NEET(UG) Physics is 45 questions and 180 marks. Four marks for a right answer, one mark off for a wrong one. This page shows how those 180 marks have been spread across chapters in the papers from 2021 to 2026. Students look for this as the important chapters list, or the high weightage chapters. Read the caution under the table before you treat it as one.
Read this before you use any weightage table, ours or anyone else’s.
NTA does not publish chapter weightage. Every number you see online, this page included, is somebody counting old question papers by hand. Two institutes counted the same 2024 paper and did not agree on about a third of the chapters.
The paper also changed. Up to 2024 there were 50 questions printed and 45 to be attempted. From 2025 there are 45 printed and all 45 are to be attempted. So an older chapter count is out of 50, not out of 45.
And 2026 was held twice. The 3 May paper was cancelled and a fresh paper was held on 21 June. The two papers were nothing alike — Current Electricity had four to five questions in the cancelled paper and only one in the re-exam. That is the plainest proof that a high weightage chapter is a guide, never a guarantee.
Before you use any weightage list, check what is actually in the syllabus: NEET(UG) Physics deleted syllabus 2027.
Where the 180 marks sit
| Part of the syllabus | Questions in one paper | Marks |
| Mechanics | 14 – 15 | 56 – 60 |
| Electricity and Magnetism | 12 – 13 | 48 – 52 |
| Modern Physics and Semiconductors | 6 – 7 | 24 – 28 |
| Heat and Thermodynamics | 3 – 4 | 12 – 16 |
| Optics | 3 – 4 | 12 – 16 |
| Oscillations and Waves | 2 – 3 | 8 – 12 |
Taken from the NEET 2025 paper, where all 45 questions had to be attempted.
Chapter by chapter
Three chapters are shown as a pair because most institutes count them as one: Rotational Motion with Centre of Mass, the two Electrostatics chapters together, and Atoms with Nuclei. Where they are counted separately, the pair still adds up to the same range. Error analysis and experimental skills questions are counted here under Units and Measurements.
Four things these numbers tell you
- Three chapters have never gone below two questions in any paper from 2021 to 2026 — Ray Optics, Semiconductor Electronics and Units and Measurements. Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter has given at least two in almost every paper.
- Electricity and magnetism together is the biggest block — about 12 to 13 questions out of 45, which is roughly 50 marks.
- Magnetism and Matter is the least predictable chapter. Nothing at all in several papers, then three to four questions in 2024. A chapter with a wide range is a chapter you read once properly, not one you skip.
- Mathematical Tools has no questions of its own. It sits inside every other chapter, so weak vectors or weak graph reading takes marks away everywhere.
Practise chapter by chapter
Every chapter name above opens ten NEET questions for that chapter, with an answer key and a hint for each. Begin with the chapters that carry the most marks, then come down the list. The full set is here: NEET(UG) Physics chapterwise questions.
Next: the NEET(UG) Physics formula sheet, chapter by chapter.
The official syllabus, unit by unit: NEET(UG) Physics syllabus 2026, with what was taken out in 2024.
Where the marks are is not where you stand(मार्क्स कहाँ हैं, यह और आप कहाँ खड़े हैं — दोनों अलग बातें हैं)
A weightage table tells you where the paper spends its marks. It cannot tell you how many of those marks you would get today. Only a timed paper does that.(वेटेज टेबल यह बताती है कि पेपर के नंबर किन चैप्टर में बँटे हैं। यह नहीं बता सकती कि आज आप उनमें से कितने नंबर ला पाएँगे। यह सिर्फ़ टाइम लगाकर दिया गया पेपर बताता है।)
Sanjeevani has three timed papers for every chapter, each with a target score, an answer key and a hint for every question. Begin with the chapters at the top of this table and work down.(संजीवनी में हर चैप्टर के तीन टाइम्ड पेपर हैं — हर पेपर में एक टारगेट स्कोर, आंसर की, और हर सवाल का एक हिंट। इस टेबल में जो चैप्टर सबसे ऊपर हैं, उनसे शुरू कीजिए।)
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