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Practise 62 JEE Advanced previous year questions on Electrostatics, compiled from papers spanning 2006 to 2026. Each question is pulled directly from the actual exam paper it appeared in, so you're practising in the exact style and difficulty JEE Advanced tests.

Electrostatics has been asked in 20 of the 27 years of JEE Advanced papers analysed (2000–2026), with 62 questions in all. 15% of them were easy, 53% moderate and 32% tough. Most of its questions came from 2009, with 5 questions that year. In the last three years (2024–2026) it had 10 questions across 6 papers, about 1.7 per paper.

The chapter's 5 topics are not weighted equally: Electric Field and Electric Field Lines (20 questions, 32%), Electric Flux and Gauss Law (16 questions, 26%), and Electric Potential and Potential Energy (12 questions, 19%) have been asked the most. Over the last five years the most frequent topics have been Electric Potential and Potential Energy (4), Electric Flux and Gauss Law (4), and Electric Dipole (4). Electric Field and Electric Field Lines has produced the most tough questions (6).

  1. 1Two charges and are placed at the points and , respectively, in the plane, where and . If is the potential at a point in the plane due to ch2026 (Paper 2)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  2. 2Consider an electric dipole comprising two charges and each with mass , separated by a fixed distance and initially at rest with its dipole 2026 (Paper 2)Electric Dipole
  3. 3List-I shows four configurations, each consisting of a pair of ideal electric dipoles. Each dipole has a dipole moment of magnitude , orient2025 (Paper 1)Electric Dipole
  4. 4Two co-axial conducting cylinders of same length with radii and are kept, as shown in Fig. 1. The charge on the inner cylinder is and the ou2025 (Paper 2)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  5. 5A positive point charge of is kept at a distance of 20 cm from the center of a neutral conducting sphere of radius 10 cm . The sphere is the2025 (Paper 2)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  6. 6Six infinitely large and thin non-conducting sheets are fixed in configurations I and II. As shown in the figure, the sheets carry uniform s2025 (Paper 2)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  7. 7Two beads, each with charge and mass , are on a horizontal, frictionless, non-conducting, circular hoop of radius . One of the beads is glue2024 (Paper 1)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  8. 8A small electric dipole , having a moment of inertia about its center, is kept at a distance from the center of a spherical shell of radius 2024 (Paper 2)Electric Dipole
  9. 9A charge is kept at the central point of a cylindrical region. The two edges subtend a half-angle at , as shown in the figure. When , then t2024 (Paper 2)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  10. 10An infinitely long thin wire, having a uniform charge density per unit length of , is passing through a spherical shell of radius , as shown2024 (Paper 2)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  11. 11An electric dipole is formed by two charges + q and - q located in x y -plane at ( 0 , 2 ) mm and ( 0 , 2 ) mm , respectively, as shown in t2023 (Paper 2)Electric Dipole
  12. 12Six charges are placed around a regular hexagon of side length a as shown in the figure. Five of them have charge q , and the remaining one 2022 (Paper 1)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  13. 13A charge q is surrounded by a closed surface consisting of an inverted cone of height h and base radius R , and a hemisphere of radius R as 2022 (Paper 2)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  14. 14In the figure, the inner (shaded) region A represents a sphere of radius r A = 1 , within which the electrostatic charge density varies with2022 (Paper 2)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  15. 15A disk of radius R with uniform positive charge density is placed on the x y plane with its center at the origin. The Coulomb potential alon2022 (Paper 2)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  16. 16Two point charges and are placed in the -plane at the origin and a point , respectively, as shown in the figure. This results in an equipote2021 (Paper 1)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  17. 17Two point charges and are placed in the -plane at the origin and a point , respectively, as shown in the figure. This results in an equipote2021 (Paper 1)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  18. 18One end of a spring of negligible unstretched length and spring constant k is fixed at the origin ( 0 , 0 ) . A point particle of mass m car2020 (Paper 1)Electric Dipole
  19. 19A circular disc of radius R carries surface charge density ( r ) = 0 1 - r R , where 0 is a constant and r is the distance from the center o2020 (Paper 1)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  20. 20Two large circular discs separated by a distance of 0 . 01 m are connected to a battery via a switch as shown in the figure. Charged oil dro2020 (Paper 2)Electric Charge and Coulomb's law
  21. 21Two identical non-conducting solid spheres of same mass and charge are suspended in air from a common point by two non-conducting, massless 2020 (Paper 2)Electric Charge and Coulomb's law
  22. 22A thin spherical insulating shell of radius R carries a uniformly distributed charge such that the potential at its surface is V 0 . A hole 2019 (Paper 1)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  23. 23A charged shell of radius R carries a total charge Q . Given as the flux of electric field through a closed cylindrical surface of height h 2019 (Paper 1)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  24. 24An electric dipole with dipole moment p 0 2 i ^ + j ^ is held fixed at the origin O in the presence of an uniform electric field of magnitud2019 (Paper 2)Electric Dipole
  25. 25An infinitely long thin non-conducting wire is parallel to the z - axis and carries a uniform line charge density λ . It pierces a thin non-2018 (Paper 2)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  26. 26The electric field E is measured at a point P ( 0,0 , d ) , generated due to various charge distributions and the dependence of E on d is fo2018 (Paper 2)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  27. 27A point charge + Q is placed just outside an imaginary hemispherical surface of radius R as shown in the figure. Which of the following stat2017 (Paper 2)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  28. 28An infinitely long uniform line charge distribution of charge per unit length λ lies parallel to the y -axis in the y - z plane at z = 3 2 α2015 (Paper 1)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  29. 29The figures below depict two situations in which two infinitely long static line charges of constant positive line charge density λ are kept2015 (Paper 1)Electric Charge and Coulomb's law
  30. 30Consider a uniform spherical charge distribution of radius R 1 centred at the origin O. In this distribution, a spherical cavity of radius R2015 (Paper 2)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  31. 31Let E 1 r , E 2 r and E 3 r be the respective electric fields at a distance r from a point charge Q, an infinitely long wire with constant l2014 (Paper 1)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  32. 32Charges Q, 2Q and 4Q are uniformly distributed in three dielectric solid spheres 1, 2 and 3 of radii R/2, R and 2R respectively, as shown in2014 (Paper 2)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  33. 33Four charges Q 1 , Q 2 , Q 3 and Q 4 of same magnitude are fixed along the x axis at x = - 2 a , - a , + a and + 2 a , respectively. A posit2014 (Paper 2)Electric Charge and Coulomb's law
  34. 34Two non-conducting solid spheres of radii R and 2 R , having uniform volume charge densities 1 and 2 , respectively, touch each other. The n2013 (Paper 1)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  35. 35Two non-conducting spheres of radii R 1 and R 2 and carrying uniform volume charge densities + and - , respectively, are placed such that th2013 (Paper 2)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  36. 36Consider a thin spherical shell of radius with centre at the origin, carrying uniform positive surface charge density. The variation of the 2012 (Paper 1)Electric Potential and Potential Energy
  37. 37A cubical region of side has its centre at the origin. It encloses three fixed point charges, at at and at . Choose the correct options(s)2012 (Paper 1)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  38. 38An infinitely long solid cylinder of radius has a uniform volume charge density . It has a spherical cavity of radius with its centre on the2012 (Paper 1)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  39. 39Six point charges are kept at the vertices of a regular hexagon of side and centre , as shown in the figure. Given that , which of the follo2012 (Paper 2)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  40. 40Consider an electric field where is a constant. The flux through the shaded area ( as shown in the figure) due to this field is2011 (Paper 1)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  41. 41A spherical metal shell of radius and a solid metal sphere of radius are kept far apart and each is given charge . Now, they are connected b2011 (Paper 1)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  42. 42Four point charges, each of , are rigidly fixed at the four corners of a square planar soap film of side . The surface tension of the soap f2011 (Paper 1)Electric Charge and Coulomb's law
  43. 43Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?2011 (Paper 2)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  44. 44A few electric field lines for a system of two charges and fixed at two different points on the -axis are shown in the figure. These lines s2010 (Paper 1)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  45. 45A tiny spherical oil drop carrying a net charge is balanced in still air with a vertical uniform electric field of strength . When the field2010 (Paper 2)Electric Charge and Coulomb's law
  46. 46A uniformly charged thin spherical shell of radius carries uniform surface charge density of per unit area. It is made of two hemispherical 2010 (Paper 2)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  47. 47A disk of radius having a uniformly distributed charge is placed in the plane with its centre at . A rod of length a carrying a uniformly di2009 (Paper 1)Electric Flux and Gauss Law
  48. 48Three concentric metallic spherical shells of radii are given charges , respectively. It is found that the surface charge densities on the o2009 (Paper 1)Electric Charge and Coulomb's law
  49. 49Six point charges, each of the same magnitude , are arranged in different manners as shown in Column-II. In each case, a point and a line pa2009 (Paper 1)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines
  50. 50Under the influence of the coulomb field of charge , a charge is moving around it in an elliptical orbit. Find out the correct statement(s).2009 (Paper 2)Electric Field and Electric Field Lines

Frequently Asked Questions

1.How many questions are available for Electrostatics?

This chapter includes 62 questions compiled from JEE Advanced papers spanning 2006 to 2026.

2.Are these questions only from JEE Advanced, or from other exams too?

These are JEE Advanced questions specifically for the Electrostatics chapter. Questions from other exams like JEE Main or NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) are organised separately under their respective exam sections.

3.Is Electrostatics an important chapter for JEE Advanced Physics?

Electrostatics has appeared in 20 of the 21 years of JEE Advanced papers covered here, with 62 questions across 33 papers - about 2 per paper it appears in.

4.What is the difficulty level of Electrostatics questions in JEE Advanced?

Of the 62 questions analysed for this chapter, 15% are easy, 53% moderate and 32% tough. 2009 had the most, with 5 questions.

5.Which topics in Electrostatics should I focus on?

These topics have carried the most weightage in Electrostatics:

  • Electric Field and Electric Field Lines - 20 questions (32%)
  • Electric Flux and Gauss Law - 16 questions (26%)
  • Electric Potential and Potential Energy - 12 questions (19%)
  • Electric Field and Electric Field Lines has produced the most tough questions (6).
6.Is Electrostatics's weightage in JEE Advanced going up or down?

Across all 33 papers analysed, Electrostatics has averaged about 1.9 questions per paper. In the last three years (2024–2026), that average has stayed about the same, at about 1.7 questions per paper. Use the year-wise numbers on this page for the exact trend before you decide how much time to give it.