VITEEE 2025 Syllabus

Mechanics and properties of matter

• Laws of friction
• Conservative forces
• Elastic behavior
• Poisson’s ratio
• Heat and temperature
• Thermal expansion

Electrostatistics

• Charges and their conservation
• Coulomb’s law
• Electric field
• Gauss’s law (its applications)
• Electrostatic induction
• Van de Graaff Generator

Current electricity and magnetic effects of electric current

• Electric current
• Ohm’s law
• Carbon resistors
• Kirchoff’s law
• Metrebridge
• Magnetic effect of electric current
• Ampere’s circuital law (its applications)

Electromagnetic induction and alternating current

• Electromagnetic induction
• Faraday's law
• Lenz’s law
• AC generator

Optics

• Reflection of light
• Spherical mirrors
• Refraction and dispersion of light through prism
• Diffraction
• Brewster’s law

Dual nature of radiation and atomic physics

• Electromagnetic waves (its characteristics)
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Nuclear properties
• Nature of nuclear forces

Semiconductor devices (its applications)

• Semiconductor basics
• Energy band in solids
• Insulators and semiconductors
• Junction transistors

Physical chemistry

• Atomic structure
• Thermodynamics
• Chemical equilibrium/chemical kinetics
• Solutions (colligative properties of dilute solutions)

Inorganic and material chemistry

• S-block elements
• P-block elements
• D-block elements general characteristics
• Lanthanides
• Introduction to coordination chemistry

Analytical chemistry

• Electrochemistry
• Redox reactions
• Kohlrausch’s law
• Electrodes/ electrode potential
• Environmental chemistry

Basic principles of organic chemistry

• Carbon
• Homologous series
• Common organic reactions
• Isomerism in organic compounds
• Carboxyl and amino groups

Properties of chemistry of functionalized organic compounds

• Alcohols and ethers
• Aromatic alcohols/ ethers
• Aldehydes and ketones comparison
• Carboxylic acids

Organic nitrogen compounds

• Aliphatic nitro compounds
• Aromatic nitro compounds
• Aromatic amines
• Aliphatic nitriles

Biomolecules and polymers

• Carbohydrates
• Amino acids and proteins
• Lipids
• Polymers

Matrices (its applications)

• Algebra of matrices
• Determinants (its properties)
• Solution of linear programming problem in two variables

Trigonometry and complex numbers

• Fundamentals of trigonometry
• Complex number system
• De Moivre’s theorem (its applications)

Analytical geometry of two dimensions

• Coordinate geometry
• Definition of a conic
• Tangents and normals

Vector Algebra

• Vector product and scalar product of two vectors
• Scalar and vector triple product

Analytical geometry of three dimensions

• Coordinates of a point in space
• Skew lines
• Equations of a line/plane in different form

Differential calculus

• Limits, differentiability, continuity
• Mean value theorem
• Taylor’s/ Maclaurin’s series

Integral calculus (its applications)

• Simple definite integrals
• Reduction formulae

Differential equations

• Differential equations
• Linear equations and applications

Probability Distributions

• Basics of probability
• Addition law
• Random variables
• Discrete distributions

Discrete mathematics

• Sets, functions and relations
• Binary operations
• Mathematical logic

Taxonomy

• Need for classification
• Morphology and anatomy of flowering plants
• Structural organization in insects (Especially cockroaches)

Cell and molecular biology

• Cell theory
• Eukaryotic cell
• Cell cycle and division
• Structure of RNA and DNA

Reproduction

• Asexual reproduction
• Binary fission
• Vegetative propagation in plants
• Fertilization, pollination, development of fruits and seeds

Evolution and genetics

• Chromosomes (its types and structures)
• Mendelian inheritance
• Hardy and Weinberg’s principle

Human health and diseases

• Pathogens
• COVID
• Basic concepts of immunology
• Adolescence, drugs and alcohol abuse

Biochemistry

• Function/structures of carbohydrates
• Lipids and proteins
• Kreb’s cycle

Plant physiology

• Water, food, gasses, nutrients, minerals movement
• Macro and micronutrients (their deficiency symptoms)

Human physiology

• Digestion and absorption
• Endocrine system
• Locomotion and movement
• Hormones

Biotechnology (its applications)

• Agriculture and industries
• Apiculture and animal husbandry
• Plant breeding
• Microbes in food processing
• DNA fingerprinting

Biodiversity, ecology and environment

• Ecosystems
• Biodiversity
• Environmental issues
• Solid and radioactive waste management

Data interpretation

Comprehensions of Short passages

Syllogism

Comprehension of Lines, poems

Number series/coding/decoding

Pronunciation and grammar

Data sufficiency

Clock/calendars/direction