JEE Advanced Syllabus 2023
Physics Syllabus
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 Surface tension 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.
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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.
Revised Syllabus to be followed from JEE (Advanced) 2023
Electricity and Magnetism
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.
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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 andmean 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 Syllabus
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.
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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 evaporation, 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.
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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.
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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
phosphorus; preparation, properties, and uses of dinitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid,
phosphine, phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride; oxides of nitrogen and
oxoacids of phosphorus.
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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.
Group 17: 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.
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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,
FriedelCrafts alkylation and acylation; Effect of directing groups (monosubstituted
benzene) in these reactions.
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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 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 of aromatic amines; Sandmeyer and related
reactions of diazonium salts; Carbylamine reaction, Hinsberg test, Alkylation and
acylation reactions.
Haloarenes
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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; Biodegradable 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
functionalgroups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone),
carboxyl, amino and nitro.
Mathematics Syllabus
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
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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.
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
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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, 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.
culus.
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
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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 calIntegration 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.
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