JEE Main Physics · Electric Charges and Fields

Electric Field in JEE Main

Name: Electric Field: JEE Main previous year questions
Creator: Lumi

Electric Field (Physics, Electric Charges and Fields) came 16 times in 13 of the 42 JEE Main shifts Lumi analysed, across 13 distinct ideas. 9 of them came in 2024–26; it was last asked in 2026.

Questions: 16; in 13 shifts
Ideas asked: 13; 3 asked more than once
Numerical answer: 3; 19% of its questions
Pattern: Asked most years; last asked 2026

Questions each year

In the shifts Lumi analysed for each year.

Difficulty and format

Easy 6Medium 9Hard 1

Format

Single correct11 Q
Numerical value3 Q
Diagram based2 Q

Ideas inside the topic

13 ideas

Charged Arc Field2 Q
Field of an Infinite Non-Conducting Sheet2 Q
Neutral Point Location2 Q
Equilibrium of Suspended Charges1 Q
Finite/Infinite Line Field1 Q
Work Done by Variable Electric Field1 Q
Charged Particle Trajectory in Uniform Field1 Q
Maximum Axial Field of a Ring1 Q
Field of a Solid Non-Conducting Sphere1 Q
Field of a Spherical Shell1 Q
Superposition Principle for Electric Fields1 Q
Charge Trajectory in Uniform Field1 Q

Where it sits

Part of Electric Charges and Fields, which had 39 questions in all. Electric Field accounts for 41% of them. In Lumi's JEE taxonomy it belongs to Electrostatics.

Some questions sit in other chapters too: Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance.

Every question

All 16 Electric Field questions

Newest first, each with its options and official answer.

6 Apr 2026, Shift 1 · Q38A thin half ring of radius 35 cm is uniformly charged with a total charge of $Q$ coulomb. If the magnitude of the electric field at centre…MediumSingle correct
6 Apr 2026, Shift 1 · Q49A three coulomb charge moves from the point $(0,-2,-5)$ to the point $(5,1,2)$ in an electric field expressed as…MediumNumerical value
2 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q34A small bob of mass 100 mg and charge $+10\ \mu\mathrm{C}$ is connected to an insulating string of length 1 m. It is brought near to an…MediumSingle correctHas a figure
2 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q37Consider two infinitely large plane parallel conducting plates as shown below. The plates are uniformly charged with a surface charge…EasySingle correctHas a figure
2 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q39A point charge $+q$ is placed at the origin. A second point charge $+9q$ is placed at $(d, 0, 0)$ in Cartesian coordinate system. The…EasySingle correct
2 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q44Consider a circular loop that is uniformly charged and has a radius $a\sqrt{2}$ . Find the position along the positive $z$ -axis of the…MediumSingle correct
4 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q38A metallic ring is uniformly charged as shown in figure. AC and BD are two mutually perpendicular diameters. Electric field due to arc AB…MediumDiagram basedHas a figure
29 Jan 2024, Shift 1 · Q55An electron is moving under the influence of the electric field of a uniformly charged infinite plane sheet S having surface charge…HardNumerical value
31 Jan 2024, Shift 1 · Q40Two charges $q$ and $3q$ are separated by a distance 'r ' in air. At a distance $x$ from charge $q$ , the resultant electric field is zero.…EasySingle correct
25 Jul 2022, Shift 1 · Q56The volume charge density of a sphere of radius $6$ m is $2\ \mu\mathrm{C\,cm^{-3}}$ . The number of lines of force per unit surface area…MediumNumerical value
24 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q38A vertical electric field of magnitude $4.9\times10^{5}$ N/C just prevents a water droplet of a mass 0.1 g from falling. The value of…EasySingle correct
29 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q48A positive charge particle of 100 mg is thrown in opposite direction to a uniform electric field of strength…EasySingle correct
16 Mar 2021, Shift 2 · Q19Find out the surface charge density at the intersection of point $x=3$ m plane and $x$ -axis, in the region of uniform line charge of 8…MediumSingle correct
8 Jan 2020, Shift 1 · Q10Three charged particles A, B and C with charges $-4q$ , $2q$ and $-2q$ are present on the circumference of a circle of radius d. The…MediumSingle correctHas a figure
2 Sep 2020, Shift 1 · Q11A charged particle (mass $m$ and charge $q$ ) moves along $X$ axis with velocity $V_0$ . When it passes through the origin it enters a…MediumDiagram basedHas a figure
6 Sep 2020, Shift 2 · Q11Consider the force F on a charge 'q' due to a uniformly charged spherical shell of radius R carrying charge Q distributed uniformly over…EasySingle correct