JAMB Chemistry syllabus

The JAMB Chemistry syllabus has 29 examinable topics, listed alphabetically in full below. This is the same breakdown Handbook uses to track which topics you have mastered and which are still costing you marks.

All 29 topics on the JAMB Chemistry syllabus

1. 01Acids, Bases and Salts
2. 02Air
3. 03Aliphatic hydrocarbons (Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes)
4. 04Alkanols
5. 05Atomic Structure and Bonding
6. 06Carbon (Allotropes, CO₂, CO, Coal, Coke)
7. 07Chemical bonding
8. 08Chemical Combination
9. 09Chemical Equilibrium
10. 10Chemical symbols, formulae, equations and their uses
11. 11Chemistry and Industry
12. 12Electrolysis
13. 13Energy Changes
14. 14Environmental Pollution
15. 15Halogens (Chlorine as representative)
16. 16Kinetic Theory of Matter and Gas Laws
17. 17Metals and Their Compounds
18. 18Non-metals and Their Compounds
19. 19Nuclear Chemistry
20. 20Organic Compounds
21. 21Oxidation and Reduction (Redox)
22. 22Periodic table and periodicity
23. 23Polymers (Natural and synthetic)
24. 24Rates of Chemical Reaction
25. 25Separation of Mixtures and Purification of Chemical Substances
26. 26Solubility
27. 27Spontaneity (∆G, ∆H, ∆S)
28. 28Stoichiometry of reactions
29. 29Water