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

“Shortcomings can be supplemented with your hard work and strategies. Make your goals a dream and prove it by accomplishing it.” - Akanksha Singh, AIR 2 NEET 2020

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 chemistry as a subject for not just NEET but also other medical entrance examinations like AFMC, JIPMER, etc and also understand how to tackle the chemistry section. We at EduRev recommend the 3R strategy  - Read, Revise, and Repeat to score full marks in the chemistry section.

Importance of Chemistry

NEET Chemistry section contains 45 questions amounting to 180 marks. It accounts for 25% of the exam.

NEET 2020 Chemistry 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 the syllabus, click on the link:

NEET Chemistry Syllabus

Type of Questions that come in NEET

• Physical Chemistry: It’s the numerical section of NEET Chemistry. Understanding the concepts is crucial for this section as it is difficult to interpret a numerical without understanding the related concepts. From this section, the probability of getting theory-based questions is quite less. 
• Organic Chemistry: You are advised to understand and memorise all the equations, formulae, and reactions given in NCERT textbooks. Memorise the names of various compounds that constitute reagents, substrates, etc. To gain command over this section, you need to practice a variety of questions from reference books as well.
• Inorganic Chemistry: It is the easiest section of NEET Chemistry. It takes less time as numerical, and formula-based questions are usually not asked from this section. You are advised to understand the basic concepts taught in NCERT textbooks thoroughly.

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

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

Chemistry 28 Years Past Year Papers Class 11

Chemistry 28 Years Past Year Papers Class 12

Topics covered in NEET Chemistry Class 11 & 12 Courses

Considering the syllabus of chemistry, our experts have created the chemistry class 11 and chemistry 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 Chemistry as these are the most recommended books for NEET preparation. The topics covered in the courses are:

Physical and General chemistry (Class 11)

• Some Basic Concepts Of Chemistry & Stoichiometry
• Structure of Atom
• Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
• States of Matter: Gases & Liquids
• Thermodynamics
• Equilibrium
• Redox Reactions

Physical and General chemistry (Class 12)

• Solid State
• Solutions
• Electrochemistry
• Chemical Kinetics
• Surface Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry (Class 11)

• Classification of Elements & Periodicity in Properties
• Hydrogen
• S-block elements
• Some P-Block Elements
• Environmental Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry (Class 12)

• Isolation of Elements
• P block elements(class 12)
• D and F - Block Elements
• Coordination Compounds

Organic Chemistry ( Class 11)

• Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles & Techniques
  
• Hydrocarbons
  

Organic Chemistry ( Class 12)

• Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
• Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers
  
• Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids
• Amines
• Biomolecules
• Polymers
• Chemistry in Everyday Life
  

Topic-wise weightage NEET 2020

You can check out NEET chemistry questions (with explanations) for the last 3-years by clicking on the respective links:

• NEET 2020
• NEET 2019
• NEET 2018

Tips to Ace Questions in Chemistry For NEET

1. Read

Candidates who score high in chemistry have good retaining capability and retention comes with regular practice. So, you are suggested to solve questions daily.
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 chemistry 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 chemistry 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 sharpening your concepts. You can attempt them here - level-wise tests.
Our team of experts have prepared these level-wise tests by referring to books like J.D. Lee, O. P. Tandon, MS Chouhan, 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. Chemistry class 11 and chemistry class 12 courses, each has 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 gain confidence. 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 chemistry section would look like.
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.
You should be well aware of the chemical equations and formulas for the exam; it saves time in the final exam while you see the question. We have compiled a  topic wise formulae sheet for you. So while revising you can just click here to access the short formulas.
In case you feel the necessity of revising through videos, you can access the best videos that can help you with the conceptual understanding in the course.

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 the chapter-wise subjects, I used to do it in an intense manner that built 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 analyse the preparation level. The past year papers are very useful to analyse the pattern of the paper and the difficulty level of questions.
The sureshot way to attain confidence is to attempt as many mock tests for NEET as you can.  As an aspirant, you might consider giving exams of other colleges as well. Though their syllabus is almost the same, the pattern of the actual exam is quite 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 for the respective exams:

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 chemistry section, go through the frequently asked questions in the course.