JEE Main Physics · Current Electricity
Potentiometer in JEE Main
Potentiometer (Physics, Current Electricity) came 4 times in 4 of the 42 JEE Main shifts Lumi analysed, across 3 distinct ideas. 0 of them came in 2024–26; it was last asked in 2022.
- Questions
- 4
- in 4 shifts
- Ideas asked
- 3
- 1 asked more than once
- Numerical answer
- 2
- 50% of its questions
- Pattern
- Comes in cycles
- rarely asked since 2024
In the shifts Lumi analysed for each year.
Easy 1Medium 2Hard 1
Format
- Single correct2 Q
- Numerical value2 Q
Part of Current Electricity, which had 65 questions in all. Potentiometer accounts for 6% of them. In Lumi's JEE taxonomy it belongs to Current Electricity.
Every question
All 4 Potentiometer questions
Newest first, each with its options and official answer.
- 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1 · Q55As shown in the figure, a potentiometer wire of resistance 20 and length 300 cm is connected with resistance box (R.B.) and a…HardNumerical valueHas a figure
- 24 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q59In a potentiometer arrangement, a cell gives a balancing point at 75 cm length of wire. This cell is now replaced by another cell of…EasyNumerical value
- 25 Jul 2021, Shift 1 · Q11In the given figure, there is a circuit of potentiometer of length AB = 10 m. The resistance per unit length is per cm.…MediumSingle correctHas a figure
- 8 Jan 2020, Shift 1 · Q20The length of a potentiometer wire is 1200 cm and it carries a current of 60 mA. For a cell of emf 5 V and internal resistance of 20…MediumSingle correct