IIT JAM Chemistry (CY) 2025: Exam Date, Syllabus, Question Papers, Important Topics

Nikhar Aggrawal

Updated On: September 03, 2024 01:23 PM | IIT JAM

IIT JAM Chemistry (CH) 2025 will be conducted on February 2, 2025 (Forenoon Session). Candidates can view all the latest JAM exam information, like important dates, topic-wise syllabus, previous year papers,topic-wise weightage, etc., here.

IIT JAM Chemistry 2025

IIT JAM Chemistry (CY) 2025: IIT JAM 2025 notification is now available on the IIT Delhi official website at jam2025.iitd.ac.in. Students can register for IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 using their mobile number and a valid email address through the official website. Students applying for IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 must have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry. IIT JAM is a computer-based exam with 60 questions worth 100 marks. IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 paper will be divided into 3 parts- Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry. Also, The IIT JAM Chemistry question paper is divided into three sections based on the exam pattern, each with a different number of questions and a different marking scheme. The IIT JAM 2025 is scheduled to be conducted on February 2, 2025, and the JAM application form is available for registrations from September 3, 2024, to October 11, 2024.

Direct Link: IIT JAM Registration 2025 (Activated)

IIT JAM 2025 is used for admission to a variety of programmes at various institutes, including MSc, MSc (Technology), MSc-MTech Dual Degree, MSc (Research), Joint MSc-PhD, MSc-PhD Dual Degree, and Integrated PhD. IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 syllabus determines candidates' knowledge, understanding, and ability to solve problems in their fields of study. It covers a wide range of foundational principles, concepts, and applications important to each subject. Candidates can build a solid understanding of concepts and develop the necessary skills for solving exam questions by thoroughly studying the syllabus.

IIT JAM 2025 Important Dates

Candidates can check out all the IIT JAM 2025 Important dates in the table provided below:

Events

Dates

Commencement of IIT JAM 2025 Registration and Application form

September 3, 2024

IIT JAM Application Form 2025 Last Date October 11, 2024
IIT JAM 2025 Application Form Correction November 18, 2024
IIT JAM 2025 Exam Application Form Correction Last Date To be notified
Upload of valid OBC-NCL certificate November 20, 2024

IIT JAM 2025 Admit Card Download Date

Early January 2025

IIT JAM 2025 Mock Test link

To be notified

IIT JAM 2025 Exam Date

February 2, 2025

IIT JAM 2025 Response Sheet

To be notified
IIT JAM 2025 Exam Answer Key To be notified
Submission of Challenge for the IIT JAM Answer Key 2025 To be notified

IIT JAM 2025 Exam Result Date

March 19, 2025
IIT JAM 2025 Score Card March 25, 2025

Starting date of IIT JAM 2025 Application Form for Admission

April 2, 2025
Last day to apply for the IIT JAM 2025 Admission Form To be notified

Final date for rectification of defective documents/ receipt of requests
for Change of Category with valid documents

To be notified

First Admission List Declaration of IIT JAM 2025 exam

To be notified

Deadline to Pay Seat Booking Fee

To be notified

Second Admission List Declaration of IIT JAM 2025 exam

To be notified

Deadline to Pay Seat Booking Fee

To be notified
Opening and Closing of Withdrawal Option To be notified
Third Admission List Declaration of IIT JAM 2025 exam To be notified
Deadline to Pay Seat Booking Fee To be notified
Fourth Admission List Declaration of IIT JAM 2025 exam To be notified
Deadline to Pay Seat Booking Fee To be notified
Fifth Admission List Declaration of IIT JAM 2025 exam To be notified
Deadline to Pay Seat Booking Fee for an additional round To be notified
Downloading of Offer Letters To be notified

Also Check: IIT JAM 2025 Preparation Strategy, Tips, Study Plan, Timetable

IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 Syllabus

Candidates can check out the list of total chapters in IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 Syllabus which is divided into 3 parts Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 Syllabus: Physical Chemistry

Topics

Sub-Topics

Atomic and Molecular Structure

Planck's black body radiation, 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 Ñ°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.

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, vapor 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; DebyeHückelOnsager 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.

IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 Syllabus: Organic Chemistry

Topics

Sub-Topics

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 1H 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

IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 Syllabus: Inorganic Chemistry

Topics

Sub-Topics

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

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, nuclear reactions, applications of isotopes mathematical treatment in error analysis, elementary statistics,cs and probability theory.

IIT JAM Chemistry Past Question Papers

In today's highly competitive world, every student has the goal to do well academically to get admission in the top colleges and universities through entrance exams. One of the most common ways to understand the exam/test pattern is to solve as many previous year's question papers as possible. Previous year questions not only help a student become familiar with the exam pattern, but they also help a student gain confidence in a subject which makes it one of the most effective ways to prepare for an exam.

Students can check out the IIT JAM Chemistry previous year question papers from 2016-2023 in the link provided below:

IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 Topic-wise Weightage

Candidates can check out the IIT JAM Chemistry 2025 topic-wise weightage in the table provided below. With this, you can get an overview of which topic is more important and can make a schedule according to it.

Topics

Syllabus

Weightage

Physical Chemistry

Chemical Thermodynamics

6

Chemical Kinetics

5

Gaseous State

2

Liquid State

2

Solid State

2

Adsorption

4

Spectroscopy

4

Electrochemistry

5

Atomic and Molecular Structure

4

Organic Chemistry

Basic Concept of Organic Chemistry and Stereochemistry

11

Organic Reaction Mechanism & Synthetic Application

10

Qualitative Organic Analysis /Spectroscopy

5

Natural Products Chemistry

5

Inorganic Chemistry

Transition metals (d-block)

6

Chemical Bonding and Shapes of Compounds

6

Analytical Chemistry

5

Periodic Table

4

Extractions of Metals

4

Analytical Chemistry

2

Instrumental Methods of Analysis

2

Bioinorganic Chemistry

2

Main Group Elements (s and p blocks)

4

Also Read: IIT JAM 2025 Exam Pattern

The information brochure of the Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) 2025 has been released by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. The JAM 2025 information brochure is available on the official website, jam.iitm.ac.in.  The brochure is a comprehensive guide that includes information about the examination, eligibility criteria, application process, and more.

For more information and the latest updates on IIT JAM 2025 stay tuned with CollegeDekho.

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