NEET 2024 Syllabus: What's Changed?

These changes are - From 97 chapters down to 79. That’s 18 chapters less!

In Physics, there's quite a shake-up. Several topics from various chapters have been eliminated. Let's delve into which specific topics have been removed.

• From the Unit 1 Physics and measurement- Physics technology and society, length, mass and time measurement topics have been removed

• From Unit 2 Kinematics: Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion has been removed.

• From Unit 3 Laws of motion: lubrication has been cut.

• In Unit 7 Properties of solid and liquids some important topics have been removed, which include:

Poisson’s ratio, elastic energy, Reynold’s number, Qualitative ideas of black body radiation, Wein’s displacement law and greenhouse effect, Newton’s law of cooling and Stefan’s law.

• Heat engines and refrigerators have been removed from unit 8 Thermodynamics

• From Unit 10 asalation and waves: free forces and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), Resonance, Doppler effect have been removed.

• In Unit 11 Electrostatics the topics Free charges and bound charges inside a conductor and Van de Graaff Generator have been removed.

• From Current electricity, Unit 12 many topics have been removed. They include: Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors, potentiometer- principles and applications to measure potential difference and for comparing EMF of two cells, measurement of internal resistance of a cell.

• From Unit 13 Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism. The following topics have been axed Oersted’s experiment, Cyclotron, Magnetic Dipole moment of a revolving electron, Electromagnetic and factors affecting their strengths, permanent magnets.

• Delving into Optics, you will no longer have to grapple with concepts like dispersion of light through a prism, Scattering of light-blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.

• Additionally, the intricate details of optical instruments- human eye, image formation and accommodation. The correction of eye defects- myopia and hypermetropia using lenses and Resolving power of microscope and astronomical telescopes have also been removed.

• From the unit Atoms and Nuclei- Isotopes, isobars, isotones, Radioactivity- alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties along with decay law has been removed.

• In the final unit on Electronic Devices, topics such as the Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of transistor, transistor as an amplifier (Common emitter configuration) and oscillator. Transistor as a switch have been removed.

• Addition: Experimental Skills such as Vernier Calipers, screw gauge etc which are a part of the Physics Practical exam have been included in a separate unit called Experimental skills.

In the realm of Chemistry, the syllabus encompasses the following changes:

• From Physical chemistry: the chapters states of matter, solid state and surface chemistry have been removed.

• From Inorganic chemistry: Hydrogen and s block and metallurgy have been axed.

• From Organic chemistry: The chapters environmental chemistry, polymers and chemistry in everyday life have been removed.

• Addition: Titration and salt analysis etc. which were a part of Chemistry practical exams have been added as a Unit 20 Principles related to practical chemistry.

In Biology, various chapters have undergone revisions, with some topics being trimmed and others entirely omitted. Let's dive into these changes.

• From the chapter Living world the topic taxonomic aids has been removed.

• Within the Anatomy section, Secondary growth is no longer included

• Cockroach has been taken out from Animal tissues.

• The chapter Biomolecules no longer covers Dynamic state of body constituents- concept of metabolism and metabolic bases of living.

• The syllabus has excluded the Chapter Transport in plants and mineral and nutrition.

• From the chapter Plant Growth the following topics have been removed: photoperiodism, vernalisation and seed dormancy.

• The most significant omission is in Human Physiology, with the removal of the Digestion chapter.

• The syllabus no longer includes chapters 'Reproduction in Organisms' and 'Strategies for Enhancement of Food Production'. Additionally,the topic 'Ecological Succession' from Ecosystem and the chapter 'Environmental Issues' has been removed.