TIFR GS Syllabus 2025: Download Subject-wise Syllabus PDF

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Graduate School Admissions 2025 ( TIFR GS )

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Exam On: 8 Dec '24

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TIFR GS 2025 Syllabus: The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) has released the subject-wise syllabus along with exam patterns and instructions. Students should go through the exam syllabus to prepare well for the upcoming examination. The TIFR GS Exam for the academic session 2025 admission schedule is out on the official website and as per the schedule the exam is going to be held on December 8, 2024. 

TIFR GS 2025 is conducted for candidates who seek admission to various PhD, and Integrated MSc PhD courses in the participating institutes in India. The TIFR GS syllabus for the academic session 2025 is similar to previous years still students must go through the TIFR GS 2025 Exam Pattern to get an idea before they appear for the exam. Students who want to get a good idea about all the TIFR GS 2025 Important topics must go through this Shiksha page to prepare well for the Common Entrance Test. 

TIFR GS Syllabus 2025 for Mathematics

Subject Name

TIFR GS Syllabus  and Important Topics

Algebra

Definitions and examples of groups (finite and infinite, commutative and non-commutative), cyclic groups, subgroups, homomorphisms, and quotients. Definitions and examples of rings and fields. Basic facts about finite-dimensional vector spaces, matrices, determinants, and ranks of linear transformations. Integers and their basic properties. Polynomials with real or complex coefficients in 1 variable.

Analysis

Basic facts about real and complex numbers, the convergence of sequences and series of real and complex numbers, continuity, differentiability and Riemann integration of real-valued functions defined on an interval (finite or infinite), elementary functions (polynomial functions, rational functions, exponential and log, trigonometric functions).

Geometry/ Topology

Elementary geometric properties of common shapes and figures in 2 and 3-dimensional Euclidean spaces (example: triangles, circles, discs, spheres, etc). Plane analytic geometry (= coordinate geometry) and trigonometry. Definition and basic properties of metric spaces, examples of subset Euclidean spaces (of any dimension), connectedness, compactness. Convergence in metric spaces, continuity of functions between metric spaces.

General

Pigeon-hole principle (box principle), induction, elementary properties of divisibility, elementary combinatorics (permutations and combinations, binomial coefficients), elementary reasoning with graphs.

TIFR GS Syllabus 2025 for Physics

The TIFR GS 2024 Syllabus for Physics consists of the following topics as mentioned below. Most of the questions that are asked in the Written test/Interviews in Physics come from the following important topics. 

  • Classical Mechanics
  • Mathematics Relevant to Physics
  • Electronics and Experimental Physics
  • General Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Electricity and Magnetism.
  • Heat, thermodynamics and Statistical Physics. 
  • Modern Physics.

TIFR GS Syllabus 2025 for Chemistry

The TIFR GS Chemistry syllabus is similar to the usual standard syllabus followed in a university for BSc and MSc degree courses as per the official site. Nevertheless, most of the questions that are asked in the Chemistry exam challenge the basic understanding of the students related to the topics mentioned below.

  • Organic Chemistry 
  • Quantum chemistry
  • Thermodynamics
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Logic and statistics & mathematical methods
  • Physical Chemistry 
  • Electro Chemistry 
  • Biophysics
  • Analytical Chemistry 
  • Spectroscopy (NMR, fluorescence, IR, UV and X-ray)

TIFR GS Syllabus 2025 for Biology

The TIFR GS 2024 Exam Biology Syllabus consists of topics that a candidate must have read in his/her high school curriculum or during the undergraduate science course. One does not need to prepare any specific topics for this section because all the multiple-choice questions will be related to the high school curriculum and UG Science course. However, there is no defined syllabus for the TIFR GS Biology exam (JGEEBILS) and the official website informs, “The test will be extremely basic and cover topics in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.”

TIFR GS Syllabus 2025 for Computer & Systems Sciences

Here is the list of the important topics related to Computer Science and Learning, Information, and Data Science (LIDS) (formerly called Systems Sciences).

Computer Science Important Topics

1. Discrete Mathematics: Sets and Relations, Combinatorics (Counting) and Elementary Probability Theory, Graph Theory, Propositional and Predicate Logic.
2. Formal Languages, Automata Theory and Computability.
3. Data Structures and Algorithms: Arrays, Lists and Trees, Sorting and Searching, Graph algorithms, Complexity of problems and NP-completeness.
4. Fundamentals of Programming Languages and Compilers: Control structures, Parameter passing mechanisms, Recursion, Parsing and type checking, Memory management.
5. Operating Systems and Concurrency

6. Switching Theory and Digital Circuits
7. Theory of Databases

Learning, Information, and Data Science (LIDS) (formerly called Systems Sciences) Important Topics
1. Engineering Mathematics: Probability, Linear Algebra, Basic Optimization, Basic Analysis, Calculus.
2. Electrical and Computer Sciences: Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing.

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