JEE Main · Physics · Current Electricity
Current Division Rule
JEE Main asked Current Division Rule 3 times in 3 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2021, 2022 and 2025. It belongs to Kirchhoff's Laws, in Current Electricity (Physics). The longest wait between two years asking it was 3 years.
Updated 2026-10-24
- Times asked
- 3
- in 3 shifts
- Years
- 3 of 8
- First asked
- 2021
- last in 2025
- Pattern
- Comes in cycles
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2021, 2022 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.
Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 1 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.
Shift by shift
Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.
How JEE Main framed it
Numerical value is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.
- Ammeter reading with shunt resistor
- Percentage of current through shunted galvanometer
Difficulty
2 of the 3 questions had a numerical answer.
Every question
All 3 questions
From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.
- 3 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q49In the figure shown below, a resistance of is connected in series to an ammeter A of resistance . A shunt…EasyNumerical valueHas a figure
- 27 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q36A galvanometer is shunted by a resistance of . The percentage of the total current which passes through the…EasySingle correct
- 25 Feb 2021, Shift 2 · Q29A current of 6 A enters one corner P of an equilateral triangle PQR having 3 wires of resistance each and leaves by the corner…EasyNumerical valueHas a figure
Shifts: 25 Feb 2021, Shift 2, 27 Jun 2022, Shift 1, 3 Apr 2025, Shift 1.
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