NEET UG case studies
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NEET (UG) - the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) - is the common and uniform national entrance test conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission to undergraduate medical education in medical institutions across India. The official NEET portal states that NEET (UG) also serves admissions to BAMS, BUMS and BSMS courses under Section 14 of the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Act, 2020, and to the BHMS course under the National Commission for Homeopathy Act, 2020. The NEET UG case studies are 5 cases and about 3,253 words.
1Scale reading and a helium balloon in a descending lift
A 60 kg student stands on a spring scale calibrated in newtons inside a hospital lift. The lift starts from the 8th floor and descends to the 2nd floor.
691 words, about 3 min2What a half-neutralised acetate buffer can still absorb
A first-year student must prepare 100.0 mL of an acetate buffer of pH 4.76 and then test its capacity. She pipettes 50.0 mL of 0.100 M acetic acid (pKa = 4.76) into a 100 mL volumetric flask, adds 25.0 mL of 0.100 M NaOH and makes up to the mark with distilled water.
607 words, about 3 min3Incipient plasmolysis: sucrose versus urea
A student peels the lower epidermis of a red onion scale leaf and floats pieces in sucrose solutions at 27 °C. She uses 0.10, 0.20, 0.30, 0.40 and 0.50 M sucrose, waits 15 minutes, and counts cells showing incipient plasmolysis in five random fields per solution.
677 words, about 3 min4Peaked T waves in a patient taking digoxin
A 68-year-old man with chronic kidney disease (eGFR 25 mL/min/1.73 m²) is admitted with nausea, palpitations and muscle weakness. He takes digoxin 0.25 mg daily for heart failure and has had gastroenteritis for three days.
617 words, about 3 min5When a u–v table contains one impossible row
A student determines the focal length of a thin convex lens by the u–v method on an optical bench. The object is a pin on a stand, the image is located with a second pin and a translucent screen, and all distances are recorded as positive magnitudes measured from the lens.
661 words, about 3 min