NEET UG 2024: Why did NMC issue syllabus; here’s a look at deleted, added chapters

A PIL was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in May 2023 where a petitioner, Dr Arvind Goyal, requested the early announcement of syllabus so that students can plan their revision and urged to reformat the NEET UG syllabus as per the rationalised NCERT books of this session.

“The CBSE had deleted some chapters and portions of text from the syllabus prescribed by it for the class 11 and 12 exams in 2020. However, the reduced syllabus was not adopted by the NTA for the NEET-UG of that session. These chapters and topics were given in the NCERT textbooks so the students who were preparing for NEET UG at least had the availability of the study material in the textbooks. This year, the situation is different as some content has also been deleted from the NCERT textbooks for session 2023-24,” the petitioner in the PIL said.

A student of Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, now in the first year of MBBS said, that although the CBSE syllabus was reduced after Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, NTA had been asking questions from the deleted portions as well. Hailing the move of NMC to announce the NEET UG syllabus, she said: “It will be such a relief to all the NEET UG 2024 aspirants to actually know the syllabus from the regulatory body in advance and prepare for the medical entrance exam.”

The student further added that preparing for CBSE Class 12 exams for a different syllabus and for the medical entrance test for a different syllabus was difficult.

Another MBBS student, Nilanjana Deka, who appeared for NEET UG in 2022 said that she had to go back and forth to study from the deleted portions of CBSE and for the board exams to balance her preparation. She is in the Jorhat Medical College, Assam, right now.

Meanwhile, applicants intending to appear in NEET UG 2024 can check the syllabus on the NMC official website – nmc.org.in. 

NTA had earlier announced the NEET 2024 exam date. NEET UG will be held on May 5, 2024. Going by previous year’s trends, NTA might start the registration process in December.

NEET UG 2024 question comprises four subjects — Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology and NMC has made minor changes to the NEET syllabus for the 2024 exams.

Here’s a look at the changes in the NEET UG syllabus 2024 subject-wise:

NEET UG 2024 Chemistry Syllabus

Topics added

— P-Block Elements

— Experimental-based Chemistry

Topics removed from Chemistry syllabus

For Physics, according to experts in the field, no chapter has been deleted in entirety. Only a few topics including rolling motion Reynold’s number, heat engine and refrigerator, forced and damped oscillation and doppler effect are excluded from the NEET UG 2024 Physics syllabus.

NEET UG 2024 syllabus: Biology

These are the deleted topics from Biology

We reached out to NMC for a comment on the change in syllabus and their response is awaited on the same. We will update the copy when NMC official responds.