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Coulomb's Law: NEET previous year questions

9 questions in ten years of NEET, in 7 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years: 9; about 0.9 per paper
Years asked: 7/10; last asked 2025
Chance of a question next paper: 64%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.8; model; history: 0.9 a paper on average, typically 0–2

Key findings

01
Asked in 7 of 10 papers, 9 questions in all: #92 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.3 years on average. Last asked in 2025.
02
88% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; none repeated an idea from the year before.
03
The most repeated idea is Dipole in a Uniform Field, asked 2 times (2023, 2025), usually as “numerical”.
04
NEET has asked 4 of the 88 ideas in this topic; 81 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as numerical (56%); 56% easy, 0% hard.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 0.9; per paper
Since 2024: 0.7; -0.3
Usual gap: 1.3 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.7; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 9 questions on Coulomb's Law since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy5 · 56%
Medium4 · 44%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

Numerical · 5 Q56%
One-line MCQ · 3 Q33%
Figure-based · 1 Q11%

Skill tested

Calculation · 3 Q33%
Application · 2 Q22%
Recall · 2 Q22%
Concept · 1 Q11%
Multi-step · 1 Q11%

Repeats

New idea, or one asked before?

Each column is a paper. Blue questions tested an idea NEET had not asked before; navy ones went back to an idea from an earlier paper. 2017 is the first paper, so everything in it counts as new.

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Idea asked for the first time
Idea asked in an earlier paper

Coverage of the topic

NEET has asked 4 of the 88 ideas in this topic. 81 have never been asked yet.

Asked directly4 · 5%
Touched inside another question3 · 3%
Never asked81 · 92%

Ideas come from Lumi’s syllabus map of NCERT. A never-asked idea is not a safe skip: most new questions come from exactly these.

Drill down

Idea, year, question

Every idea NEET tested in this topic, with its ten papers. Open one to read the questions.

ideaAskedShareYears’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Repeated2 · 22%22%2/10
- 2025 · Q35
  An electric dipole with dipole moment $5\times10^{-6}$ Cm is aligned with the direction of a uniform electric field of magnitude…
  easyNumerical
- 2023 · Q9
  An electric dipole is placed at an angle of 30° with an electric field of intensity $2\times10^{5}$ N C $^{-1}$ . It experiences a torque…
  easyNumericalNew idea
1 · 11%11%1/10
1 · 11%11%1/10
1 · 11%11%1/10
1 · 11%11%1/10
1 · 11%11%1/10
1 · 11%11%1/10
1 · 11%11%1/10

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

Ideas

Every idea inside this topic

8 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once. Electrostatic vs Gravitational Force is the foundation for 2 other ideas in the syllabus.

Dipole in a Uniform Field2×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next
Force After Conductor Contact1×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next
Field of an Electric Dipole1×
recall distance dependence of dipole field
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Force Between Dipole and Point Charge1×
direction of dipole motion in nonuniform field
Figure-based · 4% next
Polar and Non-Polar Molecules1×
definition recall of polar molecules
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Force After Percentage Charge Transfer1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next
Charged Particle in a Uniform Electric Field1×
compare motion of electron and proton in field
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Electrostatic vs Gravitational Force1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 2

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Dipole in a Uniform Fieldnumerical	2	NumericalApplication	6%	–
Force After Conductor Contactnumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	6%	–
Field of an Electric Dipolerecall distance dependence of dipole field	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Force Between Dipole and Point Chargedirection of dipole motion in nonuniform field	1	Figure-basedConcept	4%	–
Polar and Non-Polar Moleculesdefinition recall of polar molecules	1	One-line MCQRecall	4%	–
Force After Percentage Charge Transfernumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	4%	–
Charged Particle in a Uniform Electric Fieldcompare motion of electron and proton in field	1	One-line MCQApplication	4%	–
Electrostatic vs Gravitational Forcenumerical	1	NumericalMulti-step	4%	2 ideas

Chance next is the historical rate at which an idea with this record came back in the following paper. It is low for every idea, which is why learning the topic beats memorising past questions. All repeated ideas

Every question

Coulomb's Law questions, year by year

The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.

NEET 20252 questions

Q28
Two identical charged conducting spheres A and B have their centres separated by a certain distance. Charge on each sphere is q and the…
Idea: Force After Conductor Contact
New ideaMediumNumerical
Q35
An electric dipole with dipole moment $5\times10^{-6}$ Cm is aligned with the direction of a uniform electric field of magnitude…
Idea: Dipole in a Uniform Field
EasyNumerical

NEET 20231 question

Q9
An electric dipole is placed at an angle of 30° with an electric field of intensity $2\times10^{5}$ N C $^{-1}$ . It experiences a torque…
Idea: Dipole in a Uniform Field
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20221 question

Q39
Two 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…
Idea: Field of an Electric Dipole
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ · figure

NEET 20212 questions

Q2
Polar molecules are the molecules :
Idea: Polar and Non-Polar Molecules
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
Q31
A dipole is placed in an electric field as shown. In which direction will it move ?
Idea: Force Between Dipole and Point Charge
New ideaMediumFigure-based · figure

NEET 20191 question

Q37
Two point charges A and B, having charges +Q and −Q respectively, are placed at certain distance apart and force acting between them is F.…
Idea: Force After Percentage Charge Transfer
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20181 question

Q22
An electron falls from rest through a vertical distance h in a uniform and vertically upward directed electric field E. The direction of…
Idea: Charged Particle in a Uniform Electric Field
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20171 question

Q10
Suppose the charge of a proton and an electron differ slightly. One of them is $-e$ , the other is $(e+\Delta e)$ . If the net of…
Idea: Electrostatic vs Gravitational Force
MediumNumerical

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