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    INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Important Questions from the Last 5 Sessions

    INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Important Questions from the Last 5 Sessions

    Irshad AnwarUpdated on 26 Oct 2026, 03:54 PM IST

    INI CET Most Repeated Topics from the Last Five Sessions: Every INI CET aspirant asks the same thing: which topics keep coming back? We checked this against past papers instead of guessing. We counted which chapters appeared in every paper and which individual questions were repeated in the INI CET exam. AIIMS does not publish topic-wise data, so everything here is our own count from the question papers we examined. The five sessions are the 2020 paper, July 2021, November 2021, May 2022 and a second 2022 paper. That is the set of five papers we could study, not the five most recent sessions.

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    1. INI CET Most Repeated Topics from the Last Five Sessions
    2. INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Chapters That Appeared in All Five Papers
    3. INI CET Most Repeated Topics:Chapters Present in Every Paper We Could Check
    4. INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Which Topics Rise and Fall
    5. INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Are Individual Questions Repeated?
    6. How to Use INI CET Most Repeated Topics
    INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Important Questions from the Last 5 Sessions
    INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Important Questions from the Last 5 Sessions

    INI CET Most Repeated Topics from the Last Five Sessions

    Details

    Number

    Papers compared

    5

    Questions classified

    963

    Chapter tags found

    222

    Chapters that appeared in all five papers

    14

    Questions covered by those 14 chapters

    180 (about 19%)

    How we built the data. We used tagged questions only. We left out repeats within a paper and 35 untagged questions in May 2022. The 2020 paper is tagged more coarsely than the rest: it groups several subjects, including Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pharmacology, under broad labels. So we could not check those subjects in 2020.

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    INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Chapters That Appeared in All Five Papers

    Chapter

    Subject

    Total

    2020

    Jul 2021

    Nov 2021

    May 2022

    2nd 2022

    Neurology

    Medicine

    22

    10

    3

    3

    2

    4

    Genetics

    Biochemistry

    19

    1

    5

    5

    4

    4

    Gastrointestinal Surgery

    Surgery

    17

    3

    2

    1

    8

    3

    Systemic Bacteriology

    Microbiology

    16

    6

    2

    3

    1

    4

    Neuroanatomy

    Anatomy

    15

    2

    5

    4

    2

    2

    Cardiology

    Medicine

    15

    4

    3

    2

    1

    5

    Pulmonology

    Medicine

    13

    3

    3

    2

    2

    3

    Endocrine Surgery

    Surgery

    12

    1

    3

    2

    2

    4

    Nose and Paranasal Sinuses

    ENT

    11

    2

    1

    4

    1

    3

    Forensic Toxicology

    Forensic Medicine

    9

    1

    1

    1

    2

    4

    National Health Programs

    PSM

    9

    1

    2

    2

    1

    3

    Immunity

    Pathology

    8

    1

    2

    3

    1

    1

    Ear

    ENT

    7

    2

    1

    2

    1

    1

    Forensic Traumatology

    Forensic Medicine

    7

    1

    2

    2

    1

    1

    Two patterns can be observed here. First, Neurology, Cardiology and Pulmonology were present in every paper, which fits their steady place in Medicine. Second, Genetics gave four or five questions in each of the last four papers, though only one in 2020. ENT also deserves attention: both Nose and Paranasal Sinuses and Ear appeared in all five papers, so a small subject can still be a reliable source of marks.

    INI CET Most Repeated Topics:Chapters Present in Every Paper We Could Check

    The 2020 tags cannot confirm the chapters below, but each appeared in all four papers that are tagged in detail.

    Chapter

    Subject

    Questions in 4 papers

    Obstetrics

    OBG

    39

    Gynaecology

    OBG

    35

    General Pharmacology

    Pharmacology

    16

    Neoplasia

    Pathology

    14

    Haematology: Red Blood Cells

    Pathology

    11

    Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

    Surgery

    11

    CNS Pharmacology

    Pharmacology

    8

    Excretory System

    Physiology

    8

    Amino Acids and Proteins

    Biochemistry

    8

    Spine, Pelvis and Lower Limb Traumatology

    Orthopaedics

    7

    Glaucoma

    Ophthalmology

    4

    Neuro-ophthalmology

    Ophthalmology

    4

    Obstetrics and Gynaecology are in a class of their own: 74 questions between them, in every paper we could check.

    INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Which Topics Rise and Fall

    Repeating is not the same as being steady. Gastrointestinal Surgery gave only one to three questions in four of the papers but eight in May 2022. Gynaecology gave 14 and 13 questions in the two 2021 papers and then 6 and 2. Obstetrics moved the other way: 8, 7, 13 and 11. Red cell disorders in Pathology jumped to 6 questions in the second 2022 paper after 1 to 3 earlier. Do not plan around one year's spike. Plan around chapters that show up every time.

    INI CET Most Repeated Topics: Are Individual Questions Repeated?

    Exact questions rarely appear. We compared about 1,000 question stems across papers and found four that came back almost word for word, with the same options and answer:

    • Smoking cessation: the most effective drug (varenicline) appeared in July 2021, November 2021 and the second 2022 paper.

    • CRISPR-Cas9: the repair mechanism (non-homologous end joining) appeared in July and November 2021.

    • Cyclosporine: the mechanism of action (calcineurin inhibition) appeared in both 2021 papers.

    • Centrally acting opioid antitussive: the answer (levopropoxyphene) appeared in both 2021 papers.

    Four repeated questions out of about a thousand is a small number. The lesson is that topics or concepts repeat far more than questions do. Learn concepts, not question banks.

    How to Use INI CET Most Repeated Topics

    1. Start with all chapters in the first table, then add the OBG and Pharmacology chapters.

    2. Revise ENT, Ophthalmology and Orthopaedics chapter by chapter. They are small subjects, but a few chapters show up every time.

    3. Learn drug and mechanism facts well. Several pharmacology questions repeated with the same answer.

    4. Treat a spike as a warning, not a forecast. Check how many papers a chapter appeared in.

    5. Mind the marking. INI CET has −⅓ negative marking, so guess only after removing options. Confirm the latest pattern on aiimsexams.ac.in.

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    Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

    Q: Which INI CET topics are repeated every year?
    A:

    In our five-paper count, 14 chapters appeared in all five papers, including Neurology, Cardiology, Pulmonology, Genetics, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Systemic Bacteriology and Neuroanatomy.

    Q: Are exact questions repeated in INI CET?
    A:

    Rarely. We found four questions repeated almost word for word across about 1,000 stems, such as the most effective drug for smoking cessation.

    Q: Does AIIMS publish topic-wise weightage?
    A:

    No. All figures in this article are our own counts from five past papers and should be read as estimates.

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