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Electric Charges and Fields: NEET previous year questions

14 questions in ten years of NEET, asked in 9 of 10 years. Here is what this chapter tests and how.

Practise this chapter
Asked in 10 years
14
9 of 10 papers
10-year average
1.4
a paper · 1.0 since 2024 -0.5
Typical range
1–2
questions a paper; fewest 0, most 3
Weighted estimate
1.3
model, recent papers count more · about 5 marks
  • Typical range (fact)
  • 10-year average (fact)
  • Weighted estimate (model)

Typical range: questions per paper in the middle eight of the ten papers, leaving out the single highest and lowest year (about the 10th to 90th percentile), each paper scaled to 180 questions. The ten-year average and the range are historical fact. The weighted estimate is a model: each paper's share, with recent papers counting more (half-life three years), and dropped syllabus removed. It is a guide to effort, not a forecast.

What to do

How to spend time on Electric Charges and Fields

Priority

Lower priority

Among the chapters that shared the last fifth of the questions. How bands are set

Past questions
14in 9 of 10 papers
Study plan gives it
10 hover 12 months; 8 h over 6
Study this chapter →Practise →

Ideas asked most often

  1. Dipole in a Uniform Field2×

158 of the 174 ideas in Lumi’s map of this chapter have not been asked or touched in ten years. New questions often come from ideas like these, so learn the whole chapter, not just the list above.

Questions per year

0241’171’183’191’202’211’222’230’242’251’26

Kind of question

SHARE OF 10 YEARS
  • Calculation50%
  • Recall14%
  • Concept14%
  • Figure-based14%
  • Application7%

Most common asks: numerical (7); compare motion of electron and proton in field (1); true statement selection on zero net flux (1).

Profile

This chapter in numbers

Where it ranks, how steady it is, and what it costs to study.

Rank, all NEET chapters
#68
of 80 by weighted estimate
Rank in Physics
#20
of 27 chapters
Share of the paper
0.8%
ten-year average
Busiest year
2019
3 questions
Year to year
Steady
varies by about 0.8 questions
Long-run direction
-0.04
questions per paper, per year
Easy questions
57%
37% of ideas rated hard
With a figure
21%
graph, diagram or structure
Study time
10 h
8 h on a 6-month plan
Marks per study hour
0.51
#66 of 80 chapters
Foundation for others
58%
of its ideas are used in other chapters

Difficulty, year by year

Each question rated easy, medium or hard against NCERT.

  • 20171
  • 20181
  • 20193
  • 20201
  • 20212
  • 20221
  • 20232
  • 2024
  • 20252
  • 20261
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard

What it asks you to do

SHARE OF QUESTIONS
  • Calculation29%
  • Concept29%
  • Application14%
  • Recall14%
  • Multi-step14%

Coverage

How much of the chapter NEET has used

We split the chapter into 174 ideas. In ten years NEET built a question around 9 of them. Most of the chapter has never been asked, which is why learning it whole beats memorising past questions.

Asked as the main idea
9
Touched on in a question
7
Never asked
158

Topics

What repeats, topic by topic

Questions per topic in each year's paper. Topics that come every year are worth learning first.

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
02+questions in that year’s paper

Drill down

Topic, idea, question

Open a topic to see every idea NEET tested inside it, then open an idea to read the questions. Each row shows its ten papers.

  • Open9 · 64%22

    8 ideas inside

    • Repeated2 · 22%
    • 1 · 11%
    • 1 · 11%
    • 1 · 11%
    • 1 · 11%
    • 1 · 11%
    • 1 · 11%
    • 1 · 11%
  • Open5 · 36%2

Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.

Ideas

The exact ideas NEET has asked

Inside the topics, 13 different ideas were tested. These came more than once, or are new since 2024.

  • Dipole in a Uniform Field2×

    numerical

  • Off-Center Charge in CavityNew1×

    field of charge in conductor cavity

  • Force After Conductor ContactNew1×

    numerical

Every question

Electric Charges and Fields questions, year by year

The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper.

NEET 20261 question

  • Q33A point charge Q is placed inside a cavity within a solid isolated conducting sphere. Consider points A, B and C as shown in the figure,…Figure-based · figure

NEET 20252 questions

  • Q28Two identical charged conducting spheres A and B have their centres separated by a certain distance. Charge on each sphere is q and the…Numerical
  • Q35An electric dipole with dipole moment 5×10−65\times10^{-6} Cm is aligned with the direction of a uniform electric field of magnitude…Numerical

NEET 20232 questions

  • Q9An electric dipole is placed at an angle of 30° with an electric field of intensity 2×1052\times10^{5} N C−1^{-1}. It experiences a torque…Numerical
  • Q17If ∮sE⃗⋅dS⃗=0\oint_s \vec{E}\cdot\vec{dS}=0 over a surface, then :One-line MCQ

NEET 20221 question

  • Q39Two point charges -q and +q are placed at a distance of L, as shown in the figure. The magnitude of electric field intensity at a distance…One-line MCQ · figure

NEET 20212 questions

  • Q2Polar molecules are the molecules :One-line MCQ
  • Q31A dipole is placed in an electric field as shown. In which direction will it move ?Figure-based · figure

NEET 20201 question

  • Q151A spherical conductor of radius 10 cm has a charge of 3.2×10−73.2\times10^{-7} C distributed uniformly. What is the magnitude of electric field…Numerical

NEET 20193 questions

  • Q25A hollow metal sphere of radius R is uniformly charged. The electric field due to the sphere at a distance r from the centre :One-line MCQ
  • Q36Two parallel infinite line charges with linear charge densities +λ C/m and −λ C/m are placed at a distance of 2R in free space. What is…One-line MCQ
  • Q37Two point charges A and B, having charges +Q and −Q respectively, are placed at certain distance apart and force acting between them is F.…Numerical

NEET 20181 question

  • Q22An electron falls from rest through a vertical distance h in a uniform and vertically upward directed electric field E. The direction of…One-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

  • Q10Suppose the charge of a proton and an electron differ slightly. One of them is −e-e, the other is (e+Δe)(e+\Delta e). If the net of…Numerical

Questions from the official NEET UG papers published by NTA (CBSE before 2019). Topic and idea tags, counts and notes are Lumi’s.

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