JEE Advanced Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2024, Important Dates etc.

Paper 1: 09:00-12:00

Paper 2: 14:30-17:30

• Units and Dimensions, Dimensional Analysis;
• Minimum count, vital figures;
• Methods of measurement of physical quantities and error analysis relating to the following experiments:
  • Experiments based on using vernier calipers and screw gauges (micrometer),
  • determination of G using a simple pendulum,
  • Specific heat of liquid using a calorimeter,
  • Young’s modulus by Searle method,
  • the focal length of a concave mirror and convex lens using UV method,
  • speed of sound using resonating columns,
  • Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter and ammeter, and
  • specific resistance of the material of wire using meter bridge and post office box.

• Dynamics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiveness;
• Uniform circular movement;
• Relative velocity.

• Newton’s laws of motion;
• Static and dynamic friction;
• Kinetic and potential energy;
• Work and power; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference;
• Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy.

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

• Law of gravitation;
• Acceleration due to gravity;
• Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits;
• Gravitational potential and field;
• Escape velocity.

• Rigid body, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes;
• moment of inertia,
• Angular momentum;

• Torque;
• Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation;
• Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres;
• Conservation of angular momentum;
• Equilibrium of rigid bodies;
• Collision of point masses with rigid bodies.

• Hooke’s law,
• Young’s modulus.

• Pressure in a fluid;
• Buoyancy;
• Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Pascal’s law;
• Stoke’s law;
• Terminal velocity, equation of continuity, Streamline flow, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.

• Wave motion (plane waves only), superposition of waves;
• Progressive and stationary waves;
• Vibration of strings and air columns;
• longitudinal and transverse waves, Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound in gases;
• Doppler effect (in sound).

• Thermal expansion of solids, Heat conduction in one dimension;
• Elementary concepts of convection and radiation;
• Calorimetry, latent heat;
• liquids and gases;
• Newton’s law of cooling;
• Ideal gas laws;
• Equivalence of heat and work;
• First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases);
• Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases;
• Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases);
• Blackbody radiation:
  • Kirchhoff’s law;
• absorptive and emissive powers;
• Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.

• Coulomb’s law;
• Electric field and potential;
• Electric field lines;
• Flux of electric field;
• Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases,
• Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; such as,
  • to find a field due to an infinitely long straight wire,
  • uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and
  • uniformly charged thin spherical shell.

• Capacitance;
• Capacitors in series and parallel;
• Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics;
• Energy stored in a capacitor.

• Electric current;
• Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells;
• Ohm’s law;
• Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications;
• Heating effect of current.

• Biot–Savart’s law and Ampere’s law;
• A current flowing near a straight coil along the axis of a circular coil and a magnetic field inside a long straight solenoid;
• Force acting on a charge moving in a uniform magnetic field and a current carrying wire.

• The magnetic moment of the current loop; Effect of uniform magnetic field on the current loop;
• Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their transformations.
• Electromagnetic Induction: Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law;
• Self and Mutual Induction; RC, LR and LC circuits with DC. And AC Source.

• Rectilinear propagation of light;
• Total internal reflection;
• Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism;
• Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces; Thin lenses;
• Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses;
• Magnification.

• Wave nature of light:
  • Huygen’s theory of interference is limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.

• Atomic nucleus; Law of radioactive decay;
• Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiations;
• Decay constant;
• Half-life and mean life;
• Binding energy and its calculation;
• Fission and fusion processes;
• Energy calculation in these processes.

• Photoelectric effect;
• Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms;
• Moseley’s law;
• De Broglie wavelength of matter waves.

triangle inequality, properties of modulus and principal argument, cube roots of unity, geometric interpretations.

Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, geometric and harmonic means, arithmetic, sums of finite arithmetic and geometric progressions, infinite geometric series, sums of squares and cubes of the first n natural numbers.

Limit and continuity of a function, difference, product and quotient of two functions, limit and continuity of the sum, L’Hospital rule of evaluation of limits of functions.

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

Kinetic theory of gases, average, root mean square and most probable velocities and their relation with temperature;

Deviation from ideality, van der Waals equation; Law of partial pressures;

Vapour pressure; Diffusion of gases.

Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom, shapes of s, p and d orbitals; Uncertainty principle; Electronic configurations of elements (up to atomic number 36); Aufbau principle;

Orbital overlap and covalent bond; Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals only; Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule;

Orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species; Polarity in molecules, dipole moment (qualitative aspects only); Hydrogen bond; VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, triangular, angular, square planar, pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, square pyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

Free energy; Criterion of spontaneity.

Faraday’s laws of electrolysis; Electrolytic conductance, equivalent and molar conductivity, specific, Kohlrausch’s law; Concentration cells.

Classification of solids, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b, c, alpha, beta, gamma), crystalline state, close packed structure of solids (cubic), packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices;

Nearest neighbours, simple ionic compounds, ionic radii, point defects.

Properties of allotropes of carbon (only diamond and graphite), phosphorus and sulphur.

Boron: diborane, boric acid and borax;

Carbon: oxides and oxyacid (carbonic acid); Aluminium: alumina, aluminium chloride and alums;

Silicon: silicones, silicates and silicon carbide;

Nitrogen: oxides, oxyacids and ammonia;

Phosphorus: oxides, oxyacids (phosphorus acid, phosphoric acid) and phosphine;

Sulphur: hydrogen sulphide, oxides, sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate;

Oxygen: ozone and hydrogen peroxide;

Halogens: hydrohalic acids, oxides and oxyacids of chlorine, bleaching powder; Xenon fluorides.

Coordination compounds: cis-trans and ionisation isomerisms, nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds, hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (tetrahedral, linear, square planar and octahedral).

Carbon reduction method (iron and tin);

Cyanide process (silver and gold).

Alcohols: esterification, dehydration and oxidation, phosphorus halides, reaction with sodium, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones;

Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation;

Ethers: Preparation by Williamson’s  Synthesis; aldol condensation, Perkin reaction; haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions (Grignard addition);

Cannizzaro reaction;

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;

Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis; carbylamine reaction;

Haloarenes: nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding Benzyne mechanism and Cine substitution).

Oxygenation, reduction, glycoside formation and hydrolysis of sucrose.