Best Books for NEET Physics: Top Picks and What Actually Works

When it comes to NEET physics, the physics section of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical admissions in India. It's not about how many books you own—it's about which ones you actually finish and understand. Thousands of students buy ten books and end up stuck on the basics. The top scorers? They use three or four books, inside out. They don’t chase new titles every month. They master what’s already there.

NCERT Physics, the official textbook series published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, is the bedrock. If you can’t solve every example and exercise in Class 11 and 12 NCERT, no other book will save you. It’s not glamorous, but 70% of NEET physics questions come directly or indirectly from NCERT. Skip it, and you’re gambling with your rank. Then there’s HC Verma, a widely used problem-solving book for competitive physics exams in India. It’s not for beginners, but once you’ve nailed NCERT, HC Verma teaches you how to think through tricky problems—exactly what NEET rewards. And for practice, DC Pandey, a popular series of physics problem books for medical entrance exams, gives you the volume and variety needed to build speed and accuracy. These three are the core. Everything else is noise.

Don’t fall for the myth that you need five books for mechanics, four for electromagnetism, and three for modern physics. That’s how burnout starts. The best strategy is simple: master NCERT, drill HC Verma for concepts, then use DC Pandey to test your speed. Track your weak areas—like rotational motion or semiconductors—and go back to those chapters. No need to buy new books every month. Revisit, re-solve, re-test. That’s what separates the 700+ scorers from the rest.

You’ll find posts below that break down exactly which chapters from these books show up most in past NEET papers, how to time your practice sessions, and which problems are worth your time versus which ones are just busywork. You’ll also see real results from students who used these same books and cracked NEET with top ranks. No theory. No fluff. Just what works.