Revised Syllabus to be followed from

JEE (Advanced) 2023

PHYSICS

General
General Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least
count, 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), Determination of g
using simple pendulum, Young’s modulus - elasticity of the
material Surfacetension of water by
capillary rise and effect of detergents.
Specific heat of a liquid using calorimeter, focal length of a
concave mirror and a convex lens using u-v method, Speed of
sound using resonance column, Verification of Ohm’s law
using voltmeter and ammeter, and specific resistance of the
material of a wire using meter bridge and post office box.

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. 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. Forced and
damped oscillation (in one dimension), 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, Motion of planets and
satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity. Pressure in a
fluid; Pascal’s law;Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface
tension, angle of contact, drops, bubbles and capillary rise.
Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Modulus
of
rigidity and bulk modulus in mechanics.
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
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 (only
for ideal gases); Second
law of
thermodynamics, reversible and
irreversible processes, Carnot engine and
its efficiency; Blackbody radiation: absorptive and
emissive powers; Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement law,
Stefan’s law.

Electricity and Magnestism

Coulomb’s law; Electric field and potential; Electrical
potential energy of a system of point charges and of
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, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and
uniformly charged thin spherical shell. 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 on 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, LC and LCR(in series) circuits with
d.c. and a.c. sources.

Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic waves and their

characteristics. Electromagnetic spectrum
(radio waves, microwaves, infrared,
visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays)
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 limited
to 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.

Revised Syllabus to be followed from JEE

(Advanced)
 2023 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 and
their algebraic properties, De-Morgan’s laws on union,
intersection, difference (for finite number of sets) and
practical problems based on them.
Cartesian product of finite sets, ordered pair, relations,
domain and codomain of relations, equivalence relation
Function as a special case of relation, functions as mappings,
domain, codomain, range of functions, invertible functions,
even and odd functions, into, onto and one-to-one 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.
Harmonic Mean (DELETED)

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 and their
properties, solutions of simultaneous linear equations in two
or three variables.

Probability and Statistics

Random experiment, sample space, different types of events
(impossible, simple, compound), 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.
OF SOLUTION TRAINGLE (DELETED)

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, 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 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 and those of a circle and a straight line. 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, geometric interpretation of the two theorems,
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.
 Revised Syllabus to be followed from JEE
(Advanced)
2023 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) involving common oxidation-reduction,
neutralisation, and displacement reactions; 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 and their relation with
temperature; 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 (plots only), 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 ȟ‫ ܩ‬and ȟ‫ٓ ܩ‬in 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 (Bronsted 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
(cell parameters a, b, c, α, β, γ), 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
(only definitions and examples).

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
(sodium carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide,
sodium hydrogen carbonate) and calcium (calcium oxide,
calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate).

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 with respect to other
elements in their respective groups.

Group 13: Reactivity towards acids, alkalis, and halogens;

preparation, properties, and uses of borax, orthoboric acid,
diborane, boron trifluoride, aluminium chloride, and alums;
uses of boron and aluminium.
Group 14: Reactivity towards water and halogen; allotropes
of carbon and uses of carbon; preparation, properties, and
uses of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, silicon dioxide,
silicones, silicates, zeolites.
Group 15: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen;
allotropes of phosphorous; preparation, properties, and uses
of dinitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid, phosphine, phosphorus
trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride; oxides of nitrogen and
oxoacids of phosphorus.
Group 16: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen;
simple oxides; allotropes of sulfur;
preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of dioxygen,
ozone, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid; oxoacids of sulfur.
17 Group: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and metals;
preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of chlorine,
hydrogen chloride and interhalogen compounds; oxoacids of
halogens, bleaching powder.
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 (linear, tetrahedral,
square planar and octahedral) 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
(enantiomers, diastereomers, meso) of compounds
containing only up to two asymmetric centres
(R,S and E,Z configurations excluded); Determination of
empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds by
combustion method only; IUPAC nomenclature of organic
molecules (hydrocarbons, including simple cyclic
hydrocarbons and their mono-functional and bi-functional
derivatives only); Hydrogen bonding effects; Inductive,
Resonance and Hyperconjugative effects; Acidity and basicity
of organic compounds; Reactive intermediates produced
during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation,
structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free
radicals.
Alkanes
Homologous series; Physical properties (melting points,
boiling points and density) and effect of branching on them;
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 (excluding the stereochemistry of
addition and elimination); 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
(formation of alkenes and ethers); 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; aldehydes from esters; benzaldehyde from
toluene and benzene; Reactions: oxidation, reduction, oxime
and hydrazoneformation; 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 of aromatic amines;
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
(excluding benzyne mechanism and cine substitution).
Biomolecules
Carbohydrates: Classification; Mono- and di-saccharides
(glucose and sucrose); Oxidation; Reduction; Glycoside
formation and hydrolysis of disaccharides (sucrose, maltose,
lactose); Anomers.
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
(excluding structures), of antacids, antihistamines,
tranquilizers, analgesics, antimicrobials, and antifertility
drugs; Artificial sweeteners (names only); Soaps, detergents,
and cleansing action.

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.

THE END

Physics - thermodynamics[engine,
2law, reversible entrophy]
EM waves
MATH - sets and relation
Statistics
! harmonic mean, sol. Of triangle!
CHEMISTRY - Principles of qualitative
analysis
Environmental chemistry
phenols