Questions
17
across 8 papers
Share of subject
4.4%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#7
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
7 easy · 8 medium · 2 hard
Alternating Current contributed 17 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 4.4% of the subject and makes it the #7 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 2.1 questions per paper, peaking at 4 in NEET 2023.
Of the 17 questions tagged for difficulty, 41% were easy, 47% medium and 12% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
It has been asked less often lately: 1.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 2.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit — 3 questions across 3 papers.
11 topics tagged under Alternating Current. Numbers show how many questions each topic had in each paper; E / M / H are the easy, medium and hard counts.
| Topic | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Re | Total | E | M | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Transformers | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit (Variation of Impedance with Frequency of Source) | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| AC Voltage Applied to an Inductor and Capacitor | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit (Phase Relationshirp Between V and I) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit (Resonance in Series LCR Circuit) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Ac Voltage Applied to Capacitor (Reactance of Capacitive Circuit) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Alternating Current and Emf (Peak Value of AC Voltage and Current) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Alternating Current and emf (Root Mean Square (RMS) Value of Full and Half Cycle…) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Power in AC Circuits: the Power Factor | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Power in AC Circuits: the Power Factor (Average and Instantaneous Power in AC Circuits) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 17 Physics questions came from Alternating Current — 4.4% of the subject, or about 2.1 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #7 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Physics chapter, with 17 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit (3), Transformers (3) and AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit (Variation of Impedance with… (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 17 difficulty-tagged questions, 41% were easy, 47% medium and 12% hard.
AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit, AC Voltage Applied to Series LCR Circuit (Resonance in Series LCR Circuit) and Alternating Current and Emf (Peak Value of AC Voltage and Current) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Alternating Current. Use the practice button on this page to open the set, attempt questions and check your answers.
Counts come from Edurack's tagged set of NEET papers 2020–2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), mapped to NCERT chapters and topics. Use them as a trend guide — past frequency doesn't guarantee what a future paper will ask.