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NEET UG 2021 · Physics · Question 6

NEET 2021 Physics, question 6

Question 6 of the NEET 2021 paper (code O1) is a Physics question from Current Electricity. Its idea, Comparing EMFs via Potentiometer, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q6 · Physics

In a potentiometer circuit a cell of EMF 1.5 V gives balance point at 36 cm length of wire. If another cell of EMF 2.5 V replaces the first cell, then at what length of the wire, the balance point occurs ?

  1. 164 cm
  2. 262 cm
  3. 360 cmOfficial answer
  4. 421.6 cm

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

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The only question on Comparing EMFs via Potentiometer

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Comparing EMFs via Potentiometer: 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.

Current Electricity: questions per paper

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