Tamil Nadu 12th Syllabus 2026: Download Tamil Nadu 12th Board Latest Syllabus PDF

Part I- Language

3 Hours

Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, and German.

Part II- English

3 Hours

English

Part III- Any 4 subjects

3 Hours

Any 4 subjects from General Stream Papers or Vocational Stream Papers.

Prose

Two Gentlemen of Verona, In Celebration of Being Alive, The Chair, On the Rule of the Road,

Poem

Our Casuarina Tree, All the World’s a Stage, Ulysses, A Father to his Son,

Supplementary

God Sees the Truth but Waits, The Midnight Visitor, All Summer in a Day,

Grammar

Tenses, Modal Auxiliaries, Reported Speech, Prepositions, Prepositional phrases, Conjunctions, Connectives or Linkers, Active and Passive Voice, Interrogatives, Kinds of Sentences, Conditionals, Non-finite verbs, Articles and Determiners, Degrees of Comparison, Agreement of the Subject with the verb

Applications of Matrices and Determinants

Introduction, Inverse of a Non-Singular Square Matrix, Adjoint of a square Matrix, Properties of inverses of matrices, Row-Echelon form and others.

Complex Numbers

Introduction to Complex Numbers, Powers of imaginary unit, Rectangular form, Properties of complex numbers, Geometrical representation of conjugate of a complex number, Properties of Complex Conjugates, others.

Theory of Equations

Introduction, Basics of Polynomial Equations, Different types of Polynomial Equations, Quadratic Equations, Vieta’s Formulae and Formation of Polynomial Equations and more.

Inverse Trigonometric Functions

Introduction, Some Fundamental Concepts, Domain and Range of trigonometric functions, Graphs of functions, Amplitude and Period of a graph, Inverse functions and more.

Two Dimensional Analytical Geometry-II

Introduction, Circle, Equation of a circle in standard form, Conics, The general equation of a Conic, Parabola, Hyperbola, Geometric description of conic section, and more.

Applications of Vector Algebra

Introduction, Geometric Introduction to Vectors, Scalar Product and Vector Product, Geometrical interpretation, Application of dot and cross products in Geometry, Vector triple product and more.

Applications of Differential Calculus

Early Developments, Meaning of Derivatives, Derivative as rate of change, Equations of Tangent and Normal, A Limit Process and more

Differentials and Partial Derivatives

Introduction, Linear Approximation and Differentials, Errors: Absolute Error, Relative Error, and Percentage Error, Differentials,

Applications of integration

Introduction, Fundamental Theorems of Integral Calculus and their Applications, Improper Integrals, Reduction Formulae, Gamma Integral, Evaluation of Bounded Plane Area by Integration

Ordinary Differential Equations

Introduction, Differential Equation, Order, and Degree, Formation of Differential Equations, Solution of First Order and First Degree Differential Equations, Applications of First Order Ordinary Differential Equations.

Electrostatics

Historical background of electric charges, Coulomb’s law, Super position principle, Electric Field, Electric dipole, Gauss Law, Electric Flux, Distribution of charges in a conductor and action at points, and more

Current Electricity

Electric Current, Ohm’s Law, Energy and power in electrical circuits, Kirchhoff’s rule, Thermo electric current

Magnetism and magnetic effects of electric current

Basic properties of magnets, Ampere Circuital law, Lorentz force,

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating current

Electromagnetic Induction, Self-Induction, Methods of producing induced emf, Transformer, Alternating Current Power in AC circuits, Oscillation in LC circuits

Electromagnetic waves

Displacement current and Maxwell’s correction to Ampere’s circuital law, Electromagnetic waves, Types of spectrum emission and absorption spectrum fraunhofer lines

Ray optics

Ray optics, Spherical mirrors, Refraction, Thin lens, Prism,

Wave optics

Theories on light, Wave nature of light, Interference, Diffraction, Optical instruments,

Dual nature of radiation and mater

Electron Emission, Matter waves, Photo Electric Effect, X - ray Spectra Continuous X Ray Spectra, Characteristic X Ray Spectra

Atomic and nuclear physics

Electric Discharge Through gases Properties of Cathode Rays, Atomic Spectra, Nuclear Force, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion

Electronics and communication systems

Energy Band Diagram, DIODES, The Bipolar Junction transistor, Digital Electronics, Modulation,