Difference Between JEE Main and KCET Syllabus: A Detailed Analysis

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Class  

Chapters/Units 

Class 11th  

• States of Matter: Gases and Liquids  

Class 12th 

• The Solid State  

• Surface Chemistry  

• General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements  

• The p-Block Elements   

Class 11th  

Physical World 

• What is Physics? 

• Scope and Excitement of Physics 

• Physics, Technology and Society 

• Fundamental Forces in Nature 

• Nature of Physical Laws 

Units and 

Measurements 

• Measurement of Length 

• Measurement of Mass 

• Measurement of Time 

• Accuracy, Precision of Instruments and Errors in Measurement 

Motion in a Straight Line 

• Position, Path Length and Displacement 

• Average Velocity and Average Speed  

• Relative Velocity 

Motion in a Plane 

• Relative Velocity in Two Dimensions 

Work, Energy and Power 

• Various Forms of Energy: The Law of Conservation of Energy 

System of Particles and Rotational Motion 

• Theorems of Perpendicular and Parallel Axes 

• Rolling Motion 

Gravitation 

• Geostationary and Polar Satellites 

• Weightlessness  

Mechanical Properties of Solids 

• Elastic Behavior of Solids 

• Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire 

Mechanical 

Properties of Fluids 

• Venturi-meter 

• Blood Flow and Heart Attack 

• Detergents and Surface Tension 

Thermal Properties 

of Matter 

• Greenhouse Effect 

Thermodynamics 

• Heat Engines 

• Refrigerators and Heat Pumps 

Kinetic Theory 

• Specific Heat Capacity of Water 

Oscillations 

• Damped Simple Harmonic Motion 

• Forced Oscillations and Resonance 

Waves 

• Doppler Effect 

Class 12th  

Electric 

Charges and Fields 

• Electric Charge* 

• Conductors and Insulators (delete only 

• Charging by Induction 

Electrostatic 

Potential and 

Capacitance 

• Energy Stored in a Capacitor (Derivation Only) 

Current 

Electricity 

• Resistivity of Various Materials (delete Tables 

• Meter Bridge 

• Potentiometer 

Moving 

Charges and 

Magnetism 

• Velocity Selector 

• Cyclotron 

• The Toroid 

• The Magnetic Dipole Moment of a Revolving Electron 

Magnetism and 

Matter 

• Bar Magnet as an Equivalent Solenoid  

• The Dipole in a Uniform Magnetic Field 

• Magnetic Declination and DipTable 

• Paramagnetism 

• Ferromagnetism temperature 

• Permanent Magnets and Electromagnets 

Electromagnetic 

Induction 

• Energy Consideration: A Quantitative Study 

• Eddy Currents 

Alternating Current 

• Analytical Solution 

• Resonance (Sharpness of Resonance) 

• LC Oscillations 

Electromagnetic 

Waves 

• Nature of Electromagnetic Waves 

Ray 

Optics and Optical 

Instruments 

• Refraction  

• Some Natural Phenomena due to Sunlight (The Rainbow and Scattering of Light) 

Wave Optics 

• Doppler Effect 

• Resolving Power of Optical Instruments 

• Validity of Ray Optics 

• Polarization by Scattering 

• Polarization by Reflection 

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter 

• Wave Nature of Matter (Delete only derivation for de Broglie wavelength of accelerated electron; and 

• Davisson and Germer Experiment 

• The History of Wave-Particle Flip-Flop 

Atoms 

• Spectral Series 

• Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom  

• The Line Spectra of the Hydrogen Atom 

Nuclei 

• Law of Radioactive 

• Decay 

• Alpha Decay 

• Beta Decay 

• Gamma Decay 

• Nuclear Reactor 

Semiconductor Electronics: Material Devices and Simple Circuits 

• Special Purpose p-n junction Diodes 

• Digital Electronics and Logic Gates 

How to crack KCET without coaching? - Important topics, Preparation Tips 

KCET Important Topics & Chapter Wise Weightage 

Class 11th  

Sets 

• Power Set 

• Practical Problems on Union and Intersection of Two Sets 

Trigonometric 

Functions 

• Trigonometric Equations (Some part) 

• Proofs and Simple Applications of Sine and Cosine Formulae 

Principle of 

Mathematical 

Induction 

• Complete Chapter 

Complex 

Number 

• Polar Representation of a Complex Number 

• Quadratic Equation 

• Square root of a Complex Number 

Linear 

Inequalities 

• Graphical Solution of Linear Inequalities in Two Variables 

• Solution of System of Linear Inequalities in Two Variables 

Binomial 

Theorem 

• General Middle Terms 

Sequences and 

Series 

• Arithmetic Progression (A.P.)  

• Sum to n terms of Special Series 

Straight Lines 

• Collinearity of Three  

• Normal Forms 

• General Equation of a Line 

• Equation of Family of Lines Passing Through the Points of Intersection of Two Lines 

• Shifting of Origin 

Conic Sections 

• Special Cases of an Ellipse 

Introduction 

to Three-Dimensional Geometry 

• Section Formula 

Mathematical 

Reasoning 

• Full chapter 

Statistics 

• Analysis of Frequency 

• Distribution 

Probability 

• Introduction 

• Random Experiment  

Class 12th 

Relations and 

Functions 

• Composition of Functions and Invertible Function 

Inverse 

Trigonometric 

Functions 

• Properties of Inverse Trigonometric Functions 

Matrices 

• Elementary Operations (Transformation) of a Matrix 

• Inverse of Matrices by Elementary Operations 

Determinants 

• Properties of Determinants 

Continuity and 

Differentiability 

• Mean Value Theorem 

Application of 

Derivatives 

• Tangents and Normals 

• Approximations 

Integrals 

• Geometrical Interpretation of Indefinite Integral 

• Comparison between Differentiation and Integration 

• Type of Integral 

• Definite Integral as the Limit of a Sum 

Application of 

Integrals 

• The Area of the Region Bounded by a Curve and a Line 

• Area between Two Curves 

Differential 

Equations 

• Formation of Differential Equations whose General Solution is Given 

Vector 

Algebra 

• Scalar Triple Product 

• Coplanarity of Three Vectors 

Three 

Dimensional 

Geometry 

• Relation between the Direction Cosines of a Line 

• Equation of a Line Passing through Two Given Points 

• Plane 

• Coplanarity of Two Lines 

• Angle between Two Planes 

• Distance of a Point from a Line 

• Angle between a Line and a Plane 

Linear 

Programming 

• Different Types of Linear Programming Problems 

Probability 

• Random Variables and Its Probability Distributions 

• Probability Distribution of a Random Variable 

• Mean of Random Variables 

• Variance of a Random Variable 

• Bernoulli Trials and Binomial Distribution 

Name of exam 

Joint Entrance Examination (Main) or JEE Main 

Karnataka Common Entrance Test 

Conducting body 

National Testing Agency 

Karnataka Examinations Authority 

Level of exam 

Undergraduate 

Exam frequency 

Twice a year  

Once a year 

Number of students appeared 

Approx 10 lakh 

Approx 2.5 lakh 

Courses offered 

BTech, BArch and BPlan 

BTech, Agriculture, BPharma, Bsc Nursing and PharmaD 

Accepting colleges 

All NITs, IIITs and CFTIs 

Government engineering colleges of Karnataka 

Official website 

jeemain.nta.ac.in 

kea.kar.nic.in 

Exam mode 

Online (Computer based) 

Offline (Pen and Paper Mode) 

Number of sections and subjects 

3 (Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics) 

Duration of exam 

3 hours (180 minutes) 

Type of questions 

MCQs: 4 options with only 1 correct option 

Section A (MCQ) 

Mathematics: 20  
Physics: 20 
Chemistry: 20 

Mathematics: 60  
Physics: 60 
Chemistry: 60 

JEE Mains Total Marks 

300 marks 

180 marks 

Language of paper 

Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu in addition to Hindi, English, and Gujarati 

English and Kannada