NEET 2024 Syllabus Released by NMC; Exam Date May 5, Download Reduced Syllabus PDF

Basic Concepts of Chemistry

Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

Purification and Characterisation of Organic Compounds

Unit I: Physical-world and Measurement

• Physics: Scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology, and society.
• Need for measurement: Length, mass, and time measurements; accuracy and precision of measuring instruments.

Unit I: Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry

General Introduction: Important and scope of chemistry.

Unit II: Structural Organisation in Animals and Plants

Animal tissues; Morphology, anatomy and functions of different systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory, nervous and reproductive) of an insect (Frog). (Brief account only)

Unit II: Kinematics

Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion. Scalar and vector quantities: Position and displacement vectors, general vectors, general vectors and notation, equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a real number; addition and subtraction of vectors. Relative velocity.

Unit II: Structure of Atom

Atomic number, isotopes and isobars, Concept of shells and subshells, dual nature of matter and light.

Unit IV: Plant Physiology

• Transport in plants: Movement of water, gases and nutrients; Cell to cell transport-Diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport; Plant – water relations – Imbibition, water potential, osmosis, plasmolysis; Long distance transport of water – Absorption, apoplast, symplast, transpiration pull, root pressure and guttation; Transpiration-Opening and closing of stomata; Uptake and translocation of mineral nutrients-Transport of food, phloem transport, Mass flow hypothesis; Diffusion of gases (brief mention).
• Mineral nutrition: Essential minerals, macro and micronutrients and their role; Deficiency symptoms; Mineral toxicity; Elementary idea of Hydroponics as a method to study mineral nutrition; Nitrogen metabolism-Nitrogen cycle, biological nitrogen fixation.

Unit III: Laws of Motion

Lubrication (under the Equilibrium of Concurrent Forces chapter)

Unit XI: Some p-Block Elements

Important compounds of silicon and a few uses: silicon tetrachloride, silicones, silicates and zeolites, their uses.

Unit V: Human Physiology

Digestion and absorption; Alimentary canal and digestive glands; Role of digestive enzymes and gastrointestinal hormones; Peristalsis, digestion, absorption and assimilation of proteins, carbohydrates and fats; Caloric value of proteins, carbohydrates and fats; Egestion; Nutritional and digestive disorders – PEM, indigestion, constipation, vomiting, jaundice, diarrhoea.

Momentum conservation, and centre of mass motion.

UNIT XIII: Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen

Cyanides and Isocyanides- will be mentioned at relevant places.

Unit I: Reproduction

Reproduction in organisms: Reproduction, a characteristic feature of all organisms for continuation of species; Modes of reproduction – Asexual and sexual; Asexual reproduction; Modes-Binary fission, sporulation, budding, gemmule, fragmentation; vegetative propagation in plants.

Unit VI: Gravitation

Geostationary satellites.

UNIT XIV: Environmental Chemistry

Environmental pollution: Air, water and soil pollution, chemical reactions in atmosphere, smogs, major atmospheric pollutants; acid rain ozone and its reactions, effects of depletion of ozone layer, greenhouse effect and global warming-pollution due to industrial wastes; green chemistry as an alternative tool for reducing pollution, strategy for control of environmental pollution.

Unit III: Biology and Human Welfare

Improvement in food production; Plant breeding, tissue culture, single cell protein, Biofortification; Apiculture and Animal husbandry.

Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter/Properties of Solids and Liquids

• Shear, poisson’s ratio; elastic energy.  Reynold’s number,  Anomalous expansion. Specific heat capacity: Cp, Cv- calorimetry; change of state – latent heat. Qualitative ideas of Black Body Radiation, Wein’s displacement law, and Green House effect.
• Newton’s law of cooling and Stefan’s law.

UNIT XV: Polymers

Classification- Natural and synthetic, methods of polymerization (addition and condensation), copolymerization. Some important polymers: natural and synthetic like polyesters, bakelite; rubber, Biodegradable and non-biodegradable polymers.

Unit V: Ecology and Environment

Organisms and environment: Habitat and niche; Population and ecological adaptations

Ecosystem Patterns: Nutrient cycling (carbon and phosphorous); Ecological succession; Ecological Services fixation, pollination, oxygen release.

Biodiversity and its conservation: Sacred Groves.

Environmental issues: Air pollution and its control; Water pollution and its control; Agrochemicals and their effects; Solid waste management; Radioactive waste management; Greenhouse effect and global warning; Ozone depletion; Deforestation; Any three case studies as success stories addressing environmental issues.

Unit VIII: Thermodynamics

Heat engines and refrigerators.

UNIT XVI: Chemistry in Everyday Life

• Chemicals in medicines- analgesics, tranquilizers, antiseptics, disinfectants, antimicrobials, antifertility drugs, antibiotics, antacids, antihistamines.
• Chemicals in food- preservatives, artificial sweetening agents, elementary idea of antioxidants.
• Cleansing agents- soaps and detergents, cleansing action.

Unit X: Oscillations and Waves

• Free, forced and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance.
• Doppler effect

Unit V: Surface Chemistry

Adsorption-physisorption and chemisorption; factors affecting adsorption of gases on solids,
catalysis homogeneous and heterogeneous, activity and selectivity: enzyme catalysis; colloidal
state: distinction between true solutions, colloids and suspensions; lyophillic, lyophobic
multimolecular and macromolecular colloids; properties of colloids; Tyndall effect, Brownian
movement, electrophoresis, coagulation; emulsions- types of emulsions.

Unit I: Electrostatics

Van de Graaff generator.

Unit X: Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

• Haloalkanes: Nomenclature, nature of C –X bond, physical and chemical properties, mechanism
  of substitution reactions. Optical rotation.
• Haloarenes: Nature of C-X bond, substitution reactions (directive influence of halogen for
  monosubstituted compounds only).
• Uses and environmental effects of – dichloromethane, trichloromethane, tetrachloromethane,
  iodoform, freons, DDT.

Unit II: Current Electricity

The flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors; Potentiometer-principle and applications to measure potential difference, and for comparing emf of two cells; measurement of internal resistance of a cell.

Concept of magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment.  Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Electromagnetic and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets.

Unit IV: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only)

Unit VI: Optics

• Reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wavefronts.
• Scattering of light- blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.
• Optical instruments: Human eye, image formation and accommodation, correction of eye defects (myopia and hypermetropia) using lenses.
• Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers.

Unit VII: Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

Davisson-Germer experiment (experimental details should be omitted; only conclusion should be explained).

Unit VIII: Atoms and Nuclei

Isotopes, isobars; isotones. Radioactivity- alpha, beta and gamma particles/ rays and their properties decay law.

Unit IX: Electronic Devices

Energy bands in solids (qualitative ideas only), conductors, insulators,  Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of a transistor; transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator.