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NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage 2024

NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage 2024

by PW Gulf
December 8, 2023
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NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage 2024: Understanding the weightage assigned to individual chapters in NEET Physics 2024 is paramount for success. In NEET Physics Paper 2024, there will be 45 questions from different chapters; every chapter is equally important. 

Even though all chapters are crucial to prepare thoroughly, it's super important to use your study time wisely to do well. Understanding which chapters are more critical helps you focus on what matters most.

Check out the NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage 2024 given below and focus more on these chapters to improve your chances of success in the upcoming NEET 2024 Exam. 

NEET Physics Chapter -Wise Weightage 2024 For Class 11 and Class 12

Generally, students consider the Physics part of NEET challenging because it involves calculations and applying theoretical knowledge to answer questions. The table below provides the NEET Physics Chapter-wise weightage of all the chapters from Class 11 and Class 12 included in the NEET Exam Syllabus as per the NTA.

NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage For Class 11 Topics

The NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage for Class 11 are provided in the table below.


NEET Physics Class  11 Topics Weightage

Unit No.

Unit Name

NEET Class 11 Topics

NEET Chapter- Wise Weightage

NEET Number of Questions

Unit 1

Physical-World and Measurement

Physics World

2%

4

Unit and Measurement

Unit 2

Kinematics

Motion in a Straight Line

3%

3

Motion in a Plane

Unit 3

Laws of Motion

Laws of Motion

3%

3

Unit 4

Work, Energy and Power

Work, Energy and Power

4%

1

Unit 5

Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

System of Particles and Motion

5%

3

Unit 6

Gravitation

Gravitation 

2%

2

Mechanical Properties of Solid

Unit 7

Properties of Bulk Matter

Mechanical Properties of Fluid

3%

3

Thermal Properties of Matter

Unit 8

Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics

9%

1
       

Unit 9

The Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory

Kinetic Theory

3%

1

NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage For Class 12 Topics

The NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weightage for Class 12 are provided in the table below.

NEET Physics Class  12 Topics Weightage

Unit No.

Unit Name

NEET Class 12 Topics

NEET Chapter-Wise Weightage

NEET No.of Questions

Unit 1

Electrostatics

Electric Charges and Fields

9%

5

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

Unit 2

Current Electricity

Current Electricity

8%

5

Unit 3

Magnetic Effect of Current & Magnetism

Moving Charges and Magnetism

5%

3

Magnetism and Matter

    

Unit 4

Electromagnetic Induction & Alternating Current

Electromagnetic Induction

8%

4

Alternating Current

Unit 5

Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic Waves

5%

2

Unit 6

Optics

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

10%

3

Wave Optics

Unit 7

Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

6%

2

Unit 8

Atoms & Nuclei

Atoms

3%

2

Nuclei

Unit 9

Electronic Device

Semiconductor Electronics

9%

3

NEET Physics Syllabus 2024

NEET Physics Syllabus 2024 is discussed below.  NEET Physics Syllabus is divided into chapters, covering 20 units, including a new one on Experimental Skills. NEET Physics Question ranges from Moderate to Difficult. 

The NEET Physics 2024 Paper will have  50 questions split into two sections: Section A with 35 questions and Section B with 15 questions. In Section B, you need to answer only 10 questions. Here is the list of the topics covered in the NEET Physics Syllabus 2024.

Unit 1: Physics and Measurements

The topics covered in Unit 1 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Units of Measurements. 

  • System of Units

  • S I Units

  • Fundamental and Derived Units

  • Least Count

  • Significant figures

  • Errors in Measurements 

  • Dimensions of Physics Quantities

  • Dimensional Analysis and its Applications

Unit 2: Kinematics

The topics covered in Unit 2 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • The Frame of Reference, 

  • Motion in a straight line

  • Position- Time Graph. 

  • Speed and Velocity

  • Unifonn and Non-Uniform Motion. 

  • Average, Speed, and Instantaneous Velocity. 

  • Uniformly Accelerated Motion 

  • Velocity-Time Graph

  • Position-Time Graph,

  • Relations for uniformly accelerated motion- Scalars and Vectors. 

  • Vector- Addition and subtraction, 

  • Scalar and vector products. 

  • Unit Vector

  • Resolution of a Vector. 

  • Relative Velocity. 

  • Motion in a plane, 

  • Projectile Motion. 

  • Uniform Circular Motion. 

Unit 3: Laws of Motion

The topics covered in Unit 3 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Force and inertia, 

  • Newton's First Law of Motion

  • Momentum, 

  • Newton's Second Law of Motion, 

  • Impulses: Newton's 

  • Newton's Third Law of Motion 

  • Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications. 

  • Equilibrium of concurrent forces. 

  • Static and Kinetic friction,

  • Laws of friction.

  • Rolling friction. 

  • Dynamics of uniform circular motion

  • Centripetal force and its applications: 

  • Vehicle on a level circular road

  • Vehicle on a banked road. 

Unit 4: Work, Energy, and Power 

The topics covered in Unit 4 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Work done by Constant and Variable Forces

  • Kinetic and Potential Energies 

  • Work-Energy Theorem

  •  Power

  • The potential energy of spring conservation of mechanical energy.

  • Conservative and Non-Conservative forces

  • Motion in a vertical circle

  • Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions. 

Unit 5: Rotational Motion

The topics covered in Unit 65 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows 

  • Centre of the mass of a two-particle system, 

  • Centre of the mass of a rigid body

  • Basic concepts of rotational motion

  • Moment of a force; 

  • Torque, 

  • Angular Momentum

  • Conservation of angular momentum and its applications; 

  • The moment of inertia, 

  • The radius of gyration, 

  • Values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, 

  • Parallel and perpendicular axes theorems. and their applications. 

  • Equilibrium of rigid bodies. 

  • Rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion,

  • Comparison of linear and rotational motions. 

Unit 6: Gravitation

The topics covered in Unit 6 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • The Universal Law of Gravitation.

  • Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. 

  • Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion. 

  • Gravitational Potential Energy; 

  • Gravitational Potential. 

  • Escape Velocity, 

  • Motion of a Satellite, 

  • Orbital Velocity 

  • Time Period, and Energy of Satellite. 

Unit 7: Properties of Solid and Liquid

  • Elastic Behaviour, 

  • Stress-strain relationship, 

  • Hooke's Law. 

  • Young's modulus, 

  • Bulk modulus, 

  • Modulus of rigidity

  • Pressure due to a fluid column

  • Pascal's law and its applications

  • Effect of gravity on fluid pressure

  • Viscosity

  • Stokes' law 

  • Terminal Velocity, 

  • Streamline and turbulent flow.

  • Critical velocity 

  • Bemoulli's principle and its applications. 

  • Surface energy and surface tension, 

  • The angle of contact

  • Excess of pressure across a curved surface, 

  • Application of surface tension - drops, bubbles, and capillary rise. 

  • Heat, temperature, thermal expansion

  • Specific heat capacity

  • Calorimetry

  • Change of state, 

  • Latent heat. 

  • Heat transfer conduction, convection, and radiation. 

Unit 8: Thermodynamics

The topics covered in Unit 8 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Thermal Equilibrium, 

  • Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, 

  • The concept of Temperature

  • Heat, Work, and internal energy

  • The first law of thermodynamics

  •  Isothermal and adiabatic processes. 

  • The second law of thermodynamics: 

  • Reversible and Irreversible Processes. 

Unit 9: Kinetic Theory of Gases

The topics covered in Unit 8 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Equation of state of a perfect gas, 

  • Rework done on compressing a gas, 

  • Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, 

  • The concept of pressure. 

  • Kinetic interpretation of temperature

  • RMS speed of gas molecules: 

  • Degrees of freedom

  • Law of equipartition of energy and applications to specific heat capacities of gases

  • Mean Free Path

  •  Avogadro's number. 

Unit 10: Oscillations and Waves

The topics covered in Unit 10 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Oscillations and periodic motion - period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. 

  • Periodic functions. 

  • Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation; 

  • Phase: oscillations of a spring -restoring force and force constant

  • Energy in S.H.M. - Kinetic and potential energies; 

  • Simple pendulum - Derivation of expression for its time: 

  • Wave motion. Longitudinal and transverse waves, 

  • Speed of travelling wave. 

  • Displacement relation for a progressive wave. 

  • Principle of superposition of waves, 

  • Reflection of waves. 

  • Standing waves in strings and organ pipes, 

  • Fundamental mode and harmonics- Beats. 

Unit 11: Electrostatics

The topics covered in Unit 11 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Electric charges: 

  • Conservation of charge. 

  • Coulomb's law forces between two point charges, 

  • Forces between multiple charges: Superposition principle and continuous charge distribution. 

  • Electric field: Electric field due to a point charge, 

  • Electric field lines

  • Electric Dipole: Electric field due to a dipole. 

  • Torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field';: 2 ---7 za--.1 -> 

  • Electric flux' Gauss's law and its applications to find field due to infnitely long uniformly charged straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell. 

  • Electric potential and its calculation for a point charge, 

  • Electric dipole and system of charges potential difference, 

  • Equipotential Surfaces, 

  • The electrical potential energy of a system of two polar charges and electric dipole in an electrostatic field. 

  • Conductors and insulators. 

  • Dielectrics and electric polarization, 

  • capacitors and capacitances,, 

  • The combination of capacitors in series and parallel, 

  • The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates. 

  • Energy stored in a capacitor. 

Unit 12: Current Electricity

The topics covered in Unit 12 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Electric current

  • Drift velocity,

  • Mobility and their relation with electric current

  • Ohm’s law

  • Electrical resistance. v-l characteristics of ohmic and non-ohmic conductors

  • Electrical energy and power

  • Electrical resistivity and conductivity. 

  • Series and parallel combinations of resistors; 

  • Temp€rature dependence of resistance. 

  • Internal resistance, 

  • Potential difference and emf of a cell,

  •  A combination of cells in series and parallel

  • Kirchhoffs raws and their applications. 

  • Wheatstone bridge.

  •  Metre Bridge. 

Unit 13: Magnetic Effect of Current and Electricity

  • Biot - Savart law and its application to the current carrying circular loop. 

  • Ampere’s larva and its applications to infinitely long current carrying straight wire and solenoid. 

  • Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. 

  • Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. 

  • The force between two parallel currents carrying conductors-definition of ampere. 

  • Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field

  • Moving coil galvanometer, its sensitivity, and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.

  • Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. 

  • Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid. 

  • Magnetic field lines; 

  • Magnetic field due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) around its axis and perpendicular to its axis. 

  • Torque on a magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field

  • Paradia- and ferromagnetic substances, with examples, 

  • Effect of temperature on its magnetic properties

Unit I4: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current

The topics covered in Unit 14 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Faraday's law

  • Induced emf and current

  • Lenz  Law, 

  • Eddy Currents. 

  • Self and Mutual Inductance. 

  • Alternating Currents 

  • Peak and RMS value of alternating current/ voltage

  • Reactance and impedance: LCR series circuit, resonance: power in AC circuits, wattles current. 

  • AC generator and transformer. 

Unit 15: Electromagnetic Waves

The topics covered in Unit 15 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Displacement Current

  • Electromagnetic Waves and their Characteristics, 

  • The transverse nature of electromagnetic waves, 

  • Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet. X-rays. Gamma rays), 

  • Applications of e.m. waves. 

Unit 16: Optics

The topics covered in Unit 16 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Reflection of light, 

  • Spherical minors, 

  • Mirror formula

  • Refraction of right at plane and spherical surfaces, 

  • Thin lens formula and lens maker formula. 

  • Total internal reflection and its applications

  • Magnification

  • Power of a Lens

  • Combination of thin lenses in contact

  • Refraction of light through a prism

  • Microscope and Astronomical Telescope (reflecting and refracting ) and their magnifying powers

  • Wave Optics: Wavefront and Huygens' principle. 

  • Laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens principle. 

  • Interference, Young's double-slit experiment and expression for fringe width, 

  • Coherent Sources and sustained interference of light. 

  • Diffraction due to a single slit, 

  • Width of central maximum

  • Polarisation

  • Plane-polarised light: 

  • Brewster's law 

  • Uses of plane-polarised light and Polaroid. 

Unit 17: Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

The topics covered in Unit 17 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Dual Nature of Radiation. 

  • Photoelectric Effect

  • Hertz and Lenard's Observations; 

  • Einstein's Photoelectric Equation

  •  Particle nature of light

  • Matter waves-wave nature of particle, 

  • De Broglie relation 

Unit 18: Atoms and Nuclei

The topics covered in Unit 18 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Alpha-Particle Scattering Experiment 

  • Rutherford's Model of Atom

  • Bohr Model 

  • Energy Levels' Hydrogen Spectrum. 

  • Composition and Size of Nucleus 

  • Atomic Masses

  • Mass-Energy Relation

  • Mass defect

  • Binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number

  • Nuclear Fission, and 

  • Nuclear Fusion

Unit 19: Electronic Devices

The topics covered in Unit 19 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Semiconductors

  • Semiconductor diode

  • I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias; 

  • Diode as a rectifier; 

  • I-V characteristics of LED. 

  • the Photodiode, Solar cell, and Zener diode; 

  • Zener diode as a voltage regulator

  • Logic gates (OR. AND. NOT. NAND and NOR

Unit 20: Experimental Skills

The topics covered in Unit 20 of the NEET Physics Syllabus are as follows:

  • Vernier Calipers - Measuring the internal and external diameter and depth of a vessel.

  • Screw Gauge - Determining the thickness/diameter of a thin sheet/wire.

  • Simple Pendulum - Dissipating energy by plotting a graph between the square of amplitude and time.

  • Metre Scale - Finding the mass of a given object using the principle of moments.

  • Young's modulus of elasticity of the material of a metallic wire.

  • Surface tension of water by capillary rise and the effect of detergents.

  • Coefficient of Viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring the terminal velocity of a given spherical body.

  • Speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube.

  • Specific heat capacity of a given (i) solid and (ii) liquid by the method of mixtures.

  • Resistivity of the material of a given wire using a metre bridge.

  • Resistance of a given wire using Ohm's law.

Resistance and figure of merit of a galvanometer by the half-deflection method.

Focal length of:

(i) Convex mirror

(ii) Concave mirror

(iii) Convex lens, using the parallax method.

  • Plotting the angle of deviation vs angle of incidence for a triangular prism.

  • Refractive index of a glass slab using a travelling microscope.

  • Characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode in forward and reverse bias.

  • Characteristic curves of a Zener diode and finding the reverse breakdown voltage.

  • Identification of Diode, LED, Resistor, and Capacitor from a mixed collection of such items.

Strategies to Master High-Weightage Physics Chapters for NEET 2024"

  • Prioritise your preparation by identifying and dedicating more time to the Physics chapters with higher weightage in the NEET exam.

  • Ensure a strong foundation by thoroughly understanding the fundamental concepts of each high-weightage chapter, as these often form the basis for more complex topics.

  • Focus on targeted problem-solving sessions, emphasizing numerical problems from high-weightage chapters. This practical approach enhances your problem-solving skills.

  • Create concise formula sheets tailored to the key concepts within high-weightage chapters. Regularly review and practice applying these formulas.

  • Utilize visual aids such as diagrams, charts, and graphs to comprehend intricate topics within high-weightage Physics chapters, aiding in better retention and understanding.

  • Practice solving previous years' papers, specifically emphasizing questions from the high-weightage chapters. This provides insights into the exam pattern and question types.

  • Actively seek clarification for doubts in high-weightage chapters. Engage with teachers, peers, or online forums to ensure a clear understanding of challenging concepts.

  • Maintain a balance between study and self-care. Ensure adequate sleep, exercise, and a nutritious diet to enhance overall well-being and sustain focus during exam preparations.

  • Manage study time efficiently by allocating more time to high-weightage chapters while maintaining a balance with other subjects. Prioritize topics based on exam relevance.

  • Develop a strategic revision plan, emphasizing frequent reviews of high-weightage chapters to reinforce concepts and enhance retention.

NEET Physics Chapter Wise Weighatge 2024 FAQs

Q1. Are there any changes in NEET Physics Syllabus 2024?

Ans: Yes, the NEET Physics Syllabus for 2024 has undergone changes, as outlined in the PDF released by the National Medical Council (NMC). Additionally, there have been reductions in the syllabi for Biology and Chemistry.

Q2. Who is the authority responsible for setting NEET Physics Syllabus 2024?

Ans: The NEET Physics Syllabus for 2024 is established by the National Medical Council (NMC). This authoritative body releases the syllabus on its official website, nmc.org.in.

Q3. What is the weightage of Physics in NEET 2024?

Ans: As per the NEET exam pattern for 2024, the Physics section comprises 50 questions. Candidates are required to attempt 45 questions out of the total 50. This section carries a total of 180 marks, contributing to the overall NEET score of 720 marks.

Q4. Which chapters hold high weightage in the NEET Physics Syllabus?

Ans: In the NEET Physics Syllabus for 2024, certain chapters carry a higher weightage, indicating their importance in exam preparation. These pivotal chapters includes the following:  

  • Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body,

  • Thermodynamics, 

  • Electrostatics, 

  • Current Electricity, 

  • Electromagnetic Induction & Alternating Current, 

  • Optics, and Electronic Devices. 

Aspirants are advised to prioritize their study efforts on these chapters to enhance their performance in the NEET examination.

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