Are NCERT textbooks enough for NEET preparation

As you all know NEET is a highly competitive medical entrance test conducted by the respective authorities to allot medical admissions to different medical courses. NEET examination is held yearly at various exam centres across the country. The best way to crack the NEET examination is thoroughly covering the topics in NCERT textbooks. 

Is NCERT enough for NEET preparation?

Have you ever gone through the previous years’ NEET question papers? If you look at the question trends of the NEET examination you could easily understand that more than 85% of the NEET questions are asked directly from the NCERT textbooks. Considering this, let’s say, NCERT can be considered as the best preparation material for the NEET examination. 

Every year, over 16 lakh students take the NEET exam, and the difficulty of the exam should rise simultaneously with the number of students who apply. So, if you want to be at the top of the list, you should use reference books in addition to NCERT. 

Why NCERT for NEET?

It is already said above that NEET 2022 candidates must give first preference to NCERT textbooks but at the same time, they must seek the help of other high-quality study materials too. Let’s see more reasons for considering NCERT as better preparation material for NEET. 

1. It contains well researched relevant information on all the three subjects

2. NCERT books are easily accessible and understandable due to their clarity in material and simplicity in language. 
3. It is well-formatted in accordance with students’ needs.

Traditional NEET coaching centres usually fill up their study material with tougher questions that lead to a lot of stress and tension in parents and their wards. The NEET aspirant must need good exposure by practicing all kinds of concepts. Practicing with tougher questions leads to a FOMO that will be tougher to deal with. Reading NEET paper analysis will give you a complete idea about this. 

NEET 2020 & 2021 Subject Wise Question Paper Analysis

NEET Physics 2020

The difficulty level was moderate, 17 of the 45 questions were based on the 11th-grade curriculum, while 28 were based on the 12th-grade curriculum. The paper’s 33 questions were easy, while 11 were moderate. There was only one difficult question asked.

NEET Physics 2021

For NEET 2021, numerical questions dominated 70% of the question paper, which is higher than in prior years. There were no problematic questions, and just four to five tough questions were asked in both sections A and B. The question paper, on the other hand, was extensive.

NEET Chemistry 2020

While compared with other subjects the chemistry paper was easy. A total of 45 questions were asked, with the difficulty level of 25 questions being fairly low. Similarly, 17 questions were moderate and 3 questions were tougher.

NEET Chemistry 2021

The paper was not lengthy and the difficulty level was moderate. The majority of the questions were based on NCERT figures, facts, and tables. There were a lot of statement-based and numerical problems. Three questions were based on graphs, while five were of the matrix match type.

NEET Biology 2020

The biology paper was simple, but it was also lengthy. The overall difficulty level of the 41 questions in the paper was fairly low, with 34 medium-level questions and 7 difficult-level ones.

NEET Botany 2021

The difficulty level of the Botany part was ‘easy to moderate,’ with only a few questions that appeared difficult and tricky. The questions were based on the NCERT syllabus, and most of them were factual in nature, with a few concept-based questions thrown in for good measure.

NEET Zoology 2021

The zoology section was of moderate difficulty. Certain questions appeared to be simple at first glance, but they were twisted and required accurate attention to the keywords. The surprising aspect was a question on Earthworm was directly asked from the NCERT textbook and only those who had read NCERT books could answer.

NEET syllabus

NEET covers topics from the Class 11 and 12 textbooks in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Even though more importance is given to NCERT textbooks the NEET exam syllabus consists of the curricula of state boards, CBSE, ICSE, NIOS, and COBSE for Class 11 and 12. The NEET syllabus covers each and every topic in detail. Studying all the topics thoroughly in a consistent way can help you to crack the NEET examination easily.

NEET Exam Pattern 

The NEET question paper consists of 200 multiple choice questions divided subject-wise. Each subject has two sections (Section A & Section B). Candidates need to answer only 180 questions from the 200 questions, as per their choice. The table below gives a better idea about the exam pattern of the NEET examination. 

Event	Details
NEET Exam Duration	3 hours
Exam Mode	Offline
Number of Questions	200
Languages	13
Negative Marking	Yes
Total Marks	720

NCERT for NEET Biology

NEET Biology syllabus consists of 22 chapters from NCERT textbooks of classes 11 and 12. The Biology syllabus is divided into Zoology and Botany, where Zoology deals with animals and Botany deals with plants. More high weightage chapters are from Zoology sessions and it includes Human Physiology with 20 per cent weightage, Genetics, and evolution with 18%, etc. Even botany has many high-weightage chapters. It is important to give equal importance to all the Zoology and Botany chapters in the NCERT textbook.

NEET Biology Syllabus

Class 11	Class 12
Diversity in Living World	Reproduction
Structural Organization in Animals and Plant	Genetics and Evolution
Locomotion & movementNeural control & coordination	Biology and Human Welfare
Plant Physiology	Biotechnology and its Applications
Animal Kingdom	Body, fluids, and circulation
Human Physiology	Ecology and Environment
Digestion & Absorption	Biotechnology principles & processes
Structural organization of animals	Reproductive health
Breathing & Exchange of gases	Human health & disease
Excretory products & their elimination	Evolution
Chemical coordination & integration
Biomolecules

Other Books for NEET Biology

1. Objective Biology (volumes 1 & 2) by GR Bathla
2. A Class Book for Botany by AC Dutta
3. Objective Biology (Volume 1, 2, and 3 along with Practice Papers) from Dinesh publications
4. Objective Biology (volumes 1 and 2) from Trueman Publications.
5. Biology Classes 11 and 12 (Volume 1 & 2) from Pradeep Publications

Also, Read – How to prepare Zoology for NEET?
How to Prepare Botany for NEET?

NCERT for Physics NEET

According to experts, the Physics section of NEET 2022 is the most difficult of all because it requires more conceptual knowledge and it is all about numbers and is based on concepts. Implementing effective strategies and methodological learning can help you to cover the NEET Physics topics at ease. Some high-weightage chapters of the NEET examination include Optics, laws of motions, Properties of bulk matter, etc.

Other Books for NEET Physics

1. Concepts of Physics, part 1 and 2 by HC Verma
2. Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker
3. Objective Physics for the medical entrance examination (volumes 1 and 2) by DC Pandey
4. NCERT Exemplar Class 11 and 12

NEET Physics syllabus

Class XI	Class XII
Physical World and MeasurementNature of Physical Laws	Electrostatics
Kinematics	Electric Charges & their ConservationElectric Dipole
Work, Energy and Power	Current Electricity
Heat, Work & Internal Energy	Conductors
Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body	Magnetic effects of current & MagnetismAC Generator & TransformerConcept of Magnetic FieldPermanent Magnets
GravitationKepler’s law of Planetary Motion The Universal Law of Gravitation	Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents
Properties of Bulk MatterBulk modulus	Electromagnetic WavesElectromagnetic Spectrum
Oscillation & Waves	OpticsOptical InstrumentsWave Optics
Critical Velocity	Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation
Laws of motion	Atoms and Nuclei
Speed Velocity	Electronic Devices
Static and Kinetic Friction	Carbon ResistorsKirchhoff’s Laws & Simple Applications

Also Read – How to Prepare Physics for NEET 2022?

NCERT for Chemistry NEET

NEET Chemistry consists of three sections – Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Physical Chemistry. Organic chemistry deals with the study of the synthesis, reactivity structure, etc. Whereas Inorganic chemistry deals with the structure, properties, and reactions of chemical compounds and elements except for hydrocarbons & their derivatives. Physical chemistry deals with the study of the macroscopic and particulate phenomena in chemical systems. Some high-weightage chapters from NEET chemistry include Equilibrium, Electrochemistry, etc.

NEET Chemistry Syllabus

Class 11	Class 12
Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry	Solid-state
Structure of Atom	Solutions
Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties	Electrochemistry
Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure	Chemical Kinetics
States of Matter: Gases and Liquids	Surface Chemistry
Thermodynamics	General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements
Ionic bond covalent bond	p-Block elements
Redox Reactions	d and f Block Elements
Hydrogen	Coordination Compounds
Laws of chemical combination	Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
s-Block Elements(Alkali and Alkaline earth metals)	Alcohols and Physical & chemical property of primary alcohol phenols and Ethers
Some p-Block Elements	Aldehydes, Ketones & Carboxylic Acids
EquilibriumEquilibrium in Physical & Chemical Process	Organic Compounds Containing: NitrogenAminesCyanides & Isocyanides
Hydrocarbons	Biomolecules
Environmental Chemistry	Polymers
Organic Chemistry- Some Basic Principles and Techniques	Chemistry in Everyday Life
Electronegativity	Band theory of metals
Atomic number	Elevation of boiling point
Isotopes & isobars	Cleansing agents – soaps & detergents

Other Books for NEET Chemistry

1. Physical Chemistry by O P Tandon
2. Oxford’s Organic Chemistry by Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves,
3. Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J D Lee
4. MTG’s Objective NCERT at your fingertips from MTG Editorial Board
5. Modern’s ABC of Chemistry of Classes 11 and 12 (volumes 1 and 2) by SP Jauhar

Physical Chemistry Chapters

Class 11	Class 12
Mole Concept	Solid State
Atomic Structure & Nuclear Chemistry	Solutions & Colligative Properties
Gaseous State	Electrochemistry
Thermodynamics &  Thermochemistry	Chemical Kinetics
Chemical Equilibrium	Surface Chemistry
Ionic Equilibrium
Redox Reactions

Organic Chemistry Chapters

Class 11	Class 12
Hydrocarbons	Haloalkane
General Organic Chemistry	Aldehydes, Ketones, and Carboxylic Acids
	Polymer
	Alcohol, Phenol, Alkyl Halide
	Aromatic Compounds
	Biomolecules
	Carbonyl Compounds
	Organic Compounds comprising Nitrogen
	Chemistry in Everyday Life
	Environmental Chemistry
	IUPAC & Isomerism
	Practical Organic Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry

Class 11	Class 12
Chemical Bonding	Coordination Compounds
P-Block Elements	D and F-Block Elements
Periodic Table & Periodicity in Properties	Qualitative Analysis
Hydrogen	Metallurgy
S-Block Elements

Also Read – How to prepare chemistry for NEET 2022?

High-Quality Study Material for NEET 

Basidia is one of the best NEET preparation platforms that you can rely on. Basidia is always students favourite because of our student-friendly module curation and high-quality content that can definitely impact your NEET preparation in a better way. Each and every piece of content in basidia has been designed in accordance with the most recent NEET syllabus as well as the CBSE syllabus. Read about the interesting features of Basida below.

Basidia Keys: The high yield points from every chapter are put together in the form of keys, which are prioritized mark wise. It again segregated into Hot, Cold and Warm. Whee the section Hot includes the frequently tested topics, Cold are rarely tested topics and Warm contains the topics that are tested once in two or three years. The Keys can be used as short notes.

Basidia MCQs: We have a huge collection of NEET relevant MCQs that are added as per all the trends. With Basidia around 33,000 + MCQs with detailed solutions can be accessed and used for your NEET preparation. 

Basidia Lectures: Topic-wise segregated Video lectures by well-qualified faculties provide detailed explanations of each concept. Vertical video orientation is another added advantage. We even conduct daily live classes on all subjects. Daily five to Six interactive live sessions are conducted. Basidia has more than 500 hours of tapes.

Basidia Today’s Concept: The breadth of NEET can be handled by learning one NEET-relevant concept per day from each subject. Basidia provides highly neet-relevant concepts that carry 4 to 8 marks daily in an interactive way. Covering today’s concept consistently can help you to crack the NEET examination at ease. 

Basidia Custom Tests: This feature helps you to create your own tests by choosing the topics manually. This helps you to revise the topics that you have already covered. 

Basidia Recommendations: Based on your performance, the app itself will help you in picking up the topics by showing suggestions. This is purely based on the analysis of your performance and we are very much sure that this feature is going to help a lot in your NEET preparation.

Read about complete features of Basidia here

Perks of Online Preparation

Within the last few years, the concept of traditional education has shifted dramatically. Physical presence in the classroom is no more a mandatory requirement. Modern technologies and the development of communication technologies have evolved the education field. Let’s look at some of the perks of online education

1. Easily Accessible 
2. Customized learning experience
3. Learn at your own pace
4. Cheaper
5. Comfort of Home
6. Helps in improving self-discipline 

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