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Physiology is a 1st-year subject that NEET PG now tests through graphs, curves and clinical cases rather than one-line facts. This page brings together the teachers, books and question habits students and toppers describe, and how to keep the subject alive through the clinical years, internship and a drop year.
Careers360 (7–9) and ReflexPrep (8–10) place Physiology at about 7 to 10 questions in their August 2026 recall-based estimates for the 180-question paper, and PrepLadder's study-or-skip guide recommends studying the subject selectively. 2025 was a lighter year: DBMCI's paper analysis, drawing on student reviews, reported low weightage, and PW's analysis also noted fewer Physiology questions.
The format matters more than the count. Marrow's review of 2025, quoted by Careers360, noted a “High preference to graphs based questions” and more integration with other subjects. PrepLadder's 2026 guidance adds that oxygen–haemoglobin dissociation questions now come as clinical scenarios rather than isolated recall, and it calls the curve a favourite NBEMS topic. DocTutorials singles out cardiac and respiratory physiology as particularly favoured.
Physiology is taught this year with Anatomy and Biochemistry. Medioks' advice for the year: attend lectures, understand mechanisms instead of memorising them, revise weekly, practise previous university questions and master one dependable textbook. Draw each graph by hand the first time you meet it, and redraw it at the end of the week. Your university exam is the target; NEET PG builds on it later.
Physiology has left the timetable but not the exam. Give it the 20–30 minutes on most days that Careers360 suggests for pre-clinical subjects: redraw one graph, solve a few renal or acid–base PYQs. Passed 1st prof on old university questions alone? Then one full Physiology course is worth the time now. With sound basics, rapid revision can carry it: Dr Sanika Mahar (INI-CET AIR 155) used Marrow's, with BTR.
Before each Medicine system, reread its Physiology: the cardiac cycle and pressure–volume loops before cardiology, tubular function and acid–base before nephrology, the O2–Hb curve and ventilation–perfusion before respiratory medicine. That is the cross-subject pattern Marrow's 2025 review describes. Start Grand Tests this year too; Dr Naisargi (AIR 19, NEET PG 2025) began them in final year.
ECGs, blood gases and fluid charts on duty are Physiology in practice, so link each to its chapter that night. DigiNerve's intern plan puts the pre-clinical subjects in month one, and PrepLadder's older intern tips suggest reading a basic subject alongside your posting. Use rapid-revision videos and a few PYQs a day, and keep your 1st-year textbook only for doubts.
In PrepLadder's 12-month roadmap Physiology takes about 15 days, in months 5–6; the 90-day timetable allows four. Study selectively from its green-zone list rather than the whole textbook, then bring the graphs back in every cycle. Marrow advises starting revision videos at least 60 days before the exam, which is where the last full Physiology pass belongs.
Starting MBBS? The 1st-year guide shows how to study Physiology week by week alongside Anatomy and Biochemistry.
Students spread their Physiology choices across platforms. Under a 2025 platform-choice video, a first-year student who had already picked an Anatomy teacher asked which Physiology and Biochemistry teachers to pair with that choice. Elsewhere in 2025–26 student material, two routes come up: Dr Soumen Manna of PrepLadder, and Marrow's rapid-revision material paired with BTR.
A 2nd-year student's 2026 line-up under Dr Anushka Singh's resources video lists Dr Soumen Manna for Physiology; he also wrote the Review of Physiology on Careers360's 2025 and 2026 book lists. Another commenter, a Marrow user posting under Dr Sukriti Kaushik's video, took Physiology from Marrow's rapid revision. A 2020 student guide recommended both Dr Krishna Kumar and Dr Manna.
Used Marrow's General Physiology rapid-revision videos with BTR, and put her time into revisions rather than more resources.
“I used to study from standard textbooks” in first year, then watched Marrow videos in 2nd and 3rd year.
Used textbooks for the pre-clinical and para-clinical subjects, and Cerebellum's BTR for revision.
| Platform | Physiology teacher | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Marrow | Dr Krishna Kumar | Edition 8.5 “Clinical Edge” |
| PrepLadder | Dr Soumen Manna | Version XI |
| Cerebellum | Dr Pooja Nigade | Mission 4.0 |
| DBMCI One | Dr Ashish Kumar | Live ’27 |
| DocTutorials | Dr Naveen Porwal | Edition 6 |
| PW MedEd | Dr Vivek Nalgirkar | One Plan |
Rosters as listed on each platform's own 2026 course pages (read 2 Oct 2026). Teachers do change between editions, so check the course page before you buy.
Whichever teacher you choose, a 2020 student guide's test still holds: pick teaching that builds understanding rather than memorisation. Preferences differ, too. An undated comparison blog rates Marrow's Physiology and Biochemistry highly and prefers PrepLadder for Anatomy, the reverse of the 2nd-year student above, so watch a sample lecture before you commit. The platform comparison lays the courses side by side.
Cerebellum's four-step loop fits Physiology well: one topic on video, short notes, that topic's MCQs, then a revision within 48 hours. PrepLadder's August 2026 list of the most repeated PYQ areas names cardiovascular, respiratory, acid–base, endocrine and renal physiology, so begin there. For graph questions, PrepLadder's Physiology image set is good practice: flow–volume loops, Darrow–Yannet diagrams, action-potential and ion-permeability curves, blood-group agglutination patterns, nephron diagrams and receptive-field maps. Read the axes and labels before the curve itself.
Body fluids, membrane transport, resting and action potentials, nerve-fibre types, skeletal and smooth muscle.
Cardiac cycle with the Wiggers diagram, ECG, pressure–volume loops, cardiac output and BP regulation, then haemopoiesis and haemostasis.
O2–Hb curve, ventilation–perfusion, flow–volume loops; GFR, clearance, tubular transport, countercurrent and RTA types; then acid–base problems.
Sensory and motor pathways, pain and reflexes, hearing and taste, endocrine feedback, gastric secretion and bilirubin.
Redraw every graph from memory, solve the Physiology PYQs as timed sets, and write a short notebook of curves and values.
Why 15 days. That is PrepLadder's allotment in its 12-month roadmap; its 90-day timetable gives four, enough only for the green-zone topics and PYQs, and Marrow's older 12-week plan gave three. On duty days, Careers360's 20–30 minutes keeps the subject warm: one graph redrawn and one short PYQ set.
Between 7 and 10 of the 180 in Careers360's and ReflexPrep's August 2026 estimates, both built from recalled papers. Physiology was lighter in 2025, but its graphs and mechanisms also sit inside Medicine questions.
The Physiology teacher named in 2025–26 student material is Dr Soumen Manna (PrepLadder), and some revise from Marrow's rapid revision with BTR instead; a 2020 student guide also recommended Dr Krishna Kumar (Marrow). On the remaining 2026 platforms, Physiology is with Dr Pooja Nigade (Cerebellum), Dr Ashish Kumar (DBMCI One), Dr Naveen Porwal (DocTutorials) and Dr Vivek Nalgirkar (PW MedEd).
Both, for different jobs. Guyton and Hall builds concepts, while Indu Khurana, AK Jain, GK Pal or Sembulingam are written for Indian university exams. Medioks advises mastering one dependable book rather than collecting several, and keeping Ganong for reference.
Draw every graph yourself: the Wiggers diagram, pressure–volume loops, the O2–Hb curve and what shifts it, flow–volume loops and action potentials. Then practise image sets such as PrepLadder's, reading the axes first and asking what moved the curve.
Skipping it is a gamble. Estimates for 2026 still range from 7 to 10 questions, and integrated Medicine questions use it. Keep it short instead: about 15 days in a year-long plan, four in a 90-day plan, and 20–30 minutes a day during clinical years.
Black and white suits most Physiology text. Print graph, ECG and nephron-diagram pages in colour when your notes use colour to separate curves, and bind Physiology on its own. A WhatsApp message with the PDF is all it takes to get a quote.
Send your Physiology PDF on WhatsApp, from any platform or your own scanned notes. Text pages are printed in black and white, graph and ECG pages in colour where the curves need it, and the whole subject is bound as one volume and delivered across India.
Order on WhatsAppTopper interviews, student resource videos and comments, Physiology book guides and 2025–26 exam analyses, read in October 2026.