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Electrostatics PYQs (previous year questions) for JEE Main: Electrostatics (Physics) had 19 questions across the 11 official JEE Main papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 9 of them. Asked in 3 of 3 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Electric Dipole, Capacitor Combinations, Gauss’s Law.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 3 of 3 years.
| Year | Papers | Questions | Per paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEE Main 2026 | 9 | 15 | 1.7 |
| JEE Main 2017 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| JEE Main 2016 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Most-asked concepts
Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.
| Concept | Questions | Papers | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capacitor Combinations | 3 | 3 | 2026, 2017, 2016 |
| Electric Dipole | 3 | 3 | 2026, 2017 |
| Gauss's Law | 2 | 2 | 2026, 2016 |
| Capacitance | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Capacitance and Energy | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Capacitor Energy | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Capacitor with Dielectric | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Conducting Spheres | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Conductors and Capacitors | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Coulomb's Law | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Electric Field | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Electric Field Between Plates | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Electric Potential and Field | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Work in Electric Field | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
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 Main2026
- Q.32 (2 April, shift 1) · MCQ · Capacitor with Dielectric: Percentage increase in capacitance when half the gap is filled with K = 5 (official answer: option 2) PDF
- Q.34 (2 April, shift 1) · MCQ · Conducting Spheres: Ratio of surface fields of two connected charged spheres of different radii (official answer: option 4) PDF
- Q.36 (2 April, shift 1) · MCQ · Electric Dipole: Ratio of dipole moments of two perpendicular dipoles from resultant field direction (official answer: option 2) PDF
- Q.39 (2 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Electric Field Between Plates: Plate potentials needed to hold charged oil droplets stationary (official answer: option 1) PDF
- Q.40 (2 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Gauss's Law: Ratio of electric flux through two spheres enclosing different charges (official answer: option 3) PDF
- Q.40 (4 April, shift 1) · MCQ · Capacitor Energy: Rate of change of capacitor energy as plates separate at constant voltage (official answer: option 1) PDF
- Q.36 (4 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Electric Dipole: Percentage change in dipole oscillation frequency when another field is added (official answer: option 1) PDF
- Q.37 (4 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Capacitor Combinations: Equivalent capacitance between A and B in a given network (official answer: option 1) PDF
- Q.38 (4 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Conductors and Capacitors: Assertion-reason on charge inside conductors and carriers inside a capacitor (official answer: option 2) PDF
- Q.38 (6 April, shift 1) · MCQ · Electric Field: Charge on half ring from field at its centre (official answer: option 1) PDF
- Q.49 (6 April, shift 1) · Numerical · Work in Electric Field: Work to move a charge between points in a non-uniform field (official answer: 186) PDF
- Q.37 (6 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Electric Potential and Field: Electric field at a point from potential V = 5(x^2 - y^2) (official answer: option 1) PDF
- Q.40 (6 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Capacitance and Energy: Energy change when charged sphere touches identical uncharged sphere (official answer: option 2) PDF
- Q.41 (8 April, shift 2) · MCQ · Coulomb's Law: Force vector on q2 due to q1 at given positions (official answer: option 2) PDF
- Q.46 (8 April, shift 2) · Numerical · Capacitance: Relative permittivity of a leaky dielectric from its resistance (official answer: 2) PDF
JEE Main2017
JEE Main2016
Electrostatics in other exams
The same chapter in other official papers we tagged: JEE Advanced (37 questions), NEET (4 questions).
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FAQ
How many Electrostatics questions come in JEE Main?
In the official papers we tagged: 15 in 2026 (9 papers), 2 in 2017 (1 paper) and 2 in 2016 (1 paper). That is 19 questions in all, about 7% of Physics.
Which Electrostatics topics repeat in JEE Main?
Asked in the most papers: Electric Dipole, Capacitor Combinations, Gauss’s Law. The concept table lists every one with its count.
Are these official JEE Main questions?
Yes. Every question is from an official JEE Main paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.