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Electrostatics PYQs (previous year questions) for JEE Advanced: Electrostatics (Physics) had 37 questions across the 22 official JEE Advanced papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 18 of them. Asked in 11 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Electric Dipole, Gauss Law, Capacitors.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electric Dipole | 6 | 6 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2020, 2019 |
| Gauss Law | 6 | 5 | 2025, 2024, 2022, 2020, 2019 |
| Capacitors | 5 | 4 | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018 |
| Electric Potential | 4 | 4 | 2026, 2024, 2022, 2019 |
| Coulomb Force | 2 | 2 | 2024, 2020 |
| Gauss's Law | 2 | 2 | 2018, 2017 |
| Equipotential Surfaces | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Capacitance with Dielectric | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Capacitors with Dielectric | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Charge Transport | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Charged Sheets | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Charging by Contact | 1 | 1 | 2016 |
| Conducting Sphere | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Electric Field | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Electric Flux | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Millikan Oil Drop | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Motion in Electric Field | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
How to practise Electrostatics PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s Electrostatics 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.7 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Electric Potential: Locus of points where potentials of two charges have equal magnitude (official answer: A, B, C) PDF
- Q.8 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Electric Dipole: Rotation and energy of a dipole in a uniform field turned on and off (official answer: B, D OR D) PDF
- Q.16 (Paper 2) · Numerical · Capacitors with Dielectric: Change in capacitance as dielectric liquid shifts between chambers (official answer: 1.90–2.10) PDF
JEE Advanced2025
- Q.14 (Paper 1) · Matching · Electric Dipole: Match dipole pair configurations with resultant field at midpoint (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.2 (Paper 2) · MCQ · Gauss Law: Electric flux through a plane inside a dielectric-filled cylindrical capacitor (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.5 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Conducting Sphere: Induced charge on a grounded sphere near a point charge after moving it (official answer: A, B, C) PDF
- Q.7 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Charged Sheets: Fields in regions between six charged sheets in two configurations (official answer: A) PDF
JEE Advanced2024
- Q.3 (Paper 1) · MCQ · Coulomb Force: Frequency of small oscillations of a charged bead on a hoop (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.15 (Paper 1) · Matching · Capacitors: Capacitance of four parallel sheets under different connections (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.5 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Electric Dipole: Oscillation of a dipole near a charged spherical shell (official answer: B, D) PDF
- Q.10 (Paper 2) · Integer · Gauss Law: Flux through curved surface of a cylinder for two half-angles (official answer: 3) PDF
- Q.12 (Paper 2) · Integer · Electric Potential: Potential difference due to a line charge through a charged shell (official answer: 171) PDF
JEE Advanced2023
JEE Advanced2022
- Q.3 (Paper 1) · Numerical · Capacitors: Charge stored on one capacitor of a capacitor-battery network (official answer: 7.9–8.1) PDF
- Q.9 (Paper 1) · MSQ · Capacitors: Dielectric-filled capacitor whose plates are moved apart with battery on (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.13 (Paper 1) · MSQ · Electric Flux: Flux and field due to six charges arranged around a regular hexagon (official answer: A, B, C) PDF
- Q.6 (Paper 2) · Integer · Gauss Law: Flux through the conical part of a cone-hemisphere closed surface (official answer: 3) PDF
- Q.9 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Gauss Law: Field, potential and charge for a sphere and shell with variable density (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.12 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Electric Potential: Motion of a charge on the axis of a charged disk with an extra force (official answer: A, C, D) PDF
JEE Advanced2021
JEE Advanced2020
- Q.18 (Paper 1) · Numerical · Gauss Law: Ratio of fluxes through spheres around a disc with varying charge density PDF
- Q.3 (Paper 2) · Integer · Millikan Oil Drop: Number of electrons on an oil drop held stationary between plates PDF
- Q.5 (Paper 2) · Integer · Electric Dipole: Work done bringing a dipole near a suspended point charge PDF
- Q.11 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Coulomb Force: Charged spheres on strings immersed in a dielectric liquid PDF
JEE Advanced2019
- Q.2 (Paper 1) · MCQ · Electric Potential: Effect of a small hole in a charged shell on field and potential (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.8 (Paper 1) · MSQ · Gauss Law: Flux of a charged shell through a coaxial cylinder of various sizes (official answer: A, B, C) PDF
- Q.16 (Paper 1) · Numerical · Capacitance with Dielectric: Capacitance with many dielectric layers of varying constant (official answer: 0.99–1.01) PDF
- Q.4 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Electric Dipole: Fields on an equipotential circle around a dipole in a uniform field (official answer: A, C) PDF
JEE Advanced2018
- Q.11 (Paper 1) · Numerical · Capacitors: Dielectric constant from charge sharing among three capacitors PDF
- Q.3 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Gauss's Law: Flux through a spherical shell pierced by a line charge PDF
- Q.9 (Paper 2) · Numerical · Motion in Electric Field: Maximum speed of a charge in a sinusoidal electric field PDF
- Q.15 (Paper 2) · Matching · Electric Field: Match field-distance dependence with charge distributions PDF
JEE Advanced2017
- Q.10 (Paper 2) · MSQ · Gauss's Law: Flux through a hemisphere due to a nearby point charge (official answer: A, D) PDF
JEE Advanced2016
Electrostatics in other exams
The same chapter in other official papers we tagged: JEE Main (19 questions), NEET (4 questions).
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FAQ
How many Electrostatics questions come in JEE Advanced?
In the official papers we tagged: 3 in 2026, 4 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 6 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 4 in 2020, 4 in 2019, 4 in 2018, 1 in 2017 and 2 in 2016 (2 papers each year). That is 37 questions in all, about 10% of Physics.
Which Electrostatics topics repeat in JEE Advanced?
Asked in the most papers: Electric Dipole, Gauss Law, Capacitors. 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.