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JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry Syllabus

JEE Mains & Advanced

The JEE Advanced Chemistry syllabus for the year 2024 has been made available for download in a PDF format and is available on our website. Despite the apprehensions of candidates regarding the syllabus changes due to the reduction in JEE Main syllabus, there have been no modifications made to the JEE Advanced syllabus from the last year. Exam conducted by IIT Madras will be the exam on May 26, and candidates are required to prepare for all the topics included in the JEE Advanced Chemistry syllabus, irrespective of their presence in the JEE Main syllabus.

Revised Chemistry Syllabus:

The following are some of the minor changes in the revised JEE Advanced Chemistry syllabus:

Subject

New topics Added

Syllabus Reduction

Chemistry

  • Coordination compounds: isomerism, bonding, and reactivity

  • Polymers: classification, properties, and synthesis

  • Biomolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids

  • Reduction in the number of organic reactions

  • Simplification of certain concepts, such as reducing the complexity of chemical bonding and stoichiometry

  • Greater emphasis on fundamental principles

JEE Advanced Chemistry Syllabus: 2024 Free PDF Download

Mathematics is extremely important in the JEE Main exam, it serves as a foundation for engineering. The JEE Advanced Chemistry syllabus 2024 covers a wide range of topics and is divided into the following sections:

  • Inorganic Chemistry

  • Organic Chemistry

  • Physical Chemistry

  • Analytical Chemistry

Each section of the syllabus is further divided into subsections, which covers specific topics. The syllabus is designed to be challenging, but it is also fair. Candidates who have a strong 

understanding of Chemistry should be able to score well on the JEE Advanced Chemistry exam.

Section A

Chapter Name

Topics

General Topics

  • Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton’s atomic theory; Mole concept; Chemical formulae; Balanced chemical equations.

  • Calculations (based on mole concept and stoichiometry) involving common oxidation-reduction, neutralisation, and displacement reactions.

  • Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molarity, molality and normality. 

States of Matter: Gases and Liquids 

  • Gas laws and ideal gas equation, absolute scale of temperature; 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, Diffusion of gases. 

  • Intermolecular interactions: types, distance dependence, and their effect on properties

  • Liquids: vapour pressure, surface tension, viscosity.

Atomic Structure 

  • Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom; Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty principle; 

  • Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom: Energies, quantum numbers, wave function and probability density (plots only), shapes of s, p and d orbitals;

  • Aufbau principle; Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule.

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

  • Orbital overlap and covalent bond; Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals only; Molecular orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species (up to Ne2); Hydrogen bond; Polarity in molecules, dipole moment.

  • VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

Chemical Thermodynamics 

  • Intensive and extensive properties, state functions, First law of thermodynamics; Internal energy, work (pressure-volume only) and heat; Enthalpy, heat capacity, standard state, Hess’s law;

  • Enthalpy of reaction, fusion and vapourization, and lattice enthalpy; 

  • Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Gibbs energy; Criteria of equilibrium and spontaneity.

Chemical and Ionic Equilibrium 

  • Law of mass action; Significance of

  • ΔG

  • Δ𝐺 and ΔG⊖

  • Δ𝐺⊖ in chemical equilibrium; Equilibrium constant (Kp and Kc) and reaction quotient, Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure); 

  • Solubility product and its applications, 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; Electrochemical work, Nernst equation; 

  • Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic cells; Faraday’s laws of electrolysis;

  • Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch’s law;

  • Batteries: Primary and Secondary, fuel cells; Corrosion.

Chemical Kinetics 

  • Rates of chemical reactions; Order and molecularity of reactions; Rate law, rate constant, half-life;

  • Differential and integrated rate expressions for zero and first order reactions; 

  • Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation and activation energy); 

  • Catalysis: Homogeneous and heterogeneous, activity and selectivity of solid catalysts, enzyme catalysis and its mechanism.

Solid State

  • Classification of solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b, c, α, β, γ), close-packed structure of solids (cubic and hexagonal), packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices; 

  • Nearest neighbours, ionic radii and radius ratio, point defects. 

Solutions

  • Henry’s law; Raoult’s law; Ideal solutions; 

  • Colligative properties: lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point, and osmotic pressure; 

  • van’t Hoff factor.

Surface Chemistry

  • Elementary concepts of adsorption: Physisorption and Chemisorption, Freundlich adsorption isotherm; 

  • Colloids: types, methods of preparation and general properties; 

  • Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants and micelles (only definitions and examples). 

Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

  • Modern periodic law and the present form of periodic table; electronic configuration of elements;

  • Periodic trends in atomic radius, ionic radius, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, valence, oxidation states, electronegativity, and chemical reactivity. 

Hydrogen

  • Position of hydrogen in periodic table, occurrence, isotopes, preparation, properties and uses of hydrogen; hydrides – ionic, covalent and interstitial; 

  • Physical and chemical properties of water, heavy water; hydrogen peroxide-preparation, reactions, use and structure; hydrogen as a fuel.

S-Block Elements 

  • Alkali and alkaline earth metals-reactivity towards air, water, dihydrogen, halogens, acids; their reducing nature including solutions in liquid ammonia; uses of these elements; 

  • General characteristics of their oxides, hydroxides, halides, salts of oxoacids; anomalous behaviour of lithium and beryllium; preparation, properties, and uses of compounds of sodium (sodium carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, sodium hydrogen carbonate) and calcium (calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate).

P-Block Elements

  • Oxidation state and trends in chemical reactivity of elements of groups 13-17; anomalous properties of boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine with respect to other elements in their respective groups.

  • Group 13: Reactivity towards acids, alkalis, and halogens; preparation, properties, and uses of borax, orthoboric acid, diborane, boron trifluoride, aluminium chloride, and alums; uses of boron and aluminium. 

  • Group 14: Reactivity towards water and halogen; allotropes of carbon and uses of carbon; preparation, properties, and uses of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, silicon dioxide, silicones, silicates, zeolites.

  • Group 15: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen; allotropes of phosphorous; preparation, properties, and uses of dinitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid, phosphine, phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride; oxides of nitrogen and oxoacids of phosphorus.

  • Group 16: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen; simple oxides; allotropes of sulfur; preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of dioxygen, ozone, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid; oxoacids of sulfur.

  • Group 17: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and metals; preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of chlorine, hydrogen chloride and interhalogen compounds; oxoacids of halogens, bleaching powder.

  • Group 18: Chemical properties and uses; compounds of xenon with fluorine and oxygen.

D-Block Elements

  • Oxidation states and their stability; standard electrode potentials; interstitial compounds; alloys; catalytic properties; applications; preparation, structure, and reactions of oxoanions of chromium and manganese.

F-Block Elements

  • Lanthanoid and actinoid contractions; oxidation states; general characteristics. 

Coordination Compounds

  • Werner’s theory; Nomenclature, cis-trans and ionization isomerism, hybridization and geometries (linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral) of mononuclear coordination compounds;

  • Bonding

  • VBTandCFT

  • (octahedralandtetrahedralfields)

  • 𝑉𝐵𝑇𝑎𝑛𝑑𝐶𝐹𝑇(𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑡𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑠); Magnetic properties (spin-only) and colour of 3d-series coordination compounds; Ligands and spectrochemical series; Stability; Importance and applications; Metal carbonyls.

Isolation of Metals

  • Metal ores and their concentration; extraction of crude metal from concentrated ores: thermodynamic (iron, copper, zinc) and electrochemical (aluminium) principles of metallurgy; cyanide process (silver and gold); refining.

Principles of Qualitative Analysis

  • Groups I to V (onlyAg+,Hg2+,Cu2+,Pb2+,Fe3+,Cr3+,Al3+,Ca2+,Ba2+,Zn2+,Mn2+

  • 𝐴𝑔+,𝐻𝑔2+,𝐶𝑢2+,𝑃𝑏2+,𝐹𝑒3+,𝐶𝑟3+,𝐴𝑙3+,𝐶𝑎2+,𝐵𝑎2+,𝑍𝑛2+,𝑀𝑛2+ and

  • Mg2+𝑀𝑔2+);

  • Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), carbonate and bicarbonate, sulphate and sulphide.

Environmental Chemistry 

  • Atmospheric pollution; water pollution; soil pollution; industrial waste; strategies to control environmental pollution; green chemistry.

Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry 

  • Hybridisation of carbon; σ and π-bonds; Shapes of simple organic molecules; aromaticity; Structural and geometrical isomerism; 

  • Stereoisomers and stereochemical relationship (enantiomers, diastereomers, meso) of compounds containing only up to two asymmetric centres (R,S and E,Z configurations excluded); 

  • Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds by combustion method only; 

  • IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules (hydrocarbons, including simple cyclic hydrocarbons and their mono-functional and bi-functional derivatives only); 

  • Hydrogen bonding effects; Inductive, Resonance and Hyperconjugative effects;

  • Acidity and basicity of organic compounds; Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

Alkanes

  • Homologous series; Physical properties (melting points, boiling points and density) and effect of branching on them; Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections only); 

  • Preparation from alkyl halides and aliphatic carboxylic acids; Reactions: combustion, halogenation (including allylic and benzylic halogenation) and oxidation. 

Alkenes and Alkynes

  • Physical properties (boiling points, density and dipole moments); Preparation by elimination reactions; Acid catalysed hydration (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination);

  • Metal acetylides; Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone; Reduction of alkenes and alkynes;

  • Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX, (X=halogen); Effect of peroxide on addition reactions; cyclic polymerization reaction of alkynes. 

Benzene

  • Structure; Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, Friedel Crafts alkylation and acylation; 

  • Effect of directing groups (monosubstituted benzene) in these reactions.

Phenols

  • Physical properties; Preparation, Electrophilic substitution reactions of phenol (halogenation, nitration, sulphonation); 

  • Reimer-Tiemann reaction, Kolbe reaction; Esterification; Etherification; Aspirin synthesis; Oxidation and reduction reactions of phenol.

Alkyl Halides

  • Rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation; Grignard reactions; 

  • Nucleophilic substitution reactions and their stereochemical aspects. 

Alcohols

  • Physical properties; Reactions: esterification, dehydration (formation of alkenes and ethers);

  • Reactions with: sodium, phosphorus halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, thionyl chloride;

  • Conversion of alcohols into aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids.

Ethers

  • Preparation by Williamson’s synthesis; C-O bond cleavage reactions.

Aldehydes and Ketones

  • Preparation of: aldehydes and ketones from acid chlorides and nitriles; aldehydes from esters; benzaldehyde from toluene and benzene; 

  • Reactions: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation; Aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction; Haloform reaction; Nucleophilic addition reaction with RMgX, NaHSO3, HCN, alcohol, amine.

Carboxylic Acids

  • Physical properties; Preparation: from nitriles, Grignard reagents, hydrolysis of esters and amides;

  • Preparation of benzoic acid from alkylbenzenes; Reactions: reduction, halogenation, formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides. 

Amines

  • Preparation from nitro compounds, nitriles and amides; Reactions: Hoffmann bromamide degradation, Gabriel phthalimide synthesis; Reaction with nitrous acid, Azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of aromatic amines; 

  • Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts;

  • Carbylamine reaction, Hinsberg test, Alkylation and acylation reactions.

Haloarenes

  • Reactions: Fittig, Wurtz-Fittig; Nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding benzyne mechanism and cine substitution). 

Biomolecules

  • Carbohydrates: Classification; Mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose); Oxidation; Reduction; Glycoside formation and hydrolysis of disaccharides (sucrose, maltose, lactose); Anomers.

  • Proteins: Amino acids; Peptide linkage; Structure of peptides (primary and secondary); Types of proteins (fibrous and globular).

  • Nucleic acids: Chemical composition and structure of DNA and RNA. 

Polymers

  • Types of polymerization (addition, condensation); Homo and copolymers; Natural rubber; Cellulose; Nylon; Teflon; Bakelite; PVC; Bio-degradable polymers; Applications of polymers.

Chemistry in Everyday Life

  • Drug-target interaction; Therapeutic action, and examples (excluding structures), of antacids, antihistamines, tranquilizers, analgesics, antimicrobials, and antifertility drugs; 

  • Artificial sweeteners (names only); Soaps, detergents, and cleansing action. 

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. 

Physical Chemistry jee syllabus

General topics

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 JEE Syllabus

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, hybridization 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 thiosulphate.

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 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.

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) Addition 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, 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.

Overview of JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry Topics 

The syllabus for JEE Advanced Chemistry typically covers a very vast syllabus. To help you navigate through the vast JEE Advanced Chemistry syllabus, our team have organized the topics into sections. Following are the key topics that you need to cover:

Weightage of Topics in JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry

Understanding the importance of each topic in the JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry syllabus is important as an examination point of view or successful exam preparation so that you can better allocate your study time if you know which topics are more important. The following table shows the weightage of each topic:

JEE Advanced Chemistry – Weightage of Chapters

Topics

No of Questions

Marks

Weightage
(in %)

Inorganic Chemistry-II

9

33

28

Organic Chemistry-II

10

32

27

Physical Chemistry-I

9

24

20

Physical Chemistry-II

8

23

19

Aromatic Compounds

3

12

10

Coordination Compounds

3

11

9

Qualitative Analysis

3

10

8

Hydrocarbon (Alkane, Alkene & Alkyne)

3

9

8

Organic Chemistry-I

2

8

7

Equivalent Concept

4

8

7

Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry

2

8

7

Electrochemistry

3

8

7

Metallurgy

1

4

3

p-Block 17-18 Group

1

4

3

p-block (15-16 Grp)

1

4

3

Hydrocarbon

1

4

3

Practical Organic Chemistry

1

4

3

Biomolecules

1

4

3

Stereoisomerism

1

3

3

Aldehyde Ketone

2

4

3

Atomic Structure & Nuclear Chemistry

1

4

3

Chemical Equilibrium

2

4

3

Chemical Kinetics

1

4

3

Solid State

1

3

3

Surface Chemistry

1

4

3

Solution & Colligative Properties

2

4

3

Total

38

120

100

You may make sure that you study the most crucial material on the syllabus and increase your chances of doing well on the test by concentrating on subjects that have a higher weight.

According to this weighting scheme, Physical Chemistry is given the most priority, followed by Organic and Inorganic Chemistry. For a more thorough treatment of the subjects, be sure to read the full chapter. But the most crucial subjects for the JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry exam are those mentioned above.

JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry Syllabus - Best Books for Reference

Preparing for the JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry exam, which leads to admission to prestigious IITs so you should concentrate your efforts first  on the topics outlined in the JEE Advanced Chemistry syllabus PDF. 

Name of the Book

Author/Publications

Reasons why this Book Stands Out as the Best Choice for JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

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Comprehensive coverage of topics, clear explanations, practice problems

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NCERT books

Official NCERT syllabus coverage, simple and concise explanations

Modern Approach to Chemical Equations

RC Mukherjee

Focused on problem-solving, step-by-step approach, abundance of practice problems

Organic Chemistry 

OP Tandon

Covers all essential topics, detailed explanations, well-structured

Organic Chemistry 

MS Chauhan

Concept-based approach, variety of solved examples, focus on JEE Advanced

Organic Chemistry 

Peter Sykes

Clear and concise explanations, good for building concepts, numerous practice problems

Organic Chemistry 

Boyd and Morrison

Comprehensive coverage of topics, clear explanations, focus on mechanisms

Concise Inorganic Chemistry

JD Lee

Concise and to-the-point explanations, covers all essential topics

Organic Chemistry

Paula Bruice Yurkanis

Concept-based approach, easy-to-understand explanations, relevant examples

These books cover a wide range of topics and offer detailed explanations, practice problems, and conceptual clarity, making them valuable resources for JEE Advanced 2024 Chemistry prep.

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