Note: The syllabus for JEE Advanced 2026 remains the same as JEE Advanced 2025.

JEE (Advanced) 2026 Syllabus

CHEMISTRY

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 vaporization, 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 ∆𝐺 and ∆𝐺
⊖ 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 (Brønsted 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.