IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus (Updated): Check Newly Added Topics, Exam Pattern & Important Books

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Wanna pursue for higher degree in the Chemistry domain? IIT Delhi has added Basic Mathematical concept topics for IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus. Read this Shiksha article to get the detailed syllabus for the IIT JAM 2025 MSc Chemistry course. Aspirants can also check the eligibility criteria and exam pattern for the same here.

Have you completed your BSc Chemistry Degree? Wanna pursue for higher degree in the Chemistry domain? IIT Delhi has added Basic Mathematical concept topics for IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus. Read this Shiksha article to get the detailed syllabus for the IIT JAM 2025 MSc Chemistry course. Aspirants can also check the eligibility criteria and exam pattern for the same here.

IIT JAM 2024 syllabus for the academic session 2025-2026 was released by IIT Delhi. the exam officials have released the JAM 2025 subject-wise syllabus pdf and candidates will be able to check out the detailed IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry syllabus in this Shiksha article. Candidates preparing for the MSc Chemistry course should advance their JAM 2025 preparation to get enrol in the prestigious IITs & NIT and other result-sharing institutes. Before starting the preparation, the ideal strategy for a candidate should be to analyze the MSc Chemistry Syllabus and exam pattern for the 2025 session.

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IIT Delhi, has implemented the JAM 2025 MSc Chemistry Syllabus for the academic session 2025-2026. Basic mathematical concepts (10+2 level) in the IIT JAM 2025 MSc Chemistry examination for the academic session 2025-2026 admissions. earlier int he JAM MSc chemistry examination, questions from the chemistry domains like organic chemistry, inorganic and physical chemistry were used to ask.

Q: Which are the best books for IIT JAM Biotechnology preparation 2025?

Aspirants can go through important books that they should consider studying from when they are preparing for the IIT JAM Biotechnology exam.

Books for IIT JAM Biotechnology
Biochemistry	Donald Voet & Judith G Voet
Biochemistry	AL Lehninger
Analytical Biochemistry	Holme
Biochemistry	Zubay
Principles of Biochemistry	Lehninger
Cell and Molecular Biology -Concepts and Experiments	John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA

Note: The information is sourced from the official body and may vary.

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Table of contents

IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Exam Pattern
IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus
CUET PG 2025 Chemistry: Eligibility Criteria

IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Exam Pattern

IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry exam pattern states that each test paper is of three hours duration. In the exam, candidates need to attempt 60 questions which were of 100 marks weightage. These 60 questions are divided into three sections – A, B, and C. All these sections are compulsory and candidates need to attempt questions from all the sections. The medium of instruction for JAM test papers is English.

The detailed IIT JAM exam pattern 2025 is mentioned in the table below:

Section	Type of Questions	No of Question
A	Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) Each question has four choices with one correct answer.	30
B	Multiple Select Questions (MSQs) Each question has four choices with one or more correct answers.	10
C	Numerical Answer Type (NAT) The answer for each question is a signed real number that needs to be entered using the virtual numeric keypad on the monitor. No choices will be shown for these questions.	20
Total		60

Also Read: IIT JAM 2025 Exam Pattern: Exam Paper Pattern, Marking Scheme & Shift Timings

IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus

Aspirants preparing for the IIT JAM MSc Biotechnology degree programme should start their preparation according to the Biotechnology syllabus mentioned below:

For this year onwards, questions from basic mathematical concepts will also be asked. The exam officials are yet to specify the weightage for which the new section is added, however, candidates can expect that around questions of 10 marks can be asked by the officials from basic mathematical concepts in the form of MCQ, MSQ or Numerical answer type.

Candidates can check out the added syllabus of Mathematical concepts from here:

Basic Mathematical Concepts (10+2 Level):
Functions; maxima and minima; integrals; ordinary differential equations; vectors and matrices; determinants; elementary statistics.

The Chemistry (CH) Test Paper comprises Organic, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus: Physical Chemistry

Atomic and Molecular Structure: Planck’s black body radiation, What is Photoelectric effect, Bohr’s theory, de Broglie postulate, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle; Schrödinger’s wave equation (including mathematical treatment), postulates of quantum mechanics, normalized and orthogonal wave functions, its complex conjugate (idea of complex numbers) and significance of Ѱ, Operators; Particle in one- dimension box, radial and angular wave functions for hydrogen atom, radial probability distribution; Finding maxima of distribution functions (idea of maxima and minima), energy spectrum of hydrogen atom; Shapes of s, p, d and f orbitals; Pauli’s Exclusion Principle; Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity.

Gaseous State: Kinetic molecular model of a gas: collision frequency; collision diameter; mean free path and viscosity of gases; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution: molecular velocities, law of equipartition of energy, molecular basis of heat capacities; Ideal gases, and deviations from ideal gas behaviour, van der Waals equation of state; critical state, law of corresponding states.

Liquid State: Physical properties of Liquid, vapour pressure, surface tension and co-efficient of viscosity and their applications; effect of concentration of solutes on surface tension and viscosity; effect of temperature on viscosity of liquids.

Solid State: Unit Cells, Miller indices, crystal systems and Bravais Lattices, elementary applications of vectors to crystal systems; X-ray diffraction, Bragg’s Law, Structure of NaCl, CsCl, and KCl, diamond, and graphite; Close packing in metals and metal compounds, semiconductors, insulators; Defects in crystals, lattice energy; isomorphism; heat capacity of solids.

Chemical Thermodynamics: Mathematical treatment: Exact and in-exact differentials, partial derivatives, Euler’s reciprocity, cyclic rule; Reversible and irreversible processes; Laws of thermodynamics, thermochemistry, thermodynamic functions, such as enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy, their properties and applications; Partial molar quantities, dependence of thermodynamic parameters on composition, Gibbs Duhem equation, chemical potential and its applications.

Chemical and Phase Equilibria: Law of mass action; Kp, Kc, Kx and Kn; Effect of temperature on K; Le-Chatelier principle; Ionic equilibria in solutions; pH and buffer solutions; Salt hydrolysis; Solubility and solubility product; Acid – base titration curves; Indicators; Dilute solutions; Raoult’s and Henry’s Laws and their applications; Colligative properties; Gibbs phase rule; Phase equilibria; single and two- component phase diagrams.

Electrochemistry: Conductivity, equivalent and molar conductivity and their properties; Kohlrausch law; DebyeHückel-Onsager equation; Ionic velocities, mobilities, transference numbers; Applications of conductance measurement; Quantitative aspects of Faraday’s laws of electrolysis, applications of electrolysis in metallurgy and industry; Electromotive force of a cell, Nernst equation; Standard electrode potential, Electrochemical series; Concentration cells with and without transference;Applications of EMF measurements including potentiometric titrations.

Also Read: IIT JAM 2025 Major Changes Introduced

IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus: Physical Chemistry

Atomic and Molecular Structure: Planck’s black body radiation, Photoelectric effect, Postulates of bohr's atomic model, de Broglie postulate, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle; Schrödinger’s wave equation (including mathematical treatment), postulates of quantum mechanics, normalized and orthogonal wave functions, its complex conjugate (idea of complex numbers) and significance of Ѱ 2; Operators; Particle in one- dimension box, radial and angular wave functions for hydrogen atom, radial probability distribution; Finding maxima of distribution functions (idea of maxima and minima), energy spectrum of hydrogen atom; Shapes of s, p, d and f orbitals; Pauli’s Exclusion Principle; Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity.

Electrochemistry: Conductivity, equivalent and molar conductivity and their properties; Kohlrausch law; DebyeHückel-Onsager equation; Ionic velocities, mobilities, transference numbers; Applications of conductance measurement; Quantitative aspects of Faraday’s laws of electrolysis, applications of electrolysis in metallurgy and industry; Electromotive force of a cell, Nernst equation; Standard electrode potential, Electrochemical series; Concentration cells with and without transference; Applications of EMF measurements including potentiometric titrations.

Chemical Kinetics: Order and molecularity of a reaction, differential and integrated form of rate expressions - basic ideas of integration and differentiation; Kinetics of opposing, parallel, and consecutive reactions; Steady state approximation in reaction mechanisms; Chain reactions; Uni-molecular reaction (Lindemann mechanism); Temperature dependence of reaction rates, Arrhenius equation; activation energy; Collision theory of reaction rates; Types of catalysts, specificity and selectivity, mechanisms of catalyzed reactions at solid surfaces; Enzyme catalysis (Michaelis- Menten mechanism, Double reciprocal plot), Acid-base catalysis.

Adsorption: Gibbs adsorption equation; adsorption isotherm; types of adsorption; surface area of adsorbents; surface films on liquids.

Spectroscopy: Beer-Lambert’s law; fundamental concepts of rotational, vibrational, electronic and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Also Read: IIT JAM Syllabus 2025: Subject-wise Syllabus PDF & Topics

IIT JAM 2025 Chemistry Syllabus: Organic Chemistry

Basic Concepts in Organic Chemistry and Stereochemistry: Electronic effects (resonance, inductive, hyperconjugation) and steric effects and its applications (acid/base property); optical isomerism in compounds with and without any stereocenters (allenes, biphenyls); conformation of acyclic systems (substituted ethane/n- propane/n-butane) and cyclic systems, substituted cyclohexanes, and polycyclic (cis and trans decalins) systems.

Organic Reaction Mechanism and Synthetic Applications: Chemistry of reactive intermediates (carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, nitrenes, benzynes); nucleophilic substitution, elimination reactions and mechanisms; Hofmann-Curtius- Lossen rearrangement, Wolff rearrangement, Simmons-Smith reaction, Reimer-Tiemann reaction, Michael reaction, Darzens reaction, Wittig reaction and McMurry reaction; Pinacolpinacolone, Favorskii, benzilic acid rearrangement, Baeyer-Villeger reaction; oxidation and reduction reactions in organic chemistry; Organometallic reagents in organic synthesis (Grignard, organolithium , organocopper and organozinc (Reformatsky only); Diels-Alder, electrocyclic and sigmatropic reactions; functional group inter-conversions and structural problems using chemical reactions.

Qualitative Organic Analysis: Identification of functional groups by chemical tests; elementary UV, IR and 1 H NMR spectroscopic techniques as tools for structural elucidation of simple organic molecules.

Natural Products Chemistry: Chemistry of alkaloids, steroids, terpenes, carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides and nucleic acids.

Aromatic and Heterocyclic Chemistry: Monocyclic, bicyclic and tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and monocyclic compounds with one hetero atom: synthesis, reactivity and properties, aromaticity; Electrophilic and nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions.

Inorganic Chemistry

Periodic Table: Periodic classification of elements, Aufbau’s principle, periodicity; Variations of orbital energy, effective nuclear charge, atomic, covalent, and ionic radii, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, and electronegativity with atomic number, electronic configuration of diatomic molecules (first and second row elements).

Extractions of Metals: General methods of isolation and purification of elements; Principles and applications of Ellingham diagram.

Chemical Bonding and shapes of molecules:

lonic bond: Packing of ions in crystals, radius ratio rule, Born-Landé equation, Kapustinskii expression, Madelung constant, Born-Haber cycle, solvation energy, polarizing power and

polarizability; Fajan’s rules; Covalent bond: Lewis structure, valence bond theory. Hybridization, molecular orbital theory, molecular orbital diagrams of diatomic and simple polyatomic
molecules and ions; Multiple bonding (σ and π bond approach) and bond lengths; van der Waals forces, ion-dipole forces, dipole-dipole interactions, induced dipole interactions, instantaneous dipole-induced dipole interactions, hydrogen bonding; Effect of intermolecular forces on melting and boiling points, solubility energetics of dissolution process; Bond dipole,dipole moment, and molecular polarizabilities; VSEPR theory and shapes of molecules; ionic solids.

Main Group Elements (s and p blocks): Reactions of alkali and alkaline earth metals with oxygen, hydrogen and water; Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid ammonia; Gradation in properties of main group element in a group; Inert pair effect; Synthesis, structure and properties of diborane, ammonia, silane, phosphine and hydrogen sulphide; Allotropes of carbon; Oxides of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur; Oxoacids of phosphorus, sulphur and chlorine; Halides of silicon and phosphorus; Synthesis and properties of borazine, silicone and phosphazene; Synthesis and reactions of xenon fluorides.
Transition Metals (d block): Characteristics of d-block elements; oxide, hydroxide and salts of first row metals; coordination complexes: structure, isomerism, reaction mechanism and electronic spectra; VB, MO and crystal field theoretical approaches for structure, color and magnetic properties of metal complexes; Organometallic compounds with metal-ligand single and multiple bonds (such as metal carbonyls, metal nitrosyls and metallocenes); Homogenous catalysis involving Wilkinson’s catalyst.
Bioinorganic Chemistry: Essentials and trace elements of life; basic reactions in the biological systems and the role of metal ions, especially Fe2+, and Zn2+; structure and function of myoglobin, hemoglobin and carbonic anhydrase.
Instrumental Methods of Analysis: Basic principles; instrumentations and simple applications of conductometry, potentiometry and UV-vis spectrophotometry; analyses of water, air and soil samples.

Analytical Chemistry: Principles of qualitative and quantitative analysis; Acid-base, oxidation- reduction and complexometric titrations using EDTA; Precipitation reactions; Use and types of indicators; Use of organic reagents in inorganic analysis; Radioactivity meaning, nuclear reactions, applications of isotopes; Mathematical treatment in error analysis, elementary statistics and probability theory.

CUET PG 2025 Chemistry: Eligibility Criteria

Candidates can check the minimal eligibility criteria for enrolling in MSc Chemistry course from below:

Test Paper Code	Academic Programmes	Institutes	Minimal Educational Qulaifucation for Admissions
Chemistry (CH)	MSc Chemistry	IIT Bhilai, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Dhanbad, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Guwahati, IIT Indore, IIT Jammu, IIT Jodhpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Mandi, IIT Patna, IIT Roorkee, IIT Ropar, IIT Tirupati, IIT Varanasi	Chemistry for three years/six semesters.
	MSc Chemistry	IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Palakkad	No restrictions
	MSc Chemistry	IIT Kharagpur	B.Sc./B.S. degree with at least six Chemistry subjects for six semesters /three years
		IIT Madras	B.Sc./B.S. degree with Chemistry for at least six semesters/three years,nalong with mathematics for two semesters/one year.

Candidates can check out the JAM 2025 eligibility criteria in detail from here: IIT JAM Eligibility Criteria 2025: Know Educational Qualification and Age limit

IIT JAM Chemistry Books to Read for Organic Chemistry Prep 2025

Go through books to read when preparing for organic chemistry topics for IIT JAM prep as mentioned below:

Name of Book

Author

Qualitative Organic Analysis: Introduction to Spectroscopy

Pavia, Lampman, Kriz, Vyvyan

Basic Concepts in Organic Chemistry and Stereochemistry: Stereochemistry Conformation and Mechanism

P.S. Kalsi

Organic Chemistry: Stereochemistry and the Chemistry Natural Products Volume 2

I.L. Finar

IIT JAM 2025 Student Reactions

The JAM 2025 exam was held on February 2, 2025, at various exam centres across the country. For better preparation and knowledge of the JAM exam difficulty level candidates appearing for the IIT JAM 2025 exam can check out the previous year's (2024) student reaction video from here:

Also Read: Check Year Wise IIT JAM Student Reaction and Difficulty Level from Here

IIT JAM Chemistry Books to Read for Inorganic Chemistry Prep 2025

Go through books to read when preparing for inorganic chemistry topics for IIT JAM prep as mentioned below:

Name of Book	Author
Inorganic Chemistry	Miessler / Tarr
Instrumental Method of Analysis	Douglas A. Skoog, F. James Holler, Stanley R. Crouch
Inorganic Chemistry	James E. Huheey

IIT JAM Chemistry Books to Read for Physical Chemistry Prep 2025

Go through books to read when preparing for physical chemistry topics for IIT JAM prep as mentioned below:

Name of Book	Author
Atkin’s Physical Chemistry	Peter Atkins, de Paula, Julio, James Keeler
Physical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics	Thomas Engel & Phillip Reid
Theory of Gases	Peter W. Atkins
Electrochemistry: An Introduction to Electrochemistry	Samuel Glasstone
Chemical and Phase Equilibria: Principals of Chemical Equilibrium & Phase Rule	K.G. Denbigh
Adsorption: Introduction to Surface Chemistry & Catalysis	Gabor A. Somorjai

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