The National Medical Commission just updated the NEET-UG syllabus, but honestly, the basics haven’t changed. You still need to know your NCERT inside out, understand what you’re learning, and—maybe most important—be able to use it in real life. Forget memorizing a pill of random facts. The focus now is on factual understanding and actually doing things, not just forcing for the sake of it.
Physics: Get Your Hands Dirty
There’s a new section: Unit 20 – Experimental Skills. So it’s not enough to just know the formulas. You’ll need to actually handle equipment and make sense of experiments. Think about using vernier calipers, screw gauges, and metre scales. You’ll mess around with pendulums, measure velocity and acceleration, and look at how the principle of moments works in practice. You’ll check out Young’s modulus, surface tension, and viscosity, figure out the speed of sound with resonance tubes, and measure specific heat using mixtures. On the electrical side, you’ll work with Ohm’s law, metre bridges, galvanometer resistance, and more. Optics isn’t left out either—you’ll be finding focal lengths and playing with prisms.
Bottom line? Don’t just memorize theory. Get comfortable with experiments and know how to connect what you see in the lab with what’s in your books.
Biology: Build Your Base, Go Deep
Unit 1: Diversity in Living World
Here you’ll deal with how living things are classified, biodiversity, and those five kingdoms everyone talks about. You need to know the differences between Monera, Protista, and Fungi, and understand classifying plants and animals, taxonomy, binomial nomenclature, the works.
Unit 2: Basic Hierarchy of Animals and Plants
Students will learn about plant structures roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds. Get familiar with important plant families like Fabaceae and Gramineae. For animals, cover tissues and organ systems, and yes, frogs still remain a model organism as it used to be.
Unit 3: Cell Construction and Function
Students need to know everything about cell theory, and the differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and what all those organelles actually do.
Unit 4: Human Physiology – Score Big Here
This is where you can really pick up marks. They want students to know how breathing works, how human body circulates blood, how kidneys manage waste, how muscles and bones let human body move, and how the nervous system and hormones keep everything running. Don’t just glance at—know the particulars, and be ready for learning about disorders and diseases too.
Why Bother?
Because this approach sticks with NCERT and goes deep into understanding, you’re setting yourself up for long-term success if you learn it right. In Biology, if you grasp the concepts and can apply them, you’ll remember what matters. In Physics, it’s about linking what you know to what you can actually do.
Takeaway
What NMC wants, students not just to know things, they want students who can think, adapt, and solve problems on their own. So, stick with NCERT, focus on the concepts you can’t afford to miss, and make your prep as hands-on and practical as possible. That’s how you walk into NEET-UG ready for anything they throw at you.
