NEET 2022: List of important topics in chemistry

NEET 2022: Exam date is likely to be announced by NTA soon. By understanding the chapter-wise weighting of the concepts, candidates can prepare for the test better.

National Testing Agency (NTA) will announce the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, NEET-UG 2022 Exam Date very soon at nta.ac.in. Candidates preparing for the medical entrance exam must be familiar with NEET Syllabus 2022.

In NEET Exam 2022, questions are asked from Physics, Chemistry, Botany, and Zoology topics. Out of these three subjects, Chemistry is considered the easiest by the candidates. However, scoring marks in this subject becomes easy if the candidates control the concepts.

A total of 90,825 MBBS, 27,948 BDS, 52,720 AYUSH, 487 BSc Nursing, and 603 BVSc seats will be offered through the NEET exam 2022. Last year around 16 lakh students appeared in the NEET exam.

NEET 2022 Chemistry Topics

A clear understanding of the chapter-wise weightage of concepts will help the candidates to plan the time devoted to each chapter. In NEET 2022 Chemistry section, there will be 45 questions covering classes 10 and 12. The following table shows how much weight is given to chemistry chapters:

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NEET 2022 chapter-wise weightage in chemistry

Name of the topic	NEET chemistry weightage
Basic concepts of chemistry	2%
Structure of Atom	3%
Classification of elements and periodicity in properties	3%
Chemical Bonding and molecular structure	5%
States of Matter: gasses and liquids	2%
Solid-state	2%
Thermodynamics	9%
Equilibrium	6%
Redox Reactions	1%
Solutions	5%
Electrochemistry	4%
Chemical kinetics	3%
Surface Chemistry	1%
General Principles and Processes of Isolation Elements	1%
Hydrogen	3%
s- Block Elements (Alkali and Alkaline earth metals)	1%
Some p-Block elements	1%
d and f Block Elements	4%
Coordination compounds	4%
Organic Chemistry – some Basic principles and techniques	2%
Hydrocarbons	3%
Haloalkanes and Haloarenes	1%
Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers	8%
Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids	3%
Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen	1%
Biomolecules	3%
Polymers	3%
Chemistry in Everyday Life	4%
Environmental Chemistry	1%

The country’s only medical education regulatory body, the National Medical Commission (NMC), has done away with the upper age limit for the undergraduate medical entrance exam, NEET-UG. Earlier the age limit was 25 years for general category candidates and 30 years for reserved category candidates.