Jammu And Kashmir Common Entrance Test Syllabus

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Updated on Dec 18, 2024

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Jammu and Kashmir Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (JKBOPEE) has prescribed the JKCET syllabus. Candidates aspiring to appear in the JKCET exam, have to prepare for the JKCET exam as per the prescribed syllabus only. The entrance test is based on the courses of study and syllabi of the 12th class. The JKCET 2025 syllabus will give the candidates an insight into what to study and how much to study and help them in devising better preparation planning. Besides the JKCET syllabus, knowledge of the exam pattern is equally important for proper preparation. The exam pattern helps in understanding the layout of the JKCET question paper. Read the full article to know more about JKCET Syllabus 2025.

JKCET 2025 Syllabus for Physics

Candidates can check below the JKCET syllabus for Physics subject:

Topics	Sub-topics
Physical world and measurement	S.I. units, Fundamental and derived units. Accuracy and precision of measuring instruments, Errors in measurement, Significant figures. Dimensions of Physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.
Kinematics	Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion.Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity. Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time graph, position-time graphs, relations for uniformly accelerated motion, (graphical treatment and calculus approach). Scalar and Vector quantities, addition and Subtraction of vectors, general Vector and notation, Relativen Velocity. Scalar and Vector products of two vectors with properties, Unit Vector, Resolution of a Vector in plane rectangular components, Motion in a plane, Projectile Motion.
Laws of motion	Concept of force and Inertia, Newton’s First Law of motion; Momentum and Newton’s Second Law of motion, Impulse; Newton’s Third Law of motion.Law of conversation of linear momentum and its applications, Equilibrium of concurrent forces. Friction, static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction.Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force and examples of circular motion(vehicle on level circular road, vehicle on banked road.)
Work, energy and power	Concept of scalar products of vectors, Work done by a constant force and variable force; kinetic energy, work energy theorem, power. Potential energy, Potential energy of spring, conservative forces, conservation of mechanical energy (K.E. and P.E.), non-conservative forces; Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.
Motion of system of particles and rigid body	Centre of mass of a two-particle system, Centre of mass of a rigid body; Concepts of vector product of vectors: moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum with some examples. Moment of inertia, radius of gyration.Values of moment of inertia for simple geometric objects (no derivation), statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.Rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion.
Gravitation	The universal law of gravitation.Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude, depth and shape, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.Gravitational potential; gravitational potential energy.Escape velocity.Orbital velocity of satellite.Geo-stationary satellites.
Properties of bulk matter	Elastic behavior, Stress-strain relationship. Hooke’s Law, Young’s modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity. Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes) Viscosity, Stokes’ law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, Reynolds number. Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, applications of surface tension – ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise. Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; specific heat, calorimetry; change of state-latent heat.Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation, Newton’s law of cooling.

JKCET 2025 Syllabus for Chemistry

Candidates can check below the JKCET syllabus for Chemistry subject:

Topics	Marks
Chemical arithmetic & atomic structure	Laws of chemical combination, Mole concept (numericals) Percentage composition, Chemical reactions, Stoichiometry and calculations based on stoichiometry. Atomic structure:- Bohr’s model of Hydrogen atom, Quantum numbers, Pauli’s exclusion principle, Hund’s rule and Aufbau principle. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, de-Broglie wave equation and its significance.
Chemical equilibrium	Law of mass action, Le-Chatelier’s principle, and its application to physical and chemical equilibria. Ionisation of weak electrolytes (Ostwald’s dilution law) Acids and bases: Acid base equilibria. Bronsted-Lowry and Lewis concept, of acids and bases.Ionic product of water. pH and pOH scales, pKa&pKb values, Solubility product, Buffer solutions Common ion effect, Hydrolysis of salts
Chemical kinetics	Rate of chemical reaction, Average and instantaneous rate, Factors effecting rate of reaction, Order and molecularity of reaction, Integrated rate equation and Half-life period (for zero and first order) reaction, Activation energy and Arrhenius equation.
Solutions	Vapour pressure, Raoult’s law, Ideal and Non-ideal solutions, Colligative properties. Determination of molecular mass of non-volatile solutes through colligative properties. Abnormal molecular masses and Van’t Hoff Factor.
Chemical thermodynamics	Energy changes taking place during chemical reactions, Internal Energy and Enthalpy changes, Enthalpy of combustion, Solution and Neutralization.Hess’s Law (Numerical problems) Laws of thermodynamics-first, second & third, Concepts of Entropy and Free energy, Spontaneity of a chemical reaction and Thermodynamic equilibrium.
Redox reactions and electrochemistry	Dependence of electrode and cell potential on concentration (Nernst Equation), Electrode potential as a criteria for product formation in electrolysis. E.M.F. of Galvanic cell, Relationship between free energy change and E.M.F. of a cell.Definition and units of Equivalent, Molar and Specific conductivity.
Solid state & states of matter	Boyle’s Law, Charle’s law, Dalton’s law of partial pressure, Graham’s law of diffusion of gases. Causes of deviation from ideal behaviour, ideal gas equation and nature of ‘R’, Vander Waal’s equation, surface tension and viscosity of liquids. Crystalline and amorphous solids, Crystal lattice, Crystal types, Packing efficiency, calculation of density of unit cell, Number of atoms per unit cell in a cubic cell. Co-ordination number, Stoichiometric defects: Schottky, Frenkel and interstitial. Properties of solids: Electrical, Magnetic & Dielectric.

JKCET 2025 Syllabus for Chemistry

Candidates can check below the JKCET syllabus for Chemistry subject:

Topics	Marks
Chemical arithmetic & atomic structure	Laws of chemical combination, Mole concept (numericals) Percentage composition, Chemical reactions, Stoichiometry and calculations based on stoichiometry. Atomic structure:- Bohr’s model of Hydrogen atom, Quantum numbers, Pauli’s exclusion principle, Hund’s rule and Aufbau principle. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, de-Broglie wave equation and its significance.
Chemical equilibrium	Law of mass action, Le-Chatelier’s principle, and its application to physical and chemical equilibria. Ionisation of weak electrolytes (Ostwald’s dilution law) Acids and bases: Acid base equilibria. Bronsted-Lowry and Lewis concept, of acids and bases.Ionic product of water. pH and pOH scales, pKa&pKb values, Solubility product, Buffer solutions Common ion effect, Hydrolysis of salts
Chemical kinetics	Rate of chemical reaction, Average and instantaneous rate, Factors effecting rate of reaction, Order and molecularity of reaction, Integrated rate equation and Half-life period (for zero and first order) reaction, Activation energy and Arrhenius equation.
Solutions	Vapour pressure, Raoult’s law, Ideal and Non-ideal solutions, Colligative properties. Determination of molecular mass of non-volatile solutes through colligative properties. Abnormal molecular masses and Van’t Hoff Factor.
Chemical thermodynamics	Energy changes taking place during chemical reactions, Internal Energy and Enthalpy changes, Enthalpy of combustion, Solution and Neutralization.Hess’s Law (Numerical problems) Laws of thermodynamics-first, second & third, Concepts of Entropy and Free energy, Spontaneity of a chemical reaction and Thermodynamic equilibrium.
Redox reactions and electrochemistry	Dependence of electrode and cell potential on concentration (Nernst Equation), Electrode potential as a criteria for product formation in electrolysis. E.M.F. of Galvanic cell, Relationship between free energy change and E.M.F. of a cell.Definition and units of Equivalent, Molar and Specific conductivity.
Solid state & states of matter	Boyle’s Law, Charle’s law, Dalton’s law of partial pressure, Graham’s law of diffusion of gases. Causes of deviation from ideal behaviour, ideal gas equation and nature of ‘R’, Vander Waal’s equation, surface tension and viscosity of liquids. Crystalline and amorphous solids, Crystal lattice, Crystal types, Packing efficiency, calculation of density of unit cell, Number of atoms per unit cell in a cubic cell. Co-ordination number, Stoichiometric defects: Schottky, Frenkel and interstitial. Properties of solids: Electrical, Magnetic & Dielectric.

JKCET 2025 Syllabus for Mathematics

Candidates can check below the JKCET syllabus for Maths subject:

Topics	Marks
Sets, relations and functions	Sets and their representation, finite and infinite sets, empty set subsets, subset of realnumbers especially intervals, power set, universal set. Venn diagram, union and intersection of sets.Difference of sets, Compliment of a set.Ordered pairs, Cartesian product of sets, number of elements in the Cartesian product of two finite sets.Relations, Domain, co- domain and range of relation, types of relations, reflexive,symmetric, transitive and equivalence relations.Functions as special kind of relations from one set to another, domain, co domain and range of a function.One to one, onto functions.Real valued functions of the real variable; constant, identity, polynomial, rational, modulus, signum and the greatest integer functions with their graphs.Sum, difference, product and quotients of functions.Composition of functions, inverse of a function, binary operations.
Complex number; linear inequation; linear programming	Complex number: Conjugate of a complex number, modulus and amplitude (argument) of a complex number, Argand’s plane and polar representation of complex numbers, algebraic properties of complex numbers. Fundamental theorem of algebra, solution of Quadratic equation in the complex number system.Square root of a complex number.Linear inequation: Algebraic solution of linear inequalities in one variable and two variables.Linear programming: Introduction , definition of related terminology such as constraints, objective function, optimization, different type of linear programming problem (L.P), mathematical formulation of L.P problem, graphical method of solution for problems in two variables, feasible and infeasible regions, feasible and infeasible solutions, optimal feasible solutions.
Sequence and series, permutation and combination & binomial theorem	Sequence and series: Arithmetic progression (A.P), arithmetic mean (A.M), nth term, sum to n-terms of an A.P, Geometric progression (G.P) , Geometric Mean (G.M), nth term, sum to nterms and sum to infinity of a G.P. Relation between A.M and G.M. Sum to n terms of ? , ?2 ??? ?3. Permutation and combination: Fundamental principle of counting, factorial n, permutations P(n,r) and combinations C(n,r), simple applications.Binomial Theorem: Binomial theorem for positive integral power.general and middle terms in the Binomial expansion. Pascal’s triangle and simple applications.
Trigonometric and inverse trigonometry functions	Positive and negative angles, measuring angles in radians and in degrees, Conversion from one measure to another. Definition of trigonometric functions with the help of unit circle.Periodicity of Trigonometric functions. Basic Trigonometric identities, Trigonometric functions and their graphs, Inverse trigonometric functions, range, domain, principal value branches. Graphs of inverse trigonometric functions, elementary properties of inverse trigonometric functions.
Matrices and determinants	Matrices, concepts, notation, order, equality, types of matrices, Zero matrix, transpose of matrix, Symmetric and skew symmetric matrices. Addition, multiplication, scaler multiplication of matrices, simple properties of addition, multiplication and scaler multiplication of matrices. Non-commutativity of multiplication of matrices and existence of non-zero matrices whose product is the zero matrix (order 2x2). Concept of elementary row and column operation, Invertible matrices and uniqueness of inverse, if it exists.(Matrices with real entries).Determinants of square matrix (upto 3x3 matrices) properties of determinants, minors, cofactors and applications of determinants in finding area of a triangle.Adjoint and inverse of a square matrix. Consistency, inconsistency and number of solutions of system of linear equations by examples, solving system of linear equations in two or three variables using inverse of a matrix.
Limit, continuity and differentiation	Concept of limit of a function. Theorems on Limits, Evaluation of limits using standard results. Continuity of a function at a point.Continuity of Sum, product and quotient offunctions.Derivative: definition of a derivative of a function, geometrical interpretation of the derivative Derivative of sum, difference, product and quotient of two or more functions. Derivative of algebraic and composite functions. Derivative of trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions. Chain rule, derivative of implicit functions. Derivative of logarithmic and exponential functions. Logarithmic differentiation. Derivative of functions expressed in parametric forms.Second order derivatives. Rolle’s and Lagrange’s Mean Value Theorem and their geometrical interpretation and their simple applications. Application of Derivative: rate of change, increasing and decreasing functions, tangents and normals, approximation, maxima and minima (first derivative and second derivative test). Simple problems.
Integration and differential equations	Integration as inverse process of differentiation.Integration of variety of functions by Substitution, by parts, by partial fractions. Definite integrals as a Limit of a sum.Fundamental Theorem of calculus.Basic properties ofdefinite integrals Evaluation of definite integrals.Application of integrals: Application in finding the area under simple curves, especially lines. Areas of circles, parabolas and ellipses (in standard form) Area under the curve y= Sinx, y= Cosx, area between the above two curves.Differential Equations: Definition, order and degree of a differential equation. General and particular solutions of a differential equation.Formation of a differential equation whose general solution is given.Solution of differentiation equation by method of separation of variables.Solution of Homogeneous differential equation of first order and first degree.

JKCET 2025 Exam Pattern

Candidates can check the JKCET exam pattern 2025 to know how the entrance examination will be conducted. Information about the exam mode, duration, type of questions, number of questions, marking scheme and more will be available through the exam pattern of JKCET 2025. Candidates are advised to check the exam pattern beforehand to be well-prepared for the examination.

The exam pattern of JKCET is as follows:

Mode of Exam: Pen-and-Paper-Based Test
Duration: 3 Hours
Medium of Exam: English
Type of Questions: Multiple-Choice Questions
Sections: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
Total Number of Questions: 180
Marking Scheme: 1 mark will be given for every correct answer. 0.25 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer.

Subjects	Marks	Questions
Physics	60	60
Chemistry	60	60
Mathematics	60	60

Best Books to Prepare for JKCET 2025

Some of the best books to prepare for JKCET 2025 are:

Name of the book and author	Author
NCERT Class 11 and 12 Textbooks	NCERT
Concepts of physics (Vol. 1 and 2)	H.C Verma
Fundamentals of Physics	Halliday, Resnick & Walker
NCERT Textbooks for classes 11 and 12	NCERT
Modern Approach to Chemical Calculations	R.C. Mukherjee
Organic Chemistry	O P Tandon
Concept of Physical Chemistry	P Bahadur

JKCET 2025 Syllabus FAQs

Are there any qualifying marks in the JKCET exam?

The minimum marks to qualify in the JKCET exam is 10. A candidate having scored less than 10 marks on the entrance test shall not be considered for admission.

Is there any age limit to apply for JKCET?

There is no upper age bar for appearing in JKCET for admission to Engineering Courses, both in Government and Private Colleges. However, candidates must have the domicile certificate of UT of J&K or ST certificate issued by a competent Authority of UT of Ladakh be treated as the Domicile certificate of UT of Ladakh and 10+2 passed/passing in the curren year of JKCET exam.

Can I request for re-totaling of marks in JKCET?

Yes. Candidates who wish to go for re-totalling of marks can proceed with it by paying INR 1000/- per subject at POS Machine in BOPEE Office at Jammu / Srinagar. BOPEE will accept the written request along with the payment receipt within 3 days, after the declaration of the JKCET result.

Is the JKCET application form made available in the offline mode too?

No, JKCET application form is made available in online mode only. Applicants looking for admission to various courses will be able to fill the JKCET application form only at the official website. The application process for JKCET includes filling out the online application, paying the application fee, uploading documents, and printing the application form. To pay the application fee, candidates have to use the online payment method with the help of any National Credit Card/Debit Card/ Net banking facility.

In what mode is the JKCET exam held?

JKCET is held in offline, pen and paper based mode. The entrance test is based on the courses of study and syllabi of the 12th class. The JKCET exam will have 1 paper that will have 3 sections - Maths, Physics and Chemistry. Each section will have 60 questions of marks each. The total marks in the paper is 180 and the total questions are 180.

How to register for JKCET counselling?

To register for JKCET counselling, candidates will initially be required to enter the requisite/mandatory details for registration and obtain the password for subsequent login into the website. After login, candidates can view their Personal Details and CET Score by clicking on Personal Profile.

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