JEE Mains is an All India Engineering entrance examination for the candidates seeking admission into various Undergraduate Colleges in India.
All the Publicly funded and some private colleges consider the JEE Mains rank for taking students for admission. It is a highly competitive examination where lakhs of students patriate each year and only a few thousands become eligible for raking admission into premium institutes.
In this article, we will discuss JEE Mains 2023: Examination Pattern & Syllabus, Recommended Books, preparation tips, etc.
JEE Mains Time Table
To crack the examination, the candidates need to prepare for the examination at least a year before.
The students who are participating are still pursuing Class 12th must note that keeping the balance between the preparation of both examinations is important.
Also, keeping the JEE Mains notification 2023 in check would help in keeping the preparation in check.
The following are the preparation time table that might help you in tackling the examination comfortably-
| Month | Topics to Cover | ||
| Mathematics | Physics | Chemistry | |
| Month 1 | Sets, Relations, and Functions | Physics and Measurement | Some Basic Concepts in Chemistry |
| Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations | Kinematics | States of Matter | |
| Matrices and Determinants | Laws of Motion | Atomic Structure | |
| Permutations and Combinations | Work, Energy, and Power | Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure | |
| Month 2-3 | Mathematical Induction | Rotational motion | Chemical Thermodynamics |
| Bi-nominal Theorem and its Simple Applications | Gravitation | Solutions | |
| Sequences and Series | Properties of Solids and Liquids | Equilibrium | |
| Limit, Continuity and Differentiability | Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry | ||
| Month 4-5 | Integral Calculus | Thermodynamics | Chemical Kinetics |
| Differential Equations | Kinetic Theory of Gases | Surface Chemistry | |
| Co-Ordinate Geometry | Oscillation and Waves | Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties | |
| Three-dimensional Geometry | Electrostatics | General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Metals | |
| Month 6-7 | Vector Algebra | Current Electricity | Hydrogen |
| Statistics and Probability | Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism | S-Block Elements | |
| Trigonometry | Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents | P-Block Elements | |
| Mathematical Reasoning | D & F-Block Elements | ||
| Coordination Compounds | |||
| Month 8 | Revision and Mock Tests | Electromagnetic Waves | Environmental Compounds |
| Optics | Purification and Characterization of Organic Compounds | ||
| Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation | Some Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry | ||
| Hydrocarbons | |||
| Month 9 | Revision and Mock tests | Atoms and Nuclei | Experimental Skills Organic Compounds Containing Oxygen |
| Electronic Devices | Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen | ||
| Communication Systems | Polymer | ||
| Biomolecules Chemistry in Everyday Life | |||
| Month 10-12 | Revision and Mock test | Revision and Mock test | Revision and Mock Test |
JEE Mains Examination Pattern
The following are the examination pattern for JEE Mains Examination-
JEE Mains Examination Pattern for B.E./B.Tech.
| Paper 1: B.E/B.Tech | |||||
| Subject | Section A (Marking Scheme: Correct +4 , Incorrect -1, Unanswered : 0) Question Type: MCQs | Section B (Marking Scheme: Correct +4, Incorrect -1, Unanswered : 0) Question Type: Numerical Value | Marks | ||
| Number of Questions on paper | Number of questions can be attempted | Number of Questions on paper | Number of questions can be attempted | ||
| Physics | 20 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 100 |
| Chemistry | 20 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 100 |
| Maths | 20 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 100 |
| Total | 90 Question | 75 Questions can be attempted | 300 |
JEE Mains Examination Pattern for B.Arch.
| Paper 2A: B.Arch | |||||
| Subject | Section A (Marking Scheme: Correct +4 , Incorrect -1, Unanswered : 0) Question Type: MCQs | Section B (Marking Scheme: Correct +4, Incorrect -1, Unanswered : 0) Question Type: Numerical Value | Marks | ||
| Number of Questions on paper | Number of questions can be attempted | Number of Questions on paper | Number of questions can be attempted | ||
| Maths | 30 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 100 |
| Aptitude | 50 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 200 |
| Drawing | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Total | 82 Question | 77 Questions can be attempted | 400 |
JEE Mains Examination Pattern for B.Planning.
| Paper 2B: B.Planning | |||||
| Subject | Section A (Marking Scheme: Correct +4 , Incorrect -1, Unanswered : 0) Question Type: MCQs | Section B (Marking Scheme: Correct +4, Incorrect -1, Unanswered : 0) Question Type: Numerical Value | Marks | ||
| Number of Questions on paper | Number of questions to be attempted | Number of Questions on paper | Number of questions to be attempted | ||
| Maths | 30 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 100 |
| Aptitude | 50 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 200 |
| Planning Based | 25 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Total | 105 Question | 100 Questions can be attempted | 400 |
JEE Mains Syllabus
The following is the syllabus for JEE Mains Entrance examination-
For B.E./B.Tech.
Physics
- Ray Optics
- Thermodynamics
- Semiconductors
- EM Waves
- Gravitation
- Magnetism
- Alternating Current
- Wave Optics
- Electromagnetic Induction
- Oscillations
- Kinematics
- Rotation
- Current Electricity
- Electrostatics
- Magnetic Effects of Current
- Properties of Matter
- Bohr’s Atomic Model
- Waves and Sound
Chemistry
- Gaseous and Liquid State
- Atomic Structure
- Chemical Kinetics
- Electrochemistry
- Chemical Bonding
- Surface Chemistry
- Coordination Compound
- D Block Elements
- Aromatic Compounds
- Alkyl Halides
- P Block Elements
- Thermodynamics
- Isomerism
- General Organic Chemistry
- Carboxylic Acids
- Aldehydes and Ketones
- Nuclear Chemistry
Mathematics
- Vectors
- 3D Geometry
- Sequence and Series
- Determinant and Matrices
- Circles
- Straight Lines
- Definite Integral
- Probability Distribution
- Functions
- Limits and Continuity
- Conic Sections
- Application of Derivatives
- Quadratic Equation
- Complex Numbers
- Binomial Theorem
- The area under the Curve
- Differentiability
For B.Arch/B.Planning
Mathematics
- Vectors
- 3D Geometry
- Sequence and Series
- Determinant and Matrices
- Circles
- Straight Lines
- Definite Integral
- Probability Distribution
- Functions
- Limits and Continuity
- Conic Sections
- Application of Derivatives
- Quadratic Equation
- Complex Numbers
- Binomial Theorem
- The area under the Curve
- Differentiability
Aptitude
- Visualizing three-dimensional objects from two-dimensional drawings
- Visualizing different sides of 3D objects
- Awareness of persons, places, buildings, Materials
- Objects, textures related to Architecture and build-environment
- 3D- Perception and Appreciation of scale and proportion of objects
- Mental Ability
- Colour Texture
- Analytical Reasoning
Drawing
- Sketching of activities from memory of urbanscape, landscape, and rural life
JEE Main Recommended Books
The following are the recommended books that you can use to prepare for the JEE Mains examination-
JEE Main Books Important for Mathematics
- Trigonometry by S. L. Loney
- Higher Algebra by Hall & Knight
- Maths XI & XII by NCERT
- Coordinate Geometry by S. L. Loney
- Problems in Calculus of One Variable by I.A. Maron
JEE Main Books for Physics
- Problems in General Physics by I.E. Irodov
- Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick & Walker
- Concepts of Physics Vol I and II by H.C. Verma
JEE Main Books for Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry by Paula Bruice Yurkanis
- Organic Chemistry by Morrison & Boyd
- Inorganic Chemistry by J.D. Lee
- Numerical Chemistry by P. Bahadur
JEE Mains Books for B.Arch
- NATA & B. ARCH Complete Self Study Material by Ar. Shadan Usmani
- Architecture Entrance Book by P.K. Mishra.
- Steps to Architecture: B. Arch (NATA/JEE) Main Exam Guide by Nimish Madan
- B. Arch/ B. Planning Aptitude Test for J.E.E. (Main) by SC Garg
- A Complete Self Study Guide for B.Arch 2018 Entrance Examination (English) by P.K Mishra, Arihant Publications
- A Guide to B.Arch Entrance Exams with Solved Papers 2013-2016 by GKP
JEE Mains Books for B.Planning
- B. Arch/ B. Planning Aptitude Test for J.E.E. (Main) by SC Garg
JEE Mains Preparation Tips
The following are the preparation tips using which you can improve your preparation strategy or perhaps create one of your own-
- Managing stress is a very important part of the preparation, this can be very challenging as you’ll be preparing for the examination of Class 12th as well as for the JEE Mains therefore, try to engage yourself in yoga, meditation, and other self-soothing activities like running, gyming, etc.
- Managing time both in preparation as well as during the examination is important, you’ll have to work hard to solve problems within a time limit. Always try to mark your timing while solving equations and ensure you improve upon it.
- Before starting the preparation, go through a complete examination analysis to ensure you understand the syllabus. This also helps you in preparing the high weightage topics more thoroughly and increases your scoring.
- Every examination is designed to filter out certain candidates and JEE Mains examination always filters out the best minds who have a good grasp on the topics. The JEE Mains cracker requires a smart, strategic, and intelligent approach and hence, you must develop preparation strategies based on these elements.
- Go through previous year’s question papers, and analyze which area you can improve upon
- Patriciate as much as you can in giving the Mock tests as this helps you in familiarizing yourself with the examination environment.
JEE Mains Examination Analysis (2015-2017)
The following are the topic wise, and year-wise analyses of the JEE Mains examination to help you to find the important topics for preparation for the examination-
JEE Main Chemistry Examination Analysis- Topic wise
| Topic | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Atomic Structure and Classification | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Chemical Bonding | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Stoichiometry | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| States of Matter | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chemical & Ionic Equilibrium | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chemical Kinetics & Nuclear Chemistry | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chemical Thermodynamics | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Solutions | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Electrochemistry | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| General Organic Chemistry + Functional Group-I | 5 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| Organic Chemistry + Functional Group-II | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Organic Chemistry + Functional Group-III | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Chemistry of Representative Elements | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| Transition Elements | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Coordination Compounds & Organometallics | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Surface Chemistry | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Biomolecules | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Total | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
JEE Main Maths Examination Analysis- Topic wise
| Topic | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Sets, Relations and Functions | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Limits, Continuity & Differentiability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Application of Derivatives | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Indefinite and Definite Integrals & Area under the Curve | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Cartesian coordinates & Straight Line | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Circles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Conics | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Quadratic Equations, Inequalities, Progressions | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Complex Numbers | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Binomial Theorem, Exponential & Logarithmic Series | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Permutation & Combination | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Probability | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Vectors | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3-D Coordinate Geometry | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Differential Equations & Properties of Triangles | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Trigonometry and Inverse Circular Function | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Heights and Distances | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Matrices & Determinants | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Mathematical Logic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Statics & Dynamics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statistics | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
JEE Main Physics Examination Analysis- Topic wise
| Topic | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Units, Dimensions, Errors, Experiments | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Kinematics | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| New ton’s Laws and Friction | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Work, Power & Energy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| System of Particles | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Gravitation, Rotational Mechanics | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Properties of Matter | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| SHM, Oscillations | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Mechanical Waves and Sound | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Optics | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Heat and Thermodynamics | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Electrostatics | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Current Electricity | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Magnetism, Magnetic effects of current | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| EMI , AC and EM waves and Communication | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Modern Physics | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| Total | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
JEE Mains Ranking based on Marks
Based on the previous year’s examination, the following are the scores and respective rankings which can help you in visualizing your scoring range to target the score as well as ranking-
| Score out of 300 | Rank |
| 286- 292 | 19-12 |
| 280-284 | 42-23 |
| 268- 279 | 106-64 |
| 250- 267 | 524-108 |
| 231-249 | 1385-546 |
| 215-230 | 2798-1421 |
| 200-214 | 4667-2863 |
| 189-199 | 6664- 4830 |
| 175-188 | 10746-7152 |
| 160-174 | 16163-11018 |
| 149-159 | 21145-16495 |
| 132-148 | 32826-22238 |
| 120-131 | 43174-33636 |
| 110-119 | 54293-44115 |
| 102-109 | 65758-55269 |
| 95-101 | 76260-66999 |
| 89-94 | 87219-78111 |
| 79-88 | 109329-90144 |
| 62-87 | 169542-92303 |
| 41-61 | 326517-173239 |
| 1-40 | 1025009-334080 |
FAQs
JEE Mains examinations are organized for the candidates to offer admission into the Engineering colleges all over the country, the colleges include NITs, Government Engineering colleges, some Private engineering colleges, etc.
JEE Advanced is an examination that is organized to offer admission into premium engineering colleges like IITs, IISc, etc. to become eligible for participating in JEE Advanced, the candidates must go through JEE Mains first and score more than 100 marks for shortlisted as a JEE Advanced along with meeting other criteria.
NO, NCERT is a very important part while preparing for the JEE Mains however, it is not sufficient, you’ll have to tap into other sources for preparation otherwise you won’t be able to pass the entrance examination.
For taking admission into IITs, you’ll have to first participate in the JEE Mains and score good marks i.e. more than the cut-off marks and then you’ll be eligible for JEE Advanced, you’ll have to score really good marks to become shortlisted for IITs.
The candidates can participate in the JEE Mains examination twice a year for three consecutive years from the date of passing the class 12th which makes a total number of attempts as 6 times. There are some relaxations for SC/ST candidates.
Yes, you can appear for both the session of JEE Mains which are organized twice a year in April and May. You can pay the examination fee for that as well.