JEE Main Physics · Current Electricity

RC Circuits in JEE Main

Name: RC Circuits: JEE Main previous year questions
Creator: Lumi

RC Circuits (Physics, Current Electricity) came 4 times in 4 of the 42 JEE Main shifts Lumi analysed, across 3 distinct ideas. 1 of them came in 2024–26; it was last asked in 2026.

Questions: 4; in 4 shifts
Ideas asked: 3; 1 asked more than once
Numerical answer: 1; 25% of its questions
Pattern: Frequent; last asked 2026

Questions each year

In the shifts Lumi analysed for each year.

Difficulty and format

Easy 2Medium 2Hard 0

Format

Single correct3 Q
Numerical value1 Q

Ideas inside the topic

3 ideas

Initial and Steady State Behavior2 Q
RC Circuits with Ideal Diodes1 Q
Initial Rate of Charging1 Q

Where it sits

Part of Current Electricity, which had 65 questions in all. RC Circuits accounts for 6% of them. In Lumi's JEE taxonomy it belongs to Current Electricity.

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

Every question

All 4 RC Circuits questions

Newest first, each with its options and official answer.

5 Apr 2026, Shift 2 · Q37Under steady state condition the potential difference across the capacitor in the circuit is __________ V.MediumSingle correctHas a figure
18 Mar 2021, Shift 1 · Q26The circuit shown in the figure consists of a charged capacitor of capacity 3 $\mu$ F and a charge of 30 $\mu$ C. At time $t=0$ , when the…EasyNumerical valueHas a figure
9 Jan 2020, Shift 2 · Q12Two identical capacitors A and B, charged to the same potential 5V are connected in two different circuits as shown below at time $t=0$ .…MediumSingle correctHas a figure
2 Apr 2017 (offline) · Q16In the given circuit diagram when the current reaches steady state in the circuit, the charge on the capacitor of capacitance C will be :EasySingle correctHas a figure