JEE Advanced Syllabus 2026: Subject Details, Exam Pattern, Subject-wise Weightage and Preparation Tips

Syllabus

Chapters

Units

Physical Chemistry

General topics

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

Gaseous and liquid states

• Absolute scale of temperature, ideal gas equation
• 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
• Vapour pressure
• Diffusion of gases.

Atomic structure and chemical bonding

• Bohr model, spectrum of the hydrogen atom, quantum numbers
• Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis
• Uncertainty principle
• Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of the hydrogen atom, shapes of s, 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, p and d orbitals only
• Orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species
• Hydrogen bond
• Polarity in molecules, dipole moment (qualitative aspects only)
• VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

Energetics

• First law of thermodynamics
• Internal energy, work, heat, and pressure-volume work
• Enthalpy, Hess’s law
• Heat of reaction, fusion and vapourisation
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Entropy, Free energy
• Criterion of spontaneity.

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

• Electrochemical cells and cell reactions
• Standard electrode potentials
• Nernst equation and its relation
• Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic cells
• Faraday’s laws of electrolysis
• Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch’s law
• Concentration cells.

Chemical kinetics

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

Solid state

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

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

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

Inorganic Chemistry

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

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

Transition elements (3d series)

• Definition, general characteristics, oxidation states and their stabilities, colour (excluding the details of electronic transitions) and calculation of spin-only magnetic moment
• Coordination compounds: nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds, cis-trans and ionisation isomerisms, hybridisation and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (linear, tetrahedral, 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 thiosulfate.

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.

Organic Chemistry

Concepts

• Hybridisation of carbon
• ? and ?-bonds
• Shapes of simple organic molecules
• Structural and geometrical isomerism
• Optical isomerism of compounds containing up to two asymmetric centres (R, S and E, Z nomenclature excluded)
• IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds (only hydrocarbons, mono-functional and bi-functional compounds)
• Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections)
• Resonance and hyperconjugation
• Keto-enoltautomerism
• Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds (only combustion method)
• Hydrogen bonds: definition and their effects on the 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 are produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage.
• Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

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)
• Additional 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)

• Alkyl halides: rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation, Grignard reactions, nucleophilic substitution reactions
• Alcohols: esterification, dehydration and oxidation, reaction with sodium, phosphorus halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones
• Ethers: Preparation by Williamson’s Synthesis
• Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation
• Aldol condensation and Perkin reaction
• Cannizzaro reaction
• Haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions (Grignard addition)
• Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis
• Amines: basicity of substituted anilines and aliphatic amines, preparation from nitro compounds, reaction with nitrous acid, 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).

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 mixtures.

Chapter

Subtopics

Algebra

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

Quadratic equations with real coefficients: relations between roots and coefficients, formation of quadratic equations with given roots, symmetric functions of roots.

Progressions: Arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic progressions.

Means and sums of finite and infinite progressions

Sums of squares and cubes of the first n natural numbers.

Logarithms and their properties.

Permutations and combinations, Binomial theorem for positive integral indices, properties of binomial coefficients.

Matrices

Matrices as rectangular arrays of real numbers

Addition, scalar multiplication, product of matrices, transpose, determinant (up to order 3), and inverse (up to order 3).

Properties of matrix operations, diagonal, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices, solutions to linear equations in two or three variables.

Probability

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

Trigonometry

Trigonometric functions: periodicity, graphs, addition, subtraction formulae, multiple and sub-multiple angle formulae.

General solution of trigonometric equations, sine and cosine rule, half-angle formula, area of a triangle, inverse trigonometric functions (principal value).

Analytical Geometry

2D Geometry: Cartesian coordinates, distance formula, section formulae, shift of origin, equations of a straight line, angle between lines, distance from a point to a line.

Equation of circle, tangent, normal, chord, parametric equations, and intersection of circles and lines.

Parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola: standard form, foci, directrices, eccentricity, parametric equations, equations of tangent and normal.

3D Geometry: Direction cosines, equation of a line and a plane, distance of a point from a plane.

Differential Calculus

Functions: Real-valued, onto, one-to-one functions, sum, difference, product, quotient, composite functions, limits, continuity, and L'Hopital's Rule for limits.

Derivatives: Sum, difference, product, quotient rule, chain rule, derivatives of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions.

Higher derivatives, geometrical interpretation, tangents and normals, increasing/decreasing functions, maxima and minima, Rolle’s Theorem, Lagrange’s Mean Value Theorem.

Integral Calculus

Integration as inverse differentiation, indefinite and definite integrals, properties, and the fundamental theorem of calculus.

Methods of integration: by parts, substitution, partial fractions, application to areas under curves.

Ordinary differential equations: formation and solutions (homogeneous equations, separation of variables, linear first-order).

Vectors

Vector operations: Addition, scalar multiplication, dot product, cross product, scalar triple product, geometrical interpretations.

Chapter

Subtopics

General

Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis, least count, significant figures.

Measurement and error analysis in experiments: Vernier calipers and screw gauge (micrometer), determination of g using simple pendulum, Young’s modulus by Searle’s method.

Specific heat of liquid using calorimeter, focal length of concave mirror and convex lens using u-v method, speed of sound using resonance column, Ohm’s law verification.

Specific resistance of the material of a wire using a meter bridge and a post office box.

Mechanics

Kinematics: Motion 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, escape velocity.

Rigid body: Moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, angular momentum, torque, conservation of angular momentum, dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed rotation.

Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders, and spheres, the equilibrium of rigid bodies, and the collision of point masses with rigid bodies.

Simple harmonic motion (linear and angular), Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

Pressure in fluids, Pascal’s law, buoyancy, surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise, viscosity, terminal velocity, streamline flow, Bernoulli’s theorem.

Wave motion: Longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition, progressive and stationary waves, vibration of strings and air columns, resonance, Doppler effect (sound).

Thermal Physics

Thermal expansion of solids, liquids, and gases, calorimetry, latent heat, heat conduction, 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, and equivalence of heat and work.

First law of thermodynamics and applications (only for ideal gases), blackbody radiation: Absorptive and emissive powers, Kirchhoff’s law, Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.

Electricity and Magnetism

Coulomb’s law, electric field and potential, electrical potential energy, field lines, flux of electric field, Gauss’s law and applications.

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 resistances and cells, Kirchhoff’s laws, heating effect of current.

Biot–Savart’s law, Ampere’s law, magnetic field due to a current-carrying wire, force on a moving charge, magnetic moment of a current loop.

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, and magnification.

Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle, interference (Young’s double-slit experiment).

Modern Physics

Atomic nucleus: Alpha, beta, and gamma radiations, radioactive decay law, decay constant, half-life and mean life, binding energy, fission and fusion processes.

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 Physics Topics

Weightage (%)

Electrodynamics

28%

Alternating Current

3%

Capacitance

3%

Current Electricity

3%

Electromagnetic Field

7%

Electromagnetic Induction

8%

Electrostatics

3%

Heat & Thermodynamics

11%

Heat Transfer

3%

KTG & Thermodynamics

8%

Mechanics

36%

Centre of Mass

7%

Error in Measurement

3%

Fluid Mechanics & Properties of Matter

7%

Gravitation

3%

Rigid Body Dynamics

13%

Unit & Dimension

3%

Modern Physics

13%

Modern Physics

7%

Nuclear Physics

6%

Optics

9%

Geometrical Optics & Physical Optics

9%

SHM & Waves

3%

Sound Waves

3%

JEE Advanced Chemistry Topics

Weightage(%)

Inorganic Chemistry-II

28%

Coordination Compounds

9%

Metallurgy

3%

Qualitative Analysis

8%

p-Block 17-18 Group

3%

p-block (15-16 Grp)

3%

Organic Chemistry-I

7%

Hydrocarbon

3%

Practical Organic Chemistry

3%

Organic Chemistry-II

27%

Aromatic Compounds

10%

Biomolecules

3%

Hydrocarbon (Alkane, Alkene & Alkyne)

8%

Stereoisomerism

3%

Aldehyde Ketone

3%

Physical Chemistry-I

20%

Atomic Structure & Nuclear Chemistry

3%

Chemical Equilibrium

3%

Equivalent Concept

7%

Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry

7%

Physical Chemistry-II

19%

Chemical Kinetics

3%

Electrochemistry

7%

Solid State

3%

Surface Chemistry

3%

Solution & Colligative Properties

3%

JEE Advanced Maths Topics

Weightage(%)

Complex Numbers

6%

Complex Numbers

6%

Coordinate Geometry

21%

Circle

8%

Ellipse

3%

Parabola

7%

Straight Line

3%

Differential Calculus

7%

Application of Derivatives

7%

Fundamentals of Mathematics

3%

Fundamentals of Mathematics

3%

Integral Calculus

21%

Area under the curve

3%

Definite integration

15%

Differential equation

3%

Matrix & Determinants

10%

Matrices & Determinants

10%

Permutation & Combination

3%

Permutation & Combination

3%

Probability

13%

Probability

13%

Trigonometry

10%

Inverse Trigonometric function

3%

Solution of the Triangle

3%

Trigonometric Ratio & identities

3%

Vector and 3D

7%

Vector

7%

Topic Name

No. of Questions

Total Marks

Electrodynamics

12

34

Alternating Current

2

4

Capacitance

2

4

Current Electricity

1

4

Electromagnetic Field

2

8

Electromagnetic Induction

3

10

Electrostatics

2

4

Heat & Thermodynamics

4

13

Heat Transfer

1

4

KTG & Thermodynamics

3

9

Mechanics

14

43

Centre of Mass

4

8

Error in Measurement

1

3

Fluid Mechanics & Properties of Matter

3

8

Gravitation

1

4

Rigid Body Dynamics

4

16

Unit & Dimension

1

4

Modern Physics

4

15

Modern Physics

2

8

Nuclear Physics

2

7

Optics

3

11

Geometrical Optics & Physical Optics

3

11

SHM & Waves

1

4

Sound Waves

1

4

Subject

New Topics Added

Syllabus Reduced

Weightage

Physics

• AC circuits: Kirchhoff’s laws
• Transformer concepts
• Semiconductor devices like diodes and transistors

• Fewer numerically-heavy problems
• Simpler wave topics and reduced interference complexity

35%

Chemistry

• Coordination compounds: bonding, reactivity, isomerism
• Polymers: types, properties, formation
• Biomolecules: carbs, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids

• Fewer organic reactions
• Simpler chemical bonding and stoichiometry
• More focus on core principles

35%

Mathematics

• Vector calculus: lines, planes, surfaces
• Differential equations (all orders)
• Probability distributions: binomial, Poisson, normal

• Fewer formulas to memorise
• Simplified coordinate geometry and trigonometry
• Greater focus on application-based questions

30%

Topics in JEE Advanced

Topics in JEE Main

• Matrices: Row and column transformations, advanced operations.
• Trigonometry: General solutions of trigonometric equations.
• 2D Geometry: Parametric form of a circle, intersection of circles and lines, tangents and normals.
• Differential Calculus: Rolle’s and Lagrange’s theorems, second-order derivatives of implicit functions.
• Integration & Differential Equations: Definite integrals as sum limits, formation of differential equations.
• Vectors: Scalar and vector triple product with geometric understanding.
• Probability & Statistics (Advanced): Random variables, variance analysis of different distributions.

• Sets, Relations, and Functions: Symmetric difference, De Morgan's laws (finite sets), invertible functions.
• Statistics and Probability (Basic): Measures of central tendency, basic probability.
• Complex Numbers: Polar form, modulus, principal argument, triangle inequality, geometric interpretation.
• Quadratic Equations: Symmetric functions of roots.
• Linear Programming: Basics and Applications.
• Sequences and Series: Sums of squares/cubes of n natural numbers, binomial coefficient properties.

Topics in JEE Advanced

Topics in JEE Main

Thermal Physics (Advanced Concepts): Includes detailed study of Newton’s Law of Cooling, blackbody radiation, Kirchhoff’s law, Wein’s displacement law, and Stefan–Boltzmann law

• Communication Systems: Covers fundamentals of communication, including modulation and demodulation techniques.
• Semiconductors: Introduction to semiconductor physics, including the working of diodes and transistors.

Electronic Devices: Basic understanding of electronic components, such as operational amplifiers and their uses.

Topics in JEE Advanced

Topics in JEE Main

• Organic Chemistry – Reactions: Includes reactions like the Perkin’s reaction, not found in the main syllabus
• Qualitative Analysis: Identification of carbonate ions is part of the Advanced level preparation

• Basic Concepts of Chemistry: Covers stoichiometry, mole concept, and related numerical problems.
• Electrochemistry: Includes equivalent conductivity and related concepts.
• Environmental Chemistry: Focus on pollution, green chemistry, and eco-friendly practices.
• Nuclear Chemistry: Covers radioactivity, decay kinetics, properties of radiation, carbon dating, and nuclear reactions.
• Chemistry in Everyday Life: Emphasises practical applications of chemistry, especially in medicinal chemistry and drug classification.

Section

Difficulty Level

Physics

Moderate to Difficult

Chemistry

Moderate

Mathematics

Easy to Moderate

Section

Difficulty Level

Physics

Moderate

Chemistry

Moderate

Mathematics

Moderate to Difficult

Parameter

Details

JEE Advanced Exam Format

Two Papers (Each Paper with three sections)

Type of Questions

MCQs

NAT Questions

Matching Type Questions

Subjects Covered

Physics

Chemistry

Mathematics

Total Questions

108 (54 in each paper)

Marking Scheme

MCQs:

• +3 for each correct answer
• -1 for each incorrect answer
• 0 for unattempted questions

NAT:

• +3 for each correct answer
• No negative marking
• 0 for unattempted questions

Matching Type Questions:

• +1 for each correct answer
• 0 for unattempted answer

Negative Marking

-1 for each incorrect answer in MCQs.

Language

English and Hindi

Mode of Exam

Online

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Particulars

Details

Max Loan Amount

50 Lakhs

Collateral

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Moratorium

Available

Processing Time

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Disbursal Time

7 Days

Approval Rate

Higher than Other Banks

Special USP

Marks Based Approval

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100% of Fees