JEE Advanced Syllabus 2024: Download PDF, Weightage, Books

Download PDF

JEE Advanced Physics Syllabus

Chapters

Units

General

Units and dimensions, significant figures; Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to the following experiments: Experiments based on using Vernier calipers and screw gauge (micrometer), Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter and ammeter, Specific heat of a liquid using a calorimeter, Determination of g using simple pendulum, Speed of sound using resonance column, Young’s modulus by Searle’s method, dimensional analysis; least count, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and post office box., focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using u-v method

Mechanics

Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), 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.

Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.

Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum;

Torque; Conservation of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid bodies. 

Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Stoke’s law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications. 

Wave motion (plane waves only), 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 (in sound). 

Thermal physics

Bulk modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases); Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law., 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

Electricity and magnetism

Uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell., Coulomb’s law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; Electric field lines; Flux of electric field; Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find field due to infinitely long straight wire

Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; 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 a current-carrying straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid; Force on a moving charge and a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field. 

Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions. Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources. 

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 limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.

Modern physics

Beta and Gamma 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., Atomic nucleus; Alpha

Photoelectric effect; Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley’s law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.

JEE Advanced Syllabus for Physical Chemistry

Chapters

Units

Physical Chemistry

General topics

Displacement reactions; Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molality and normality., molarity, neutralisation, Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton’s atomic theory; Mole concept; Chemical formulae; Balanced chemical equations; Calculations (based on mole concept) involving common oxidation-reduction

Gaseous and liquid states

Root mean square and most probable velocities and their relation with temperature; Law of partial pressures; Vapour pressure; Diffusion of gases., van der Waals equation; Kinetic theory of gases, Absolute scale of temperature, ideal gas equation; Deviation from ideality

Atomic structure and chemical bonding

De Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty principle; Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom, square pyramidal, dipole moment (qualitative aspects only); VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, square planar, tetrahedral and octahedral)., p and d orbitals; Electronic configurations of elements (up to atomic number 36); Aufbau principle; Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule; Orbital overlap and covalent bond; Hybridisation involving s, Bohr model, angular, spectrum of hydrogen atom, p and d orbitals only; Orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species; Hydrogen bond; Polarity in molecules, triangular, shapes of s, quantum numbers; Wave-particle duality, trigonal bipyramidal, pyramidal

Energetics

Fusion and vapourization; Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Free energy; Criterion of spontaneity. The first law of thermodynamics; Internal energy, Hess’s law; Heat of reaction, work and heat, pressure-volume work; Enthalpy

Chemical equilibrium

Law of mass action; Equilibrium constant, Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure); Significance of ?G and ?G0 in chemical equilibrium; Solubility product, common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions;  Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis concepts); Hydrolysis of salts. 

Electrochemistry

Common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions; Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis concepts); Hydrolysis of salts., Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of concentration, Law of mass action; Equilibrium constant, temperature and pressure); Significance of G and G0 in chemical equilibrium; Solubility product

Chemical kinetics

Rates of chemical reactions; Order of reactions; Rate constant; First order reactions; Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation). 

Solid state

Crystalline state, beta, gamma), alpha, b, c, bcc and hcp lattices; Nearest neighbours, Classification of solids, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, close packed structure of solids (cubic), point defects., ionic radii, packing in fcc, simple ionic compounds

Solutions

Raoult’s law; Molecular weight determination from lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point and depression of freezing point.

Surface chemistry

Elementary concepts of adsorption (excluding adsorption isotherms); Colloids: types, methods of preparation and general properties; Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants and micelles (only definitions and examples).

Nuclear chemistry

Beta and Gamma rays; Kinetics of radioactive decay (decay series excluded), Radioactivity: isotopes and isobars; Properties of alpha, carbon dating; Stability of nuclei with respect to proton-neutron ratio; Brief discussion on fission and fusion reactions.

JEE Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Syllabus

Isolation/preparation and properties of the following non-metals

Boron, silicon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulphur and halogens; Properties of allotropes of carbon (only diamond and graphite), phosphorus and sulphur.

Preparation and properties of the following compounds

Hydroxides, bleaching powder; Xenon fluorides., oxyacids (phosphorus acid, chlorides and sulphates of sodium, oxides and oxyacids of chlorine, oxides, sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate; Halogens: hydrohalic acids, Oxides, phosphoric acid) and phosphine; Oxygen: ozone and hydrogen peroxide; Sulphur: hydrogen sulphide, magnesium and calcium; Boron: diborane, silicates and silicon carbide; Nitrogen: oxides, boric acid and borax; Aluminium: alumina, oxyacids and ammonia; Phosphorus: oxides, sulphurous acid, aluminium chloride and alums; Carbon: oxides and oxyacid (carbonic acid); Silicon: silicones, bicarbonates, peroxides, carbonates, potassium

Transition elements (3d series)

Colour (excluding the details of electronic transitions) and calculation of spin-only magnetic moment; Coordination compounds: nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds, tetrahedral, general characteristics, Definition, cis-trans and ionisation isomerisms, oxidation states and their stabilities, hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (linear, square planar and octahedral).

Preparation and properties of the following compounds

Oxides and chlorides of tin and lead; Oxides, chlorides and sulphates of Fe2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+; Potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, silver oxide, silver nitrate, silver thiosulphate. 

Ores and minerals

Commonly occurring ores and minerals of iron, copper, tin, lead, magnesium, aluminium, zinc and silver. 

Extractive metallurgy

Chemical principles and reactions only (industrial details excluded); Carbon reduction method (iron and tin); Self-reduction method (copper and lead);

Electrolytic reduction method (magnesium and aluminium); Cyanide process (silver and gold).

Principles of qualitative analysis

Groups I to V (only Ag+, Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, Bi3+, Fe3+, Cr3+,  Al3+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ and Mg2+); Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), sulphate and sulphide.

JEE Advanced Organic Chemistry Syllabus

Concepts

Shapes of simple organic molecules; Structural and geometrical isomerism; Optical isomerism of compounds containing up to two asymmetric centres, structure and stability of carbocations, Z nomenclature excluded); IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds (only hydrocarbons, (R, mono-functional and bi-functional compounds); Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections); Resonance and hyperconjugation; Keto-enol tautomerism; Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds (only combustion method); Hydrogen bonds: definition and their effects on physical properties of alcohols and carboxylic acids; Inductive and resonance effects on acidity and basicity of organic acids and bases; Polarity and inductive effects in alkyl halides; Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation, carbanions and free radicals., Hybridisation of carbon, S and E

Preparation, properties and reactions of alkanes

Homologous series, physical properties of alkanes (melting points, boiling points and density); Combustion and halogenation of alkanes; Preparation of alkanes by Wurtz reaction and decarboxylation reactions.

Preparation, properties and reactions of alkenes and alkynes

Physical properties of alkenes and alkynes (boiling points, density and dipole moments); Acidity of alkynes; Acid catalysed hydration of alkenes and alkynes (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination); Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone; Reduction of alkenes and alkynes; Preparation of alkenes and alkynes by elimination reactions; Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX and H2O (X=halogen); Addition reactions of alkynes; Metal acetylides.

Reactions of benzene

Structure and aromaticity; Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation; Effect of o-, m- and p-directing groups in monosubstituted benzenes. 

Phenols

Acidity, electrophilic substitution reactions (halogenation, nitration and sulphonation); Reimer-Tieman reaction, Kolbe reaction.

Characteristic reactions of the following (including those mentioned above)

Reaction with sodium, reduction, Alkyl halides: rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation, nucleophilic substitution reactions; Alcohols: esterification, oxime and hydrazone formation; aldol condensation, conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones; Ethers: Preparation by Williamson’s Synthesis; Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, Perkin reaction; Cannizzaro reaction; haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions (Grignard addition); Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of aromatic amines, Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts; carbylamine reaction; Haloarenes: nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding Benzyne mechanism and Cine substitution)., phosphorus halides, ester hydrolysis; Amines: basicity of substituted anilines and aliphatic amines, preparation from nitro compounds, reaction with nitrous acid, Grignard reactions, acid chlorides and amides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, dehydration and oxidation

Carbohydrates

Classification; mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose); Oxidation, reduction, glycoside formation and hydrolysis of sucrose.

Amino acids and peptides

General structure (only primary structure for peptides) and physical properties

Properties and uses of some important polymers

Natural rubber, cellulose, nylon, teflon and PVC.

Practical organic chemistry

Detection of elements (N, S, halogens); Detection and identification of the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro; Chemical methods of separation of monofunctional organic compounds from binary mixture.

JEE Advanced Maths Syllabus 

Chapters

Units

Algebra

Algebra of complex numbers, addition, multiplication, conjugation, polar representation, properties of modulus and principal argument, triangle inequality, cube roots of unity, geometric interpretations.

Infinite geometric series, formation of quadratic equations with given roots, sums of squares and cubes of the first n natural numbers., geometric and harmonic progressions, relations between roots and coefficients, sums of finite arithmetic and geometric progressions, geometric and harmonic means, Quadratic equations with real coefficients, symmetric functions of roots. Arithmetic, arithmetic

Logarithms and their properties.

Permutations and combinations, binomial theorem for a positive integral index, properties of binomial coefficients.

Matrices

Symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices and their properties, determinant of a square matrix of order up to three, diagonal, solutions of simultaneous linear equations in two or three variables., Matrices as a rectangular array of real numbers, multiplication by a scalar and product of matrices, properties of these matrix operations, equality of matrices, inverse of a square matrix of order up to three, transpose of a matrix, addition

Probability

Addition and multiplication rules of probability, conditional probability, Bayes Theorem, independence of events, computation of probability of events using permutations and combinations.

Trigonometry

Trigonometric functions, their periodicity and graphs, addition and subtraction formulae, formulae involving multiple and sub-multiple angles, general solution of trigonometric equations.

Relations between sides and angles of a triangle, sine rule, cosine rule, half-angle formula and the area of a triangle, inverse trigonometric functions (principal value only).

Analytical geometry

Two dimensions: Cartesian coordinates, distance between two points, section formulae, shift of origin.

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 through the points of intersection of two circles and those of a circle and a straight line, intersection of a circle with a straight line or a circle, Equation of a circle in various forms, normal and chord. Parametric equations of a circle, equations of tangent

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: Direction cosines and direction ratios, equation of a straight line in space, equation of a plane, distance of a point from a plane.

Differential calculus

Composite functions, into, exponential and logarithmic functions. Limit and continuity of a function, rational, polynomial, onto and one-to-one functions, product and quotient of two functions, absolute value, difference, difference, trigonometric, limit and continuity of the sum, product and quotient of two functions, L’Hospital rule of evaluation of limits of functions., Real valued functions of a real variable, sum

Even and odd functions, inverse of a function, 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.

Derivatives of implicit functions, derivatives up to order two, geometrical interpretation of the derivative, tangents and normals, increasing and decreasing functions, maximum and minimum values of a function, Rolle’s theorem and Lagrange’s mean value theorem.

Integral calculus

Integration as the inverse process of differentiation, indefinite integrals of standard functions, definite integrals 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 involving simple curves.

Formation of ordinary differential equations, solution of homogeneous differential equations, separation of variables method, linear first-order differential equations.

Vectors

Addition of vectors, scalar multiplication, dot and cross products, scalar triple products and their geometrical interpretations. 

Unit and topic name

Total number of questions

Total marks

(%) Weightage

Physics

38

120

100%

Electrodynamics

12

34

28%

Alternating Current

2

4

3%

Capacitance

2

4

3%

Current Electricity

1

4

3%

Electro Magnetic Field

2

8

7%

Electro Magnetic Induction

3

10

8%

Electrostatics

2

4

3%

Heat & Thermodynamics

4

13

11%

Heat Transfer

1

4

3%

KTG & Thermodynamics

3

9

8%

Mechanics

14

43

36%

Centre of Mass

4

8

7%

Error in Measurement

1

3

3%

Fluid Mechanics & Properties of Matter

3

8

7%

Gravitation

1

4

3%

Rigid Body Dynamics

4

16

13%

Unit & Dimension

1

4

3%

Modern Physics

4

15

13%

Modern Physics

2

8

7%

Nuclear Physics

2

7

6%

Optics

3

11

9%

Geometrical Optics & Physical Optics

3

11

9%

SHM & Waves

1

4

3%

Sound Waves

1

4

3%

Unit and topic name

Total number of questions

Total marks

(%) Weightage

Chemistry

38

120

100%

Inorganic Chemistry-II

9

33

28%

Coordination Compounds

3

11

9%

Metallurgy

1

4

3%

Qualitative Analysis

3

10

8%

p-Block 17-18 Group

1

4

3%

p-block (15-16 Grp)

1

4

3%

Organic Chemistry-I

2

8

7%

Hydrocarbon

1

4

3%

Practical Organic Chemistry

1

4

3%

Organic Chemistry-II

10

32

27%

Aromatic Compounds

3

12

10%

Biomolecules

1

4

3%

Hydrocarbon (Alkane, Alkene & Alkyne)

3

9

8%

Stereoisomerism

1

3

3%

Aldehyde Ketone

2

4

3%

Physical Chemistry-I

9

24

20%

Atomic Structure & Nuclear Chemistry

1

4

3%

Chemical Equilibrium

2

4

3%

Equivalent Concept

4

8

7%

Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry

2

8

7%

Physical Chemistry-II

8

23

19%

Chemical Kinetics

1

4

3%

Electrochemistry

3

8

7%

Solid State

1

3

3%

Surface Chemistry

1

4

3%

Solution & Colligative Properties

2

4

3%

Unit and topic name

Total number of questions

Total marks

(%) Weightage

Mathematics

38

120

100%

Complex Numbers

2

7

6%

Complex Numbers

2

7

6%

Coordinate Geometry

9

25

21%

Circle

3

9

8%

Ellipse

1

4

3%

Parabola

3

8

7%

Straight Line

2

4

3%

Differential Calculus

3

8

7%

Application of Derivatives

3

8

7%

Fundamentals of Mathematics

1

4

3%

Fundamentals of Mathematics

1

4

3%

Integral Calculus

8

25

21%

Area under curve

1

3

3%

Definite integration

6

18

15%

Differential equation

1

4

3%

Matrix & Determinants

4

12

10%

Matrices & Determinants

4

12

10%

Permutation & Combination

1

4

3%

Permutation & Combination

1

4

3%

Probability

5

15

13%

Probability

5

15

13%

Trigonometry

3

12

10%

Inverse Trigonometric function

1

4

3%

Solution of Triangle

1

4

3%

Trigonometric Ratio & identities

1

4

3%

Vector and 3D

2

8

7%

Vector

2

8

7%

JEE Advanced Syllabus 2024 Books

Subjects

Name of the Book

JEE Advanced Chemistry Books 

• Physical Chemistry by O P Tandon
• Organic Chemistry by O P Tandon
• Inorganic Chemistry by O P Tandon
• Organic Chemistry by Paula Bruice Yurkanis
• Organic Chemistry by Morrison & Boyd
• Inorganic Chemistry by J D Lee

JEE Advanced Maths Books

• Integral Calculus for IIT-JEE by Amit M Agarwal (Arihant Publications)
• A Text-Book of Algebra For JEE Main & Advanced by Dr S K Goyal (Arihant Publications)
• Problems in Calculus Of One Variable by I A Maron
• Plane Trigonometry and Coordinate Geometry (Two Books) by S L Loney
• Objective Mathematics By R D Sharma

JEE Advanced Physics Books

• Concepts of Physics by H C Verma (Vol-1 and Vol-2)
• Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday/Resnick/Walker
• IIT JEE Physics by Arihant
• Problems in General Physics by I E Irodov

NCERT Exemplar Problems & Solutions for Class 12 Physics: Download PDF

Check Complete List of Best Books for JEE Mains & JEE Advanced Preparation (Recommended by Toppers & Professors)