VENPER NEET 2020 PAPER ANALYSIS

NEET Paper Analysis for Entrance Exam Preparation 2023

NEET 2020 exam for admission to MBBS/ BDS was conducted on 13 September 2020 in Single shift from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Approximately 15.97 lakh students appeared for the Exam. According to the Venper experts, the NEET 2020 exam was one of the easiest in the past few years, and the NEET CUT off expected to be high.

Reactions of Aspirants

According to the students, NEET 2020 question paper was easier as compared to the last year and most of them think that the cut off of NEET 2020 will be high for the 2020 academic year. The majority of the students found the difficulty of the NEET 2020 exam Moderate to Easy.

Venper Experts

If we talk about the overall exam analysis of NEET 2020 most of the aspirants found the questions quite easy. The physics paper was found to be as same standard that of last year. Chemistry and Biology portions had only two to three tricky questions.

NEET analysis 2020 will paint a clear picture about the nature of the NEET exam to be conducted in future. This helps the future NEET aspirants to get prepared for the exam accordingly. Detailed analysis of all three sections is tabulated below:

Overall Difficulty Level of the NEET 2020 Exam

Moderate to Easy

Toughest Section

Physics

Easy Section

Biology

Topics with Most Weightage in Physics

Mechanics, Current electricity

Topics with Most Weightage in Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry

Topics with Most Weightage in Biology

NCERT Questions/ Direct Questions

Difficulty Level of Numerical Questions

Easy, answers could be driven in one step

Expected Highest Score

690

NEET Physics Paper Analysis
Student’s perspective:

  • Physics again got the tag of the toughest section among the 3 sections.

  • Direct questions from sections such as Newton’s Laws of Motion, semiconductors, Einstein’s mass
    – energy equation etc.

  • Considering the whole paper, it was bit difficult to manage the time.

Faculties Perspective

  • Physics paper was moderate and not much calculative.

  • Questions tested the basic understanding of the concepts.

  • Out of the 45 questions, 20 questions were based on 11th class and 25 questions on 12th class syllabus.

  • 16 questions were easy and 24 were moderate. Only 5 questions are considered difficult.

Class

XI

XII

XI

XII

XI

XII

XII

Total

Difficulty Level/ Topic

Mechanics

Properties of matter, Oscillations & Waves

Heat and Thermodynamics

Electrostatics & Current electricity

Magnetism, AC & EMW

Modern Physics

Optics

Overall

Easy

5

1

2

2

1

4

1

16

Medium

4

2

2

6

5

4

1

24

Difficult

0

1

1

1

0

0

2

5

Total

9

4

5

9

6

8

4

45

NEET Chemistry Paper Analysis
Students perspective

  • Test takers found the Chemistry paper of NEET 2020 to be lengthier.

  • Students found this section difficult, reason being lengthy calculations.

  • Theoretical questions were a little difficult to solve.

  • Overall this section ranked easy to solve and scoring also.

    Expert Analysis

    • Chemistry paper gave relief to the students. The paper was easy.

    • 14 questions were quite easy. Similarly, 22questions were of moderate and 9 questions were difficult.

    • The maximum 24 questions were based on 12th class syllabus. 21 questions were based on 11th class syllabus

    Class

    XI

    XII

    XI

    XII

    XI

    XII

    Total

    Class

    Difficulty Level/ Topic

    Organic
    Chemistry

    Organic
    Chemistry

    Inorganic
    Chemistry

    Inorganic
    Chemistry

    Physical
    Chemistry

    Physical
    Chemistry

    -

    Difficulty Level/ Topic

    Easy

    2

    3

    3

    2

    1

    3

    14

    Easy

    Medium

    2

    5

    4

    3

    3

    5

    22

    Medium

    Difficult

    0

    1

    3

    1

    3

    1

    9

    Difficult

    Total

    4

    9

    10

    6

    7

    9

    45

    Total

    NEET Biology Paper Analysis
    Students perspective

    • Test Takers perceive Biology questions very easy to solve.

    • But some of the questions were tricky from this section.

    • Most of the questions were straight from the NCERT syllabus.


    Faculties Perspective

    • Comparing to last years, biology question were quite easy.

    • 30-Factual questions, 1-Numerical, 55 Conceptual, and 4- application based questions

    • The paper of Biology was easy this time but it was lengthy as well.

    • 26 questions in the paper was quite easy, 31 medium level and 33 questions were of difficult level.

    • Maximum questions were based on NCERT syllabus. It covered 45 questions from class 11 syllabus while 45 questions were asked from 12th class syllabus. Comparing Botany and Zoology, 43 questions were asked from Botany while 47 questions came from Zoology.

    From Botany

    Class

    XI

    XI

    XI

    XI

    XII

    XII

    XII

    XII

    Total

    Difficulty Level/ Topic

    Cell & Cell Cycle

    Diversity of Life

    Plant Physiology

    Structural Organisation of Plants

    Biology in Human Welfare

    Ecology

    Reproduction & Sexual Reproduction

    Genetics

    Easy

    1

    1

    3

    3

    0

    2

    1

    2

    13

    Medium

    1

    3

    2

    0

    1

    2

    1

    1

    11

    Difficult

    4

    1

    4

    2

    1

    3

    0

    4

    19

    Total

    6

    5

    9

    5

    2

    7

    2

    7

    43

    From Zoology

    Class

    XI

    XI

    XI

    XI

    XII

    XII

    XII

    XII

    Total

    Difficulty Level/ Topic

    Animal Kingdom

    Human Physiology

    Biomolecules

    Structural Organisation in Animals

    Animal Husbandary & Biotechnology

    Evolution: Theories & Evidences

    Human Health & Diseases

    Human Reproduction & Reproductive Health

    Easy

    2

    1

    3

    1

    3

    3

    0

    0

    13

    Medium

    2

    7

    2

    0

    4

    0

    3

    2

    20

    Difficult

    1

    4

    1

    1

    3

    1

    1

    2

    14

    Total

    5

    12

    6

    2

    10

    4

    4

    4

    47

    Overall Distribution of Questions in Terms of Difficulty Level

    Easy

    Medium

    Difficult

    Subject

    Number of Questions

    Total Marks

    Number of Questions

    Total Marks

    Number of Questions

    Total Marks

    Botany

    13

    52

    11

    44

    19

    76

    Zoology

    13

    52

    20

    80

    14

    56

    Physics

    16

    64

    24

    96

    5

    20

    Chemistry

    14

    56

    22

    88

    9

    36

    Total

    56

    224

    77

    308

    47

    188

    Overall Distribution of Questions in Terms of Question types

    Physics

    Chemistry

    Botany

    Zoology

    Category

    XI

    XII

    XI

    XII

    XI

    XII

    XI

    XII

    Factual

    6

    3

    3

    5

    12

    6

    10

    5

    Conceptual

    3

    7

    3

    3

    14

    14

    9

    15

    Numerical

    7

    14

    4

    8

    0

    0

    0

    0

    Application

    2

    3

    10

    9

    1

    0

    0

    4

    Total

    18

    27

    20

    25

    27

    20

    19

    24

    Venper Experts feel that the difficulty level of NEET 2020 was easier than NEET - 2019. Biology and Chemistry were found to be almost equal difficulty level with Physics being comparatively difficult among all. Questions worth 224 Marks can be considered easy overall, 308 marks of moderate level and only 188 marks are considered difficult by Venper Team.

    Overall the paper was found to be quite easier than NEET 2019. Compared to last year all subjects were found to be on easier side. Questions in Physics were not as calculative as last year and were conceptually simple. Biology section had maximum questions from NCERT but around 10 questions were bit tricky. In Chemistry, around 40 questions from total 45 were from NCERT and paper was also not calculative. Since the paper is easy than last year, the expected cut off should increase and is expected to around 570 to 590.