Questions
14
across 8 papers
Share of subject
3.6%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#10
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
8 easy · 6 medium · 0 hard
Electromagnetic Waves contributed 14 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 3.6% of the subject and makes it the #10 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.8 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2020.
Of the 14 questions tagged for difficulty, 57% were easy, 43% medium and 0% hard — a chapter where NCERT-level preparation pays off directly.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 1.7 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 2 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Relation Between Electric Field, Magnetic Field and Speed of Light — 4 questions across 4 papers.
7 topics tagged under Electromagnetic Waves. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relation Between Electric Field, Magnetic Field and Speed of Light | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 4 | 3 | 1 | – |
| Displacement Current (Consequences of Displacement Current) | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Important Characteristics and Nature of Electromagnetic Waves | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Electromagnetic Spectrum (Microwaves) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Electromagnetic Spectrum (Radio Waves) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Intensity of Electromagnetic Wave | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Sources of Electromagnetic Waves (Important Characteristic and Nature of Electromagnetic Waves) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
No question in this chapter was tagged hard.
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 14 Physics questions came from Electromagnetic Waves — 3.6% of the subject, or about 1.8 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #10 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is an above-average-weightage Physics chapter, with 14 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Relation Between Electric Field, Magnetic Field and Speed of Light (4), Displacement Current (Consequences of Displacement Current) (3) and Important Characteristics and Nature of Electromagnetic Waves (3). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 14 difficulty-tagged questions, 57% were easy, 43% medium and 0% hard.
Important Characteristics and Nature of Electromagnetic Waves, Electromagnetic Spectrum (Radio Waves) and Sources of Electromagnetic Waves (Important Characteristic and Nature of… were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Electromagnetic Waves. 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.