Most Repeated NUMS Physics MCQs
Every Physics question here appeared in two or more different NUMS exam years. There are 19 of them across the 37 solved past papers TestUstad holds, and each row names the papers and years it was found in so you can check it yourself. They cluster in Electromagnetism, which produces more repeats than any other Physics chapter on the paper.
How a repeat is counted
A question counts as repeated only when the same question, with the same correct answer, appears in two or more different exam years. Matching is done on the question text and the correct answer together, so a question that came back with its options reworded or reordered is still caught, while the dozens of unrelated English questions that share a stem like “Choose the correct option” are not counted as repeats of each other.
Measured across 37 solved past papers, 2005 to 2025, 6,760 questions searched, from the ETEA MDCAT, MDCAT, NUMS papers TestUstad holds solved. Nothing on this page is predicted, padded or inferred. Every row names the exact papers and years it was found in, and you can open those papers here and check.
What that measurement actually found: 19 repeated questions, and the most any single question has come back is 2 exam years. If you have seen a site claim a NUMS question that recurred five or six times, ask which papers it counted. On this corpus that question does not exist, and saying so is more useful to you than inventing one.
All 19 repeated NUMS Physics MCQs
Ranked by how many different exam years each question recurs in. Tap any question for the answer and a written explanation.
A distant star is receding from the Earth with a speed of 1.4o x 107 m/s. It emits light of frequency 4.57 x 10^14 Hz. The speed of light is 3.0 x 10^8 m/s. The Doppler effect formula can be used with light waves. What will bethe frequency of this light when detected on Earth?
Appeared in MDCAT 2022, MDCAT 2023.
Physics chapters these repeats come from
Revise these chapters first. A chapter that has produced a repeat before is one the examiner returns to, whether or not the same question comes back.
Most repeated NUMS Physics MCQs: frequently asked questions
How many Physics MCQs have actually repeated in NUMS?
19 Physics questions have appeared in two or more different exam years across the 37 solved NUMS past papers TestUstad holds. The most any one of them has repeated is 2 exam years. Each is listed on this page with the papers and years it was found in.
Which Physics chapter produces the most repeated NUMS MCQs?
Electromagnetism carries the most measured repeats of any Physics chapter on the NUMS paper. That makes it worth revising regardless of whether these exact questions return, because a chapter that has produced repeats before is a chapter the examiner keeps coming back to.
How is a repeated Physics MCQ identified?
By matching the question text together with its correct answer across different exam years. Both halves are needed: matching the full question alone would miss a question that came back with reworded options, and matching the question text alone would wrongly group unrelated questions that share a generic stem. Only genuine cross-year repeats are counted.
Should I only study these repeated Physics MCQs for NUMS?
No. 19 questions is a revision sweep, not a syllabus, and there is no guarantee any specific question returns. Use this list in your final week to lock in questions that are known to come back, and spend the rest of your time on the chapters that carry the most marks. TestUstad ranks those separately on the NUMS most important topics page.
Are answers and explanations for these Physics MCQs free?
Yes. Every question here links to its own page showing the correct answer and a written explanation of why that option is correct, free and with no account. TestUstad cannot publish a question without an explanation.
Measured from 37 solved past papers, 2005 to 2025, 6,760 questions searched, and recomputed as papers are added.