Questions
26
across 8 papers
Share of subject
6.7%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#2
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
7 easy · 14 medium · 5 hard
Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance contributed 26 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 6.7% of the subject and makes it the #2 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 3.3 questions per paper, peaking at 5 in NEET 2021.
Of the 26 questions tagged for difficulty, 27% were easy, 54% medium and 19% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
Its weight has stayed fairly steady: 3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 4 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Combination of Capacitors (Series Grouping, Parallel Grouping) — 4 questions across 4 papers.
17 topics tagged under Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combination of Capacitors (Series Grouping, Parallel Grouping) | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 4 | 3 | 1 | – |
| Energy Stored in Capacitor (Energy Stored in Capacitor and Energy Density in…) | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Effect of Dielectric on Capacitance | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Equipotential Surfaces (Relation Between Electric Field and Potential) | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Potential due to Point Charge & Electric Dipole | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Capacitors and Capacitance (Capacitors and Their Types and Their r– Capacitance) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Electrostatic Potential (Electrostatic Potential and Potential Difference) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Electrostatic Potential (Work Done to Move Charge in Electrostatic Field) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Electrostatics of Conductors (A Conductor Placed in Electric Field) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Electrostatics of Conductors (Important Points about Electrostatics of Conductors) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Potential Due to Continuous Charge Distribution (Potential Due to Spherical Shell) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Potential Due to Continuous Charge Distribution (Potential Due to Uniformly Charged Sphere) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Potential Energy in an External Field (Potential Energy of Dipole in an External Field) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Potential due to Point Charge and Electric Dipole (Potential Due to Dipole at Longitudinal or End on P…) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Sharing of Charge and Common PPotential (Sharing of Charge and Common Potential) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Work Done to Move Electric Dipole in Electrostatic Field and Potential Energy of an Electric Dipole in Uniform Electric Field | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| eSharing of Charge and Common Ppotential (Sharing of Charge and Common Potential) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 26 Physics questions came from Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance — 6.7% of the subject, or about 3.3 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #2 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is one of the five highest-weightage Physics chapters, with 26 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Combination of Capacitors (Series Grouping, Parallel Grouping) (4), Energy Stored in Capacitor (Energy Stored in Capacitor and Energy Density in…) (4) and Effect of Dielectric on Capacitance (2). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 26 difficulty-tagged questions, 27% were easy, 54% medium and 19% hard.
Combination of Capacitors (Series Grouping, Parallel Grouping), Energy Stored in Capacitor (Energy Stored in Capacitor and Energy Density in…), Electrostatic Potential (Work Done to Move Charge in Electrostatic Field) and Electrostatics of Conductors (A Conductor Placed in Electric Field) and more were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance. 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.