• Units and dimensions
• dimensional analysis
• least count
• significant figures
• Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities about the following experiments: Experiments based on using Vernier callipers and screw gauge
• Determination of g using a simple pendulum
• Young’s modulus by Searle’s method, Specific heat of a liquid using the calorimeter
• The focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using the u-v method, Speed of sound using resonance column
• Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter and ammeter, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and post office box.

• Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only)
• Projectiles
• Uniform circular motion
• Relative velocity.

• Newton’s laws of motion
• Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference
• Static and dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy
• Work and power
• Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy.

• Systems of particles
• Centre of mass and its motion
• Impulse
• Elastic and inelastic collisions.

• Law of gravitation
• Gravitational potential and field
• Acceleration due to gravity
• The motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits
• Escape velocity.

• Rigid body
• moment of inertia
• parallel and perpendicular axes theorems
• moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes
• Angular momentum

• Torque
• Conservation of angular momentum
• Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation
• Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres
• Equilibrium of rigid bodies
• Collision of point masses with rigid bodies.

• Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

• Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

• Pressure in a fluid
• Pascal’s law
• Buoyancy
• Surface energy and surface tension
• capillary rise
• Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded)
• Stoke’s law
• Terminal velocity
• Streamline flow
• equation of continuity
• Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.

• Wave motion (plane waves only)
• longitudinal and transverse waves
• superposition of waves
• Progressive and stationary waves
• The vibration of strings and air columns
• Resonance
• Beats
• Speed of sound in gases
• Doppler effect (in sound).

• Thermal expansion of solids
• liquids and gases
• Calorimetry, latent heat
• Heat conduction in one dimension
• Elementary concepts of convection and radiation
• Newton’s law of cooling
• Ideal gas laws
• Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases)
• Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases
• Equivalence of heat and work
• The first law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases)
• Blackbody radiation
• absorptive and emissive powers
• Kirchhoff’s law
• Wien’s displacement law
• Stefan’s law.

• Coulomb’s law
• Electric field and potential
• The electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field
• Electric field lines
• The flux of the electric field
• Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases,
• such as, to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.

• Capacitance
• Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics
• Capacitors in series and parallel
• Energy stored in a capacitor.

• Electric current
• Ohm’s law
• Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells
• Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications
• Heating effect of current.

• Biot–Savart’s law and Ampere’s law
• Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid
• Force on a moving charge and a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.

• The magnetic moment of a current loop
• Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop
• Moving coil galvanometer
• Voltmeter
• pammeter and their conversions
• Electromagnetic induction:
• Faraday’s law
• Lenz’s law
• Self and mutual inductance
• RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources.

• Rectilinear propagation of light
• Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces
• Total internal reflection
• Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism
• Thin lenses
• Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses
• Magnification.

• Wave nature of light
• Huygen’s principle
• interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.

• Atomic nucleus
• Alpha Beta and Gamma radiations
• Law of radioactive decay
• Decay constant
• Half-life and mean life
Binding energy and its calculation
• Fission and fusion processes
• Energy calculation in these processes.

• Photoelectric effect
• Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms
• Characteristic and continuous X-rays
• Moseley’s law
• de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.

• This would consist of a simple drawing depicting the total object in its right form and proportion, surface texture, relative location and details of its parts in appropriate scale.
• Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory.

• Exercises in geometrical drawing containing lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, etc.
• Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders, etc.

• Understanding and appreciation of three-dimensional forms with building elements, colour, volume and orientation.
• Visualization through structuring objects in memory.

• Composition exercise with given elements.
• Context mapping.
• Creativity check through the innovative uncommon test with familiar objects.
• Sense of colour grouping or application.

• General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations
• both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain.

• Concept of atoms and molecules
• Dalton’s atomic theory
• Mole concept
• Chemical formulae
• Balanced chemical equations
• Calculations (based on mole concept) involving common oxidation-reduction, neutralisation, and displacement reactions
• Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molarity, molality and normality.

• Absolute scale of temperature, ideal gas equation
• Deviation from ideality, van der Waals equation
• Kinetic theory of gases, average, root mean square and most probable velocities and their relation with temperature
• Law of partial pressures
• Vapour pressure
• Diffusion of gases.

• Bohr model, the spectrum of the hydrogen atom, quantum numbers
• Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis
• Uncertainty principle
• Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of the hydrogen atom, shapes of s, p and d orbitals
• Electronic configurations of elements (up to atomic number 36)
• Aufbau principle
• Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule
• Orbital overlap and covalent bond
• Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals only
• Orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species
• Hydrogen bond;
• Polarity in molecules, dipole moment (qualitative aspects only)
• VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

• The first law of thermodynamics
• Internal energy, work and heat, pressure-volume work
• Enthalpy
• Hess’s law
• Heat of reaction
• fusion and vapourization
• The second law of thermodynamics
• Entropy
• Free energy
• The criterion of spontaneity.

• Law of mass action
• Equilibrium constant
• Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure)
• Significance of? G and ?G0 in chemical equilibrium;
• Solubility product, common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions
• Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis concepts)
• Hydrolysis of salts.

• Electrochemical cells and cell reactions; Standard electrode potentials; Nernst equation and its relation to? Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic cells; Faraday’s laws of electrolysis; Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch’s law; Concentration cells.

• Rates of chemical reactions
• Order of reactions
• Rate constant
• First-order reactions
• Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation).

• Classification of solids crystalline state, seven crystal systems close-packed structure of solids (cubic), packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices
• Nearest neighbours, ionic radii, simple ionic compounds, point defects.

• Raoult’s law
• Molecular weight determination from lowering of vapour pressure elevation of boiling point and depression of freezing point.

• Elementary concepts of adsorption (excluding adsorption isotherms)
• Colloids
• types, methods of preparation and general properties
• Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants and micelles (only definitions and examples).

• Radioactivity
• isotopes and isobars
• Properties of Alpha, Beta and Gamma rays
• Kinetics of radioactive decay (decay series excluded), carbon dating
• Stability of nuclei concerning the proton-neutron ratio
• A brief discussion on fission and fusion reactions.

• Boron
• Silicon
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorus
• Oxygen
• sulphur and halogens
• Properties of allotropes of carbon (only diamond and graphite), phosphorus and sulphur.

• Oxides
• Peroxides
• Hydroxides
• Carbonates
• Bicarbonates
• chlorides and sulphates of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium
• Boron
• diborane, boric acid and borax
• Aluminium
• alumina, aluminium chloride and alums
• Carbon
• oxides and oxyacid (carbonic acid)
• Silicon: silicones, silicates and silicon carbide
• Nitrogen
• oxides, oxyacids and ammonia
• Phosphorus
• oxides, oxyacids (phosphorus acid, phosphoric acid) and phosphine
• Oxygen: ozone and hydrogen peroxide
• Sulphur
• hydrogen sulphide, oxides, sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate
• Halogens
• hydrohalic acids, oxides and oxyacids of chlorine, bleaching powder
• Xenon fluorides.

• Definition, general characteristics, oxidation states and their stabilities, colour (excluding the details of electronic transitions) and calculation of spin-only magnetic moment
• Coordination compounds: nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds
• cis-trans and ionisation isomerism
• hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral).

• Oxides and chlorides of tin and lead
• Oxides, chlorides and sulphates of Fe2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+
• Potassium permanganate
• potassium dichromate
• silver oxide
• silver nitrate
• silver thiosulphate.

• Commonly occurring ores and minerals of iron, copper, tin, lead, magnesium, aluminium, zinc and silver.

• Chemical principles and reactions only (industrial details excluded)
• Carbon reduction method (iron and tin)
• Self-reduction method (copper and lead);

• Electrolytic reduction method (magnesium and aluminium); Cyanide process (silver and gold).

• Groups I to V (only Ag+, Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, Bi3+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Al3+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ and Mg2+)
• Nitrate
• halides (excluding fluoride)
• sulphate and sulphide.

• Hybridisation of carbon
• ? and ?-bonds
• Shapes of simple organic molecules
• Structural and geometrical isomerism
• Optical isomerism of compounds containing up to two asymmetric centres, (R, S and E, Z nomenclature excluded)
• IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds (only hydrocarbons, mono-functional and bi-functional compounds)
• Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections)
• Resonance and hyperconjugation
• Keto-enol tautomerism
• Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds (only combustion method)
• Hydrogen bonds: definition and their effects on physical properties of alcohols and carboxylic acids
• Inductive and resonance effects on acidity and basicity of organic acids and bases
• Polarity and inductive effects in alkyl halides
• Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage
• Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

• Homologous series
• physical properties of alkanes (melting points, boiling points and density)
• Combustion and halogenation of alkanes
• Preparation of alkanes by Wurtz reaction and decarboxylation reactions.

• Physical properties of alkenes and alkynes (boiling points, density and dipole moments)
• Acidity of alkynes
• Acid catalysed hydration of alkenes and alkynes (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination)
• Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone
• Reduction of alkenes and alkynes
• Preparation of alkenes and alkynes by elimination reactions
• Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX and H2O (X=halogen)
• Addition reactions of alkynes
• Metal acetylides.

• Structure and aromaticity
• Electrophilic substitution reactions
• halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation
• Effect of o-, m- and p-directing groups in monosubstituted benzenes.

• Acidity, electrophilic substitution reactions (halogenation, nitration and sulphonation)
• Reimer-Tieman reaction
• Kolbe reaction.

• Alkyl halides
• rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation, Grignard reactions, nucleophilic substitution reactions
• Alcohols
• Esterification
• dehydration and oxidation
• reaction with sodium, phosphorus halides
• ZnCl2/concentrated HCl
• conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones
• Ethers: Preparation by Williamson’s Synthesis
• Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation
• aldol condensation, Perkin reaction
• Cannizzaro reaction
• haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions (Grignard addition)
• Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis
• Amines: basicity of substituted anilines and aliphatic amines, preparation from nitro compounds, reaction with nitrous acid, azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of aromatic amines, Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts
• carbylamine reaction
• Haloarenes: nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding Benzyne mechanism and Cine substitution).

• Classification
• mono- and disaccharides (glucose and sucrose)
• Oxidation, reduction, glycoside formation and hydrolysis of sucrose.

• General structure (only primary structure for peptides)
• and physical properties

• Natural rubber
• Cellulose
• Nylon
• Teflon and PVC.

• Detection of elements (N, S, halogens)
• Detection and identification of the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro
• Chemical methods of separation of monofunctional organic compounds from binary mixtures.

Both the papers will have 3 sections-

Paper 1-

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics

Paper 2-

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics