JEE Advanced 2020 Syllabus

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JEE Advanced Exam is conducted in three subjects: Physics,

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IIT JEE Advanced 2020 Syllabus for Physics

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Physical Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

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JEE Advanced 2020 Syllabus for AAT

JEE Advanced 2020 Syllabus for Physics

As per the JEE Advanced Exam Pattern, the candidates need to
attempt total 36 questions that consist of 124 Marks.

So, going step by step will make you achieve good marks in IIT
JEE Physics. Study the unit wise topics & start your exam
preparation.

Unit – 1: General Physics

Units and dimensions

Dimensional Analysis

Least Count
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 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 by
Searle’s method, 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.

Unit – 2: Mechanics

Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates

only), projectiles; Uniform circular motion; Relative velocity.

Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration

due to gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits;
Escape 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.

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.
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 Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse;
Elastic and inelastic collisions.

Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and

surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation
excluded), Stoke’s law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow,
equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.

Wave motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse

waves, superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves;
Vibration of strings and air columns; Resonance; Beats; Speed of
sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).

Unit – 3: 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

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 Bulk Modulus of Gases

Equivalence of Heat and Work

First Law of Thermodynamics and its Applications (Only for Ideal

Gases)

Blackbody Radiation

Absorptive and Emissive Powers

Kirchhoff’s Law

Wien’s Displacement Law

Stefan’s Law

Unit – 4: 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
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 current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.

Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic

field on a current loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter,
ammeter and their conversions.

Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; Self and

mutual inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with A.C. and D.C.
sources.

Unit – 5: 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.

Unit – 6: 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.

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JEE Advanced Syllabus 2020 for

Chemistry
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 The JEE Advanced and Mains Syllabus for Chemistry is quite
similar but it is lengthier than the JEE Mains.

The subject is divided into 3 parts – Inorganic Chemistry, Organic

Chemistry & Physical Chemistry.

Check out the complete IIT JEE Chemistry syllabus for all the
parts below –

Physical Chemistry

Unit – 1: General Physics

Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton’s atomic theory; Mole

concept; Chemical formulae; Balanced chemical equations;
Calculations (based on mole concept) involving common
oxidation-reduction, neutralisation, and displacement reactions;
Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molarity, molality and
normality.

Unit – 2: 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.

Unit – 3: Atomic Structure and Chemical Bonding

Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom, quantum numbers;

Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty
principle; Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen
atom, shapes of s, p and d orbitals; Electronic configurations of
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 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).

Unit – 4: Energetics

First law of thermodynamics; Internal energy, work and heat,

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

Unit – 5: Chemical Equilibrium

Law of mass action; Equilibrium constant, Le Chatelier’s principle

(effect of concentration, temperature and pressure); Significance
of ΔG and ΔG0 in chemical equilibrium; Solubility product,
common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions; Acids and bases
(Bronsted and Lewis concepts); Hydrolysis of salts.

Unit – 6: Electrochemistry

Electrochemical cells and cell reactions; Standard electrode

potentials; Nernst equation and its relation to ΔG; Electrochemical
series, emf of galvanic cells; Faraday’s laws of electrolysis;
Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar
conductivity, Kohlrausch’s law; Concentration cells.

Unit – 7: Chemical Kinetics

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

Unit – 8: Solid State

Classification of solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems

(cell parameters a, b, c, α, β, γ), close packed structure of solids
(cubic), packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices; Nearest neighbours,
ionic radii, simple ionic compounds, point defects.

Unit – 9: Solutions

Raoult’s law; Molecular weight determination from lowering of

vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point and depression of
freezing point.

Unit – 10: 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).

Unit – 11: Nuclear Chemistry

Radioactivity: isotopes and isobars; Properties of α, β and γ 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.

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Inorganic Chemistry
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 Unit – 1: 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.

Unit – 2: 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.

Unit – 3: 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, hybridization
and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (linear,
tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral).

Unit – 4: Preparation and Properties of the following

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

Unit – 5: Ores and Minerals

Commonly occurring ores and minerals of iron, copper, tin, lead,

magnesium, aluminium, zinc and silver.

Unit – 6: 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).

Unit – 7: 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

Unit – 1: Concepts

Hybridisation of carbon; σ and π-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
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 hyperconjugation; Keto-enoltautomerism; Determination of
empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds (only
combustion method); Hydrogen bonds: definition and their
effects on physical properties of alcohols and carboxylic acids;
Inductive and resonance effects on acidity and basicity of organic
acids and bases; Polarity and inductive effects in alkyl halides;
Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and
heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation, structure and stability of
carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

Unit – 2: 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.

Unit – 3: Preparation, Properties and Reactions of Alkenes

and Alkynes

Physical properties of alkenes and alkynes (boiling points, density

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

Unit – 4: 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
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 monosubstituted benzenes.

Unit – 5: Phenols

Acidity, electrophilic substitution reactions (halogenation,

nitration and sulphonation); Reimer-Tieman reaction, Kolbe
reaction.

Unit – 6: 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,
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).

Unit – 7: Carbohydrates

Classification; mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose);

Oxidation, reduction, glycoside formation and hydrolysis of
sucrose.
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 Unit – 8: Amino Acids and Peptides

General structure (only primary structure for peptides) and

physical properties.

Unit – 9: Properties and Uses of some Important Polymers

Natural rubber, cellulose, nylon, teflon and PVC.

Unit – 10: 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
mono-functional organic compounds from binary mixtures.

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Mathematics
Below, we have listed the topics of that you have to study for the
IIT JEE Mathematics Exam.

Unit – 1: Algebra

Algebra of complex numbers, addition, multiplication,

conjugation, polar representation, properties of modulus and
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.
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 Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, arithmetic,
geometric and harmonic means, sums of finite arithmetic and
geometric progressions, infinite geometric series, 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.

Unit – 2: 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, determinant of a square matrix of
order up to three, 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.

Unit – 3: Probability

Addition and multiplication rules of probability, conditional

probability, Bayes Theorem, independence of events,
computation of probability of events using permutations and
combinations.

Unit – 4: Trigonometry

Trigonometric functions, their periodicity and graphs, addition

and subtraction formulae, formulae involving multiple and sub-
multiple angles, general solution of trigonometric equations.

Relations between sides and angles of a triangle, sine rule, cosine

rule, half-angle formula and the area of a triangle, inverse
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 trigonometric functions (principal value only).

Unit – 5: 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: Direction cosines and direction ratios,

equation of a straight line in space, equation of a plane, distance
of a point from a plane.

Unit – 6: Differential Calculus

Real valued functions of a real variable, into, onto and one-to-one

functions, sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions,
composite functions, absolute value, polynomial, rational,
trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.

Limit and continuity of a function, limit and continuity of the sum,

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 difference, product and quotient of two functions, L’Hospital rule
of evaluation of limits of functions.

Even and odd functions, inverse of a function, continuity of

composite functions, intermediate value property of continuous
functions.

Derivative of a function, derivative of the sum, difference, product

and quotient of two functions, chain rule, derivatives of
polynomial, rational, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric,
exponential and logarithmic functions.

Derivatives of implicit functions, derivatives up to order two,

geometrical interpretation of the derivative, tangents and
normals, increasing and decreasing functions, maximum and
minimum values of a function, Rolle’s theorem and Lagrange’s
mean value theorem.

Unit – 7: Integral Calculus

Integration as the inverse process of differentiation, indefinite

integrals of standard functions, definite integrals and their
properties, fundamental theorem of integral calculus.

Integration by parts, integration by the methods of substitution

and partial fractions, application of definite integrals to the
determination of areas involving simple curves.

Formation of ordinary differential equations, solution of

homogeneous differential equations, separation of variables
method, linear first order differential equations.

Unit – 8: Vectors

Addition of vectors, scalar multiplication, dot and cross products,

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 scalar triple products and their geometrical interpretations.

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