AIPMT ( NEET UG Phase 1 ) 2016 Paper Analysis by ALLEN Career Institute

Brajesh Maheshwari – Director and HOD(Physics) at Allen Career Institute, Kota (Rajasthan)

NEET (Phase 1) 2016 was held on 1st May (Sunday), the Supreme Court on Saturday gave the go ahead for the first phase of the common medical entrance test i.e. NEET, to be held on Sunday. Lakhs of students appeared for the entrance test, which will open the gates for their admission to MBBS and BDS colleges across the country. There was defined dress code for the students with no mobile phones allowed in the exam hall.

Paper Analysis by National Expert – Sh. Brajesh Maheshwari (Director ALLEN Career Institute)

The paper of AIPMT/NEET Phase 1 was as per the syllabus. Moreover this year the paper was average as per the previous year.

Biology : Out of 90 questions in Biology there were 10 questions asked out of NCERT syllabus this year. Talking about Zoology there were 10 questions which seems tough out of 28 and in Botany out of 62 questions 4 were with high difficulty level. In Biology 1 question was asked on macronutrients in which all the four given options were wrong. Students should get bonus mark for this question. Two questions were wrongly translated in Hindi section which made students gloomy while solving the paper.

Chemistry : The Chemistry came with average difficulty level wherein 63% of the questions were asked from 12^th Class and 37% of the questions were asked from 11^th Class syllabus. Out of 45 questions 24 questions were easy to answer whereas 4 remained difficult to solve. Physical Chemistry gave students surprises as it came with much of long calculative questions, which was on the tough side to solve for students. A question in Chemistry also came with all wrong four options which should be given as bonus to students. Surprisingly there were 2 questions in Chemistry with 2 correct options to answer and students found them quite difficult to attempt. Out of 45 questions 24 were with easy difficulty level and 8 were with high difficulty level in this section.

Physics: Due to most of the numerical based questions NEET’s Physics section seemed tough to solve. 50% of the questions were asked from 12^th Class and 50% of the questions were asked from 11^th Class. 2 questions were framed poorly that made students blue while understanding and solving the questions. There were 2 to 3 questions with wrong answers in physics section. In short the paper can be asked as an average paper.