Anatomy for NEET PG

Anatomy in NEET PG is mostly applied: where a nerve runs, what an injury at that level does, and which structure is damaged in a given deficit. Pure memorisation of names pays far less than knowing relations.

What Anatomy covers

  • General anatomy and histology
  • Upper limb and brachial plexus
  • Lower limb
  • Thorax
  • Abdomen and pelvis
  • Head and neck
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Embryology
  • Medical genetics

A study map from the standard curriculum. Check the official bulletin for the authoritative topic list.

How to study it

  1. 1

    Learn every nerve by its route, its muscles and what a lesion looks like at the bedside. That one habit answers a large share of questions.

  2. 2

    Draw the brachial plexus and the cranial nerve exits from memory once a week.

  3. 3

    Pair embryology with the congenital anomaly it explains, so the two stay together.

Where students slip

  • Mixing up the layer of origin of a nerve with its root value.
  • Learning foramina as a list and not by what passes through them.

Where the Anatomy practice questions concentrate

Our 941 worked Anatomy questions fall into these areas, largest first. This shows what our practice set emphasises. It is not a prediction of the exam's weightage.

  • Neuroanatomy 127
  • Lower limb 99
  • Embryology 95
  • Head and neck 80
  • Thorax 77
  • Medical genetics 51
  • Abdomen 46
  • Abdomen and pelvis 45
  • Upper limb 42
  • General anatomy and histology 30
  • Histology 27
  • Upper limb and brachial plexus 27

Browse all Anatomy worked questions

Four quick-revision cards

  • Which muscles form the rotator cuff?

    Supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis.

  • Which nerve winds around the surgical neck of the humerus?

    The axillary nerve (C5–C6), with the posterior circumflex humeral vessels.

  • Which is the only abductor of the vocal cords?

    Posterior cricoarytenoid, supplied by the recurrent laryngeal nerve.

  • Which cranial nerve divisions leave through the superior orbital fissure, foramen rotundum and foramen ovale?

    V1, V2 and V3 respectively.

All Anatomy flashcards · 20 Anatomy mnemonics

Try a Anatomy question

A sample item with the reasoning behind every option. Nothing here is recorded.

Anatomy · Upper limb

Sample item

A 24-year-old man falls on his shoulder and fractures the surgical neck of the humerus. Which nerve is most at risk, and what would you expect on examination?

Common questions

Is anatomy heavily tested in NEET PG?

It is a pre-clinical subject with a modest share compared with the big clinical subjects. Check the current NBEMS bulletin and recent papers for how it is distributed.

What is the best way to revise anatomy?

Link each structure to a clinical consequence, and revise nerves and plexuses by drawing them.