While lakhs write the national-level JEE Main exam for admission to Engineering, a large number of students also write state-level exams and find themselves preparing for both. A major state exam is Telangana’s TS EAMCET. Careers360 compared and contrasted the JEE Main exam pattern and question papers with the TS EAMCET ones to offer insights into how best to prepare for both. The analysis shows where the JEE Main syllabus overlaps with the TS EAMCET one and which specific chapters carry weight in the exams.
While lakhs write the national-level JEE Main exam for admission to Engineering, a large number of students also write state-level exams and find themselves preparing for both. A major state exam is Telangana’s TS EAMCET. Careers360 compared and contrasted the JEE Main exam pattern and question papers with the TS EAMCET ones to offer insights into how best to prepare for both. The analysis shows where the JEE Main syllabus overlaps with the TS EAMCET one and which specific chapters carry weight in the exams.
The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main is the main national-level entrance test for admission to BTech or BE programmes in Engineering. However, many states hold their own entrance exams, or “common entrance tests” for admission to the state colleges. Of these, Telangana’s TS EAMCET is one of the largest. Because students can write both exams in a year, they are often faced with the dilemma of which to focus on more. Careers360’s analysis of the JEE Main syllabus and question paper, and comparison with the TS EAMCET syllabus and question paper can help students prioritise and make more informed decisions about their preparation strategies.
The JEE Main is the first of the two-stage IIT-JEE, national-level entrance tests for admission to the country’s top engineering colleges. JEE Main itself serves as a gateway exam for premier institutions such as the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), and Government-Funded Technical Institutions (GFTIs). The JEE Main test is taken by students who desire to study engineering, architecture, design, or fundamental sciences. Undergraduate (BTech) and combined postgraduate (BTech-MTech) programmes are available to students.
The JEE Main also serves as a screening round for the JEE Advanced through which Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) admit students to their undergraduate and integrated postgraduate programmes.
The National Testing Agency (NTA), under the Ministry of Education, conducts JEE Main every year. The JEE Advanced is conducted by the IITs on rotation basis; IIT Bombay will organise JEE Advanced 2022.
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There are around 228 colleges which admit through the Telangana State Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test , or TS EAMCET. The top 10 colleges admitting via this exam are:
University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Hyderabad
SR University, Warangal
VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNR VJIET), Hyderabad
Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad
Anurag University, Hyderabad
CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad
Institute of Aeronautical Engineering (IARE), Hyderabad
Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology (GRIET), Hyderabad
Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science (KITSW), Warangal
The TS EAMCET is for admission to BTech in all branches of Engineering and also for BSc in Agriculture, B.Pharm, BVSc and BFSc etc. However, this article focuses only on Engineering.
The JEE Main used to have 90 multiple choice questions (MCQs), all compulsory. However, recently the JEE Main exam pattern has been altered, and numerical answer questions have been added to the exam. These are questions to which the paper does not offer multiple options and instead, the candidate has to enter the numerical value of the answer in the input field using an on-screen keyboard.
Now, the JEE Main consists of 90 questions of which candidates are required to answer 75 within three hours and they carry a maximum score of 300 points. The JEE Main question paper is divided into three sections:
Physics
Chemistry
Mathematics
Each subject in JEE Main has two parts. Section 1 comprises 20 MCQs, all of which must be answered; Section 2 contains 10 Numerical Response Questions (NRQs), of which only five must be answered.
The TS EAMCET Engineering exam is a three hour-long examination containing a total of 160 questions. There are three sections in this paper as well:
Physics
Chemistry
Mathematics
A student appearing for the examination has to attempt all sections. There are 40 questions each in the Physics and Chemistry sections and 80 in Maths. All of them are MCQs and every correct answer fetches one mark. There is no “negative marking” policy in the TS EAMCET – no marks are deducted from the total in case of a wrong answer.
Both exams are now computer-based. The TS EAMCET is held once a year and is conducted by the . Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH). The NTA JEE Main was held twice in 2019 and 2020 and four times in 2021. For candidates who write it more than once, the best score is considered for the final JEE Main result and rank lists.
The JEE exam is for admission to institutions across India; the TS EAMCET is relevant only for Telangana colleges. While the number of colleges and their geographical spread are limited in the case of TS EAMCET, it holds significance because admission to some of the best colleges in the country is through it. The JEE Mains, on the other hand, is for admission to colleges across the country.
The number of candidates for the JEE Main is significantly larger than the number writing the TS EAMCET. Over 10.48 lakh students enrolled for the four JEE Main sessions in 2021, with roughly 9.39 lakh applicants ultimately appearing. JEE Main or JEE Advanced has filled 45,000 seats – 16,053 seats at IITs and 31,652 seats in NITs, GFTIs, IIITs, and other institutions. In 2020, about 1.5 lakh wrote the TS EAMCET.
While all three subjects in the JEE Main syllabus have equal weightage in the exam, in TS EAMCET, Maths has far more weightage than Physics and Chemistry.
A student can write JEE Main for three consecutive years starting from attempting in Class 12. With the TS EAMCET, there is no limit on the number of attempts as long as the candidate is below the age of 25.
After the TS EAMCET result is declared, a rank card is issued providing extensive information about a candidate's exam performance, including marks earned, rank, qualifying status, and other pertinent information. In the case of JEE Main, applicants are given scorecards that show the percentiles in each component as well as the total percentile.
TS EAMCET, JEE Main Syllabus, Subject-Wise Preparation
The difficulty levels of TS-EAMCET and JEE Main are different. JEE Main question papers are typically more difficult
Subject-wise comparison of questions in the two examinations is given below.
Syllabus Compared
The syllabus for Physics is quite the same for TS EAMCET and JEE Main, except the part on “Experimental Lab Skills” which is not a part of the TS EAMCET. But questions asked in TS EAMCET are more formula-based and easier than JEE Main
Weightage Compared
Heat and Thermodynamics are most common in TS EAMCET. After Heat, a large number of questions are from Mechanics, including Rotation, Work and Energy and Newton's Laws of Motion. Mechanics comprises almost 40% of the Physics section of TS EAMCET and it is important to work on these topics.
Given below is the chapter-wise comparison between JEE Main and TS EAMCET syllabi.
Physics - Class 11 NCERT | JEE Main | TS-EAMCET |
Physical World | ✖ | ✔ |
Units And Measurements | ✔ | ✔ |
Motion In A Straight Line | ✔ | ✔ |
Motion In A Plane | ✔ | ✔ |
Laws Of Motion | ✔ | ✔ |
Work, Energy And Power | ✔ | ✔ |
System Of Particles And Rotational Motion | ✔ | ✔ |
Gravitation | ✔ | ✔ |
Mechanical Properties Of Solids | ✔ | ✔ |
Mechanical Properties Of Fluids | ✔ | ✔ |
Thermal Properties Of Matter | ✔ | ✔ |
Thermodynamics | ✔ | ✔ |
Kinetic Theory | ✔ | ✔ |
Oscillations | ✔ | ✔ |
Waves | ✔ | ✔ |
Physics - Class 12 NCERT | JEE Main | TS-EAMCET |
Electric Charges And Fields | ✔ | ✔ |
Electrostatic Potential And Capacitance | ✔ | ✔ |
Current Electricity | ✔ | ✔ |
Moving Charges And Magnetism | ✔ | ✔ |
Magnetism And Matter | ✔ | ✔ |
Electromagnetic Induction | ✔ | ✔ |
Alternating Current | ✔ | ✔ |
Electromagnetic Waves | ✔ | ✔ |
Ray Optics And Optical Instruments | ✔ | ✔ |
Wave Optics | ✔ | ✔ |
Dual Nature Of Radiation And Matter | ✔ | ✔ |
Atoms | ✔ | ✔ |
Nuclei | ✔ | ✔ |
Semiconductor Electronics | ✔ | ✔ |
Communication Systems | ✔ | ✔ |
Experimental Skills | ✔ | ✖ |
Syllabus Compared
The Chemistry syllabus for both exams includes all topics in the Class 11 and Class 12 Chemistry textbooks designed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Here, too, the one exception is the “Experimental Lab Skills” which is not a part of the TS EAMCET syllabus. Chemistry is especially important for the Telangana test because it has many questions but the test duration is the same as JEE.
Weightage Compared
Chemical Bonding And Molecular Structure is most important as it is the foundation of Chemistry, both Organic and Inorganic. Most of the questions are asked from Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties, Coordination Compounds, Equilibrium, Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers, Structure of Atoms, Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure, States of Matter and Hydrocarbons.
Following is the detailed comparison between the TS EAMCET syllabus and JEE syllabus.
Chemistry - Class 11 NCERT | JEE Main | TS-EAMCET |
Some Basic Concepts Of Chemistry | ✔ | ✔ |
Structure Of Atom | ✔ | ✔ |
Classification Of Elements And Periodicity In Properties | ✔ | ✔ |
Chemical Bonding And Molecular Structure | ✔ | ✔ |
States Of Matter | ✔ | ✔ |
Thermodynamics | ✔ | ✔ |
Equilibrium | ✔ | ✔ |
Redox Reactions | ✔ | ✔ |
Hydrogen | ✔ | ✔ |
The s - Block Elements | ✔ | ✔ |
The p - Block Elements | ✔ | ✔ |
Organic Chemistry Some Basic Principles And Techniques | ✔ | ✔ |
Hydrocarbons | ✔ | ✔ |
Environmental Chemistry | ✔ | ✔ |
Chemistry - Class 12 NCERT | JEE Main | TS-EAMCET |
Solid States | ✔ | ✔ |
Solutions | ✔ | ✔ |
Electrochemistry | ✔ | ✔ |
Chemical Kinetics | ✔ | ✔ |
Surface Chemistry | ✔ | ✔ |
General Principle And Processes Of Isolation Of Elements | ✔ | ✖ |
The p-Block Elements | ✔ | ✔ |
The d-And f-Block Elements | ✔ | ✔ |
Coordination Compounds | ✔ | ✔ |
Haloalkanes And Haloarenes | ✔ | ✔ |
Alcohols, Phenols And Ethers | ✔ | ✔ |
Aldehydes, Ketones And Carboxylic Acids | ✔ | ✔ |
Amines | ✔ | ✔ |
Biomolecules | ✔ | ✔ |
Polymers | ✔ | ✖ |
Chemistry In Everyday Life | ✔ | ✖ |
Syllabus Compared
For the TS EAMCET Engineering Exam, Mathematics is the most important subject as it has the maximum number of questions. 50% of the exam is just Maths questions. The level of difficulty does not match that of the JEE Main but the questions are not easy either.
Weightage Compared
According to the previous year question papers of TS EAMCET, students should concentrate on Trigonometric Equations, Triangle Properties, Complex Numbers, Calculus, and Probability because these chapters carry high weightage.
The following table compares the Maths syllabuses of JEE Main and TS EAMCET.
Class 11 Maths (NCERT) | JEE Main | TS-EAMCET |
Sets | ✔ | ✖ |
Relations And Functions | ✔ | ✔ |
Trigonometric Functions | ✔ | ✔ |
Principle Of Mathematical Induction | ✔ | ✔ |
Complex Numbers And Quadratic Equations | ✔ | ✔ |
Linear Inequalities | ✔ | ✖ |
Permutations And Combinations | ✔ | ✔ |
Binomial Theorem | ✔ | ✔ |
Sequence And Series | ✔ | ✖ |
Straight Lines | ✔ | ✔ |
Conic Sections | ✔ | ✔ |
Introduction To Three Dimensional Geometry | ✔ | ✔ |
Limits And Derivatives | ✔ | ✔ |
Mathematical Reasoning | ✔ | ✖ |
Statistics | ✔ | ✔ |
Probability | ✔ | ✔ |
Class 12 Maths (NCERT) | JEE Main | TS-EAMCET |
Relations And Functions | ✔ | ✔ |
Inverse Trigonometric Functions | ✔ | ✔ |
Matrices | ✔ | ✔ |
Determinants | ✔ | ✔ |
Continuity And Differentiability | ✔ | ✔ |
Application Of Derivatives | ✔ | ✔ |
Integrals | ✔ | ✔ |
Application Of Integrals | ✔ | ✔ |
Differential Equations | ✔ | ✔ |
Vector Algebra | ✔ | ✔ |
Three Dimensional Geometry | ✔ | ✔ |
Linear Programming | ✖ | ✖ |
Probability | ✔ | ✔ |
Overall, the TS EAMCET is considered easier than the JEE Main even though it has more than double the questions JEE Main contains. The syllabuses for TS EAMCET and JEE Main are nearly the same and close to what is taught in Classes 11 and 12.
The main variation between the two tests is the question paper structure of the TS EAMCET exam. Questions from several reference books should be practised. Practising JEE Main previous year question papers and mock test questions and the same for TS EAMCET will help a student get comfortable with different sorts of questions, grading schemes, and important subjects.
The TS EAMCET has a higher number of questions to be completed in the same amount of time as JEE Main, making it more of a speed test. Because the exam patterns are different, it is necessary to practise previous-years’ question papers and sample test papers for both. Given below are a few pointers:
Create a study schedule and stick to it
To begin with, work on fully grasping the concepts covered in the NCERT textbooks, and then utilise good reference books to gain deeper understanding
Self-study on a regular basis.
Use flowcharts and diagrams
Examine past years’ question papers and practise tests.
Make a plan for how you will approach the question paper in order to optimise your score
Make good use of your time
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