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Current Electricity PYQs (previous year questions) for JEE Advanced: Current Electricity (Physics) had 18 questions across the 22 official JEE Advanced papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 13 of them. Asked in 9 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: RC Circuit, Wheatstone Bridge, Galvanometer Conversion.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 9 of 11 years, with 2 papers each year.
Most-asked concepts
Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.
| Concept | Questions | Papers | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| RC Circuit | 5 | 4 | 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016 |
| Galvanometer Conversion | 2 | 2 | 2018, 2016 |
| Wheatstone Bridge | 2 | 2 | 2022, 2020 |
| Capacitor in Circuit | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ammeter and Voltmeter | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Charge Relaxation | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Drift Velocity | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Electric Power | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kirchhoff Laws | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meter Bridge | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Resistance and Drift | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
How to practise Current Electricity PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s Current Electricity questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
- Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
- Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.
Questions by year
Each line gives the question number and paper, type, concept, our one-line summary and the official answer, with a link to the official PDF.
JEE Advanced2026
- Q.1 (Paper 2) · MCQ · Drift Velocity: Drift velocity of electrons in a wire connected to a cell (official answer: C) PDF
JEE Advanced2023
- Q.3 (Paper 1) · MSQ · RC Circuit: Currents and capacitor charge after a key is closed in a circuit (official answer: A, B, C, D) PDF
JEE Advanced2022
- Q.10 (Paper 1) · MSQ · Kirchhoff Laws: Currents and potentials in a two-battery resistor network (official answer: A, B, C, D) PDF
- Q.3 (Paper 2) · Integer · Wheatstone Bridge: Unknown resistance balancing a bridge with a tapered wire (official answer: 5) PDF
- Q.10 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Electric Power: Power dissipation ratios in two circuits with open and closed switches (official answer: A, B, C) PDF
JEE Advanced2021
- Q.7 (Paper 1) · Numerical · Capacitor in Circuit: Steady capacitor charge with switch at first position PDF
- Q.8 (Paper 1) · Numerical · Capacitor in Circuit: Steady capacitor charge after switch is moved PDF
- Q.17 (Paper 2) · Integer · Meter Bridge: Internal resistance of a cell using a meter bridge null point PDF
JEE Advanced2020
JEE Advanced2019
JEE Advanced2018
- Q.10 (Paper 2) · Numerical · Galvanometer Conversion: Shunt resistance to convert a moving coil galvanometer to ammeter PDF
JEE Advanced2017
JEE Advanced2016
- Q.5 (Paper 1) · MCQ · Charge Relaxation: Time variation of current density around a line charge in a conductor (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.10 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Galvanometer Conversion: Arrangements of galvanometers and resistors for max voltage or current range (official answer: B, C) PDF
- Q.11 (Paper 2) · MSQ · RC Circuit: Voltmeter and ammeter readings in an RC bridge after closing a key (official answer: A, B, C, D) PDF
Current Electricity in other exams
The same chapter in other official papers we tagged: CBSE Class 12 (28 questions), JEE Main (13 questions), NEET (5 questions).
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FAQ
How many Current Electricity questions come in JEE Advanced?
In the official papers we tagged: 1 in 2026, 1 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 2 in 2020, 2 in 2019, 1 in 2018, 2 in 2017 and 3 in 2016 (2 papers each year). Not asked in the other 2 years. That is 18 questions in all, about 5% of Physics.
Which Current Electricity topics repeat in JEE Advanced?
Asked in the most papers: RC Circuit, Wheatstone Bridge, Galvanometer Conversion. The concept table lists every one with its count.
Are these official JEE Advanced questions?
Yes. Every question is from an official JEE Advanced paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.