VITEEE Exam Syllabus 2026: Subject Wise Topics, Marking Scheme, Topic Weightage, and Preparation Tips

Chapters

Syllabus

Laws of Motion & Work, Energy and Power

• Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications
• Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction, and lubrication.
• Constant force and a variable force.
• kinetic energy, work-energy theorem, and power.

• Conservative forces
• Non-conservative forces
• Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

Properties of Matter

• Elastic behaviour
• Stress-strain relationship
• Hooke's law
• Young's modulus
• Bulk modulus
• Shear modulus of rigidity
• Poisson's ratio
• Elastic energy
• Viscosity
• Stokes' law
• Terminal velocity
• Streamline and turbulent flow
• Critical velocity
• Bernoulli's theorem and its applications
• Heat - temperature
• Thermal expansion
• Thermal expansion of solids
• Specific heat capacity
• Latent heat capacity
• Qualitative ideas of Blackbody radiation
• Stefan's law.

Electrostatics

• Charges and their conservation;
• Coulomb’s law forces between two point electric charges
• Forces between multiple electric charges and the superposition principle.
• Electric field
• Electric field lines
• Electric dipole
• Electric field intensity due to a dipole
• The behaviour of a dipole in a uniform electric field
• Electric potential
• Potential difference-electric potential due to a point charge and dipole-equipotential surfaces
• The electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges.
• Electric flux-Gauss’s theorem and its applications
• Electrostatic induction-capacitor and capacitance
• Dielectric and electric polarisation
• Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium
• Applications of a capacitor
• Energy stored in a capacitor
• Capacitors in series and in parallel
• Action points
• Van de Graaff generator.

Current Electricity

• Electric Current
• The flow of charges in a metallic conductor
• Drift velocity, mobility, and their relation with electric current
• Ohm’s law
• Electrical resistance
• V-I characteristics
• Electrical resistivity and conductivity classification of materials in terms of conductivity
• Carbon resistors
• Colour code for carbon resistors
• Combination of resistors
• Series and parallel
• Temperature dependence of resistance
• Internal resistance of a cell
• Potential difference and emf of a cell
• Combinations of cells in series and in parallel.
• Kirchhoff’s law
• Wheatstone’s Bridge and its application for temperature coefficient of resistance measurement
• Metrebridge
• Potentiometer principle

Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

• Magnetic effect of electric current
• Concept of magnetic field
• Biot-Savart law for a magnetic field due to an infinitely long current-carrying straight wire and a circular coil
• Tangent galvanometer
• Construction and working
• Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid
• Magnetic field lines
• Ampère’s Circuital Law and Its Application.
• Force on a moving charge in a uniform magnetic field and electric field
• Cyclotron
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field
• Forces between two parallel current-carrying conductors - definition of ampere
• Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field, and a moving coil galvanometer
• Conversion to ammeter and voltmeter
• Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment
• Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron.

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current

• Electromagnetic induction
• Faraday’s law
• Induced emf and current
• Lenz’s law
• Self-induction
• Mutual induction
• Self-inductance of a long solenoid
• Mutual inductance of two long solenoids
• Methods of inducing EMF
• AC generator
• Commercial generator
• Eddy current
• Transformer and long-distance transmission
• Alternating current - measurement of AC
• AC circuit with resistance
• AC circuit with an inductor
• AC circuit with a capacitor
• LCR series circuit
• Resonance and Q-factor
• Power in AC circuits.

Optics

• Reflection of light, spherical mirrors
• Mirror formula
• Magnification
• Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism
• Scattering of the light-blue colour of the sky and the reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset
• Wavefront and Huygens’ principle
• Reflection, total internal reflection, and refraction of a plane wave at a plane surface using wavefronts
• Interference
• Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width
• Coherent source
• Interference of light
• Formation of colours in thin films
• Newton’s rings.
• Diffraction
• Differences between interference and diffraction of light
• Diffraction grating
• Polarisation of light waves
• Polarisation by reflection
• Brewster’s law
• Double refraction
• Nicol prism
• Uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids
• Rotatory polarisation
• Polarimeter.

Dual Nature of Radiation and Atomic Physics

• Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Photoelectric effect
• Light waves and photons
• Einstein’s photoelectric equation
• Laws of photoelectric emission
• Particle nature of light
• Photo cells and their applications.
• Atomic structure
• Specific charge (Thomson’s method) and charge of the electron (Millikan’s oil drop method)
• Alpha scattering
• Rutherford’s atomic model.

Nuclear Physics

• Nuclear properties
• Nuclear radii, masses, binding energy, density, charge, isotopes, isobars, and isotones.
• Nuclear mass defect
• Binding energy
• Stability of nuclei
• Bainbridge mass spectrometer.
• Nature of nuclear forces
• Neutron, discovery, properties, artificial transmutation, and particle accelerator
• Radioactivity
• Radioactive decay law, half-life, mean life, and artificial radioactivity
• Radio isotopes and their effects and uses
• Geiger
• Muller counter
• Radiocarbon dating
• Nuclear fission
• Chain reaction
• Atom bomb
• Nuclear reactor
• Nuclear fusion
• Hydrogen bomb
• Cosmic rays
• Elementary particles.

Semiconductor Devices and Their Applications

• Semiconductor basics and Semiconductor doping
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic semiconductors.
• Formation of P-N Junction
• Forward and reverse bias characteristics
• Diode as a rectifier
• Zener diode as a voltage regulator
• LED
• Junction transistors, characteristics, transistor as a switch, transistor as an amplifier, and transistor as an oscillator.
• Logic gates
• De Morgan’s theorem
• Laws and theorems of Boolean algebra.

Chapters

Syllabus

Atomic Structure

• Bohr’s atomic model
• Electronic configuration and Quantum numbers
• Shapes of s,p,d,f orbitals
• Emission spectrum, absorption spectrum, line spectra, and band spectra
• Hydrogen spectrum
• Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
• Eigen values and eigenfunctions.
• Hybridisation of atomic orbitals involving s,p, and d orbitals.

p,d, and f – Block Elements

• p-block elements
• Hydrogen halides, interhalogen compounds.
• Xenon fluoride compounds.
• General Characteristics of d-block elements
• Occurrence and principles of extraction
• Preparation, properties of CuSO4, AgNO3, and K2Cr2O7.

• Lanthanides

Coordination Chemistry and Solid State Chemistry

• Introduction
• Isomerism, Geometrical isomerism in 4-coordinate, 6-coordinate complexes.
• Theories on coordination compounds
• Uses of coordination compounds.
• Bioinorganic compounds (Haemoglobin and chlorophyll).

• Lattice
• Ionic crystals
• X-Ray diffraction

Thermodynamics, Chemical Equilibrium, and Chemical Kinetics

• I and II laws of thermodynamics
• Free energy change and chemical equilibrium
• Law of mass action
• Rate expression, order, and molecularity of reactions, zero order, first order, and pseudo-first-order reaction
• Determination of rate constant and order of reaction.
• Temperature dependence of the rate constant

Electrochemistry

• Theory of electrical conductance
• Metallic and electrolytic conductance.
• Faraday’s laws
• Specific resistance, specific conductance, equivalent, and molar conductance
• Variation of conductance with dilution
• Electrodes and electrode potentials
• Construction of cell and EMF values, Fuel cells, Corrosion, and its prevention.

Isomerism in Organic Compounds

• Definition, Classification
• Optical activity- chirality

Alcohols and Ethers

• Nomenclature of alcohols
• Methods of preparation of dihydric alcohols
• Methods of preparation of trihydric alcohols
• Aromatic alcohols

• Ethers
• Aromatic ethers

Carbonyl Compounds

• Nomenclature of carbonyl compounds
• General methods of preparation of aldehydes
• Aromatic aldehydes
• Ketones
• Aromatic ketones
• Name reactions
• Clemmensen reduction
• Preparation and applications of Grignard reagents.

Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives

• Nomenclature
• Monohydroxy monocarboxylic acids
• Lactic acid
• Aliphatic dicarboxylic acids
• Preparation of oxalic and succinic acid
• Aromatic acids
• Benzoic and Salicylic acid
• Derivatives of carboxylic acids
• Acetyl chloride (CH3COCl)
• Preparation of acetamide

Organic Nitrogen Compounds

• Aliphatic nitro compounds
• Aromatic nitro
• The distinction between aliphatic and aromatic nitro compounds.
• Amines
• The distinction between aliphatic and aromatic amines.
• Diazonium salts
• Carbohydrates
• Amino acids
• Lipids

Chapters

Syllabus

Matrices and Their Applications

• Adjoint, inverse
• The rank of a matrix
• Solution of linear programming problems (LPP) in two variables.

Trigonometry and Complex Numbers

• Definition, range, domain, principal value branch, graphs of inverse trigonometric functions, and their elementary properties.
• Complex number system
• Modulus
• Roots of a complex number

Analytical Geometry of Two Dimensions

• Definition of a conic
• Equations of conic sections (parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola)
• Directrix, Focus
• Latus-rectum
• Tangents and normals
• Asymptotes and Rectangular hyperbola

Vector Algebra

• Scalar Product
• Vector product
• Product of three vectors

Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions

• Direction cosines
• Planes
• Skew lines
• Sphere

Differential Calculus

• Limits, continuity, and differentiability of functions
• Mean value theorem
• Rolle’s Theorem, Lagrange Mean Value Theorem
• Taylor’s and Maclaurin’s series
• Hospital’s Rule, stationary points, increasing, decreasing, maxima, minima, concavity, convexity, and points of inflexion.
• Errors and approximations

Integral Calculus and Its Applications

• Simple definite integrals
• Reduction formulae
• Area of bounded regions, length of the curve.

Differential Equations

• Differential equations
• Formation of differential equations, order and degree, solving differential equations (1st order)
• Variables separable
• Homogeneous and linear equations.
• Second-order linear differential equations
• Second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients

Probability Distributions

• Probability
• Axioms
• Addition law
• Conditional probability
• Multiplicative law
• Baye’s Theorem
• Random variable
• Probability density function
• Distribution function
• Mathematical expectation
• Variance Theoretical distributions
• Discrete distributions
• Binomial
• Poisson distributions
• Continuous distributions
• Normal distribution.

Discrete Mathematics

• Functions
• Relations
• Basics of counting.
• Mathematical logic
• Groups-binary operations, semi-groups, monoids, groups, order of a group, order of an element, properties of groups

Chapters

Syllabus

Taxonomy

• Need for classification
• Three domains of life.
• Linnaean, Whittaker, Bentham and Hooker systems of classification.
• Salient features of non-chordates up to phylum levels and chordates up to class levels.

Cell and Molecular Biology

• Cell theory
• Prokaryotic cell and its ultrastructure.
• Eukaryotic cell
• Cell cycle and division - amitosis, mitosis and meiosis.
• Search for genetic material.
• Structure of DNA and RNA

Reproduction

• Asexual reproduction
• Vegetative propagation in plants, sexual reproduction in flowering plants, and the structure of flowers.
• Pollination, fertilisation, development of seeds and fruits, seed dispersal, apomixis, parthenocarpy, and polyembryony.
• Human reproductive system.
• Gametogenesis, menstrual cycle, fertilisation, implantation, embryo development up to blastocyst formation, pregnancy, parturition, and lactation.
• Assisted reproductive technologies.

Genetics and evolution

• Chromosomes
• Mendelian inheritance, chromosomal theory of inheritance, deviation from Mendelian ratio, sex-linked inheritance, and sex determination in humans.
• Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Hardy and Weinberg’s principle, and factors affecting the equilibrium

Human health and diseases

• Pathogens, parasites causing human diseases (malaria, dengue, chikungunya, filariasis, ascariasis, typhoid, pneumonia, common cold, amoebiasis, ringworm) and their control.
• Basic concepts of immunology, vaccines, antibiotics, cancer, HIV, and AIDS.
• Adolescence, drug and alcohol abuse.

Biochemistry

• Structure and function of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
• Enzymes
• Metabolism

Plant physiology

• Movement of water, food, nutrients, gases, and minerals.
• Passive diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and active transport. Imbibition, osmosis, apoplast and symplast transport, and guttation.
• Transpiration, photosynthesis, and the electron transport chain.
• Hormones and growth regulators, photoperiodism, and vernalisation.
• Nitrogen cycle and biological nitrogen fixation.

Human physiology

• Digestion and absorption, breathing and respiration, body fluids and circulation, excretory system, endocrine system, nervous system, skeletal and muscular systems.
• Locomotion and movement, growth, ageing, and death.
• Hormones

Biotechnology and its applications

• Recombinant DNA technology
• Genetically modified organisms
• Human insulin, vaccine, and antibiotic production.
• Stem cell technology and gene therapy.
• Apiculture and animal husbandry.
• Plant breeding, tissue culture, single cell protein, fortification, Bt crops, and transgenic animals.
• Microbes are used in food processing, sewage treatment, waste management, and energy generation.
• Biocontrol agents and biofertilisers.
• Biosafety issues, biopiracy, and patents.

Biodiversity, ecology, and environment

• Ecosystems: components, types, pyramids, nutrient cycles (carbon and phosphorus), ecological succession, and energy flow in an ecosystem.
• Biodiversity
• Environmental issues
• Population attributes

Chapters

Syllabus

Data Interpretation

Tabular Charts, Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Line Graph, and Mixed Charts

Data Sufficiency

All Topics Combined

Syllogism

2 Statements and 2 Conclusions

3 Statements and 2 Conclusions

2 Statements and 4 Conclusions

3 Statements and 4 Conclusions

3 Statements and 3 Conclusions

Number Series, Coding and Decoding

Number Series

Letter-to-Word Coding

Letter to Number Coding

Mixed Coding

Clock, Calendar, and Directions

Mirror Image of the Clock

Angle-Based Questions

Gain or Loss Per Day

Finding Days/Dates

Finding Odd Days

Occurrence of Some Calendar Years

Directions Faced with Respect to the Starting Points

Topic

Weightage

Electrostatics and Current Electricity

10%

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

8%

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current

8%

Optics

7%

Properties of Matter

7%

Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

6%

Thermodynamics

6%

Nuclear Physics

6%

Laws of Motion

5%

Work, Energy, and Power

5%

Gravitation

5%

Mechanics of Solids and Fluids

5%

Oscillations and Waves

5%

Topic

Weightage

Coordination Chemistry

8%

Electrochemistry

7%

Chemical Kinetics

7%

Atomics Structure

7%

Solutions

6%

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

6%

p-Block Elements

6%

D and F Block Elements

6%

Thermodynamics

6%

Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen

5%

Organic Compound Containing Nitrogen

5%

Surface Chemistry

4%

Biomolecules and Polymers

4%

Topic

Weightage

Vector Algebra

9%

Matrices and Determinants

8%

Probability

8%

Differential Calculus

7%

Integral Calculus

7%

Complex Numbers

6%

Coordinate Geometry

6%

Trigonometry

6%

Three-Dimensional Geometry

6%

Sequence and Series

5%

Analytical Geometry of Two Dimensions

5%

Applications of Derivatives

5%

Statistics

5%

Topic

Number of Expected Questions

Electrostatics

5

Current Electricity

3

Magnetic Effects of Electric Current and Magnetism

5

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current

5

Optics

3

Electromagnetic Waves and Wave Optics

5

Atomic and Nuclear Physics

7

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

5

Topic

Number of Expected Questions

Atomic Structure

4

P, d, and Block Elements

4

Coordination Chemistry and Solid State Chemistry

4

Thermodynamics, Chemical Equilibrium, and Chemical Kinetics

4

Electro Chemistry

2

Isomerism in Organic Compounds

2

Alcohols and Ethers

4

Carbonyl Compounds

4

Organic Nitrogen Compounds

2

Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives

2

Biomolecules

6

Topic

Number of Expected Questions

Applications of Matrices and Determinants

4

Complex Numbers

3

Analytical Geometry of Two Dimensions

6

Vector Algebra

2

Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions

4

Differential Calculus

5

Integral Calculus and Its Applications

6

Differential Equations

3

Probability Distribution

4

Discrete Mathematics

3

Topic

Number of Expected Questions

Taxonomy

4

Reproduction

5

Genetics and Evolution

4

Ecology and Environment

2

Human Physiology

3

Parameters

VITEEE Exam Pattern Details

VITEEE Exam Mode

Online

VITEEE Exam Duration

2 Hours 30 Minutes

VITEEE Exam Sections

Mathematics: 40 Questions

Physics: 35 Questions

Chemistry: 35 Questions

Aptitude: 10 Questions

English: 05 Questions

Type of Questions

MCQs

Total Questions

125

Marking Scheme

+1 for each correct answer

Negative Marking

There is no negative marking

Section

Number of Questions

Marks Allotted

Mathematics/Biology

30

40

Physics

35

35

Chemistry

35

35

English

5

5

Aptitude

10

10

Total

125

125

Marks Obtained in VITEEE

Expected Rank Range

118 +

250-1

113 — 117

500 -250

90 — 113

2,500 - 501

81 — 90

5,000 -2,501

72 — 81

5,001 - 6,500

60 — 72

6,501 - 8,500

43 — 60

8,501 - 11,000

31 — 43

15,001 -20,000

Less than 31

Above 20,000

Score Range

Expected Rank

Possible Outcome

Below 31

Above 20,000

Likely admission in lower-preference streams

31 - 43

15,001 - 20,000

Access to some moderate-demand courses

43 - 60

8,501 - 11,000

Fairly good chances across several streams

60 - 72

6,501 - 8,500

Decent chances for competitive programs

72 - 81

5,001 - 6,500

High-demand courses are likely available

81 - 90

2,501 - 5,000

Strong prospects in sought-after streams

90 - 113

501 - 2,500

Excellent shot at premium branches like CSE

113+

1 - 500

Top-ranking status; wide-open choices

Course Name

Closing Rank

Computer Science and Engineering

8000

Information Technology

13000

Computer Science and Engineering (Specialisation in Bioinformatics)

14500

BioMedical Engineering

50000

Biotechnology

30000

Civil Engineering

45000

Electronics and Communication Engineering

15000

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

15600

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

18600

Particulars

Details

Max Loan Amount

50 Lakhs

Collateral

Not Required

Moratorium

Available

Processing Time

10 Times Faster than Banks

Disbursal Time

7 Days

Approval Rate

Higher than Other Banks

Special USP

Marks Based Approval

% Financed

100% of Fees