JNU Syllabus

JNU Syllabus: JNU or Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is the well-known university located in Delhi that selects the appropriate candidates for involvement in courses based on under graduation, Post-graduation, and on the doctoral level. The written exam for JNU commenced once a year usually in the month of May. It is thus quintessential for candidates to have complete knowledge of the syllabus so that preparation can be done accordingly. The admission test comprises various courses and this is the reason, syllabus involves accordingly. The list for the syllabus is so hard to mention because of the many courses involved and this is the reason that the syllabus of few courses is provided:

JNU Syllabus for M.Sc Chemistry:

If you are looking for fetching admission to the M.Sc. Chemistry course then prepares for entrance test via subjects mentioned below:

Transition & Inner Transition Elements:

• Physico-chemical properties
• Variable oxidation states
• Spectral and Magnetic properties
• Inner Transition Elements
• Transition Elements
• Lanthanoids
• Ionic radii and Lanthanide contraction
• Separation of lanthanoids
• Actinoids

Coordination & Bioinorganic Chemistry:

• Effective atomic number
• Coordination Compounds
• Bioinorganic Chemistry

Qualitative & Quantitative Analyses

• Analysis of Inorganic Mixtures
• Qualitative Analysis
• Types of Qualitative Analysis
• Quantitative Analysis
• Titrimetry

Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry & Isomerism

• Huckel’s rule and its significance
• Hybridization
• Carbocations
• Concept of stereoisomerism
• Electrometric Effects
• Inductive Effects
• Requirements of aromaticity
• Resonance

Hydrocarbons and their Halogen Derivatives

• Hoffman rule
• Mechanism of electrophilic and nucleophilic addition
• Acidity of alkynes
• Aromatic Electrophilic substitutions
• Methods of formation of Alkenes
• Saytzeff rule

Nitrogen and Oxygen bearing Functional Groups

• Nucleophilic substitution in nitroarenes
• Preparation, properties and factors affecting basicity of amines
• Condensation with Ammonia and amines
• Mechanism of Electrophilic aromatic substitution in arylamines
• Methods of formation of ethers and epoxides
• Reactions of arene diazonium salts
• The reaction of aryl amines with nitrous acid
• Reduction of nitro compounds

Spectroscopy

• Infrared spectroscopy
• Nuclear Magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy

Bio-molecules:

• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• Lipids

States of Matter

• Solid State
• Gaseous State
• Liquid State
• Liquid crystals

Chemical Kinetics and Photochemistry

• Potentiometry
• Polarimetry
• Techniques for kinetic investigation
• Conductometry
• Effect of temperature on the rate of reaction
• Arrhenius equation
• Spectrophotometry
• Isolation methods
• Theories of chemical kinetics
• Photochemical decomposition of hydrogen iodide
• Photochemistry

Laws of Thermodynamics and Chemical Equilibrium

• First Law of thermodynamics
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Third law of thermodynamics

Electrochemistry:

• Hittorf’s method and moving boundary method
• Application of conductivity measurements
• Migration of ions and Kohlrausch law
• Debye-Huckel-Onsager’s equation
• Types of reversible electrodes
• Electrode reactions
• Nernst equation
• Electrolytic and Galvanic cells
• Measurement of EMF of a cell

Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy:

• Hamiltonian operator
• Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle
• De Broglie hypothesis
• Photoelectric effect
• Planck’s radiation law
• Hermitian operator
• Black-body radiation
• Quantum numbers and their importance
• Schrodinger wave equation

Spectroscopy:

• Electromagnetic radiation
• Rotational Spectroscopy
• Vibrational Spectroscopy

Syllabus for MA in Psychology includes:

• Psychology
• Scientific cognition
• Personality
• Motivation
• Social cognition
• Social Psychology
• Research Methods and Statistics

(i) Practical
(ii) Profiling of Equipment

JNU Syllabus for M.A in Economics:

• Mathematics and statistics,
• Microeconomics,

International trade and related disciplines, like public economics and economic development. The syllabus includes:

 (a) (i) Microeconomics (Demand Curves, Price and Income Elasticity of Demand, Cost Curves, Equilibrium of Firm under Perfect Competition and Monopoly)

(ii) Macroeconomics (National Income Theory of Income Determination, Monetary Policy, Trade and Balance of Payments)

(b) Descriptive Statistics (Mean, Median and Mode, Standard Deviation, Correlation Coefficient), Elementary Probability Theory, Mathematics for Economists (Elementary Algebra, Coordinate Geometry and Elementary Calculus)

(c) Problems of Economic History, Underdevelopment, and Growth:

• India’s Economic Development prior to Independence: India’s Planning and Development experience since Independence; Basic indicators of Development.
• International Economics Issues of Contemporary Relevance.