NTA NEET UG 2025 Result Date LIVE Updates: Was the biology section in NEET UG 2025 difficult?
Although Biology (Botany and Zoology) was not as conceptually difficult, the section was very lengthy. Questions were often detailed and required careful reading. Though the Biology section was aligned with the NCERT syllabus, the questions were conceptual, quietly worded, and meant to assess understanding rather than mere recall, said Nitin Vijay.
Karki opined that the section had a majority of the questions followed a predictable pattern, a few were challenging. He said some questions were also drawn from introductory passages, exercise sections, and brief profiles of scientists presented at the start of certain chapters.
The section displayed a clear preference for content from Class 12 over Class 11, and offered a well-balanced mix of factual, conceptual, and analytical questions, said experts.
The most common formats in the exam included multi-statement and match-the-column questions, followed by assertion-and-reason type questions. Additionally, diagrams from the NCERT textbooks were incorporated in a few cases with focus on Genetics and Biotechnology.
“Some questions, like the one on the water vascular system, required verbatim textbook recall, while others, such as the fig–wasp relationship, were ambiguous and open to interpretation,” said Ujjwal Singh founding CEO of Infinity Learn by Sri Chaitanya.