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Gravitation PYQs (previous year questions) for JEE Advanced: Gravitation (Physics) had 10 questions across the 22 official JEE Advanced papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 9 of them. Asked in 9 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Orbital Motion, Escape Velocity, Central Force Orbits.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escape Velocity | 2 | 2 | 2022, 2017 |
| Orbital Motion | 2 | 2 | 2025, 2024 |
| Acceleration due to Gravity | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Force Orbits | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Gravitational Field | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Kepler Laws | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Satellite Motion | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Satellites | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
How to practise Gravitation PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s Gravitation 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.4 (Paper 2) · MCQ · Central Force Orbits: Period of radial oscillation for a perturbed circular orbit (official answer: A) PDF
JEE Advanced2025
JEE Advanced2024
- Q.2 (Paper 2) · MCQ · Orbital Motion: New orbit radius and period after an extra central potential (official answer: A) PDF
JEE Advanced2023
- Q.7 (Paper 1) · MCQ · Acceleration due to Gravity: Height of a satellite from the ratio of gravitational accelerations (official answer: A) PDF
JEE Advanced2022
- Q.1 (Paper 1) · Numerical · Escape Velocity: Ratio of escape speeds of two stars after mass transfer (official answer: 2.2–2.4) PDF
JEE Advanced2021
- Q.18 (Paper 2) · Integer · Kepler Laws: Orbital period of a binary star system relative to the Earth PDF
JEE Advanced2019
- Q.1 (Paper 1) · MCQ · Gravitational Field: Number density of a gas cloud of particles in circular orbits (official answer: A) PDF
JEE Advanced2018
- Q.16 (Paper 2) · Matching · Satellite Motion: Match ratios of orbital quantities of two satellites PDF
JEE Advanced2017
- Q.6 (Paper 2) · MCQ · Escape Velocity: Minimum launch speed to leave the Sun-Earth system (official answer: B) PDF
Gravitation in other exams
The same chapter in other official papers we tagged: JEE Main (7 questions), NEET (1 question).
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FAQ
How many Gravitation questions come in JEE Advanced?
In the official papers we tagged: 1 in 2026, 2 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2019, 1 in 2018 and 1 in 2017 (2 papers each year). Not asked in the other 2 years. That is 10 questions in all, about 3% of Physics.
Which Gravitation topics repeat in JEE Advanced?
Asked in the most papers: Orbital Motion, Escape Velocity, Central Force Orbits. 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.