JEE Advance Exam

Pankaj | Updated On: April 19, 2025, 2:02 p.m.

Overview

IIT Kanpur is set to administer the JEE Advanced 2025 examination, which comprises two sessions. The initial session of JEE Main typically takes place in January and April, while JEE Advanced may extend until June or July. The examination will be conducted in a computer-based mode. Aspiring candidates preparing for the JEE 2025 exam should be aware of the crucial dates. 

The JEE Advanced 2025 exam is divided into two papers, each covering subjects such as physics, chemistry, and mathematics. To qualify for admission to the IITs, candidates must attempt both papers. This article provides insights into JEE 2025 and the associated institutes.

Through JEE Advanced, candidates can secure admissions to the following courses:

  • 4-year Bachelors - BTech, BS
  • 5 year BArch
  • 5 year Dual Degree - BTech, MTech, BS, MS
  • 5-year Integrated Masters - MTech, MSc, Dual Degree

Latest Updates:

  • Keep an eye on the official website for the imminent release of the JEE Advanced 2025 notification.
  • The authority is scheduled to announce the JEE Main 2025 exam date in May 2025. Stay informed about this crucial date for exam preparation.
  • Another key decision is to hold the JEE Advanced exam in the United States for the first time. A JEE Advanced examination centre will be set up in San Francisco area to serve this purpose.

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025

The authorities will release the JEE Advanced eligibility criteria along with the official brochure. Below, students are provided with the eligibility criteria from the previous year's JEE Advanced examination.

Candidates who fall among the top 2,50,000 rankers in JEE Main 2025 across all categories are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced. Out of this number, the percentage of candidates eligible for admissions under different categories are as follows:

  • Candidates need to crack the JEE Main with the required cut off marks to be eligible for the JEE Advanced exam.
  • Admission to various top IITs takes place through the JEE Advanced.
  • Candidates must have scored a minimum of 75% marks in the 10+2 board exam with Physics, Chemistry, and mathematics as their main compulsory subjects.
  • Candidates are eligible to appear for the JEE Advanced exam upto two consecutive years after passing the 10+2 or equivalent exam.

Candidates must rank among the top 2,50,000 in JEE (Main) 2025 B.E./B.Tech. paper. Distribution includes 10% GEN-EWS, 27% OBC-NCL, 15% SC, 7.5% ST, and 40.5% OPEN categories. Horizontal reservation: 5% for PwD in each category.

Category

Number of “Top” candidates

OPEN

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OPEN-PwD

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GEN-EWS

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GEN-EWS-PwD

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OBC-NCL

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OBC-NCL-PwD

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SC

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SC-PwD

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ST

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ST-PwD

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Note: The total number of candidates can be slightly greater than ---- in the presence of “tied” ranks/scores in any category.

II – Age limit

  • Candidates must be born on or after October 1, 1999, for general category.
  • SC, ST, and PwD candidates have a five-year age relaxation, requiring them to be born on or after October 1, 1994..

III – Number of attempts

  • A candidate is allowed a maximum of two attempts in consecutive years to appear for JEE (Advanced).

IV – Qualifying Examination

  • Candidates must have appeared for Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2024 or 2025, with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as compulsory subjects. Those appearing in 2022 or earlier are ineligible. Eligibility conditions apply for result declarations after September 21, 2022. 

V – Earlier admission at IITs/ISM

  • Candidates must not have been admitted to an IIT through JoSAA 2023, and those with cancelled admissions are ineligible for JEE (Advanced) 2024. Exceptions apply with specific conditions.
  • A candidate should NOT have been admitted in an IIT irrespective of whether or not he/she continued in the program OR accepted an IIT seat by reporting at a reporting centre in the past. Candidates whose admission at IITs was cancelled after joining any IIT are also not eligible to appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
  • Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2019 can appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
  • The candidates who paid seat acceptance fee in 2019 but (i) did not report at any reporting centre OR, (ii) withdrew before the last round of seat allotment, OR, (iii) had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the last round of seat allotment for IITs, during the joint seat allocation in 2019 are eligible to appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
  • However, in any of the above cases, the candidate is required to fulfill the conditions mentioned from criterion 1 to criterion 4.

JEE Advanced Admission Criteria 2025

Aspirants who will qualify JEE Advanced 2025 exam have to fulfill at least one of the given below criteria for admission to bachelor’s programmes, integrated master’s programmes and dual degree programmes at IITs:

  • Candidates must have secured a minimum of 75% aggregate marks in Class XII (or equivalent) board examination. The aggregate marks for SC, ST and PWD marks should be at least 65%
  • Candidates should be within category-wise Top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their respective Class XII (or equivalent) board examination. 

Reservation of Seats

As per the JEE Advanced information brochure, “Candidates who are not citizens of India at the time of registering for JEE Advanced 2025 (by birth or naturalised) are treated as foreign nationals”. It is further shared that, “Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary. However, not all Institutes may have supernumerary seats. The availability of supernumerary seats will be announced at the time of seat allocation”.

Candidates who are Indian nationals will be offered admissions based on seats reserved for the category under which they fall. This reservation of seats was done in accordance with the rules mentioned by the Government of India.

Category

Criteria

Quota/Reservation

Other Backward Classes belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL)

Candidates belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer of backward classes which are mentioned in the central list of OBCs as on June 1, 2025, will be eligible to apply for JEE Advanced 2025 under this quota.

Note: Candidates who belong to the creamy layer of OBC are not eligible for this reservation and such candidates are treated as belonging to the general (GEN) category.

Check OBC central list here.

27% of seats in every course

Scheduled Caste (SC)

Candidates belonging to those castes which are mentioned in the central list of corresponding states published by the Government of India will only be eligible for reservations.

Check SC central list here.

15% of seats in every course

Scheduled Tribe (ST)

Candidates belonging to those tribes which are mentioned in the central list of corresponding states published by the Government of India will only be eligible for reservations.

Check ST central list here.

7.5% of seats in every course

Persons with Disability (PwD)

Reservation would be given to candidates who have at least 40% impairment irrespective of the type of disability which can be visual, locomotor or dyslexic. Also, Leprosy-cured candidates who are otherwise fit to pursue the course are included in this type of reservation.

3% of seats in every category

Defence Service (DS) candidates

Children of defence/paramilitary personnel killed or permanently disabled in action during war or peacetime operations.

Two seats are available for preferential allotment in each Institute for DS candidates.

As per the information brochure, “Unfilled seats in the OBC-NCL category can be allotted to GEN category candidates whereas seats remaining vacant under the SC and ST categories shall not be allotted to candidates belonging to other categories. The reservation for PwD candidates was horizontal and hence, unfilled seats were allotted to candidates belonging to the respective categories, i.e, unfilled SC-PwD seats were allotted to candidates belonging to the Sc category and so on”.

Foreign nationals are not given an option to apply for admissions under the OBC-NCL, SC, ST or PwD reservation category.

Candidates should note here that, once they select a category at the time of JEE Advanced registration, then they will not be given an option to make any changes in their category selection field in the registration form.

JEE Advanced 2025: Eligibility for Foreign Nationals

Candidates who are NOT citizens of India (by birth or naturalized) and have studied (are studying) abroad at 10+2 level or equivalent at the time of registering for JEE(Advanced) 2025, are treated as foreign nationals. Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary with a cap of 10% of the total number of seats in every course.

Foreign nationals are outside the ambit of reservation of seats under the GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD (Persons with Disability) categories as mandated by Govt. of India.

These candidates are not required to write JEE(Main) 2025 and may register for JEE(Advanced) 2025 directly subject to fulfillment of other eligibility criteria.

Identity Proof: Identity proof of the candidate is required in the form of citizenship certificate/Passport.

Registration fee for JEE (Advanced) 2025

All foreign candidates who desire to appear for JEE (Advanced) 2025 have to register online through the JEE (Advanced) 2025 website, https://jeeadv.ac.in. The registration fee for JEE (Advanced) 2025 applicable to foreign nationals is given in the following table.

Registration Fee for JEE (Advanced) 2025

Registration Fee for Examination Centres in India
 Foreign Nationals Candidates from SAARC countries USD 90
Candidates from Non-SAARC countries USD 180

 

  • The registration fee shown above DOES NOT INCLUDE service charges, processing fees and any other charges that the banks may levy.
  • Detailed instructions related to the payment of registration fee will be given on the online registration portal.

JEE (Advanced) 2025: Eligibility Criteria for foreign nationals 

All foreign candidates must fulfill each and every one of the following four criteria to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025.

Criterion 1 – Age limit: Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1995. In countries where a minimum stint in the armed forces (or allied) for a certain period is mandatory before/after Class XII (or equivalent) exam, the candidate will be given a relaxation of required number of years. In such cases, the candidate is required to upload a certificate/testimonial issued by competent authority to this effect at the time of registration.

Criterion 2 – Number of attempts: A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in consecutive years.

Criterion 3 – Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination: A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2019 or 2025.

However, if the examination Board of Class XII (or equivalent) declares the results for the academic year 2017-18 after June 2018, then the candidates of that board who appeared for their Class XII exam in 2018 are also eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025, provided they meet the other eligibility criteria. In case, the examination Board of Class XII (or equivalent) declared the results for the academic year 2017-18 before June 2018 but the result of a particular candidate was withheld, then the candidate will not be eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025.

Criterion 4 – Earlier admission at IITs: A candidate should NOT have been admitted in an IIT irrespective of whether or not he/she continued in the program OR accepted an IIT seat by reporting at a reporting centre in the past. Candidates whose admission at IITs was canceled after joining any IIT are also NOT eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025.

The candidates who paid seat acceptance fee in 2019 but (i) did not report at any reporting centre OR, (ii) withdrew before the last round of seat allotment, OR, (iii) had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the last round of seat allotment for IITs, during the joint seat allocation in 2019, are eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025. However, in any of the above cases, the candidate is required to fulfil the conditions mentioned from Criterion 1 to Criterion 3.

Performance in Class XII (or equivalent) board examination

The candidates should satisfy at least one of the following two criteria for admission to IITs:

  1. Must have secured at least 75% aggregate marks in the Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination.
  2. Must be within the top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their respective Class XII (or equivalent) board examination.

The percentile calculation will be done for the required subjects in a single academic year only. Therefore, candidates appearing for improvement in Board examinations can EITHER appear in one or more subjects and secure 75% aggregate marks after improvement, OR, appear for improvement in ALL subjects to be in top 20 percentile of the corresponding academic year.

  • The marks scored in the following five subjects will be considered for calculating the aggregate marks and the cut-off marks for fulfilling the top 20 percentile criterion.

Physics

Chemistry

Mathematics

A language (if the candidate has taken more than one language, then the language with the higher marks will be considered)

Any subject other than the above four (the subject with the highest marks will be considered).

  • For calculation of the total marks for five subjects, if the marks awarded in a subject is NOT out of 100, then the marks will be scaled (up or down) to 100 so that the total aggregate mark is out of 500.
  • If a Board awards only letter grades without providing an equivalent percentage of marks on the grade sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the Board specifying the equivalent marks and submit it at the time of acceptance of the allocated seat. In case such a certificate is not provided, the decision taken by the Joint Implementation Committee of JEE (Advanced) 2025 will be final.
  • In case any of the subjects Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Language are not evaluated in the final year (e.g., in a 3-year diploma course), then the marks for the same subject from the previous year/s will be used for calculating the percentage of aggregate marks.
  • For candidates who appeared in the Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination for the first time in 2019 and reappeared in ALL subjects (for whatsoever reason) in 2025, the best of the two performances will be considered.
  • If a Board gives aggregate marks considering both Class XI and Class XII examinations (in the 10+2 system), then only Class XII marks will be considered. If a Board gives aggregate marks considering the results of all three years of a 3-year diploma or courses of equivalent duration, then only the marks scored in the final year will be considered. Similarly, for Boards that follow a semester system, the marks scored in the final two semesters will be considered.
  • If a Board does not give marks scored in individual subjects but gives only the aggregate marks, then the aggregate marks given by the Board will be considered as such.

Regarding the cut-off marks for the top 20 percentile

  • The cut-off marks for the top 20 percentile are calculated based on the marks scored by the candidates who pass in their respective boards in the particular year.
  • It is reiterated that the top 20 percentile cut-off for the academic year 2025 will be considered for the candidates who pass the Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2025.
  • Similarly, the top 20 percentile cut-off for the academic year 2019 will be considered for the candidates who pass the Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2019.
  • Candidates who appeared in Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2019 and wish to (or have to) reappear in 2025 with the objective to qualify through top 20 percentile cut-off criteria, should reappear in all the subjects. For such candidates, the top 20 percentile cut-off for 2025 will be considered.
  • In case a Board does not provide information about the cut-off for the top 20 percentile, the candidate will have to produce a certificate from the respective Board stating that he/she falls within the top 20 percentile of successful candidates. If the candidate fails to do so, then the cut-off marks, in the respective categories, for the CBSE will be used.

Regarding the aggregate marks of 75%

  • The aggregate marks scored by the candidate in the 2025 Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination will be considered for candidates who pass the Class XII examination in 2025.
  • The aggregate marks scored by the candidate in the 2019 Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination will be considered provided the candidate does not reappear in the Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2025 in any of the subjects.
  • If a candidate has passed his/her Class XII (or equivalent) in 2019 and wishes to improve his/her aggregate marks to meet the “aggregate marks of 75% criterion”, he/she can reappear for any number of subjects he/she wishes for improvement. The percentage marks in this situation will be calculated by considering the marks obtained in 2019 or 2025, whichever is higher, in the respective subjects, in his/her two attempts in 2019 and 2025.

Documents required for registration

  • Birth certificate for age proof
  • Class XII marks sheet/certificate for 75% cut-off (if available at the time of registration)
  • Identity proof
  • Citizenship certificate/Passport
  • Testimonial (if required)

Foreign centres where JEE (Advanced) 2025 will be held

Dhaka (Bangladesh), Dubai (UAE), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Singapore.

Architecture aptitude test for B.Arch. Program

Successful foreign candidates, if interested in B. Arch. Program, are required to come to one of the Zonal IITs to write the Architecture aptitude test for B.Arch. Program.

JEE Advanced 2025 Important Dates 

Events

Dates

Salient Features

Application form availability

01-May-2025 to 06-May-2025

Likely to be revised

Candidates can apply for the exam online.

Fee payment last date

07-May-2025

Likely to be revised

Fee can be paid through credit card, debit card or net banking.

Admit card release date

12-May-2025 to 17-May-2025

Likely to be revised

The eligible candidates will download their admit card.

JEE Advanced 2025

17-May-2025

To be announced later

IIT Delhi will conduct the exam.

Response copy availability

20-May-2025 to 22-May-2025

Likely to be revised

Candidates will be able to check their response copy.

Provisional answer key release date

27-May-2025

Likely to be revised

Candidates can download provisional answer key to match their response.

Challenge answer key

27-May-2025 to 28-May-2025

Likely to be revised

Raise objection (if any) against provisonal answer key.

Final answer key available

08-Jun-2025

Likely to be revised

IIT Delhi will release the final answer key.

Result declaration

08-Jun-2025 (10:00 IST)

Likely to be revised

Result will release in online mode only.

Online registration for Architecture Aptitude Test

08-Jun-2025 to 09-Jun-2025

Likely to be revised

Register for AAT in online mode.

Architecture Aptitude Test

12-Jun-2025

Likely to be revised

Appear in the exam.

Declaration of AAT result

16-Jun-2025

Likely to be revised

Candidates will be able to check their result online.

Start of seat allocation process (tentative)

16-Jun-2025

Likely to be revised

Seat allocation process will start for eligible candidates only.

Colleges Accepting JEE Advanced 2025 Score 

Take a look at some of the popular engineering colleges in India including IITs & ISM that accept JEE Advanced score for admissions.

S. No.

Institutes Name

1.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

2. 

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

3. 

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

4. 

Galgotias University

5. 

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

6. 

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

7. 

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

8. 

Presidency University, Bangalore

 

JEE Advanced 2025 admission process

JEE Advanced 2025 admission process includes the following steps:

STEP 1: JEE Advanced 2025 Registration/ Filling the online application form

The first step towards appearing in JEE Advanced 2025 exam will be filling the online application form. Candidates can register for JEE Advanced 2025 even if they do not opt to give the examination while registering for JEE Main 2025. JEE Advanced application cannot be withdrawn after the registration process has been completed by the candidate. 

STEP 2: JEE Advanced 2025 Admit cards

After the registration process for JEE Advanced gets over, candidates can download their JEE Advanced admit card from the official online registration portal of this engineering entrance examination. At the time of JEE 2025 Advanced registration, candidates can select from a list of exam centres and the address of the examination centre. The same will be displayed on their admit card.

Candidates will be asked to produce a copy of their downloaded admit card at the time of examination. The original JEE Advanced admit card must be retained by the candidates till all the admission formalities of the exam are completed.

STEP 3: JEE Advanced 2025 Results

JEE Advanced 2025 results will be announced on June 8, 2025. The exam result comprises a candidate’s score in the exam and qualifying status. Candidates will be able to check their JEE Advanced 2025 results on the official website of IIT Delhi. IIT Delhi under the guidance of JAB will be conducting JEE Advanced in 2025 and will also be responsible for the release of exam results.

Admission Process

The admission notification states that the candidates will be shortlisted for admission in bachelor’s, integrated master’s and dual degree programmes on offer at the 23 IITs based on their performance in the entrance examination. It is further shared that, “The decisions of the JAB 2025 will be final in all matters related to JEE Advanced 2025 and admission to IITs and ISM”.

The IIT Council in the year 2016 introduced a few changes in the JEE Advanced admission criteria. The primary change here included that to be eligible for admissions at the IITs and ISM, candidates had to fulfill any one of the below mentioned two criteria:

  • The candidate should fall within the category-wise top 20 percentile of successful candidates in his/her respective Class XII (or equivalent) board examination.
  • The candidate should have secured 75% (for GEN or OBC-NCL) or 70% (SC, ST or PwD) of aggregate marks in the Class XII (or equivalent) board examination.

Zone wise JEE Advanced Exam Centres 2025

JEE Advanced exam centres are divided into the following seven zones:

  • IIT Bombay
  • IIT Delhi
  • IIT Guwahati
  • IIT Kanpur
  • IIT Kharagpur
  • IIT Madras
  • IIT Roorkee

Candidates will be asked to choose their zone basis their preference, at the time of filling the JEE Advanced 2025 application form.

JEE Advanced syllabus 2025

JEE Advanced syllabus 2025 has been released by IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi for candidates appearing for the exam. Candidates may refer the syllabus for JEE Advanced 2025 given below. There are no significant changes in the syllabus for this year.

The JEE Advanced syllabus will comprise units and topics from three subjects - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The syllabus would help candidates prepare well for the exam along with familiarising them with the topics they can expect questions from in the JEE Advanced 2025. There will be two compulsory papers in JEE Advanced: Paper 1 and Paper 2. Both the papers are for BTech admissions and consists questions from the above mentioned three subjects.  

JEE Advanced 2025 Syllabus for Chemistry

Chapters

Units

Physical Chemistry

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 sp 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 sp 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 to ?G; 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 abc, ?, ?, ?), 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 ?, ? and ? 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

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. 

 

JEE Advanced 2025 Syllabus for Mathematics

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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. 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.

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.

Probability

 

Addition and multiplication rules of probability, conditional probability, Bayes Theorem, independence of events, computation of probability of events using permutations and combinations.

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 trigonometric functions (principal value only).

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.

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, 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.

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.

Vectors

Addition of vectors, scalar multiplication, dot and cross products, scalar triple products and their geometrical interpretations. 

JEE Advanced 2025 Syllabus for Physics

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General

Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count, 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. 

Mechanics

Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform circular motion; Relative 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.

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

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

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. 

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). 

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, 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. 

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 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 d.c. and a.c. sources. 

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 doubleslit experiment.

Modern physics

Atomic nucleus; ?,  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.

Registration Eligibilty

Passed Class 10 examination with at least 60% marks (5% relaxation for SC/ST/PwD candidates) Passed Class 12 examination or its equivalent with at least 75% marks (5% relaxation for SC/ST/PwD candidates) in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.

Exam Pattern & Syllabus

IIT Kanpur will release the JEE Advanced 2025 syllabus online at the official website. Candidates can access the JEE Advanced 2025 syllabus PDF at jeeadv.ac.in. The syllabus encompasses crucial topics from Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Candidates are advised to prepare for the exam in accordance with the JEE syllabus 2025. The questions will be formulated based on the topics outlined in the IIT JEE Advanced 2025 syllabus.

How To Prepare

JEE Advanced 2025 Best Preparation Tips: Success in JEE Advanced 2025 requires a strategic approach. Here are some valuable tips to aid your preparation.

  • Understand the Exam Pattern and Syllabus: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the JEE Advanced 2025 exam pattern and syllabus before initiating your preparation.
  • Prepare a Study Plan: Strategically plan your study schedule, ensuring coverage of all topics well before the exam. Allocate time based on each topic's weightage to optimise your preparation.
  • Practise Previous Year Papers: Solve previous year papers to acquaint yourself with the exam pattern and question types. This practice will help identify your weaker areas, allowing focused improvement.
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  • Revision: Establish a consistent revision schedule to reinforce your knowledge. Regular revision is vital for retaining information, ensuring a thorough understanding of all topics before the JEE Advanced 2025 exam.

Admit Card

IIT Kanpur will announce the JEE Advanced 2025 admit card in May 2025. The authority will activate the JEE Advanced admit card link on the official website, jeeadv.ac.in. To download the JEE Advanced admit card, candidates require their registration number and date of birth.