Thirty Questions. Thirty Minutes. Go.
Section 10 taught you the NEET way through this chapter — the recall tables, the equation chooser, the graph lookup, the speed habits. This section finds out whether any of it survives contact with a clock.
There is no new physics below. There are 30 questions built the way NEET builds them, and one rule that matters more than all the others: you are being tested on pace, not on cleverness. If a question here needs three lines of algebra, you have misread it.
How to attempt this set
Key Point: Sit down with a blank sheet, a pen and a timer. Attempt all 30 questions in one unbroken sitting, and do not read a single explanation until you have written your last answer. A drill you pause to check is a reading exercise, and reading exercises do not build speed.
| The setup | What it is |
|---|---|
| Number of questions | 30 |
| Marking scheme | correct, incorrect, unattempted |
| Maximum score | marks |
| Minimum possible score | marks |
| Suggested time limit | 30 minutes (NEET pace: 45 Physics questions in about 45 minutes, so roughly 1 minute each) |
| Take as | 10 m/s^2 throughout |
| Allowed | a rough sheet and your memory |
| Not allowed | calculator, formula sheet, or a glance back at Sections 1 to 10 |
[Important] The 30-minute limit is the whole exercise. Most students can get 26 of these right given an hour — and an hour is exactly what the real paper will not give you. Finishing in 30 minutes with 24 correct puts you in far better shape than taking 55 minutes to get 28. Keep the timer where you can see it, and when a question passes 60 seconds, mark your best surviving option and move on.
Here is the arithmetic that makes that instruction safe. A blind guess among four options is worth , essentially nothing. But once you have eliminated two options, a guess between the last two is worth marks on average. Eliminate first, then commit. Leave blank only what you could not narrow down at all.
What this set covers

| Topic | Questions | How many |
|---|---|---|
| Definitions and concept recall, including the fine-print cautions | Q1 to Q5 | 5 |
| Distance vs displacement, average speed vs average velocity | Q6 to Q9 | 4 |
| Kinematic equations in single-step form, including the nth second | Q10 to Q15 | 6 |
| Free fall and vertical motion | Q16 to Q19 | 4 |
| Graph identification and reading | Q20 to Q23 | 4 |
| Relative velocity | Q24 to Q25 | 2 |
| Assertion-reason and column matching | Q26 to Q30 | 5 |
That weighting is not arbitrary — it is how NEET actually samples Motion in a Straight Line. The kinematic equations and free fall together are 10 of the 30, because in the real paper they carry most of the marks from this chapter. Recall and graphs take another 9, and they are the fastest marks on the page if the definitions are properly memorised.
The last five drill the two formats NEET uses and JEE does not: three assertion-reason items and two column matches. If you have never sat one of those under time pressure, they are the questions here most likely to cost you marks.
[Important] Notice what is not in this set: no variable acceleration, no integration, no . NEET keeps to constant acceleration, so every question below can be finished with one of the standard equations, one graph rule, or one definition. If you find yourself wanting calculus, you are working too hard.
The difficulty mix is deliberately NEET-calibrated: roughly 35% easy, 45% medium and 20% hard.
Mark It Honestly, Then Read Your Own Answer Sheet
Score with the real scheme: for every correct answer, for every wrong one, for every blank. No half marks for "I nearly had that one". The number you end up with is the number that means something.
The bands
| Your score (out of 120) | Verdict | What to do next |
|---|---|---|
| 100 to 120 | NEET ready. Over 83% on a full-length set, inside the time. | This chapter is now free marks for you. Revisit only the items you missed and move to the next chapter. |
| 76 to 99 | Fast but leaky. You know the material; something leaks on the way to the answer sheet. | Almost always a misread question or a dropped sign, not a gap. Redo every wrong question without the explanation first, and see how many you fix alone. |
| 48 to 75 | Recall gaps. The speed is not the problem; the lookup is. | Go back to Section 10's tables — the equation chooser, the graph lookup, the free-fall card — and learn them as flashcards. Then re-attempt this set cold. |
| Below 48 | Rebuild first. | Work Sections 1 to 6 properly, then Section 10, then Section 7's solved examples. Re-attempting this set today would teach you nothing except the answer key. |
Sort your mistakes into three piles
Do this before you read a single explanation. It is the most useful ten minutes in this section.
- Did not know it. A definition you had never learnt, a graph shape you could not name, the nth-second formula you could not recall. Cheapest to fix — it is a memory job, and it takes an evening.
- Knew it, computed it wrong. You used where you needed , or divided by 2 in the wrong place. Slow down for four seconds on the final line.
- Knew it, answered a different question. You gave the distance when it asked for the displacement, the speed when it asked for the velocity, or the height above the release point when it asked for the height above the ground. NEET's distractors are built specifically to reward this mistake.
Key Point: Two students both score 84. The first has four pile-1 mistakes and a syllabus gap that revision closes in a day. The second has nine pile-3 mistakes and a reading habit that will follow them into the exam hall. Pile 3 is the expensive one — count it before you explain it away.
The five recall facts this set keeps testing
- Distance magnitude of displacement, always. Equality only when the body never reverses.
- Speed is the magnitude of velocity, so average speed magnitude of average velocity, always.
- A negative acceleration does not mean slowing down. It means the acceleration points along . The body slows only when and have opposite signs.
- Zero velocity does not mean zero acceleration. At the top of a vertical throw, but downward.
- Slope of x-t is velocity; slope of v-t is acceleration; area under v-t is displacement; area under a-t is change in velocity. Four lines that answer most graph questions in this chapter.
One more pass, then move on
Every question below has a full step-by-step explanation, and most of them name the shortcut that would have got you there faster. Read the explanation even for the questions you got right — on a paper this tight, the difference between a 30-second method and a 90-second method decides whether you finish Physics at all.
[Important] When you are done, do not immediately re-attempt the set. You would be scoring your memory of the answer key, not your physics. Leave it a week, then sit it again cold with the same 30-minute timer. The second score is the honest one.