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Current Electricity JEE Main PYQs, 2020 to 2025

Current Electricity has 96 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2025, about 16 per year across all shifts. The most asked topic is Ohm's Law and Resistance (43 questions), followed by Electrical Power and Heating (17) and Drift Velocity and Mobility (9).

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96Total PYQs
6Years covered
7Topics
2025 Apr S2Latest paper

Current Electricity questions per year

YearQuestions
20256
202420
202327
202220
202117
20206

Topic-wise weightage

TopicQuestionsShare of chapterLast asked
Ohm's Law and Resistance4345%2025
Electrical Power and Heating1718%2025
Drift Velocity and Mobility910%2023
Potentiometer99%2024
EMF and Internal Resistance88%2025
Electrical Power55%2025
Wheatstone and Metre Bridge55%2024

Sample questions from recent papers

JEE Main 2025 · 4 Apr · Shift 2 · Electrical Power and Heating

There are ' nn ' number of identical electric bulbs, each is designed to draw a power pp independently from the mains supply. They are now joined in series across the mains supply. The total power drawn by the combination is :

  1. (A) np
  2. (B) p
  3. (C) pn2\frac{\mathrm{p}}{\mathrm{n}^2}
  4. (D) pn\frac{p}{n}

Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2025 · 2 Apr · Shift 1 · Electrical Power

The battery of a mobile phone is rated as 4.2 V,5800 mAh4.2 \mathrm{~V}, 5800 \mathrm{~mAh}. How much energy is stored ir it when fully charged?

  1. (A) 87.7 kJ
  2. (B) 43.8 kJ
  3. (C) 48.7 kJ
  4. (D) 24.4 kJ

Answer: (A)

Step-by-step solution

JEE Main 2025 · 28 Jan · Shift 1 · Ohm's Law and Resistance

A wire of resistance R is bent into an equilateral triangle and an identical wire is bent into aa square. The ratio of resistance between the two end points of an edge of the triangle to that of the square is

  1. (A) 8/98 / 9
  2. (B)9/89 / 8
  3. (C)32/2732 / 27
  4. (D)27/3227 / 32

Answer: (C)

Step-by-step solution

JEE Main 2025 · 22 Jan · Shift 1 · EMF and Internal Resistance

Given below are two statements :

Statement-I : The equivalent emf of two nonideal batteries connected in parallel is smaller than either of the two emfs.

Statement-II : The equivalent internal resistance of two nonideal batteries connected in parallel is smaller than the internal resistance of either of the two batteries.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

  1. (A)Statement-I is false but Statement-II is true
  2. (B)Statement-I is true but Statement-II is false
  3. (C)Both Statement-I and Statement-II are false
  4. (D)Both Statement-I and Statement-II are true

Answer: (A)

Step-by-step solution

JEE Main 2024 · 4 Apr · Shift 1 · Potentiometer

To measure the internal resistance of a battery, potentiometer is used. For R=10ΩR=10 \Omega, the balance point is observed at l=500 cml=500 \mathrm{~cm} and for R=1Ω\mathrm{R}=1 \Omega the balance point is observed at l=400 cml=400 \mathrm{~cm}. The internal resistance of the battery is approximately :

  1. (A)0.1Ω0.1 \Omega
  2. (B)0.3Ω0.3 \Omega
  3. (C)0.2Ω0.2 \Omega
  4. (D)0.4Ω0.4 \Omega

Answer: (B)

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JEE Main 2023 · 10 Apr · Shift 2 · Drift Velocity and Mobility

In a metallic conductor, under the effect of applied electric field, the free electrons of the conductor

  1. (A)move in the straight line paths in the same direction
  2. (B)move with the uniform velocity throughout from lower potential to higher potential
  3. (C)drift from higher potential to lower potential.
  4. (D)move in the curved paths from lower potential to higher potential

Answer: (D)

Step-by-step solution

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Frequently asked

How many questions come from Current Electricity in JEE Main?

96 questions from 2020 to 2025, about 16 per year. In 2025 it had 6.

Which Current Electricity topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Ohm's Law and Resistance (45%), Electrical Power and Heating (18%) and Drift Velocity and Mobility (10%) of all Current Electricity questions.

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