Subject modules

Units, dimensions and errors, kinematics and projectiles, Newton's laws and friction, work–energy–power and collisions, circular motion, rotational motion, gravitation, and the mechanical properties of solids and fluids.

Thermal expansion and calorimetry, conduction and radiation, the laws of thermodynamics and its processes, heat engines and refrigerators, kinetic theory of gases, simple harmonic motion, and sound waves including standing waves, beats and the Doppler effect.

Coulomb's law, electric field and Gauss's law, electric potential and potential energy, capacitors and dielectrics, drift velocity and resistivity, Kirchhoff's laws with the Wheatstone and metre bridges, EMF and internal resistance, and electrical power.

Biot–Savart and Ampere's laws, forces on moving charges and current-carrying conductors, the moving coil galvanometer and its conversions, magnetism and matter, Faraday's and Lenz's laws, self and mutual inductance, AC circuits with resonance and power factor, transformers and electromagnetic waves.

Refraction and total internal reflection, mirrors and lenses, prisms and optical instruments, wave optics (Young's double slit, diffraction, polarisation), the photoelectric effect and matter waves, the Bohr atom and hydrogen spectrum, nuclear binding energy, and semiconductor devices with logic gates.

Mole concept, atomic structure, thermodynamics, chemical and ionic equilibrium, solutions, electrochemistry and chemical kinetics — the numericals NEET never skips.

Periodic trends, VSEPR and hybridisation, molecular orbital theory, p-block groups 13–18, d- and f-block elements, coordination compounds and salt analysis.

General organic chemistry, isomerism, hydrocarbons, haloalkanes, alcohols/phenols/ethers, carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acids and amines, and biomolecules — mechanisms first, named reactions second.

Cell theory and prokaryotic vs eukaryotic cells, the fluid mosaic membrane and endomembrane system, mitochondria, plastids, ribosomes, the nucleus and cytoskeleton, biomolecules, enzymes, the cell cycle with mitosis, and meiosis.

Taxonomy and taxonomic categories, the five-kingdom system with Monera, Protista, Fungi, viruses, viroids and lichens, the plant kingdom from algae to angiosperms, morphology of flowering plants with Fabaceae, Solanaceae and Liliaceae, and anatomy of dicot and monocot organs.

Photosynthesis from pigments and the Z-scheme to photophosphorylation, the Calvin cycle, C4 and CAM plants, photorespiration and limiting factors, respiration from glycolysis and fermentation to the Krebs cycle, ETS and RQ, plant growth and development, and plant growth regulators.

Mendel's laws and crosses, deviations from Mendelism, chromosomal theory, linkage and sex determination, genetic disorders, DNA structure and replication, transcription and translation, the lac operon, the Human Genome Project, DNA fingerprinting and evolution.

Population attributes and growth models, population interactions, ecosystem structure and productivity, decomposition and energy flow, ecological pyramids, biodiversity patterns and importance, and the loss and conservation of biodiversity.

Basis of animal classification, the non-chordate phyla from Porifera to Hemichordata, chordate classes with their examples, animal tissues and the structural organisation of the frog.

Breathing and gas transport, blood and the heart, the nephron and its hormonal control, muscle contraction and joints, nerve impulse and brain, and the endocrine glands with their hormones.

Sexual reproduction in flowering plants from pollen and embryo sac to double fertilisation and apomixis, the human reproductive systems, gametogenesis and the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and parturition, and reproductive health.

Tools and processes of recombinant DNA technology, its uses in agriculture and medicine with the ethics around them, human diseases and immunity, AIDS, cancer and drug abuse, and microbes in human welfare.