Advice to Aspirants - NEET: BIOLOGY | Additional Study Material for CAT PDF Download

“Make your own strategy and follow NCERT. Always work with a plan and keep testing yourself during your preparation.” - Nalin Khandelwal, AIR 1 NEET 2019

Our team has mentored thousands of students in the last 3 years, including various students in Top 100 Ranks, and one thing that was common among all the toppers is the strategy & regular practice that they did to clear the exam. With the guidance of various NEET toppers and teachers, the relevant information about the exam has been compiled in this EduRev document to help you devise your own strategy. Our efforts are targeted to help you secure a seat in a reputed medical college.

The purpose of this EduRev document is to help you understand how to study biology as a subject for not just NEET but also other medical entrance examinations like AFMC, JIPMER, etc. and even understand how to tackle the biology section. We at EduRev recommend the 3R strategy  - Read, Revise, and Repeat to score full marks in the biology section.

Importance of Biology

The NEET Biology section contains 90 questions amounting to 360 marks. It accounts for 50% of the exam. NEET Biology is essentially an indispensable section as it is one of the most scoring subjects if you plan your preparation wisely. Biology has many definitions and scientific terms that need to be prepared and regular revision is a must for better performance in the exam.

NEET 2020 Biology Details

There are fewer seats as compared to the number of applicants. To score high, one should understand and prepare based on the specified syllabus only. Therefore, we suggest you to get familiar with the NEET Syllabus. For syllabus, click the link:
NEET Biology Syllabus

EduRev Tip: Attempt Past Year Papers of NEET exam to understand the exam pattern and proceed with your preparation accordingly.

You can check out the last 28 years past year papers with detailed solutions here:

Biology 28 Years NEET/AIPMT Question Papers Class 11

Biology 28 Years NEET/AIPMT Question Papers Class 12

Topics covered in NEET Biology Class 11 & 12 Courses

Considering the biology syllabus, our experts have created the biology class 11 and biology class 12 courses, which offer video lectures, detailed notes, mind maps, practice questions & level-wise MCQ tests for each topic. Our experts have structured them according to the NCERTs of Class 11 & 12 Biology as these are the most recommended modules for preparation. The topics covered in the courses are:

Class 11

• The Living World
• Biological Classification
• Plant Kingdom
• Animal Kingdom
• Morphology of Flowering Plants
• Anatomy of Flowering Plants
• Structural Organisation in Animals
• Cell - The Unit of Life
• Biomolecules
• Cell Cycle and Cell Division
• Transport in Plants
• Mineral Nutrition
• Photosynthesis in Higher Plants
• Respiration in Plants
• Plant - Growth & Development
• Digestion and Absorption
• Breathing and Exchange of Gases
• Body Fluids and Circulation
• Excretory Products and their Elimination
• Locomotion and Movement
• Neural Control and Coordination
• Chemical Coordination and Integration

Class 12

• Reproduction in Organisms
• Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
• Human Reproduction
• Reproductive Health
• Principles of Inheritance and Evolution
• Molecular Basis of Inheritance
• Evolution
• Human Health and Diseases
• Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
• Microbes in Human Welfare
• Biotechnology - Principle and Processes
• Biotechnology and its Applications
• Organisms and Populations
• Ecosystem
• Biodiversity and its conservation
• Environmental Issues

Topic-wise weightage NEET 2020

You can check out NEET biology questions (with explanations) for the last 3-years:

• NEET 2020
• NEET 2019
• NEET 2018

Tips to Ace Questions in Biology For NEET Section

1. Read

Initially, you are suggested to analyse Class 11 and 12 NEET Biology syllabus thoroughly and plan a suitable preparation strategy. Approximately 68-70 questions in the examination are directly from the NCERT books. Another 8-10 questions in the examination can be solved if you have done previous year papers of NEET as these are repeated questions with little or no modifications. At least 8-10 questions in the NEET 2021 question paper will be advanced level. These questions cannot be solved by merely mugging up facts. To get them right, you need to apply the knowledge that you have about the subject.

One way to assess your knowledge is to start practising the questions; first hand practice will help you cover the basics. You can access practice documents for all the biology topics here to understand the type of questions being asked in the NEET exam.

Start reading the concepts and keep in touch with your fundamentals of biology by reading notes(for class 11 & class 12) prepared by teachers, who've been teaching NEET aspirants for 10+ years.

Once you have completed the basic levels of preparation, attempting tests that are planned level-wise will help you in understanding basic concepts. You can attempt them here - level wise tests.

Our team of experts has prepared these level-wise tests by referring to books like NCERT, Trueman, Ansari, etc., to give you the best possible experience of attempting these tests. Our medium level tests replicate the level of majority NEET questions, and hard level questions are generally present for you to be competitive for a tougher NEET exam.

2. Revision

The probability of success increases with the revision of concepts. There is no topper of NEET who aced the exam without revising the concepts. Biology class 11 and Biology class 12 courses, each have 200+ tests with 5-10 tests for each chapter, prepared just for you so that you can revise and master each and every topic and be confident in your preparation.  We also recommend you to attempt the cumulative subject wise mock tests in the Mock Test series course of EduRev; this will give you an idea of how the final biology section would look like.

You can learn through mind maps for better understanding and memory retention.

We at EduRev believe in making your preparation easier. Hence, we worked on all the important books and created revision notes for you. You can access all those documents under the NEET Revision Notes course on EduRev.

In case you feel the necessity of revising through videos, you can access the best videos that can help you with the conceptual understanding.

3. Practice Mock Tests and Previous Year Papers

"For most of the time, I took the mock tests and previous years question papers. When I used to revise chapter-wise subjects, I used to do it in an intense manner that builds up my concepts." - Bhavik Bansal AIR-2 of NEET 2019, who obtained 700 out of 720

NEET Mock Tests are very crucial as the test acquaints the candidates with the real exam scenario and helps to analyze the actual level of preparation. The past year papers are very useful to analyse the paper pattern and difficulty level of questions.

The sureshot way to attain confidence in yourself is to attempt as many mock tests for NEET as you can. As an aspirant, you might consider giving exams for other colleges as well. Though their syllabus is almost the same, the actual exam pattern is really different.

So, we've created a different mock test series for all these exams. Check out the links below to access the mock test series:

AFMC Mock Test Series

JIPMER Mock Test Series

You can check out AFMC and JIPMER syllabus through these links. And to know more about the NEET biology section, go through the frequently asked questions in the course.