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The JEE Advanced syllabus covers Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from both Class 11th and Class 12th. The syllabus is designed to test the conceptual understanding and application skills of candidates.

Physics Syllabus

S.No. Topics
1General Physics
2Mechanics
3Thermal Physics
4Electricity and Magnetism
5Electromagnetic Waves
6Optics
7Modern Physics

Chemistry Syllabus

S.No. Topics
1General topics
2States of Matter
3Atomic Structure
4Chemical Bonding
5Chemical Thermodynamics
6Chemical and Ionic Equilibrium
7Electrochemistry
8Chemical Kinetics
9Solid State
10Solutions
11Surface Chemistry
12Classification of Elements
13Hydrogen
14s-Block Elements
15p-Block Elements
16d-Block Elements
17f-Block Elements
18Coordination Compounds
19Isolation of Metals
20Principles of Qualitative Analysis
21Environmental Chemistry
22Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry
23Alkanes
24Alkenes and Alkynes
25Benzene
26Phenols
27Alkyl Halides
28Alcohols
29Ethers
30Aldehydes and Ketones
31Carboxylic Acids
32Amines
33Haloarenes
34Biomolecules
35Polymers
36Chemistry in Everyday Life
37Practical Organic Chemistry

Mathematics Syllabus

S.No. Topics
1Sets, Relations and Functions
2Algebra
3Matrices
4Probability and Statistics
5Trigonometry
6Analytical Geometry
7Differential Calculus
8Integral Calculus
9Vectors
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PHYSICS

General

  • Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count, significant figures
  • Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to various experiments

Mechanics

  • Kinematics in one and two dimensions; projectiles; Uniform circular motion; Relative velocity
  • Newton's laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference
  • Static and dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power
  • Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy
  • Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic collisions
  • Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems
  • Angular momentum; Torque; Conservation of angular momentum
  • Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies
  • Forced and damped oscillation, resonance; Linear and angular simple harmonic motions
  • Hooke's law, Young's modulus; Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field
  • Acceleration due to gravity; Kepler's law, Geostationary orbits
  • Pressure in a fluid; Pascal's law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension
  • Viscosity, Stoke's law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation of continuity
  • Bernoulli's theorem and its applications; Wave motion, longitudinal and transverse waves
  • Superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns
  • Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect

Thermal Physics

  • Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat
  • Heat conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of convection and radiation
  • Newton's law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases)
  • Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases
  • Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications
  • Second law of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes
  • Carnot engine and its efficiency; Blackbody radiation
  • Kirchhoff's law; Wien's displacement law, Stefan's law

Electricity and Magnetism

  • Coulomb's law; Electric field and potential
  • Electrical potential energy of systems; Electric field lines; Flux of electric field
  • Gauss's law and its applications; Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor
  • Capacitors in series and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor
  • Electric current; Ohm's law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells
  • Kirchhoff's laws and simple applications; Heating effect of current
  • Biot-Savart's law and Ampere's law; Magnetic field near current-carrying conductors
  • Force on moving charges and current-carrying wires in magnetic fields
  • Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of uniform magnetic field on current loop
  • Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions
  • Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law, Lenz's law; Self and mutual inductance
  • RC, LR, LC and LCR circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources

Electromagnetic Waves

  • Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics
  • Electromagnetic spectrum including elementary facts about their uses

Optics

  • Rectilinear propagation of light; Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces
  • Total internal reflection; Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism
  • Thin lenses; Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification
  • Wave nature of light: Huygen's principle, interference (Young's double slit experiment)
  • Diffraction due to a single slit; Polarization of light, plane polarized light
  • Brewster's law, Polaroids

Modern Physics

  • Atomic nucleus; α, β and γ radiations; Law of radioactive decay
  • Decay constant; Half-life and mean life; Binding energy and its calculation
  • Fission and fusion processes; Energy calculation in these processes
  • Photoelectric effect; Bohr's theory of hydrogen-like atoms
  • Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley's law
  • de Broglie wavelength of matter waves

CHEMISTRY

General topics

  • Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton's atomic theory; Mole concept
  • Chemical formulae; Balanced chemical equations
  • Calculations (based on mole concept and stoichiometry)
  • Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molarity, molality and normality

States of Matter: Gases and Liquids

  • Gas laws and ideal gas equation, absolute scale of temperature
  • Deviation from ideality, van der Waals equation
  • Kinetic theory of gases, average, root mean square and most probable velocities
  • Law of partial pressures; Diffusion of gases
  • Intermolecular interactions: types, distance dependence, and their effect on properties
  • Liquids: vapour pressure, surface tension, viscosity

Atomic Structure

  • Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom
  • Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty principle
  • Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom
  • Energies, quantum numbers, wave function and probability density
  • Shapes of s, p and d orbitals; Aufbau principle
  • Pauli's exclusion principle and Hund's rule

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

  • Orbital overlap and covalent bond
  • Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals only
  • Molecular orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species (up to Ne2)
  • Hydrogen bond; Polarity in molecules, dipole moment
  • VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral)

Chemical Thermodynamics

  • Intensive and extensive properties, state functions, First law of thermodynamics
  • Internal energy, work (pressure-volume only) and heat
  • Enthalpy, heat capacity, standard state, Hess's law
  • Enthalpy of reaction, fusion and vapourization, and lattice enthalpy
  • Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Gibbs energy
  • Criteria of equilibrium and spontaneity

Chemical and Ionic Equilibrium

  • Law of mass action
  • Significance of ΔG and ΔG° in chemical equilibrium
  • Equilibrium constant (Kp and Kc) and reaction quotient
  • Le Chatelier's principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure)
  • Solubility product and its applications, common ion effect
  • pH and buffer solutions; Acids and bases (Brønsted and Lewis concepts)
  • Hydrolysis of salts

Electrochemistry

  • Electrochemical cells and cell reactions; Standard electrode potentials
  • Electrochemical work, Nernst equation; Electrochemical series
  • emf of galvanic cells; Faraday's laws of electrolysis
  • Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity
  • Kohlrausch's law; Batteries: Primary and Secondary, fuel cells
  • Corrosion

Chemical Kinetics

  • Rates of chemical reactions; Order and molecularity of reactions
  • Rate law, rate constant, half-life
  • Differential and integrated rate expressions for zero and first order reactions
  • Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation and activation energy)
  • Catalysis: Homogeneous and heterogeneous, activity and selectivity of solid catalysts
  • Enzyme catalysis and its mechanism

Solid State

  • Classification of solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems
  • Close packed structure of solids (cubic and hexagonal)
  • Packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices; Nearest neighbours, ionic radii and radius ratio
  • Point defects

Solutions

  • Henry's law; Raoult's law; Ideal solutions
  • Colligative properties: lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point
  • Depression of freezing point, and osmotic pressure; van't Hoff factor

Surface Chemistry

  • Elementary concepts of adsorption: Physisorption and Chemisorption
  • Freundlich adsorption isotherm
  • Colloids: types, methods of preparation and general properties
  • Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants and micelles

Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

  • Modern periodic law and the present form of periodic table
  • Electronic configuration of elements
  • Periodic trends in atomic radius, ionic radius, ionization enthalpy
  • Electron gain enthalpy, valence, oxidation states, electronegativity, and chemical reactivity

Hydrogen

  • Position of hydrogen in periodic table, occurrence, isotopes
  • Preparation, properties and uses of hydrogen
  • Hydrides ionic, covalent and interstitial
  • Physical and chemical properties of water, heavy water
  • Hydrogen peroxide- preparation, reactions, use and structure
  • Hydrogen as a fuel

s-Block Elements

  • Alkali and alkaline earth metals-reactivity towards air, water, dihydrogen, halogens, acids
  • Their reducing nature including solutions in liquid ammonia
  • Uses of these elements; general characteristics of their oxides, hydroxides, halides, salts of oxoacids
  • Anomalous behaviour of lithium and beryllium
  • Preparation, properties, and uses of compounds of sodium and calcium

p-Block Elements

  • Oxidation state and trends in chemical reactivity of elements of groups 13-17
  • Anomalous properties of boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine
  • Group 13: Reactivity towards acids, alkalis, and halogens
  • Preparation, properties, and uses of borax, orthoboric acid, diborane, boron trifluoride
  • Group 14: Reactivity towards water and halogen; allotropes of carbon
  • Preparation, properties, and uses of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, silicon dioxide
  • Group 15: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen
  • Preparation, properties, and uses of dinitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid, phosphine
  • Group 16: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen
  • Preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of dioxygen, ozone, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid
  • Group 17: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and metals
  • Preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of chlorine, hydrogen chloride
  • Group 18: Chemical properties and uses; compounds of xenon with fluorine and oxygen

d-Block Elements

  • Oxidation states and their stability; standard electrode potentials
  • Interstitial compounds; alloys; catalytic properties; applications
  • Preparation, structure, and reactions of oxoanions of chromium and manganese

f-Block Elements

  • Lanthanoid and actinoid contractions; oxidation states; general characteristics

Coordination Compounds

  • Werner's theory; Nomenclature, cis-trans and ionization isomerism
  • Hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds
  • Bonding [VBT and CFT (octahedral and tetrahedral fields)]
  • Magnetic properties (spin-only) and colour of 3d-series coordination compounds
  • Ligands and spectrochemical series; Stability; Importance and applications
  • Metal carbonyls

Isolation of Metals

  • Metal ores and their concentration
  • Extraction of crude metal from concentrated ores
  • Thermodynamic (iron, copper, zinc) and electrochemical (aluminium) principles of metallurgy
  • Cyanide process (silver and gold); refining

Principles of Qualitative Analysis

  • Groups I to V (only Ag, Hg²⁺, Cu²⁺, Pb²⁺, Fe³⁺, Cr³⁺, Al³⁺, Ca²⁺, Ba²⁺, Zn²⁺, Mn²⁺ and Mg²⁺)
  • Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), carbonate and bicarbonate, sulphate and sulphide

Environmental Chemistry

  • Atmospheric pollution; water pollution; soil pollution; industrial waste
  • Strategies to control environmental pollution; green chemistry

Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry

  • Hybridisation of carbon; σ and π-bonds; Shapes of simple organic molecules
  • Aromaticity; Structural and geometrical isomerism
  • Stereoisomers and stereochemical relationship
  • Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds
  • IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules
  • Hydrogen bonding effects; Inductive, Resonance and Hyperconjugative effects
  • Acidity and basicity of organic compounds
  • Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage

Alkanes

  • Homologous series; Physical properties and effect of branching
  • Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections only)
  • Preparation from alkyl halides and aliphatic carboxylic acids
  • Reactions: combustion, halogenation (including allylic and benzylic halogenation) and oxidation

Alkenes and Alkynes

  • Physical properties (boiling points, density and dipole moments)
  • Preparation by elimination reactions; Acid catalysed hydration
  • Metal acetylides; Reactions of alkenes with KMnO₄ and ozone
  • Reduction of alkenes and alkynes
  • Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X₂, HX, HOX (X=halogen)
  • Effect of peroxide on addition reactions
  • Cyclic polymerization reaction of alkynes

Benzene

  • Structure; Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation
  • Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation
  • Effect of directing groups (monosubstituted benzene) in these reactions

Phenols

  • Physical properties; Preparation
  • Electrophilic substitution reactions of phenol (halogenation, nitration, sulphonation)
  • Reimer-Tiemann reaction, Kolbe reaction; Esterification; Etherification
  • Aspirin synthesis; Oxidation and reduction reactions of phenol

Alkyl Halides

  • Rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation; Grignard reactions
  • Nucleophilic substitution reactions and their stereochemical aspects

Alcohols

  • Physical properties; Reactions: esterification, dehydration
  • Reactions with: sodium, phosphorus halides, ZnCl₂/concentrated HCl, thionyl chloride
  • Conversion of alcohols into aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids

Ethers

  • Preparation by Williamson's synthesis; C-O bond cleavage reactions

Aldehydes and Ketones

  • Preparation of aldehydes and ketones from acid chlorides and nitriles
  • Reactions: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation
  • Aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction; Haloform reaction
  • Nucleophilic addition reaction with RMgX, NaHSO₃, HCN, alcohol, amine

Carboxylic Acids

  • Physical properties; Preparation: from nitriles, Grignard reagents
  • Hydrolysis of esters and amides; Preparation of benzoic acid from alkylbenzenes
  • Reactions: reduction, halogenation, formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides

Amines

  • Preparation from nitro compounds, nitriles and amides
  • Reactions: Hoffmann bromamide degradation, Gabriel phthalimide synthesis
  • Reaction with nitrous acid, Azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts
  • Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts
  • Carbylamine reaction, Hinsberg test, Alkylation and acylation reactions

Haloarenes

  • Reactions: Fittig, Wurtz-Fittig
  • Nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes

Biomolecules

  • Carbohydrates: Classification; Mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose)
  • Oxidation; Reduction; Glycoside formation and hydrolysis of disaccharides
  • Proteins: Amino acids; Peptide linkage; Structure of peptides (primary and secondary)
  • Types of proteins (fibrous and globular)
  • Nucleic acids: Chemical composition and structure of DNA and RNA

Polymers

  • Types of polymerization (addition, condensation); Homo and copolymers
  • Natural rubber; Cellulose; Nylon; Teflon; Bakelite; PVC
  • Bio-degradable polymers; Applications of polymers

Chemistry in Everyday Life

  • Drug-target interaction; Therapeutic action, and examples
  • Artificial sweeteners (names only); Soaps, detergents, and cleansing action

Practical Organic Chemistry

  • Detection of elements (N, S, halogens)
  • Detection and identification of functional groups: hydroxyl, carbonyl, carboxyl, amino and nitro

MATHEMATICS

Sets, Relations and Functions

  • Sets and their representations, different kinds of sets (empty, finite and infinite)
  • Algebra of sets, intersection, complement, difference and symmetric difference of sets
  • De-Morgan's laws on union, intersection, difference (for finite number of sets)
  • Cartesian product of finite sets, ordered pair, relations
  • Function as a special case of relation, functions as mappings
  • Invertible functions, even and odd functions
  • Special functions (polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic, power, absolute value, greatest integer, etc.)
  • Sum, difference, product and composition of functions

Algebra

  • Algebra of complex numbers, addition, multiplication, conjugation
  • Polar representation, properties of modulus and principal argument
  • Triangle inequality, cube roots of unity, geometric interpretations
  • Statement of fundamental theorem of algebra
  • Quadratic equations with real coefficients, relations between roots and coefficients
  • Formation of quadratic equations with given roots, symmetric functions of roots
  • Arithmetic and geometric progressions, arithmetic and geometric means
  • Sums of finite arithmetic and geometric progressions, infinite geometric series
  • Sum of the first n natural numbers, sums of squares and cubes of the first n natural numbers
  • Logarithms and their properties, permutations and combinations
  • Binomial theorem for a positive integral index, properties of binomial coefficients

Matrices

  • Matrices as a rectangular array of real numbers, equality of matrices
  • Addition, multiplication by a scalar and product of matrices
  • Transpose of a matrix, elementary row and column transformations
  • Determinant of a square matrix of order up to three
  • Adjoint of a matrix, inverse of a square matrix of order up to three
  • Properties of these matrix operations, diagonal, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices
  • Solutions of simultaneous linear equations in two or three variables

Probability and Statistics

  • Random experiment, sample space, different types of events
  • Addition and multiplication rules of probability, conditional probability
  • Independence of events, total probability, Bayes Theorem
  • Computation of probability of events using permutations and combinations
  • Measure of central tendency and dispersion, mean, median, mode
  • Mean deviation, standard deviation and variance of grouped and ungrouped data
  • Analysis of the frequency distribution with same mean but different variance
  • Random variable, mean and variance of the random variable

Trigonometry

  • Trigonometric functions, their periodicity and graphs
  • Addition and subtraction formulae, formulae involving multiple and sub-multiple angles
  • General solution of trigonometric equations
  • Inverse trigonometric functions (principal value only) and their elementary properties

Analytical Geometry

  • Two dimensions: Cartesian coordinates, distance between two points, section formulae
  • Equation of a straight line in various forms, angle between two lines
  • Distance of a point from a line; Lines through the point of intersection of two given lines
  • Equation of the bisector of the angle between two lines, concurrency of lines
  • Centroid, orthocentre, incentre and circumcentre of a triangle
  • Equation of a circle in various forms, equations of tangent, normal and chord
  • Parametric equations of a circle, intersection of a circle with a straight line or a circle
  • Equation of a circle through the points of intersection of two circles
  • Equations of a parabola, ellipse and hyperbola in standard form
  • Their foci, directrices and eccentricity, parametric equations
  • Equations of tangent and normal; Locus problems
  • Three dimensions: Distance between two points, direction cosines and direction ratios
  • Equation of a straight line in space, skew lines, shortest distance between two lines
  • Equation of a plane, distance of a point from a plane
  • Angle between two lines, angle between two planes, angle between a line and the plane
  • Coplanar lines

Differential Calculus

  • Limit of a function at a real number, continuity of a function
  • Limit and continuity of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions
  • L'Hospital rule of evaluation of limits of functions
  • Continuity of composite functions, intermediate value property of continuous functions
  • Derivative of a function, derivative of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions
  • Chain rule, derivatives of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions
  • Tangents and normals, increasing and decreasing functions
  • Derivatives of order two, maximum and minimum values of a function
  • Rolle's theorem and Lagrange's mean value theorem
  • Derivatives up to order two of implicit functions, geometric interpretation of derivatives

Integral Calculus

  • Integration as the inverse process of differentiation
  • Indefinite integrals of standard functions, definite integrals as the limit of sums
  • Definite integral and their properties, fundamental theorem of integral calculus
  • Integration by parts, integration by the methods of substitution and partial fractions
  • Application of definite integrals to the determination of areas bounded by simple curves
  • Formation of ordinary differential equations
  • Solution of homogeneous differential equations of first order and first degree
  • Separation of variables method, linear first order differential equations

Vectors

  • Addition of vectors, scalar multiplication, dot and cross products
  • Scalar and vector triple products, and their geometrical interpretations

Syllabus Overview

The JEE (Main) syllabus covers Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from both Class 11th and Class 12th. The syllabus is designed to test the conceptual understanding and application of knowledge of the candidates.

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This paper tests candidates in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. Each subject carries equal weightage.

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PHYSICS

UNIT 1: Units and Measurements

  • Units of measurements, System of units, SI Units, fundamental and derived units, least count, significant figures, Errors in measurements.
  • Dimensions of Physics quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.

UNIT 2: Kinematics

  • The frame of reference, motion in a straight line, speed and velocity, uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity, uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time, position-time graph, relations for uniformly accelerated motion, relative velocity.
  • Motion in a plane, projectile motion, uniform circular motion.

UNIT 3: Laws of Motion

  • Force and inertia, Newton's first law of motion, momentum, Newton's second Law of motion, impulse, Newton's third Law of motion.
  • Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications, equilibrium of concurrent forces.
  • Static and Kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction.
  • Dynamics of uniform circular motion, centripetal force and its applications: vehicle on a level circular road, vehicle on a banked road.

UNIT 4: Work, Energy and Power

  • Work done by a constant force and a variable force, kinetic and potential energies, work-energy theorem, power.
  • The potential energy of a spring, conservation of mechanical energy, conservative and non-conservative forces, motion in a vertical circle.
  • Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

UNIT 5: Rotational Motion

  • Centre of mass of a two-particle system, centre of mass of a rigid body.
  • Basic concepts of rotational motion, moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum and its applications.
  • The moment of inertia, the radius of gyration, values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.
  • Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions.

UNIT 6: Gravitation

  • The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth.
  • Kepler's law of planetary motion. Gravitational potential energy, gravitational potential.
  • Escape velocity, motion of a satellite, orbital velocity, time period and energy of satellite.

UNIT 7: Properties of Solids and Liquids

  • Elastic behaviour, stress-strain relationship, Hooke's Law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus and modulus of rigidity.
  • Pressure due to a fluid column, Pascal's law and its applications, effect of gravity on fluid pressure, viscosity, Stoke's law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, critical velocity, Bernoulli's principle and its applications.
  • Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved surface, application of surface tension: drops, bubbles and capillary rise.
  • Heat, temperature, thermal expansion, specific heat capacity, calorimetry, change of state, latent heat. Heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation.

UNIT 8: Thermodynamics

  • Thermal equilibrium and the concept of temperature, zeroth law of thermodynamics, heat, work and internal energy.
  • The first law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes. The second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes.

UNIT 9: Kinetic Theory of Gases

  • Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas, kinetic theory of gases: assumptions, the concept of pressure, kinetic interpretation of temperature, RMS speed of gas molecules, degrees of freedom, law of equipartition of energy and applications to specific heat capacities of gases, mean free path, Avogadro's number.

UNIT 10: Oscillations and Waves

  • Oscillations and periodic motion: time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time, periodic functions.
  • Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation, phase, oscillations of a spring: restoring force and force constant, energy in S.H.M.: kinetic and potential energies, simple pendulum: derivation of expression for its time period.
  • Wave motion, longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of the travelling wave, displacement relation for a progressive wave, principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and harmonics, beats.

UNIT 11: Electrostatics

  • Electric charges: conservation of charge, Coulomb's law forces between two point charges, forces between multiple charges, superposition principle and continuous charge distribution.
  • Electric field: electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines, electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole, torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field.
  • Electric flux, Gauss's law and its applications to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.
  • Electric potential and its calculation for a point charge, electric dipole and system of charges, potential difference, equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of electric dipole in an electrostatic field.
  • Conductors and insulators, dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitors and capacitance, the combination of capacitors in series and parallel and capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor.

UNIT 12: Current Electricity

  • Electric current: drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current, Ohm's law, electrical resistance, I-V characteristics of Ohmic and non-ohmic conductors, electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity, series and parallel combinations of resistors, temperature dependence of resistance.
  • Internal resistance, potential difference and emf of a cell, a combination of cells in series and parallel.
  • Kirchhoff's laws and their applications, Wheatstone bridge, Metre Bridge.

UNIT 13: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

  • Biot Savart law and its application to the current carrying circular loop, Ampere's law and its applications to infinitely long current carrying straight wire and solenoid.
  • Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields, force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field, the force between two parallel currents carrying conductors-definition of ampere, torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field: Moving coil galvanometer, its sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.
  • Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment, bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines, magnetic field due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis, torque on a magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field, para-, dia- and ferromagnetic substances with examples, the effect of temperature on magnetic properties.

UNIT 14: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

  • Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law, induced emf and current, Lenz's law, eddy currents, self and mutual inductance.
  • Alternating currents, peak and RMS value of alternating current/voltage, reactance and impedance, LCR series circuit, resonance, power in AC circuits, wattless current, AC generator and transformer.

UNIT 15: Electromagnetic Waves

  • Displacement current, electromagnetic waves and their characteristics, transverse nature of electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, Gamma rays), applications of electromagnetic waves.

UNIT 16: Optics

  • Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light at plane and spherical surfaces, thin lens formula and lens maker formula, total internal reflection and its applications, refraction of light through a prism, microscope and astronomical telescope (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers.
  • Wave optics: wavefront and Huygens 'Principle, laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens principle.
  • Interference: Young's double-slit experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent sources and sustained interference of light.
  • Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum.
  • Polarization: plane-polarized light, Brewster's law, uses of plane- polarized light and Polaroid.

UNIT 17: Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

  • Dual nature of radiation, Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard's observations, Einstein's photoelectric equation, particle nature of light.
  • Matter waves: wave nature of particle, de- Broglie relation.

UNIT 18: Atoms and Nuclei

  • Alpha-particle scattering experiment, Rutherford's model of atom, Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum.
  • Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, mass-energy relation, mass defect, binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number, nuclear fission and fusion.

UNIT 19: Electronic Devices

  • Semiconductors, semiconductor diode: I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier;
  • I-V characteristics of LED, the photodiode, solar cell, Zener diode, Zener diode as a voltage regulator.
  • Logic gates (OR. AND. NOT. NAND and NOR).

UNIT 20: Experimental Skills

  • Familiarity with the basic approach and observations of the experiments and activities:
  • Vernier calipers, screw gauge, simple pendulum, metre scale, Young's modulus of elasticity, surface tension, co-efficient of viscosity, speed of sound, specific heat capacity, resistivity of material, resistance of wire, galvanometer, focal length of mirrors and lenses, angle of deviation, refractive index, characteristic curves of p-n junction and Zener diode, identification of electronic components.

CHEMISTRY

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

UNIT 1: Some Basic Concepts in Chemistry

  • Matter and its nature, Dalton's atomic theory, Concept of atom, molecule, element and compound, Laws of chemical combination, Atomic and molecular masses, mole concept, molar mass, percentage composition, empirical and molecular formulae, Chemical equations and stoichiometry.

UNIT 2: Atomic Structure

  • Nature of electromagnetic radiation, photoelectric effect, spectrum of the hydrogen atom, Bohr model of a hydrogen atom its postulates, derivation of the relations for the energy of the electron and radii of the different orbits, limitations of Bohr's model, dual nature of matter, de Broglie's relationship, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, elementary ideas of quantum mechanics, the quantum mechanical model of the atom and its important features, concept of atomic orbitals as one-electron wave functions, variation of Ψ and Ψ² with r for 1s and 2s orbitals, various quantum numbers (principal, angular momentum and magnetic quantum numbers) and their significance.
  • shapes of s, p and d orbitals, electron spin and spin quantum number, rules for filling electrons in orbitals Aufbau principle, Pauli's exclusion principle and Hund's rule, electronic configuration of elements and extra stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals.

UNIT 3: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

  • Kossel-Lewis approach to chemical bond formation, the concept of ionic and covalent bonds.
  • Ionic Bonding: Formation of ionic bonds, factors affecting the formation of ionic bonds; calculation of lattice enthalpy.
  • Covalent Bonding: Concept of electronegativity, Fajan's rule, dipole moment, Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) theory and shapes of simple molecules.
  • Quantum mechanical approach to covalent bonding: Valence bond theory its important features, the concept of hybridization involving s, p and d orbitals, resonance.
  • Molecular Orbital Theory Its important features, LCAOs, types of molecular orbitals (bonding, antibonding), sigma and pi-bonds, molecular orbital electronic configurations of homonuclear diatomic molecules, the concept of bond order, bond length and bond energy.
  • Elementary idea of metallic bonding, hydrogen bonding and its applications.

UNIT 4: Chemical Thermodynamics

  • Fundamentals of thermodynamics: System and surroundings, extensive and intensive properties, state functions, entropy, types of processes.
  • The first law of thermodynamics - Concept of work, heat, internal energy and enthalpy, heat capacity, molar heat capacity, Hess's law of constant heat summation, Enthalpies of bond dissociation, combustion, formation, atomization, sublimation, phase transition, hydration, ionization and solution.
  • The second law of thermodynamics Spontaneity of processes, ΔS of the universe and ΔG of the system as criteria for spontaneity.
  • ΔG°(Standard Gibbs energy change) and equilibrium constant.

UNIT 5: Solutions

  • Different methods for expressing the concentration of solution molality, molarity, mole fraction, percentage (by volume and mass both), the vapour pressure of solutions and Raoult's Law - Ideal and non- ideal solutions, vapour pressure composition, plots for ideal and non- ideal solutions, Colligative properties of dilute solutions a relative lowering of vapour pressure, depression of freezing point, the elevation of boiling point and osmotic pressure, determination of molecular mass using colligative properties, abnormal value of molar mass, van't Hoff factor and its significance.

UNIT 6: Equilibrium

  • Meaning of equilibrium is the concept of dynamic equilibrium.
  • Equilibria involving physical processes: Solid-liquid, liquid-gas, gas-gas and solid-gas equilibria, Henry's law. General characteristics of equilibrium involving physical processes.
  • Equilibrium involving chemical processes: Law of chemical equilibrium, equilibrium constants (Kₚ and Kc) and their significance, the significance of ΔG and ΔG° in chemical equilibrium, factors affecting equilibrium concentration, pressure, temperature, the effect of catalyst, Le Chatelier's principle.
  • Ionic equilibrium: Weak and strong electrolytes, ionization of electrolytes, various concepts of acids and bases (Arrhenius, Bronsted Lowry and Lewis) and their ionization, acid-base equilibria (including multistage ionization) and ionization constants, ionization of water, pH scale, common ion effect, hydrolysis of salts and pH of their solutions, the solubility of sparingly soluble salts, solubility products and buffer solutions.

UNIT 7: Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry

  • Electronic concepts of oxidation and reduction, redox reactions, oxidation number, rules for assigning oxidation number and balancing of redox reactions.
  • Electrolytic and metallic conduction, conductance in electrolytic solutions, molar conductivities and their variation with concentration, Kohlrausch's law and its applications.
  • Electrochemical cells Electrolytic and Galvanic cells, different types of electrodes, electrode potentials including standard electrode potential, half-cell and cell reactions, emf of a Galvanic cell and its measurement, Nernst equation and its applications, relationship between cell potential and Gibbs' energy change, dry cell and lead accumulator, fuel cells.

UNIT 8: Chemical Kinetics

  • Rate of a chemical reaction, factors affecting the rate of reactions: concentration, temperature, pressure and catalyst, elementary and complex reactions, order and molecularity of reactions, rate law, rate constant and its units, differential and integral forms of zero and first-order reactions, their characteristics and half-lives, the effect of temperature on the rate of reactions, Arrhenius theory, activation energy and its calculation, collision theory of bi-molecular gaseous reactions (no derivation).

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

UNIT 9: Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

  • Modern periodic law and present form of the periodic table, s, p, d and f block elements, periodic trends in properties of elements atomic and ionic radii, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, valence, oxidation states and chemical reactivity.

UNIT 10: p-Block Elements

  • Group -13 to Group 18 Elements General Introduction: Electronic configuration and general trends in physical and chemical properties of elements across the periods and down the groups, unique behaviour of the first element in each group.

UNIT 11: d and f- Block Elements

  • Transition Elements General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence and characteristics, general trends in properties of the first-row transition elements - physical properties, ionization enthalpy, oxidation states, atomic radii, colour, catalytic behaviour, magnetic properties, complex formation, interstitial compounds, alloy formation, preparation, properties and uses of K₂Cr₂O₇ and KMnO₄.
  • Inner Transition Elements Lanthanoids - Electronic configuration, oxidation states and Lanthanoid contraction.
  • Actinoids - Electronic configuration and oxidation states.

UNIT 12: Coordination Compounds

  • Introduction to coordination compounds.
  • Werner's theory, ligands, coordination number, denticity, chelation, IUPAC nomenclature of mononuclear co-ordination compounds, isomerism, Bonding: Valence bond approach and basic ideas of Crystal field theory, colour and magnetic properties, importance of coordination compounds (in qualitative analysis, extraction of metals and in biological systems).

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

UNIT 13: Purification and Characterisation of Organic Compounds

  • Purification Crystallization, sublimation, distillation, differential extraction and chromatography principles and their applications.
  • Qualitative analysis - Detection of nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and halogens.
  • Quantitative analysis (basic principles only) Estimation of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, halogens, sulphur and phosphorus.
  • Calculations of empirical formulae and molecular formulae, numerical problems in organic quantitative analysis.

UNIT 14: Some Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry

  • Tetravalency of carbon, shapes of simple molecules - hybridization (s and p): classification of organic compounds based on functional groups and those containing halogens, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, homologous series: Isomerism - structural and stereoisomerism.
  • Nomenclature (Trivial and IUPAC)
  • Covalent bond fission - Homolytic and heterolytic, free radicals, carbocations and carbanions, stability of carbocations and free radicals, electrophiles and nucleophiles.
  • Electronic displacement in a covalent bond Inductive effect, electromeric effect, resonance and hyperconjugation.
  • Common types of organic reactions- Substitution, addition, elimination and rearrangement.

UNIT 15: Hydrocarbons

  • Classification, isomerism, IUPAC nomenclature, general methods of preparation, properties and reactions.
  • Alkanes - Conformations: Sawhorse and Newman projections (of ethane), mechanism of halogenation of alkanes.
  • Alkenes - Geometrical isomerism, mechanism of electrophilic addition, addition of hydrogen, halogens, water, hydrogen halides (Markownikoffs and peroxide effect), Ozonolysis and polymerization.
  • Alkynes - Acidic character, addition of hydrogen, halogens, water and hydrogen halides, polymerization.
  • Aromatic hydrocarbons - Nomenclature, benzene - structure and aromaticity, mechanism of electrophilic substitution, halogenation, nitration, Friedel-Craft's alkylation and acylation, directive influence of the functional group in mono- substituted benzene.

UNIT 16: Organic Compounds Containing Halogens

  • General methods of preparation, properties and reactions, nature of C-X bond, mechanisms of substitution reactions.
  • Uses, environmental effects of chloroform, iodoform, freons and DDT.

UNIT 17: Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen

  • General methods of preparation, properties, reactions and uses.
  • ALCOHOLS, PHENOLS AND ETHERS
  • Alcohols: Identification of primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols, mechanism of dehydration.
  • Phenols: Acidic nature, electrophilic substitution reactions, halogenation, nitration and sulphonation, Reimer Tiemann reaction.
  • Ethers: Structure.
  • Aldehyde and Ketones: Nature of carbonyl group, nucleophilic addition to >C=O group, relative reactivities of aldehydes and ketones, important reactions such as Nucleophilic addition reactions (addition of HCN, NH₃ and its derivatives), Grignard reagent, oxidation, reduction (Wolf Kishner and Clemmensen), the acidity of α-hydrogen, Aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction, Haloform reaction, chemical tests to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones.
  • Carboxylic Acids: Acidic strength and factors affecting it.

UNIT 18: Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen

  • General methods of preparation, properties, reactions and uses.
  • Amines: Nomenclature, classification, structure, basic character and identification of primary, secondary and tertiary amines and their basic character.
  • Diazonium Salts: Importance in synthetic organic chemistry.

UNIT 19: Biomolecules

  • General introduction and importance of biomolecules.
  • CARBOHYDRATES - Classification, aldoses and ketoses, monosaccharides (glucose and fructose) and constituent monosaccharides of oligosaccharides (sucrose, lactose and maltose).
  • PROTEINS Elementary idea of α-amino acids, peptide bond, polypeptides, proteins: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure (qualitative idea only), denaturation of proteins, enzymes.
  • VITAMINS Classification and functions.
  • NUCLEIC ACIDS - Chemical constitution of DNA and RNA, biological functions of nucleic acids.
  • Hormones (General introduction)

UNIT 20: Principles Related to Practical Chemistry

  • Detection of extra elements (Nitrogen, sulphur, halogens) in organic compounds, detection of the following functional groups, hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketones) carboxyl and amino groups in organic compounds.
  • The chemistry involved in the preparation of the following:
  • Inorganic compounds, Mohr's salt, potash alum.
  • Organic compounds: Acetanilide, p-nitro acetanilide, aniline yellow, iodoform.
  • The chemistry involved in the titrimetric exercises acids, bases and the use of indicators, oxalic-acid vs KMnO₄, Mohr's salt vs KMnO₄
  • Chemical principles involved in the qualitative salt analysis:
  • Cations- Pb²⁺, Cu²⁺, Al³⁺, Fe³⁺, Zn²⁺, Ni²⁺, Ca²⁺, Ba²⁺, Mg²⁺, NH₄⁺
  • Anions- CO₃²⁻, S²⁻, SO₄²⁻, NO₃⁻, NO₂⁻, Cl⁻, Br⁻, I⁻ (Insoluble salts excluded).
  • Chemical principles involved in the following experiments:
  • Enthalpy of solution of CuSO₄
  • Enthalpy of neutralization of strong acid and strong base.
  • Preparation of lyophilic and lyophobic sols.
  • Kinetic study of the reaction of iodide ions with hydrogen peroxide at room temperature.

MATHEMATICS

UNIT 1: Sets, Relations and Functions

  • Sets and their representation; Union, intersection and complement of sets and their algebraic properties; Power set; Relations, type of relations, equivalence relations, functions; one-one, into and onto functions, the composition of functions.

UNIT 2: Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations

  • Complex numbers as ordered pairs of reals, Representation of complex numbers in the form a+ib and their representation in a plane, Argand diagram, algebra of complex numbers, modulus and argument (or amplitude) of a complex number, Quadratic equations in real and complex number systems and their solutions.
  • Relations between roots and coefficients, nature of roots, the formation of quadratic equations with given roots.

UNIT 3: Matrices and Determinants

  • Matrices, algebra of matrices, type of matrices, determinants and matrices of order two and three, evaluation of determinants, area of triangles using determinants.
  • Adjoint and inverse of a square matrix; Test of consistency and solution of simultaneous linear equations in two or three variables using matrices.

UNIT 4: Permutations and Combinations

  • The fundamental principle of counting, permutations and combinations; Meaning of P(n,r) and C(n, r). Simple applications.

UNIT 5: Binomial Theorem and its Simple Applications

  • Binomial theorem for a positive integral index, general term and middle term and simple applications.

UNIT 6: Sequence and Series

  • Arithmetic and Geometric progressions, insertion of arithmetic, geometric means between two given numbers, Relation between A.M and G.M.

UNIT 7: Limit, Continuity and Differentiability

  • Real-valued functions, algebra of functions; polynomial, rational, trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions; inverse functions.
  • Graphs of simple functions. Limits, continuity and differentiability. Differentiation of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions.
  • Differentiation of trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, composite and implicit functions; derivatives of order upto two, Applications of derivatives: Rate of change of quantities, monotonic-Increasing and decreasing functions, Maxima and minima of functions of one variable.

UNIT 8: Integral Calculus

  • Integral as an anti-derivative, Fundamental integrals involving algebraic, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.
  • Integration by substitution, by parts and by partial fractions. Integration using trigonometric identities.
  • Evaluation of simple integrals of the type:
    $\int\frac{dx}{x^{2}+a^{2}},\int\frac{dx}{\sqrt{x^{2}\pm a^{2}}},\int\frac{dx}{a^{2}-x^{2}},\int\frac{dx}{\sqrt{a^{2}-x^{2}}},\int\frac{dx}{ax^{2}+bx+c},\int\frac{dx}{\sqrt{ax^{2}+bx+c}},\int\frac{(px+q)dx}{ax^{2}+bx+c}$
    $\int\frac{(px+q)dx}{\sqrt{ax^{2}+bx+c}}\int\sqrt{a^{2}\pm x^{2}}dx$ , ∫√x² a² dx
  • The fundamental theorem of calculus, properties of definite integrals.
  • Evaluation of definite integrals, determining areas of the regions bounded by simple curves by simple curves in standard forms.

UNIT 9: Differential Equations

  • Ordinary differential equations, their order and degree, the solution of differential equation by the method of separation of variables, solution of a homogeneous and linear differential equation of the type $\frac{dy}{dx}+p(x)y=q(x)$.

UNIT 10: Co-ordinate Geometry

  • Cartesian system of rectangular coordinates in a plane, distance formula, sections formula, locus and its equation, the slope of a line, parallel and perpendicular lines, intercepts of a line on the co-ordinate axis.
  • Straight line: Various forms of equations of a line, intersection of lines, angles between two lines, conditions for concurrence of three lines, the distance of a point form a line, co-ordinate of the centroid, orthocentre and circumcentre of a triangle.
  • Circle, conic sections: A standard form of equations of a circle, the general form of the equation of a circle, its radius and centre, equation of a circle when the endpoints of a diameter are given, points of intersection of a line and a circle with the centre at the origin and sections of conics, equations of conic sections (parabola, ellipse and hyperbola) in standard forms.

UNIT 11: Three Dimensional Geometry

  • Coordinates of a point in space, the distance between two points, section formula, direction ratios and direction cosines and the angle between two intersecting lines.
  • Equation of a line; Skew lines, the shortest distance between them and its equation.

UNIT 12: Vector Algebra

  • Vectors and scalars, the addition of vectors, components of a vector in two dimensions and three-dimensional spaces, scalar and vector products.

UNIT 13: Statistics and Probability

  • Measures of dispersion; calculation of mean, median, mode of grouped and ungrouped data, calculation of standard deviation, variance and mean deviation for grouped and ungrouped data.
  • Probability: Probability of an event, addition and multiplication theorems of probability, Baye's theorem, probability distribution of a random variable.

UNIT 14: Trigonometry

  • Trigonometrical identities and trigonometrical functions, inverse trigonometrical functions their properties.
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Physics Syllabus for JEE Main
Class 11 Topics:
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  • Work, energy, and power, Rotational motion, Gravitation
  • Thermodynamics, Kinetic theory, Waves, and Oscillations
Class 12 Topics:
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  • Alternating currents, Optics, Dual nature of radiation, and matter
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Chemistry Syllabus for JEE Main
Class 11 Topics:
  • Some basic concepts of Chemistry, Atomic structure, States of matter
  • Thermodynamics, Equilibrium, Redox reactions, Classification of elements
  • Hydrogen and s-block elements, Chemical bonding
Class 12 Topics:
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  • Surface chemistry, Coordination compounds, p-block elements
  • Biomolecules, Polymers, Chemistry in everyday life
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Class 11 Topics:
  • Sets, relations, and functions, Trigonometric functions, Complex numbers
  • Quadratic equations, Permutations and combinations, Binomial theorem
  • Straight lines, Circles, Sequences, and series
Class 12 Topics:
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  • Integrals, Differential equations, 3D Geometry, Vectors
  • Probability, Matrices, and Determinants

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Physics Syllabus for JEE Advanced
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  • Optics, Modern physics, Oscillations, and Waves
  • Experimental skills and error analysis
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  • Physical Chemistry: States of matter, Chemical thermodynamics, Equilibrium, Electrochemistry, and Kinetics
  • Inorganic Chemistry: Periodic table, Transition elements, Coordination compounds, Chemical bonding
  • Organic Chemistry: Reaction mechanisms, Biomolecules, Polymers, and Organic synthesis
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  • Algebra, Matrices, and Determinants
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Trigonometry, Coordinate Geometry
  • Calculus, Differential equations, and Vector algebra

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Important Topics for JEE Main & Advanced

Physics
Laws of Motion
Current Electricity
Optics
Thermodynamics
Magnetism
Modern Physics
Chemistry
Chemical Bonding
Coordination Compounds
Equilibrium
Organic Mechanisms
Thermodynamics
p-Block Elements
Mathematics
Calculus
Coordinate Geometry
Vectors
Probability
Matrices
Trigonometry

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What is the syllabus for JEE Main and Advanced?

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