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Arhana Chakraborty 13th May, 2022

The top 5 high weightage chapters in JEE MAINS are provided below:

Physics :

  • Modern Physics:- 20 marks
  • Heat and Thermodynamics :- 12 marks
  • Optics:- 12 marks
  • Current Electricity :- 12 marks
  • Electrostatics :- 12 marks

Chemistry :

  • Transition Elements and Coordination Chemistry :- 12 marks
  • Periodic table and Representative Elements :- 12 marks
  • Thermodynamics And Gaseous State:- 8 marks
  • Atomic Structure:- 8 marks
  • Chemical Bonding:- 8 marks
  • Chemical And Ionic Equilibrium:- 8 marks
  • Solid State And Surface Chemistry :- 8 marks
  • Nuclear Chemistry And Environment:- 8 marks

Maths :

  • Coordinate Geometry :- 20 marks
  • Limits, Continuity and Differentiability :- 12 marks
  • Integral Calculus :- 12 marks
  • Complex numbers and Quadratic Equation :- 8 marks
  • Matrices and Determinants :- 8 marks
  • Statistics and Probability :- 8 marks
  • Vector Algebra :- 8 marks

For the detailed chapterwise weightage of JEE MAINS consider the link below:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-syllabus-weightage

I hope this helps. Wish you a great eve!

Piyush kesarwani 13th May, 2022

Hello aspirant,

Below are list of chapters or topics in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in which all the subject-wise wieghtage is given according to the descending order that is the topics having the highest weightage in JEE mains is included at the top while the subject with the lowest weightage is included at the bottom of every subject. You can have a clarity with this :

JEE MAINS WEIGTAGE FOR PHYSICS

Modern Physics:- 20 marks

Heat and Thermodynamics :- 12 marks

Optics:- 12 marks

Current Electricity :- 12 marks

Electrostatics :- 12 marks

Magnetics :- 8 marks

Unit, Dimension and Vector:- 4 marks

Kinematics :- 4 marks

Laws of motion :- 4 marks

Work, Power and Energy :- 4 marks

Centre Of Mass, Impulse and Momentum :- 4 marks

Rotation :- 4 marks

Gravitation :- 4 marks

Simple Harmonic Motion :- 4 marks

Solids and Fluids :- 4 marks

Waves :- 4 marks

Electromagnetics Induction and AC :- 4 marks


JEE MAINS WEIGHTAGE FOR CHEMISTRY


Transition Elements and Coordination Chemistry  :-  12 marks

Periodic table and Representative Elements :- 12 marks

Thermodynamics And Gaseous State:- 8 marks

Atomic Structure:- 8 marks

Chemical Bonding:- 8 marks

Chemical And Ionic Equilibrium:- 8 marks

Solid State And Surface Chemistry :- 4 marks

Nuclear Chemistry And Environment:- 8 marks

Mole Concept :- 4 marks

Redox Reaction :- 4 marks

Electrochemistry :- 4 marks

Chemical Kinetics:- 4 marks

Solution and Colligative Properties :- 4 marks

General Organic Chemistry:- 4 marks

Stereochemistry:- 4 marks

Hydrocarbon :- 4 marks

Alkyl Halides :- 4 marks

Carboxylic Acid and their Derivatives:- 4 marks

Carbohydrates,amino acid and Polymers :- 4 marks

Aromatic Compounds :- 4 marks


JEE MAINS WEIGHTAGE FOR MATHEMATICS


Coordinate Geometry  :-  20 marks

Limits, Continuity and Differentiability :- 12 marks

Integral Calculus :- 12 marks

Complex numbers and Quadratic Equation :- 8 marks

Matrices and Determinants :- 8 marks

Statistics and Probability :- 8 marks

Vector Algebra :- 8 marks

Sets, Relation and Function:- 4 marks

Permutations and Combinations :- 4 marks

Binomial Theorem and Its Application:- 4 marks

Sequences and Series:- 4 marks

Trigonometry :- 4 marks

Mathematical Reasoning :- 4 marks

Differential Equation :- 4 marks

Statics and Dynamics :- 4 marks

Differential Calculus :-  4  marks


Further to know more about the JEE mains Subject wise weightage and syllabus, you can follow below link for more  :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-syllabus-weightage

I hope that this will help.


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