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

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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