NEET UG 2017 · Physics · Question 1
NEET 2017 Physics, question 1
Question 1 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Physics question from Current Electricity. Its idea, Potentiometer Principle, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q1 · Physics
A potentiometer is an accurate and versatile device to make electrical measurements of E.M.F. because the method involves
- 1cells
- 2potential gradients
- 3a condition of no current flow through the galvanometerOfficial answer
- 4a combination of cells, galvanometer and resistances
Official answer: option 3 · CBSE official answer key
Same idea
The only question on Potentiometer Principle
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Potentiometer Principle: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Current Electricity in ten years of NEET
34 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.2 a paper. Kirchhoff's Rules alone had 6.