NEET Syllabus Tracker — Official NMC Chapter Checklist

Which syllabus this is. The current official document is Syllabus for NEET (UG) – 2026, issued by the National Medical Commission's Under Graduate Medical Education Board on 22 December 2025. It is structurally identical to the 2024 rationalised syllabus — NMC has re-notified it unchanged for 2025 and 2026. No 2027 syllabus has been published yet; NMC usually issues it between October and December of the preceding year, so expect it around late 2026. We will update this page when it appears.

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The Trap Most Students Fall Into

Four official units that are not in your NCERT book

The NEET syllabus is a list of units and topics published by NMC. NCERT is a set of textbooks. They are not the same document, and they do not perfectly overlap.

P-Block Elements (Groups 13 to 18)

A full official NMC unit — electronic configuration, trends across periods and down groups, and the unusual behaviour of the first element in each group. NCERT removed its p-Block chapters in the 2023 rationalisation. If you study only from NCERT, you will not see this at all.

Purification and Characterisation of Organic Compounds

Crystallisation, sublimation, distillation, differential extraction, chromatography; detection of nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and halogens; estimation of elements; empirical and molecular formula calculations. Most of this was cut from NCERT Class 11.

Experimental Skills (Physics)

An official unit covering practical and experiment-based questions. It maps to no single NCERT chapter, so it tends to be skipped entirely rather than deliberately.

Principles Related to Practical Chemistry

Another official unit spanning both classes with no chapter of its own. Same risk.

This is exactly the kind of gap guided self-study is designed to catch. A student working alone from NCERT has no way of knowing these units exist. A supervised study plan checks the syllabus document, not just the textbook.

The Official Structure

NMC's unit list — the authoritative version

The checklist above is organised by NCERT chapter, because that is how students actually study. This is the official list it maps onto: 20 units in Physics, 20 in Chemistry and 10 in Biology — 50 units in total. Note that NMC does not split Biology into Botany and Zoology; that split is a teaching convention, not official.

Exam Pattern

What the paper actually looks like

180 questions720 marks

180 minutes3 hours

+4 / −1 / 0Correct / wrong / skipped

Single correctFour options each

Subject	Questions	Marks
Physics	45	180
Chemistry	45	180
Biology (Botany & Zoology)	90	360
Total	180	720

If you have seen "200 questions, choose 10 out of 15" anywhere, that page is out of date. The optional Section B was a temporary COVID-era measure and was withdrawn from NEET-UG 2025. The official NEET-UG 2026 information bulletin lists 180 compulsory questions in 180 minutes, with no Section A or Section B. Several coaching websites still show the old pattern.

What we know about 2027. NEET-UG moves to computer-based testing from 2027, announced by the Union Education Minister on 15 May 2026. That announcement was a ministerial statement, not yet a written NTA notice, and NTA has not released the 2027 information bulletin. The detailed pattern will be confirmed when it does. Anyone telling you more than this today is guessing.

Good News

Chapters that are no longer in the syllabus

The 2024 rationalisation removed a substantial amount of content, and it has stayed out in 2025 and 2026. If you are working from an older book or an older senior's notes, these are no longer examinable.

Biology — whole chapters removed

Confidence: high. We checked the sub-topic text of the relevant units in the current NMC document and confirmed these do not appear.

Chemistry — whole chapters removed

Confidence: high on their absence from the current syllabus, which we verified directly. NMC has never published a formal "deleted topics" annexure, so treat any longer topic-by-topic deletion list you find online with caution.

A word of caution about deletion lists. NMC publishes what is in the syllabus, never a list of what was taken out. Every "deleted topics" list circulating online, including partial ones for Physics, is somebody's comparison of two documents — not an official notice. Before you skip a topic on the strength of one, check it against the NMC syllabus PDF yourself, or ask a teacher.

Ticking chapters is easy. Retaining them is the hard part.

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