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NEET trap families

Most wrong options aren’t random — they’re built to be tempting for a specific reason. This page groups real previous-year questions by why the wrong option looked right, not by which chapter it came from. Each family below shows a real wrong answer first, with the reasoning hidden behind a click, so you can judge whether you’d have picked it before you see why it’s wrong.

01

Two things, swapped

Two structures, hormones or terms NCERT teaches side by side trade properties in the wrong option — each half true, just filed under the other one.

11 questions
02

One wrong clause, hidden in a right list

In a “which of these statements are correct” question, the tempting option keeps three true clauses and quietly swaps in a fourth that isn't.

9 questions
03

The true fact that isn't the answer

The stem asks which one does NOT fit, and the tempting option is simply the most familiar TRUE statement in the list.

8 questions
04

True everywhere except here

A trend that holds almost everywhere gets applied to the one case the question picked specifically because it's the exception.

7 questions
05

The formula from next door

The right chapter, even the right general method — but a formula, constant or step count borrowed from the closely related quantity next door.

7 questions
06

Right answer, wrong question

A genuinely correct, textbook fact that answers a real question — just not the one this stem is asking.

7 questions

What this is, and isn’t

  • A sample, not a census. 49 questions are tagged here, out of roughly 1,150 in the bank. That’s enough to show the six families are real and recurring — not a claim that every wrong option on this site has been sorted into one.
  • Chosen by hand, from real papers. Every example is a previous-year question with a worked solution already checked against the official NTA key. Nothing here is invented to fit a family; families were kept only when several real questions actually fit them.
  • Six families, not a fixed list. A few plausible-sounding patterns didn’t survive checking against real questions and aren’t here. More may be added later, the same way: find the examples first.

Then go check yourself against the rest

Every question here links to its full previous-year page — all four options, the correct answer and the complete worked solution, free.

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