NEST 2026 Exam Analysis: The NEST exam analysis provides an overview of the difficulty level of the exam in previous years. It also highlights the most important questions, topics, and the exam pattern. The analysis of NEST aims to help candidates evaluate their performance and allows future aspirants to gain exam insights and prepare accordingly.

SciAstra will provide the NEST 2026 Exam Analysis after the conclusion of the exam. Candidates preparing for NEST 2026 can also check the previous year’s analysis to plan their preparation strategy effectively.

NEST 2026 Exam Pattern

The question paper of the NEST 2026 exam will be based on the prescribed exam pattern. The NEST 2026 pattern will be released along with the official exam notification in the third week of February 2026 (tentative) on the official website – nestexam.in. Meanwhile, candidates can check its overview based on the previous year’s information.

NEST 2026 Section-Wise Analysis

The difficulty level of the Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics sections of the NEST 2026 exam will be provided after its conclusion.

NEST 2026 Detailed Analysis

The detailed analysis of the NEST 2026 exam will cover the overall and section-wise difficulty level, the types of questions asked, and the topics from which these questions are derived. It will also include a comparison of the exam’s difficulty level with that of the previous year. The analysis will be available once the exam is conducted.

NEST 2025 Analysis

The SciAstra team visited one of the NEST 2025 exam centres to understand candidates’ opinions about the question paper. Based on the obtained details, the overall difficulty level of the NEST 2025 exam was easy to moderate. Mathematics was reported as the most difficult section, while the difficulty level of the other sections ranged from easy to moderate.

NEST 2025 Section-Wise Analysis

The Biology topics from which questions were asked in NEST 2025 included Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Plant Physiology, Genetics, Microbiology, Evolution, Ethology, Ecology, and Population Genetics.

In the Chemistry section, the questions were based on Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry.

In the Mathematics section, questions were asked from Algebra, Calculus, Coordinate Geometry, Probability, and Complex Numbers.

The Physics section included questions from Kinematics, Electrostatics, Dimensional Analysis (Heat & Thermodynamics), Nuclear Physics, Optics (Refraction), and Oscillations in Non-inertial Frames.

Check out below the section-wise difficulty level for NEST 2025: