JEE Advanced Syllabus 2026: Subject-Wise Topics, Chapter-Wise Weightage and PDF Download

Units and dimensions; Dimensional analysis; Least count; Significant figures; Measurement using screw gauge and vernier calliper; Estimation of orders of magnitude; Errors in measurement; Propagation of errors; Experimental verification of Ohm’s law; Simple pendulum; Resonance tube; Young’s modulus; Surface tension by capillary rise.

Kinematics in 1D and 2D; Projectile motion; Circular motion; Newton’s laws of motion; Static and dynamic friction; Work-energy theorem; Power; Conservation of energy and linear momentum; Elastic and inelastic collisions; Centre of mass; Rigid body dynamics; Moment of inertia; Angular momentum; Torque; Rolling without slipping; Gravitation (Kepler’s laws, gravitational potential, satellite motion, escape velocity); Fluid mechanics (Pascal’s law, Bernoulli’s theorem, viscosity, Stokes’ law); Surface tension; Capillary rise; Simple harmonic motion; Forced oscillations and resonance; Damped oscillations; Transverse and longitudinal waves; Standing waves; Beats; Doppler effect.

Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry; Latent heat; Heat conduction; Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas law; Kinetic theory of gases; Maxwell-Boltzmann speed distribution; Degrees of freedom; Specific heats Cp and Cv; First law of thermodynamics; Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, and isochoric processes; Second law; Carnot cycle and efficiency; Blackbody radiation; Wien’s displacement law; Stefan-Boltzmann law.

Coulomb’s law; Electric field and potential; Gauss’s law; Parallel plate capacitor; Dielectrics; Energy stored in capacitors; Ohm’s law; Kirchhoff’s laws; Wheatstone bridge; RC circuits; Biot-Savart law; Ampere’s law; Lorentz force; Motion of charged particles in EM fields; Faraday’s law; Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance; AC circuits (LCR, impedance, resonance, power factor); Transformers.

Electromagnetic spectrum; Nature and properties of EM waves; Speed of EM waves in vacuum; Transverse nature of EM waves; Polarization of light; Malus’s law; Brewster’s angle; Polaroids and their applications. (Added to the JEE Advanced syllabus in 2023; present in 2026.)

Rectilinear propagation; Reflection by plane and spherical mirrors; Refraction at plane surfaces; Total internal reflection; Optical fibres; Refraction at spherical surfaces; Lenses; Lens maker’s equation; Prism; Dispersion; Scattering; Young’s double-slit experiment; Interference; Single-slit diffraction; Resolving power of microscope and telescope.

Photoelectric effect; Einstein’s photoelectric equation; de Broglie wavelength; Bohr model of hydrogen atom; X-rays (characteristic and Bremsstrahlung); Moseley’s law; Nuclear binding energy; Mass defect; Radioactive decay (alpha, beta, gamma); Half-life; Nuclear fission; Nuclear fusion.

Mole concept; Equivalent weight; Stoichiometry; Limiting reagent; Concentration terms (molarity, molality, normality, mole fraction); Balancing redox reactions; Volumetric analysis (acid-base, redox, and complexometric titrations).

Kinetic theory of gases; Ideal gas equation; Real gases and Van der Waals equation; Critical constants; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; Viscosity; Surface tension; Liquid state properties.

Bohr model of hydrogen atom; Wave-particle duality; Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle; Quantum numbers (n, l, m, s); Shapes of s, p, d orbitals; Aufbau principle; Hund’s rule; Pauli exclusion principle; Electronic configurations.

Ionic and covalent bonds; Hybridisation (sp, sp2, sp3, sp3d, sp3d2); VSEPR theory; Molecular orbital theory (bonding/antibonding, bond order); Polarity of bonds; Dipole moment; Hydrogen bonding; Van der Waals forces.

First law; Internal energy; Enthalpy; Hess’s law; Bond enthalpies; Standard enthalpies of formation; Second law; Entropy; Gibbs free energy; Spontaneity (ΔG < 0); Relationship between ΔG and equilibrium constant.

Law of mass action; Kp and Kc; Le Chatelier’s principle; pH calculations; Buffer solutions; Henderson-Hasselbalch equation; Solubility product (Ksp); Common ion effect; Hydrolysis of salts; Acid-base indicators.

Electrochemical cells; Standard electrode potential; EMF calculation; Nernst equation; Concentration cells; Electrolytic cells; Faraday’s laws of electrolysis; Conductance; Kohlrausch’s law; Corrosion.

Rate of reaction; Rate law; Order and molecularity; Integrated rate equations; Half-life; Arrhenius equation; Activation energy; Temperature dependence; Catalysis.

Crystal structures; Unit cells; Packing efficiency; Point defects (Schottky, Frenkel); Raoult’s law; Colligative properties (elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point, osmotic pressure); Van’t Hoff factor; Colloids; Tyndall effect; Adsorption isotherms (Freundlich, Langmuir); Heterogeneous catalysis.

Periodic trends in ionisation energy, electron affinity, electronegativity, atomic and ionic radii; Diagonal relationships; Anomalous behaviour of second-period elements.

Properties and uses of hydrogen; Hydrides; Alkali metals and alkaline earth metals; Oxides, hydroxides, carbonates, bicarbonates; Anomalous behaviour of Li and Be; Biological roles of s-block elements.

Group 13: boron compounds, borax, boron hydrides, aluminium; Group 14: allotropes of carbon, CO2, SiO2, silicates; Group 15: NH3, HNO3, oxides of nitrogen, phosphorus allotropes, phosphine, PCl3, PCl5; Group 16: ozone, H2S, H2SO4, oxoacids; Group 17: HX acids, interhalogen compounds, bleaching powder; Group 18: properties and uses; anomalous first-member behaviour across groups.

Transition metals; Variable oxidation states; Colour; Magnetic properties; Catalytic behaviour; Important compounds of Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn; Lanthanides and lanthanide contraction; Actinides.

Werner’s theory; IUPAC nomenclature; Isomerism (geometric, optical, linkage, ionisation); Crystal field theory; Spectrochemical series; Magnetic properties; Colour of complexes; Stability constants; Industrial and biological applications.

General methods of extraction (pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy); Ellingham diagram; Refining of metals; Systematic qualitative analysis — identification of anions (carbonate, sulphide, halide) and cations (Groups I–VI); Flame tests; Confirmatory tests.

Hybridisation; Inductive effect; Resonance; Mesomeric effect; Hyperconjugation; Aromaticity (Hückel’s rule); IUPAC nomenclature; Structural and stereoisomerism (enantiomers, diastereomers, E/Z, R/S); Reaction intermediates — carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes; SN1, SN2, E1, E2 mechanisms.

Alkane halogenation (free radical mechanism); Alkene addition (Markovnikov, anti-Markovnikov, ozonolysis); Alkynes (acidic nature, hydration); Benzene electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS); Activating and deactivating groups; Friedel-Crafts reaction.

SN1 and SN2 stereochemistry; Grignard reagents; Acidity of alcohols vs phenols; Ether synthesis and cleavage; Kolbe’s reaction; Reimer-Tiemann reaction; Nucleophilic aromatic substitution (haloarenes).

Nucleophilic addition to C=O; Aldol condensation; Cannizzaro reaction; Clemmensen reduction; Wolff-Kishner reduction; Carboxylic acid derivatives — esters (saponification), amides, acyl chlorides; Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction; Decarboxylation.

Basicity of amines; Diazonium salts and coupling reactions; Structure of glucose, fructose, sucrose; Amino acids; Proteins (primary to quaternary structure); Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA); Addition and condensation polymers; Natural rubber; Practical Organic Chemistry (identification of functional groups via chemical tests).

Sets and their representations; Union, intersection, complement; De Morgan’s laws; Relations; Domain and range; Types of functions (one-one, onto, many-one); Composition of functions; Inverse functions; Even and odd functions.

Complex numbers: Argand plane, De Moivre’s theorem, cube roots of unity, roots of polynomial equations; Quadratic equations: nature of roots, symmetric functions; Sequences and series: AP, GP, HP, sum of special series; Permutations and combinations; Binomial theorem: general term, middle term, binomial coefficients; Matrices: operations, determinants, inverse, rank; Solving linear equations (Cramer’s rule and matrix method); Logarithms.

Trigonometric ratios and identities; Addition, subtraction, and multiple angle formulas; General solutions of trigonometric equations; Inverse trigonometric functions; Properties of triangles; Sine rule; Cosine rule; Heights and distances.

Straight lines (slope, intercept, distance, angle between lines, family of lines); Circle (standard and general form, tangent, normal, chord of contact, radical axis); Parabola, ellipse, hyperbola (standard equations, tangent, normal, director circle, asymptotes, eccentricity); Common chord and common tangent.

Direction cosines and direction ratios; Equations of a line in 3D (symmetric and vector form); Equations of a plane (intercept form, general form, normal form); Angle between lines and planes; Shortest distance between skew lines; Distance of a point from a plane.

Limits (standard limits, L’Hôpital’s rule, sandwich theorem); Continuity; Differentiability; Derivatives (chain rule, product rule, implicit, parametric, logarithmic); Higher order derivatives; Mean value theorems (Rolle’s, Lagrange’s); Application of derivatives: tangents, normals, monotonicity, maxima and minima, curve sketching.

Integration by substitution; Integration by parts; Partial fractions; Integration of rational and irrational functions; Definite integrals; Properties of definite integrals; Reduction formulae; Area under curves; Area between curves; Differential equations: variable separable; Homogeneous equations; First-order linear ODE.

Vector algebra; Dot product; Cross product; Scalar and vector triple products; Geometrical applications; Probability: conditional probability, Bayes’ theorem, Binomial distribution; Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode); Variance; Standard deviation.