Class 12 · Physics · CBSE Board
Class 12 Physics — Previous Year Questions
754 questions from 9 years of Class 12 exams (2016–2025) — organised into 14 chapters for focused practice.
Chapter-wise PYQs
Electric Charges and Fields
34 questions
Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
32 questions
Current Electricity
51 questions
Moving Charges and Magnetism
50 questions
Magnetism and Matter
14 questions
Electromagnetic Induction
31 questions
Alternating Current
35 questions
Electromagnetic Waves
38 questions
Ray Optics and Optical Instruments
72 questions
Wave Optics
39 questions
Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
50 questions
Atoms
37 questions
Nuclei
36 questions
Semiconductor Electronics
50 questions
Year-wise Papers
2025
80 questions across 6 sets
2024
103 questions across 6 sets
2023
80 questions across 6 sets
2022
56 questions across 6 sets
2021
Board exams cancelled due to the COVID‑19 pandemic
2020
132 questions across 6 sets
2019
141 questions across 6 sets
2018
73 questions across 6 sets
2017
49 questions across 3 sets
2016
40 questions across 3 sets
About Class 12 Physics PYQs
These are the official questions asked in CBSE Class 12 Physics board examinations from 2016–2025. CBSE conducts each board exam in multiple question paper sets — students in different regions receive different sets of the same exam. Padhify’s question bank combines every set of every year and removes repeated questions, which is why recent years show 100+ unique questions while a single set contains roughly 30–35.
Practising chapter-wise PYQs is the highest-return preparation strategy for boards: examiners reuse concepts, question patterns and even exact phrasing year after year. Every question here appears with its year and marks, so you always know its weight in the real exam.