Conducting Authority

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi)

Examination Level

National

Examination Category

Undergraduate

Academic Qualification

10+2

Official website

jeeadv.ac.in

Participating institutes

23 IITs

JEE Advanced Exam Date 2020 and timing

To be announced

Paper 1 : 9 am to 12 noon

Paper 2 : 2.30 to 5.30 pm

Exam Duration

3 hours each for Paper 1 and Paper 2

Exam Mode

Computer-based

Exam cities

167 in India and 4 abroad

Application Process

Online only

JEE Advanced 2020 Minimum percentage of aggregate marks

GEN – 35.0

GEN-EWS -31.5,

OBC-NCL – 31.5

SC/ ST/ PWD – 17.5

Total applicants

Top 2,50,000 JEE main qualified candidates

Actual applicants (2019)

1,61,319 candidates

Total seats available

13,853 inclusive of the female supernumerary seats

Events

Dates

JEE Advanced Application Dates

12 April

Admit Card availability

To be announced

JEE Advanced 2020 exam

July 18, 20, 21, 22 and 2,3 2020 (New dates to be announced)

Release of response sheets

To be announced

Availability of answer keys

To be announced

Feedback and comments on JEE Advanced answer key

To be announced

Declaration of Result

To be announced

Registration for Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT)

To be announced

Architecture Aptitude Test 2020

To be announced

Result of Architecture Aptitude Test

To be announced

Start of Counselling Registration

To be announced

Zone

No. of Applicants (Appeared)

No. of Applicants (Absent)

–

Paper 1

Paper 2

Paper 1

Paper 2

IIT Bombay

27004

26205

1801

2608

IIT Delhi

31066

30838

818

1046

IIT Guwahati

11372

11166

535

741

IIT Kanpur

19745

19598

683

829

IIT Kharagpur

18161

17823

984

1322

IIT Madras

36169

35605

2062

2626

IIT Roorkee

13979

13855

435

559

Category

Number of “Top” candidates

OPEN

96,187

1,01,250

OPEN-PwD

5,063

GEN-EWS

23,750

25,000

GEN-EWS-PwD

1,250

OBC-NCL

64,125

67,500

OBC-NCL-PwD

3,375

SC

35,625

37,500

SC-PwD

1,875

ST

17,812

18,750

ST-PwD

938

Degree

Name

Duration

B.Tech

Bachelor of Technology

4 Years

B.S.

Bachelor of Science

4 Years

B.Arch

Bachelor of Architecture

5 Years

Dual Degree B.Tech-M.Tech

Dual degree Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology

5 Years

Dual Degree B.S – M.S.

Dual Degree Bachelor of Science and Master of Science

5 Years

Integrated M.Tech.

Integrated Master of Technology

5 Years

Integrated M.Sc.

Integrated Master of Science

5 Years

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

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

Specific resistance of the material of a wire

using meter bridges and post office boxes.

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 motionImpulse

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 monatomic 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 double-slit

experiment.

Modern Physics

Atomic nucleus

α, β and γ 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.

General Topic

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, neutralization, and displacement reactions

Concentration in terms of mole fraction,

molarity, molality and normality.

Gases 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 ΔG and ΔG0 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 ΔG

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 the rate constant (Arrhenius equation).

Solid States

Classification of solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b, c, α, β, γ), 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 α, β and γ 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.

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.

S. No.

Subject

Books

1.

Physics

• Concepts of Physics by H C Verma (Vol-1 and Vol-2)
• Fundamentals of Physics by David Halliday/Resnick/Walker
• IIT JEE Physics by Arihant (35 years Chapterwise Solved Papers 2013-1979)

2.

Chemistry

• Physical Chemistry by OP Tandon
• Modern Approach to Chemical Calculations by R.C. Mukherjee
• Organic Chemistry by O.P. Tandon
• Organic Chemistry by Paula Bruice Yurkanis
• Organic Chemistry by Morrison & Boyd
• Inorganic Chemistry by J.D Lee
• Inorganic Chemistry by O P Tandon

3.

Mathematics

• Objective Mathematics By R.D. Sharma
• Plane Trigonometry and Coordinate Geometry (Two Books) by S.L Loney
• Problems in Calculus Of One Variable by I.A.Maron
• Integral Calculus for IIT-JEE by Amit M Agarwal (Arihant Publications)
• A Text Book of Algebra For JEE Main & Advanced by Dr. SK Goyal (Arihant Publications)