NEET Physics Questions: All 45, and How They Are Marked

NEET Physics Questions: All 45, and How They Are Marked

NEET Physics questions make up 45 of the 180 questions in the paper and carry 180 of the 720 marks, which is exactly a quarter of your score. Every one of them is a multiple choice question with four options and a single correct answer, worth plus four if you get it right and minus one if you get it wrong. They are drawn from 20 units of the official NEET syllabus, and the last of those units is a list of 18 experiments most aspirants never practise. This guide covers what the Physics section actually contains, what each answer is worth in arithmetic rather than in advice, and how to build a practice routine around 45 questions instead of around a whole subject.

What are NEET Physics questions worth in the paper?

NEET Physics questions are the 45 single correct answer MCQs that open the NEET (UG) question paper, each worth four marks, giving Physics 180 of the paper's 720 marks. The Information Bulletin for NEET (UG) 2026 sets it out in a single table, and the shape has been the same since the optional Section B was removed: 180 compulsory questions, 180 minutes, no choice anywhere.

Subject	Questions	Marks	Share of the paper
Physics	45	180	25 percent
Chemistry	45	180	25 percent
Biology (Botany and Zoology)	90	360	50 percent
Total	180	720	100 percent

Two things follow from that table, and students usually only act on the first. Biology is half the paper, so it gets the study hours. But Physics and Chemistry together are the other half, and Physics is the section where marks are lost rather than gained, because a numerical either comes out or it does not. There is no partial credit anywhere in the paper, so NEET Physics questions are all or nothing, one at a time.

The bulletin is also specific about the format of every question: multiple choice, four options, single correct answer or best option. No assertion and reason format is prescribed, no numerical value entry, no matching. If you have been practising question types that are not on that list, you are practising for a different exam. The full NEET exam pattern guide covers the rest of the paper.

How are NEET Physics questions marked?

Three rules, and they are short enough to memorise. NEET Physics questions carry no special scheme of their own. A correct answer or the most appropriate answer earns four marks. Any incorrect option marked costs one mark. An unanswered question scores zero. That is the whole marking scheme for NEET Physics questions, and it is identical for every other subject in the paper.

The arithmetic hidden in those three lines is worth more than most exam day advice. Solve for the point where attempting a question stops costing you: four marks times your accuracy, minus one mark times everything else, equals zero when your accuracy is one in five. Anything better than 20 percent and attempting pays. A genuinely blind choice between four options sits at 25 percent, slightly above the line.

Read that chart honestly. It says the average pays, not that your paper pays. Over 45 NEET Physics questions the averages start to hold, but a single reckless guess in the last minute is still a coin flip, and the marks you lose to careless attempts in a section you half know are the real leak. Practise NEET Physics questions until you can tell the difference between one you can eliminate options in and one you cannot read at all.

The bulletin also spells out what happens when the paper itself is at fault. If more than one option turns out to be correct, everyone who marked any correct option gets +4. If all options turn out to be correct, everyone who attempted gets +4. And if no option is correct, or the question is wrong, or the question is dropped, all candidates who appeared get +4, attempted or not. Nobody has to chase that correction.

Which chapters do NEET Physics questions come from?

From 20 numbered units, and they are published. The NMC Under Graduate Medical Education Board finalised the NEET (UG) 2026 syllabus in a public notice dated 22 December 2025, circulated by NTA in January 2026. Physics runs from Unit 1 to Unit 20 there, with the topics inside each unit spelled out.

Block	Units	What they cover
Measurement and mechanics	1 to 6	Physics and Measurement, Kinematics, Laws of Motion, Work Energy and Power, Rotational Motion, Gravitation
Matter and heat	7 to 9	Properties of Solids and Liquids, Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory of Gases
Oscillations and waves	10	Oscillations and Waves
Electricity and magnetism	11 to 15	Electrostatics, Current Electricity, Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism, Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents, Electromagnetic Waves
Optics and modern physics	16 to 19	Optics, Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation, Atoms and Nuclei, Electronic Devices
Laboratory work	20	Experimental Skills

The blocks in that table are a reading aid, not NTA's own grouping. What is official is the unit list and its numbering. Notice how much of it is electricity and magnetism: five of the 20 units sit in that block, which is why a student who is comfortable only with mechanics finds a quarter of the paper unreadable.

Unit 20 deserves its own paragraph. Experimental Skills is not a throwaway line about lab work. The syllabus names 18 experiments: vernier calipers, screw gauge, simple pendulum, metre scale and the principle of moments, Young's modulus, surface tension by capillary rise, coefficient of viscosity, speed of sound in a resonance tube, specific heat capacity by the method of mixtures, resistivity with a metre bridge, resistance by Ohm's law, figure of merit of a galvanometer by the half deflection method, focal lengths by parallax, the deviation against incidence plot for a prism, refractive index with a travelling microscope, characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode, characteristic curves of a Zener diode, and identifying a diode, LED, resistor and capacitor from a mixed collection.

That last one is a question you can be asked without doing any calculation at all. If your practice set has no Experimental Skills section, it is missing a whole unit. Check the deleted syllabus guide before you trust an older book on any of this, because the unit list has been revised.

How much time do NEET Physics questions leave you?

Sixty seconds each, if you split the clock evenly. The paper runs 180 minutes for 180 questions, so the average question gets one minute, and 45 NEET Physics questions work out to 45 minutes of that budget.

Nobody enforces that split, and the 45 NEET Physics questions are not timed separately. There is one paper and one clock, so the minutes you save in Biology are minutes you can spend on a derivation. Most high scorers work the other way round, clearing Biology fast on recall and buying themselves an hour for the two calculation subjects. Time your practice sets to find your own number, and time them on paper if you still write on an OMR sheet, because filling the OMR sheet eats minutes nobody budgets for.

One more scheduling fact worth knowing. NEET runs in 13 mediums, and candidates who choose a regional language get a bilingual booklet with English alongside. Where a translated question is ambiguous, the English version is treated as final. For wordy Physics questions with conditions buried in a clause, that makes the English text the one you should read carefully, whichever medium you chose.

How should you practise NEET Physics questions?

Not by solving 500 random problems. NEET Physics questions reward a narrow, repeated loop far more than volume, because the same 20 units keep returning in new clothes. Here is a routine that fits the section rather than the subject.

1. Take the official unit list as your checklist. Print the 20 units and mark each one honestly as solid, shaky or untouched. Do this before buying anything.
2. Work one unit at a time, in sets of 15. Fifteen questions in 15 minutes mirrors the one minute per question pace without needing a three hour slot.
3. Mark each question as solved, guessed or skipped before you check the key. The guessed column is where your real score lives. Guessed and correct is not the same as known.
4. Redo every wrong question from memory two days later. Not by rereading the solution. If you cannot reproduce it, the concept never went in.
5. Keep one page per unit of the formulas you actually had to look up. That page, not a 40 page formula booklet, is what you revise in the last month.
6. Add an Experimental Skills set every fortnight. Least count, zero error, graph plotting and circuit identification questions need almost no calculation and they are in the syllabus by name.
7. Do full 45 question Physics blocks under a clock once you have covered 12 units. Section level stamina is a separate skill from chapter level accuracy.

Where should the NEET Physics questions themselves come from? Past papers first, because they are the only questions written by the people who set the exam. The previous year question paper guide explains how to work through them without burning the recent ones too early, and the question bank guide covers how to judge a practice set that is not from NTA. If you want the same treatment for the other half of the paper, the Biology MCQ guide is the companion piece, and the Physics preparation strategy sets the longer study plan this practice loop sits inside.

What happens when NEET Physics questions turn out to be wrong?

They get fixed publicly, and it costs you nothing. NEET Physics questions are checked twice after the exam, once by candidates and once by a panel. NTA publishes a provisional answer key on neet.nta.nic.in after the exam and opens a challenge window. Anyone can challenge an answer by paying a non refundable processing fee of ₹200 per answer challenged, within the period named in the public notice.

A panel of subject experts reviews every challenge. If a challenge is found correct, the key is revised and the revision is applied to every candidate's response, not just to the person who paid. Nobody is told individually whether their own challenge succeeded. The key finalised after that round becomes the final answer key, published before the result.

Physics is where these disputes cluster, because a single ambiguous phrase in a numerical can support two answers. That is exactly the case the plus four for everybody rule exists for. Watch the public notices page for the challenge window rather than a group chat, and keep your recorded responses, because the challenge has to point at a specific question number.

Five mistakes that keep costing marks in Physics

1. Studying Physics as a subject instead of as 45 NEET Physics questions. The section is finite and listed. Treat it as a checklist you close, not an ocean.
2. Skipping Experimental Skills. An entire unit, 18 named experiments, and it usually gets zero practice hours.
3. Guessing after the whistle in your head. Attempting pays on average, but the last five minutes is when careless attempts turn plus four into minus one.
4. Living inside solved examples. Reading a worked solution feels like learning. Reproducing it two days later is learning.
5. Trusting a chapter weightage table from nowhere. NTA does not publish per chapter question counts. The unit list is official; a weightage percentage usually is not.

Practice is only useful when you can see where the marks went. NEETsheet is our NEET UG app for NCERT aligned question sets and full length timed mocks, with a unit by unit view of which Physics topics keep costing you four marks at a time.

Sources

Every rule, figure and unit name above comes from these official documents, all opened and read on 24 September 2026.

• National Testing Agency, Information Bulletin NEET (UG) 2026 (timing and pattern table with Physics 45 questions and 180 marks; Chapter 2 on the pattern of the test and the marking criteria for correct, incorrect, unanswered, multiple correct and dropped questions; the 13 mediums of the question paper and the English version being final; the answer key challenge at ₹200 per answer): https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/02/202602231394640855.pdf
• National Medical Commission, Under Graduate Medical Education Board, public notice and Annexure "Syllabus for NEET (UG) 2026", 22 December 2025, circulated by NTA (Physics Units 1 to 20 and the 18 experiments listed under Unit 20, Experimental Skills): https://nta.ac.in/Download/Notice/Notice_20260108180635.pdf
• National Testing Agency, NEET (UG) official portal, accessed 24 September 2026: https://neet.nta.nic.in/
• National Testing Agency, NEET (UG) public notices, checked on 24 September 2026 for any NEET (UG) 2027 notification: https://neet.nta.nic.in/public-notices/
• National Testing Agency, accessed 24 September 2026: https://www.nta.ac.in/
• National Medical Commission, accessed 24 September 2026: https://www.nmc.org.in/