JEE Main 2024 syllabus reduced; know chapter-wise weightage
Alivia Mukherjee | November 6, 2023 | 04:58 PM IST | 1 min read
JEE Main 2024 session 1 exam will be held from January 24, 2024.
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Download EBookNEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced a reduction in the JEE Mains 2024 syllabus on November 2. NTA has deleted a few topics from Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics to conform with the NCERT curriculum for Class 11 and Class 12 students. Most of the chapters have been removed from the Chemistry subject.
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The following chapters have been dropped from the JEE Mains 2024 syllabus:
Topics eliminated from Physics
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Communication Systems
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Few topics were removed from the Experimental Skills
Topics eliminated from Chemistry
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States of Matter
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Surface Chemistry
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s-Block Elements
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Hydrogen
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Environmental Chemistry
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Polymers
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Chemistry in Everyday Life
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General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Metals
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Thomson and Rutherford's atomic models and their limitations
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Physical quantities and their measurements in Chemistry, precision, and accuracy, significant figures
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Topics eliminated from Mathematics
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Mathematical Reasoning
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Mathematical Inductions
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A few topics were removed from Three Dimensional Geometry
JEE Main 2024 : Chapter wise weightage
Candidates can check the JEE Main chapter wise weightage for each subject to know which topics are most important and require more attention.
Physics
|
Topics |
Number of questions |
Marks |
|
Modern Physics |
5 |
20 |
|
Heat and Thermodynamics |
3 |
12 |
|
Optics |
3 |
12 |
|
Current Electricity |
3 |
12 |
|
Electrostatics |
3 |
12 |
|
Magnetics |
2 |
8 |
|
Unit, Dimension and Vector |
1 |
4 |
|
Kinematics |
1 |
4 |
|
Laws of motion |
1 |
4 |
Chemistry
|
Topics |
Number of questions |
Marks |
|
Transition Elements and Coordination Chemistry |
3 |
12 |
|
Periodic table and Representative Elements |
3 |
12 |
|
Thermodynamics And Gaseous State |
2 |
8 |
|
Atomic Structure |
2 |
8 |
|
Chemical Bonding |
2 |
8 |
|
Chemical And Ionic Equilibrium |
2 |
8 |
|
Solid State And Surface Chemistry |
2 |
8 |
|
Nuclear Chemistry and Environment |
2 |
8 |
|
Mole Concept |
1 |
4 |
Mathematics
|
Topics |
Number of questions |
Marks |
|
Limits, Continuity and Differentiability |
3 |
12 |
|
Integral Calculus |
3 |
12 |
|
Complex numbers and Quadratic Equation |
2 |
8 |
|
Matrices and Determinants |
2 |
8 |
|
Statistics and Probability |
2 |
8 |
|
Three Dimensional Geometry |
2 |
8 |
|
Vector Algebra |
2 |
8 |
|
Sets, Relation and Function |
1 |
4 |
The JEE Main session 1 exams are scheduled to be conducted in January 2024. The exams will be held from January 24 to February 1, 2024. Students preparing for the entrance exam can register for the first session till November 30, 2023.
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