Types of Muscle (Cardiac Muscle) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Types of Muscle (Smooth Muscle) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 24 Zoology questions came from Locomotion and Movement — 6.2% of the subject, or about 3 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #9 of 16 Zoology chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Zoology chapter, with 24 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Disorder of Muscular and Skeletal System (7), Joints (Fibrous, Cartilaginous, etc.) (4) and Mechanism of Muscle Contraction (Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction) (4). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 24 difficulty-tagged questions, 21% were easy, 71% medium and 8% hard.
Disorder of Muscular and Skeletal System, Joints (Fibrous, Cartilaginous, etc.), Mechanism of Muscle Contraction (Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction) and Skeletal System (Appendicular Skeleton) and more were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Locomotion and Movement. 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.